“Your Leadership Podcast” is about you and your leadership journey. Co-hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison take a conversational approach, making leadership practices relevant in new ways, no matter where you are or want to be. They blend big picture questions with ground level explorations and takeaways that can be put into practice today. And classic leadership skills – vision, strategy, voice, team-building, collaboration. emotional intelligence among them – come in for re-thinking in the era of AI and data.
Frank Prager is a lawyer and business executive who retiredrecently and turned his attention to a topic that steadied him professionally: lessons on leadership found in the plays and poetry of William Shakespeare.
Prager is the author of a forthcoming book, titled “AMemorable Honor: Shakespeare, Lincoln, and the Art of Leadership.”
Our conversation covered Frank’s pre-law studies inengineering and literature, steered through his own uses of Shakespeare during his professional career, and culminated in some unexpectedly lively explorations of what Shakespeare has meant both to great leaders in history and to today's leaders.
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, as the Bard wrote!
Find Frank:
LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-prager-15720927/)
“A Memorable Honor”: the book’s website (https://www.amemorablehonor.com/)
“A Memorable Honor” at Amazon.com (https://www.amazon.com/Memorable-Honor-Shakespeare-Lincoln-Leadership/dp/B0H8B5YW6L/)
“A Memorable Honor” at barnesandnoble.com (https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-memorable-honor-frank-p-prager/1150732591)
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What makes Your Leadership Podcast different? Ourco-hosts Kathy Edersheim (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathyedersheim/) and Michael Madison (https://www.linkedin.com/in/madisonian/) and our guests are down in the trenches, learning and leading by doing, in a broad variety of contexts, and generating leadership takeaways useful for experienced and aspiring leaders alike.
Join us at yourleadership.net! (http://yourleadership.net/)
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Your Leadership Podcast is produced and engineered byCommander Buffalo.
While the Commander may use AI to help us organize ourinterviews, our podcast features only human voices, and our musical accompaniment is composed and performed by the very human Matt Madison.
3 Aug 2026
Leading With Authenticity with Audrey Russo
Audrey Russo joined the Pittsburgh Technology Council as CEO and President in 2007, and she has never looked back. Audrey has been at the forefront of Pittsburgh’s 21st century technology-based post-steel industry rebirth, as the leader of the Pittsburgh region’s most prominent membershiporganization for tech companies and as cheerleader, ambassador, mentor, and bridge builder for entrepreneurs, developers, investors, and service providers.
Our conversation with Audrey ranged widely across hermultiple roles, spanning the opportunities and challenges associated with being in the middle of so many overlapping constituencies.
Audrey’s singular voice comes through with clarity andconsistency.
Find Audrey:
LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/audreyrusso/)
Audrey Russo at the Pittsburgh Technology Council (https://www.pghtech.org/about-us)
The Pittsburgh Technology Council (https://www.pghtech.org/)
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What makes Your Leadership Podcast different? Our co-hosts Kathy Edersheim (linkedin.com/in/kathyedersheim)and Michael Madison (https://www.linkedin.com/in/madisonian/) and our guests are down in the trenches, learning and leading by doing, in a broad variety of contexts, and generating leadership takeaways useful for experienced and aspiring leaders alike.
Join us at yourleadership.net! (http://yourleadership.net/)
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Your Leadership Podcast is produced and engineered by Commander Buffalo.
While the Commander may use AI to help us organize our interviews, our podcast features only human voices, and our musical accompaniment is composed and performed by the very human Matt Madison.
25 May 2026
Leading With Humanity with Jacob Rooksby
Jacob Rooksby (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rooksby/) was the youngest law dean in the U.S. when he was appointed in 2018 to lead the Gonzaga University School of Law. (https://www.gonzaga.edu/school-of-law) Eight years later, his leadership journey is taking him to a new role, as dean of the University of Richmond School of Law. (https://news.richmond.edu/releases/article/-/27842/university-of-richmond-announces-new-richmond-school-of-law-dean.html)
Our conversation with Jacob covered many of the ways in which higher education offers distinctive leadership challenges and opportunities. Jacob also talked about what he learned about leading and what he learned about himself during his tenure at Gonzaga, including a shift in focus from "leading as decision-making" to "leading people to their own source of power."
He reflected on many of the human elements of leadership, including the importance of modeling the behavior that a leader hopes to see in others, the roles of keeping an open heart as well as an open mind, and the challenges of loneliness in the leader's seat.
In all, this episode again confirms the core message of Your Leadership Podcast (https://yourleadership.net/): context makes all the difference.
Find Jacob:
LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rooksby/)
Jacob Rooksby's website (https://www.jacobrooksby.com/)
The University of Richmond School of Law (https://law.richmond.edu/)
What makes Your Leadership Podcast (http://yourleadership.net/) different? Our co-hosts Kathy Edersheim (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathyedersheim/) and Michael Madison (https://www.linkedin.com/in/madisonian/) and our guests are down in the trenches, learning and leading by doing, in a broad variety of contexts, and generating leadership takeaways useful for experienced and aspiring leaders alike.
Join us at yourleadership.net (https://yourleadership.net/)!
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Your Leadership Podcast is produced and engineered by Commander Buffalo.
While the Commander may use AI to help us organize our interviews, our podcast features only human voices, and our musical accompaniment is composed and performed by the very human Matt Madison.
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