Amtower Off Center

Hosted by nationally-known speaker and consultant Mark Amtower,  Amtower Off-Center highlights the good, the bad, the ugly and the just plain silly of doing business in the government market. Every week experts join Mark for a lively discussion of current issues facing the government contractor community.


  • Marissa Levin, co-founder of Successful Culture International, joined host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center to discuss the importance of boards of advisers, and the steps companies can take to avoid mistakes when…
    July 29, 2021
  • Chris Parente of StoryTech Consulting joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center to discuss end of the fiscal year marketing tactics for federal contractors.
    July 20, 2021
  • Nick Wakeman, editor-in-chief for Washington Technology  joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center to discuss his company’s list of the top 100 contractors.
    June 30, 2021
  • Scott Jensen, executive director of the National Veterans Small Business Coalition joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center for a discussion about the NVSBC and the issues facing veteran-owned small businesses.
    June 14, 2021
  • This week on Amtower Off Center, Amber Hart, co-founder of The Pulse of GovCon, joins host Mark Amtower to talk about her company’s mission and goals, and discuss end of the fiscal year spending in…
    June 8, 2021
  • Martin Reeves. chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute and senior vice president of the Boston Consulting Group, joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center, to discuss his new book, “The Imagination Machine.”
    June 4, 2021
  • Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center for a wide-ranging discussion of the top contracting issues for the remainder of the fiscal year.
    May 18, 2021
  • Project management expert and author Michael Lisagor joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center to talk about his new book, “The Essential Guide to Managing a Project: What Every Project Manager Should…
    April 8, 2021
  • Shirley Collier, president of Scale2Market, joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center for a wide ranging discussion of how small companies can position themselves for acquisition.
    April 6, 2021
  • Chris Parente of StoryTech Consulting, joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center for a detailed discussion on content marketing.
    March 24, 2021
  • Simon Turner, co-founder and CEO of Ocean 5 Strategies joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center to talk about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and why it is important to government contractors.
    March 11, 2021
  • Kevin DeSanto, managing director and co-founder of KippsDeSanto joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center to discuss the mergers and acquisitions climate in 2020 and the outlook for 2021.
    March 4, 2021
  • This week on Amtower Off Center, Joanne Woytek, program manager for NASA SEWP, joins host Mark Amtower to discuss why 2020 was a record breaking year for the GWAC.
    February 10, 2021
  • Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center to discuss a wide variety of contracting issues, including the emergence of the GSA small business IDIQ/GWAC…
    February 4, 2021