PIVOTAL Finalist in Two Book Awards

PIVOTAL was selected as one of the top business books of 2024 by American Book Fest, and is a finalist for the Foreword Indie Awards. The winners for the latter will be named in June.

Doubling Down on What Works: Innovate Where You Differentiate

In a world obsessed with chasing the next big thing, I’m doing the opposite. Instead of scrambling to reinvent myself or my work, I’m doubling down—or maybe even going all in—on Personality Poker®. Why? Because in my book PIVOTAL, I emphasize a crucial principle: innovate where you differentiate. Success isn’t about chasing every new trend. […]

Creating Music with AI

What you hear and see below is 100% AI-generated lyrics, music, images, and captions. I’m focusing more on Personality Poker these days, so I thought a song about it that sounded like an old-time Vegas-style song would be fun. ChatGPT created the lyrics. Because it already knew about Personality Poker, I only needed to ask […]

Pivotal Shifts: Innovating To Differentiate

I had the great pleasure of joining Tony Martignetti on “The Virtual Campfire” podcast. Here’s the description of our episode. Stephen Shapiro joins Tony Martignetti to share his incredible journey of overcoming adversity and the importance of pivotal shifts in finding deeper meaning in his life and work. From his early passion for music, his […]

Watch me on a Network Reality Television Show

The first time I was on a major television network was in 2008 when I was on CNBC’s The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch. That was fun, as I shared the session with Mel Robbins and Darren Hardy. I’ll have to dig up that video from my archives. Then, in 2012, I was on ABC […]

Meander with Purpose and PIVOTAL

I was on The School of Reinvention Podcast recently and the conversation was awesome. We covered a lot of topics. But my favorite was about meandering with purpose. Here is a 6-minute snippet from the interview. You can listen to the entire interview here: https://rogerosorio.com/thejourneytoreinvention/podcast/episode59/

Soundview Executive Book Summary of PIVOTAL

Soundview Executive Book® Summaries has condensed my over 200-page book into six power-packed pages. And I would like to give you this summary. Here’s the first page… We all long for stability. This is so when change arises, we know how to react and know we have what is needed to make the best choice. […]

My Digital Avatar

It’s amazing what AI can do – and quickly. I uploaded about twenty still pictures to HeyGen. The time-consuming part was finding recent pictures that were clear enough to be used. I uploaded my PIVOTAL audiobook that I recorded in a studio to ElevenLabs. That took minutes. I then typed in the script, pressed a […]

Classical Music, Jazz, Innovation, and Me Jamming on the Sax

I recently unearthed some videos from 25 years ago of a speech I gave in Nice, France. In the middle of the presentation, I whipped out my saxophone and started jamming with a band. We hadn’t prepared or discussed what we would play—it was 100% improvised. That was the point of the talk. I shared […]

Are You Playing With a Full Deck?

It’s no secret that successful teams aren’t just made up of people with similar mindsets—they’re built on diversity of thought and complementary strengths. But how do you know if you’re playing with a full deck? Werner Puchert shares a wonderful 10-minute summary of his assessment of Personality Poker, a simple and interactive way to understand […]