Poets & Thinkers

Benedikt Lehnert

Poets & Thinkers explores the humanistic future of business leadership through deep, unscripted conversations with visionary minds – from best-selling authors and inspiring artists to leading academic experts and seasoned executives.Hosted by tech executive, advisor, and Princeton entrepreneurship & design fellow Ben Lehnert, this podcast challenges conventional MBA wisdom, blending creative leadership, liberal arts, and innovation to reimagine what it means to lead in the AI era. If you believe leadership is both an art and a responsibility, this is your space to listen, reflect, and evolve.

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Poets & Thinkers

Episodes (24)

Jun 3rd The Future is Feminine: On who gets to imagine the future with Graça Fonseca
May 20th Human Conservationism: On improv, creative play and developing negative capability as leadership practices with Gabriella White
Apr 22nd Hollow Echoes: Why AI art will never have a soul with Sean Wolcott

Poets & Thinkers

Jun 3, 2026
52 minutes
36 MB

What if we gave ordinary citizens the power to decide how public money is spent? Graça Fonseca did just that. With her pioneering vision, she built the world’s first national participatory budget, helped transform a crisis-era Lisbon into Europe’s entrepreneurial city of the year, and served as Portugal’s Minister of Culture through COVID. Now she’s asking an even bigger question: who gets to imagine the future? In this episode, Ben sits down with Graça Fonseca to trace a throughline from her years in Lisbon’s city government through her time in national offi...

Poets & Thinkers

The Future is Feminine: On who gets to imagine the future with Graça Fonseca

Benedikt Lehnert

00:00 -51:52