Oct 30, 2025
What happens when a storyteller from Microsoft turns her lens on
the women shaping technology’s past, present, and future?
Today on Leveraging Thought Leadership, Peter Winick sits down with
Miri Rodriguez, CEO of Empressa
AI, best-selling author, storyteller at Microsoft, and co-author of "The Women of Microsoft"
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Oct 23, 2025
What’s the real ROI of a book?
That’s the question Peter Winick poses to Chief Imaginative Officer
of Emerson Consulting, author of "The Expert's Edge: Become the Go-To
Authority People Turn to Every Time" and publishing expert
Ken Lizotte, in this episode of
Leveraging Thought Leadership.
Ken has helped more than...
Oct 16, 2025
What makes a podcast truly powerful — and worth your time?
In this episode of Leveraging Thought Leadership, Peter Winick sits
down with Ryan Estes, co-founder of Wildcast and Kitcaster, to unpack what
separates a great podcast guest — and host — from the rest. Ryan’s
work connects CEOs, founders, and thought...
Oct 12, 2025
What if the world didn’t reward the best ideas — but the
best-packaged ones?
That’s the question at the heart of this conversation between Bill
Sherman and Gavin McMahon, CEO of fassforward and author of Story Business. Once an engineer
designing submarines, Gavin discovered that technical brilliance
alone...
Oct 9, 2025
What happens when senior executives step into a room and speak
with radical candor?
In this episode of Leveraging Thought Leadership, host Peter Winick
sits down with Ken Banta, Founder and CEO of
the Vanguard Network, to explore how real leaders
grow stronger through dialogue—not monologues.
Ken doesn’t just...