Amanda Cupido

Amanda Cupido is an award-winning podcast producer, speaker, author and entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of Lead Podcasting, an agency that develops podcasts for enterprise organizations. Her books, Let’s Talk Podcasting: The Essential Guide to Doing it Right and Let’s Talk Podcasting for Kids are Amazon bestsellers and have inspired people around the world to embrace the medium for close to a decade.

Amanda is a TEDx speaker and is a host on the Ontario parliamentary channel. Her expertise in digital storytelling has led her to speak at North America’s largest communications conferences and train executives internationally.

Amanda is passionate about empowering the next generation of media professionals. She helped redefine the radio courses at several of Canada’s top post-secondary institutions and is currently teaching AI for Communicators at Seneca Polytechnic.

Previously, she worked as a radio reporter, producer and news anchor. Most notably, she was the first woman to be a program director at a talk radio station in Toronto.

Amanda has a Bachelor of Journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University, a Master of Professional Studies in the Psychology of Leadership from Penn State University and a certificate in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Oxford.