Leadership, Brand Strategy & Transformation - Minter Dialogue

Minter Dialogue with Thom DennisThom Dennis is the CEO of Serenity in Leadership. A former Marine, he's also a facilitator, speaker, consultant, educator and change agent. In this conversation, we discuss his experience as an officer in the Royal Marines, his work on creating culture change in business, crafting an organisation's purpose and the necessary qualities for successful leaders today. If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes or your favourite podcast channel, to rate/review the show. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter.

Minter Dialogue with Dr Nicole PriceDr Nicole Price is a keynote speaker, training leader and CEO of Lively Paradox, providing expertise in leadership training, olympic-level performance improvement, and engineering team concepts into the workplace. She also author of the brand new "Spark Your Heart, Engineering Empathy In Your Organization," published by Forbes Books. In this conversation, we discuss her career as a chemical engineer, how she came to write a book about empathy, her work with companies and how to bring empathy into the boardroom and company culture.  If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes or your favourite podcast channel, to rate/review the show. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter.

Minter Dialogue with Josh ShelovJosh Shelov is an Emmy award-winning filmmaker who has written, directed and produced feature-length films, documentaries and shorts, including directing for ESPN 30 for 30. Among his portfolio is my own film, The Last Ring Home. After 25 years of making films in Hollywood, Josh turned his attention to spreading the pleasure of writing. He founded and is CEO of Written Out Loud, designed to give creative kids the same team- and community-oriented validation that young athletes receive. In this chat, we discuss his career, lessons learned, and the power of storytelling. We also delve into his tremendous work at Written Out Loud as well as reflect back on the film we made together.If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes or your favourite podcast channel, to rate/review the show. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter.

Mark Schaefer is a globally recognized keynote speaker, educator, business consultant, and multiple time bestselling author. His blog {grow} is perennially considered as one of the top marketing blogs in the world. His latest book is "Belonging to the Brand: Why Community is the Last Great Marketing Strategy," which explores how three global megatrends are colliding to make community the next significant marketing priority. In this chat, we discuss these trends and the importance of building community in the right way. It's loaded with case studies and examples you've probably never heard of. We discuss the need to relinquish control, the definition of purpose, the different between building a cult, a tribe and a community and much more.If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to rate/review the show on RateThisPodcast. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter.

Minter Dialogue with Dr Alex ConnockAlex Connock, PhD, is an academic in Media Business and Artificial Intelligence at Oxford University, who has been shortlisted six times as Entrepreneur of the Year and is Vice Chair at UNICEF UK. He's also author of the book, Media Management and AI, Understanding Media Business Models in the Digital Age, published by Routledge. In this conversation, we discuss Alex's career and his pivoting into academia. We look at the arrival of generative AI, and how tools like Chat GPT will change so many industries, including media and education. We explore the impact of AI on news, cinema and teaching; the implications for copyright and for those working in marketing and the creative industries, and a whole lot more. If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to rate/review the show on RateThisPodcast. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter.

Minter Dialogue with Rupert RobsonRupert Robson studied philosophy of mind at Oxford and pursued a career in banking until 2006, when he turned his attention to writing about how humankind might shape the world and in turn be shaped in the coming decades. The result is his book, "The Sentient Robot: The Last Two Hurdles in the Race to Build Artificial Superintelligence." In this conversation, we discuss his career path, the importance of the humanities in business, the soft and hard problems of consciousness, empathy and artificial intelligence, the route to Artificial Superintelligence, the important ethical considerations and how business might think about dealing with sentient machines.If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to rate/review the show on RateThisPodcast. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter.

Minter Dialogue with Ben RenshawBen Renshaw is a leadership thought leader, doing keynote speaking and coaching on leadership and purpose-led cultures. He's author of several books and notably, his last book, cowritten with Sophie Devonshire, "LoveWork, The Seven Steps to Thrive at Work." In this conversation, we discuss Ben's atypical background as a classically trained violinist, his work in leadership and how to chart one's path and find purpose, at any age. We talk about the notion of love at work, and how to bring about positive work experiences, improving engagement and how to thrive in life and at work.If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to rate/review the show on RateThisPodcast. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter.

Alan Cowen, CEO and Chief Scientist at Hume AI, discusses building an AI for human well-being, the role of emotions and artificial empathy in AI development, cultural differences in expressing emotions, measuring and analyzing facial expressions, funding and community building, and the impact of data on therapeutic AI.

Minter Dialogue with Martijn SchirpMartijn Schirp is the cofounder and Chief Visionary Officer at the Synthesis Institute, that offers safe, legal, medically supervised psychedelic retreats, based out of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. As they write on their site, they "make the psychedelic experience accessible for curious individuals who want to utilize moderate-to-high doses of truffles to catalyze creative breakthroughs, explore consciousness, find meaning, improve confidence, and search for a mystical experience." In this conversation, we discuss Martijn's journey to founding the Synthesis Institute, what has changed in our society that has brought about our crisis in mental health, the treatments they provide, the protocols they follow and the prospects for the future.  If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes or your favourite podcast channel, to rate/review the show. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter.

Minter Dialogue with Scott SandlandScott Sandland is the CEO and cofounder of Cyrano.ai, a natural language understanding system that improves human:computer communication and trains people and machines in improved soft-skills related to active listening techniques he honed in his private clinical practice. Given Scott's ambition to improve AI's ability to hold more meaningful conversations, I had to investigate. In this conversation, we discuss the story and evolution of Cyrano, the challenges of making meaningful conversation with AI and his ambition to build a digital therapist that can be given freely to every at risk teen in America.If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to rate/review the show on RateThisPodcast. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter.