Leadership, Brand Strategy & Transformation - Minter Dialogue

Minter Dialogue with Charlie GladstoneCharlie Gladstone is a businessman, serial entrepreneur, creative director, speaker and author. With his second book, "Do Team, How to get the best from everyone," published by the Do Book Co., Charlie describes it as a manifesto for gentle leadership. In this conversation, we discuss his roots in music, the lessons learned through running a variety of businesses, some of the key pointers from his book on leadership when it comes to working with family, as well as with getting it right with your employees. We explore the role of art and novels, manners and 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 Judy PiatkusJudy Piatkus is a Business Leader, Coach and Author, bringing conscious leadership development to the forefront of entrepreneurship and business. Having founded and successfully sold her eponymous publishing company, in 2011, Judy founded the global non-profit organisation ConsciousCafé which connects people around the world with regular local groups and events that focus on conscious conversations, raising self-awareness and exploring new ideas and current issues. She's also author of "Ahead of Her Time, How a one woman startup became a global publishing brand," which won the Business Journey Award in the 2022 UK Business Book Awards. In this conversation, we discuss her remarkable career, some of the key lessons learned as a pioneering entrepreneur, building a winning team, and the way her purpose came to her, evolved and crystallised, through to encouraging conscious conversations.  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 Leonydus JohnsonLeonydus Johnson is a man of many talents. For starters, he's a speech language pathologist. He's also a hip-hop artist, film writer, director and actor. Further, he's the host of the mightily popular and well noted Informed Dissent podcast that digs in on many hot-button topics. He's also a writer on Substack and author of the new book, "Raising Victims: The Pernicious Rise of Critical Race Theory (Salem Books, 2023). In this conversation, we discuss his journey to launching Informed Dissent and his book, the role of art and music in his life and work, some of the key components and concepts in his book, such as identity, community, CRT and hostile attribution bias, the state of society and some of the big issues of our day.  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 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.