Oct 28, 202644 min
Liz H. Sobe, Director of Business Development at Robinson+Cole, joins Kristo Sween to step through the universal BD progression: Contact to Connection to Relationship to Client. Liz shares that “a contact lives in your...
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A podcast for law firm business development and marketing changemakers.
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What has The BD Catalyst covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Liz H. Sobe, Director of Business Development at Robinson+Cole" (28 October 2026, 44 minutes), "Lee Ashby Rogers, MBA, Director of Integration & Inclusion at Bass Berry & Sims" (21 October 2026, 25 minutes), and "Jason Lisi, Esq., Founder + CEO of Legal Internet Solutions Incorporated" (16 October 2026, 36 minutes).
How often does The BD Catalyst publish?
The BD Catalyst publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 29 minutes.
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Booking probability for The BD Catalyst is 30%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The BD Catalyst requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The BD Catalyst's contact route on record: verified email.
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Recent episodes
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- Oct 21, 202625 min
Lee Ashby Rogers, Director of Integration and Inclusion at Bass, Berry & Sims, joins Kristo Sween to talk about the connections between lateral partner onboarding and business development. Drawing on lessons from her...
- Oct 16, 202636 min
For most prospective clients, business development starts before anyone picks up the phone. It starts on the firm’s website. Jason Lisi has watched that shift from the beginning. He’s a former tax lawyer who found his...
Episode #20
Ralph Cooper Jr., Business Development Manager at Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP
Oct 14, 202643 minRalph Cooper Jr., the very first guest on the podcast, returns to help mark 20 episodes of The BD Catalyst. Ralph came to business development from sports reporting, and admits he spent a lot of his early days feeling...
- Oct 9, 202633 min
Sarah Delaney, Director of Marketing & Business Development at Hellmuth & Johnson, joins The BD Catalyst to talk about her role in the firm's extraordinary growth. Sarah views her firm’s 70 attorneys as 70 small...
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- Oct 7, 202624 min
Kayla Fatica Himes, Marketing Manager at MacDonald Illig Jones & Britton LLP, joins The BD Catalyst to talk about launching her "Marketing 101" program for associates and law clerks, many of whom finished school during...
- Sep 2, 202626 min
In this episode, Kristo sits down with Sarah Hazel, Director of Marketing and Business Development at BCM Law, P.C., to talk about framing relationship attorneys as account managers. Sarah walks through her process for...
- Aug 13, 202641 min
Mike Mellor, President and Founder of 742Advisors and a former CMBDO joins the podcast to share his C-Suite experience including the basic blocking and tackling of firm intelligence systems and processes to building...
Episode #15
Livca Shin-Kim, MBA, Director of Marketing & Business Development at Donahue Fitzgerald LLP
Aug 5, 202623 minLivca Shin-Kim, MBA, Director of Marketing and Business Development at Donahue Fitzgerald LLP, joins the show and traces her path from an art museum internship to an MBA and nearly a decade in legal marketing. She...
- Jul 30, 202632 min
Chris Moyer, Business Development & Marketing Manager at Hedrick Gardner, joins the podcast with a set of reframes that attorneys can put to use immediately. Chris prefers the term "relationship" development instead of...
- Jul 21, 202631 minS0
<p>Emily LaCount, Marketing and Events Manager at Carlton Fields, joins The BD Catalyst to dig into the ways law firm events work as business development tools and how attorneys are involved from invitation lists to...
- Jul 21, 202631 min
Emily LaCount, Marketing and Events Manager at Carlton Fields, joins The BD Catalyst to dig into the ways law firm events work as business development tools and how attorneys are involved from invitation lists to...
Episode #12
Marguerita B. Dolatly, Director of Business Development at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP - Part 2
Jul 16, 202622 minS0<p>In Episode 12 of The BD Catalyst, Kristo continues his conversation with Marguerita Dolatly, Director of Business Development at Katten. Marguerita shares a training session that nearly fell flat and what it taught...
Episode #11
Marguerita B. Dolatly, Director of Business Development at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP - Part 1
Jul 14, 202627 minIn Episode 11 of The BD Catalyst, Kristo sits down with Marguerita B. Dolatly, Director of Business Development at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP. This is part one of a two-part conversation in which Marguerita, a former...
Episode #11
Marguerita B. Dolatly, Director of Business Development at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP - Part 1
Jul 14, 202627 minS0<p>In Episode 11 of The BD Catalyst, Kristo sits down with Marguerita B. Dolatly, Director of Business Development at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP. This is part one of a two-part conversation in which Marguerita, a former...
- Jul 9, 202626 min
Alexandra DeFelice, Chief Marketing and Business Development Officer at Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP, joins the podcast to share how she turned a wave of unexpected turnover into an opportunity to elevate her...
- Jul 9, 202626 minS0
<p>Alexandra DeFelice, Chief Marketing and Business Development Officer at Jeffer Mangels & Mitchell LLP, joins the podcast to share how she turned a wave of unexpected turnover into an opportunity to elevate her team's...
- Jun 30, 202622 min
In Episode 9 of The BD Catalyst, Kristo sits down with Laura Gutierrez, Director of Referral Partnerships at JD Supra, for a conversation about what it's like to grow up inside law firms, literally. Laura's mother...
- Jun 30, 202622 minS0
<p>In Episode 9 of The BD Catalyst, Kristo sits down with Laura Gutierrez, Director of Referral Partnerships at JD Supra, for a conversation about what it's like to grow up inside law firms, literally. Laura's mother...
- Jun 18, 202623 minS0
<p>In this episode of the BD Catalyst, Kristo sits down with Amanda Bekric, MBA, Marketing Manager at Dady & Gardner, P.A., for a conversation about the "old-fashioned" secret sauce behind her firm's success: genuine...
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Mike Mellor
Chief Marketing & Business Development Officer, Pryor Cashman LLP
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Laura Gutierrez
Director of Referral Partnerships at JD Supra, United Community Center
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Lisa Jones
City of Sanford Parks and Recreation Director, Phoenix Fire Department
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Thomas Keller
Director of Platforms and Core Technology, Pennsylvanian game commission
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