LONDON, UK – 20 November 2025 – Deirdre Leone, Chief Customer Officer at ContractPodAi, the global leader in legal AI solutions and contract lifecycle management (CLM), has been named a winner of a Bronze Stevie® Award: Female Executive of the Year, recognized for her “Leadership in AI-Powered Business Transformation.”
The Stevie Awards for Women in Business honor the achievements of women executives, entrepreneurs, employees, and the companies they run – worldwide. The Stevie Award has been hailed as the world’s premier business award.
Nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek word for “crowned,” the awards were presented to winners last night during a gala event attended by nominees and their guests at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. The event was broadcast via Vimeo.
More than 1,500 entries from organizations and individuals in 48 nations and territories were submitted this year for consideration in more than 100 categories, including Executive of the Year, Entrepreneur of the Year, Company of the Year, Startup of the Year, Women Helping Women, and Women Run Workplace of the Year.
Dee plays a central role in delivering value through Leah, ContractPodAi’s AI platform that uses intelligent agents to manage complex, business-critical work around contracts, compliance, and risk. By automating high-volume, repetitive tasks like document generation, reviews, and approvals, Leah helps teams across legal, procurement, and sales increase efficiency, reduce outside spending, and accelerate revenue. Dee has led a company-wide initiative to scale the impact of ContractPodAi’s AI platform, Leah, across the customer base. Her team developed and executed tailored onboarding, enablement, and expansion strategies that allowed enterprise customers to fully integrate Leah into their business operations and generate measurable results.
Dee’s combination of strategic leadership, customer insight, and operational discipline has turned Leah into more than just a platform. It is a vehicle for cost savings, risk mitigation, and accelerated growth. Few customer executives are delivering this level of AI-driven transformation, and fewer still are doing it across such a diverse and global customer base.
Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award winners were determined by the average scores of more than 190 business professionals around the world, working on seven juries.
Maggie Miller, president of the Stevie Awards, said, “In its 22nd year, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business received its most varied and diverse body of nominations ever, and that’s reflected in the caliber of this year’s winning nominations. We are gratified by how meaningful it is to women to win a Stevie Award, and how impactful it can be on the futures of their careers and their organizations. We congratulate all of this year’s Grand, Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award winners for their achievements.”
Details about the Stevie Awards for Women in Business and the list of winners in all categories are available at https://Women.StevieAwards.com.
Entries for the 2026 Stevie Awards for Women in Business will open in May.
About ContractPodAi
ContractPodAi is a global leader in Agentic AI and the pioneer behind the Leah AgenticOS that enables enterprises to build, orchestrate, and govern intelligent agents across legal, procurement, finance, and beyond. Evolving from its award-winning Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) and Leah Legal solutions, the company has reimagined how enterprises manage contracts, data, and decisions, transforming automation into true agentic orchestration.
By combining secure, enterprise-grade AI with a flexible, cloud-agnostic architecture, ContractPodAi empowers customers to own their agentic ecosystems, connect workflows across functions, and drive measurable ROI and resilience at scale. Recognized as a CLM Visionary by Gartner for five consecutive years and a Leader in the 2025 IDC MarketScape for AI-Enabled Buy-Side CLM Applications. Leader in the 2024 IDC MarketScape for Corporate Legal CLM Software. Headquartered in London with offices across New York, Glasgow, San Francisco, Toronto, Sydney, Mumbai, and Pune, helping enterprises worldwide build the intelligent infrastructure of the future.
About the Stevie® Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in nine programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, the Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards®, The International Business Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service, the Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence, and the Stevie Awards for Women in Business. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 12,000 entries each year from organizations in more than 70 nations and territories. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at http://www.StevieAwards.com.
Persistent Systems sponsored the SheShapesAI categories in the 2025 competition.
