C-Speak: The Language of Executives

Subscribe to C-Speak so you never miss an episode. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.In this episode of PNC C-Speak, Amanda Agati, chief investment officer for PNC’s Asset Management Group, discusses how PNC’s culture led her back to the company, adopting a servant leadership mindset when moving into managerial roles and the challenges of what she calls “purple haze” policy uncertainty.“I do think we’re setting ourselves up for a really strong multi-year period, and investors need to be mindful of that in terms of portfolio positioning. It’s easy to deviate from long-term plans [with all the uncertainty],”Agati says.

Subscribe to C-Speak so you never miss an episode. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.In this episode of PNC C-Speak, Patrick Gilligan, president and CEO of Point32Health, discusses leading the nonprofit health and well-being organization that serves commercial, Medicare and Medicaid markets. Gilligan also touches on using AI to improve administrative efficiency and provider-plan collaboration and the need for industry stakeholders to reconnect and reduce waste to address affordability.“There is a lot of efficiency near term on AI, but I think long term it can really improve the overall experience [for the doctors and patients], and that’s my goal,” Gilligan says.

Subscribe to C-Speak so you never miss an episode. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.In this episode of PNC C-Speak, PNC Bank President Mark Wiedman reflects on his first year in his role and how he approached learning the ins and outs of a large coast-to-coast bank. He discusses his goal to build a national bank with big-bank capabilities delivered at a local level and the challenges and opportunities that AI brings.“[What’s been critical to] PNC’s success is the culture. We win as a team. We’re local. We care about the bank, about the communities we’re in, about each other. Those are important values to me, but they’re also pretty unusual,” Wiedman says.

In this episode of PNC C-Speak, Saskia Epstein, senior vice president for client and community relations at PNC Bank, discusses her journey from the nonprofit sector to banking. She shares her focus on employee engagement, social impact, business development and brand communications. Epstein also highlights PNC’s long-standing commitment to early childhood education as a core community focus and the work she helps advance through her leadership in community relations.“There is an incredible need for a wide diversity of opportunity for early learning and family-based care is providing an expansion to the options. [In-home childcare] also creates self- sustaining business opportunities for individual entrepreneurs,” Epstein said.Powered by PNC Bank.Download a transcript of this episode.