Leadership, Brand Strategy & Transformation - Minter Dialogue

Minter Dialogue Episode #336Tom Schwab is a speaker, author (Podcast Guest Profits and The Mastermind Blueprint), coach, and successful online entrepreneur. Tom's passionate about helping brands grow from obscure to acclaimed, and, having founded Interview Valet, is an expert in helping getting guests onto the podcasts they need in order to get heard. In this conversation, we discuss Tom's experience in the USNA, the successful trajectory of his startup Goodbye Crutches, and a deep dive into Interview Valet and how to make a great podcast!Please send me your questions as an audio file or text 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 to rate/review the podcast. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Minter Dialogue Episode #335Fabrice Grinda is an entrepreneur, speaker and renowned angel investor. He was ranked #1 in Forbes, nearly 2x the #2, based on investment volume + number of exits. He's invested in banner names such Alibaba, Airbnb, Dropbox, Tencent, Uber & Palantir. He's currently cofounder of FJ Labs, a venture capital/PE company investing in ambitious founders solving big problems. Previously, he founded and successfully sold several startups, including Aucland (a European Ebay), Zingy and OLX (the alternative to Craigslist). In this conversation with Fabrice, we talk about the key to his success, some important lessons learned and a dive into his own life pivot. Fabrice is a vivid and well known speaker and a force of nature. Please send me your questions as an audio file or text 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 to rate/review the podcast. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Minter Dialogue Episode #334Dr. Lidewij Niezink is an independent scholar and practitioner who focuses on the development of empathy theory and education. She dedicates her professional life to the integration of fundamental and applied research from science in psychology, philosophy, social neuroscience, arts, and anthropology, with practice-based experiential methods. In this delightful podcast with Lidewij, we discuss what is empathy, how and why it's useful in business and organisations, how to embed it, using the Empathy Intervision process. Lidewij provides a very sound and grounded approach that's really worth listening to. Please send me your questions as an audio file or text 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 to rate/review the podcast. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter. And just a quick announcement that my new book "Heartificial Empathy, Putting Heart into Business and Artificial Intelligence" is now out as an audiobook as well as paperback and Kindle, available on Amazon or Audible.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Minter Dialogue Episode #333Samuel Monnie runs digital transformation at Campbell Soup, in charge of Digital and eCommerce. In this talk with Samuel, we talk about the real operational challenges of driving change and digital transformation in a large consumer products company with many different brands, such as Plum Organic, Pepperidge Farm, V8 and Prego. Samuel delivers some tips and insights on what it takes, under the hood, to make change come about and to build the right capabilities.Please send me your questions as an audio file or text 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 to rate/review the podcast. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Minter Dialogue Episode #332Dr Mark Rosekind is Chief Safety Officer at Zoox, developing the first ground-up, fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem required to bring this technology to market. Zoox aims to provide the next generation of mobility-as-a-service in urban environments, on a mission to make the road far safer. Mark started out as a FSR at Stanford University, and we met when he was a fellow at Yale, teaching my first ever course on sleep. He then worked on sleep & fatigue at NASA, was a president-appointed board member at the  National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in the US, before becoming administrator (top dog) of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). In this chat, we talk about the importance of sleep, its academic evolution, and his experience and learnings in the various functions he's held over his hugely fascinating career.Please send me your questions as an audio file or text 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 to rate/review the podcast. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Minter Dialogue Episode #331Adrian Swinscoe is a speaker, author and a renowned expert on customer experience, who runs the Rare Business Consultancy, focused on helping companies to improve their customer service and experience. After his book "How to Wow," , Adrian has just penned, Punk CX, edited by Oisin Lunny. It's a tremendous read for anyone interested in making waves and shaking things up for success. In this conversation, we look at some of the key points of the book, why and how to deliver a punk attitude in business, and create a much stronger customer experience.Please send me your questions as an audio file or text 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 to rate/review the podcast. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Minter Dialogue Episode #330Mitch Duckler is managing partner of the brand and marketing strategy consultancy, FullSurge, who previously spent many years working in brand management in blue chip companies such as Unilever and Coca-Cola. He's the author of brand new book, The Indispensable Brand: Move from Invisible to Invaluable. In this conversation, we focus on branding, how brands can stand out and avoid 'brand monotony,' the power of purpose and brand personality, the importance of employees as touch points for the brand.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.And just a quick announcement that my new book "Heartificial Empathy, Putting Heart into Business and Artificial Intelligence" is now out as an audiobook, available on Amazon or Audible: https://www.amazon.com/Heartificial-Empathy-Business-Artificial-Intelligence/dp/191648090X/Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Minter Dialogue Episode #329Dr Katharina Lederle is an author and specialist in sleep, the circadian rhythm and fatigue. She's Founder and Director of Sleep Services at Somnia and author of the Sleep Sense (Exisle Publishing). Kat helps people improve their sleep and live their lives to the full. Among other things, we discuss why we sleep, the benefits of getting good sleep, the workings of our internal human clock, dreams, and some great tips and tricks for improving your sleep.  Please send me your questions as an audio file or text 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 to rate/review the podcast. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Minter Dialogue Episode #328Jonathan MacDonald is a man who excels at many things, including being a CEO-whisperer, inventor, investor, renowned black belt in kickboxing, and most recently, author of the best-selling Powered by Change (published by Nicholas Brealey) that was a Sunday Times business book best seller, and that won the Embracing Change award at this year's Business Book Awards. Jonathan challenges himself to radically change his life every year. A most remarkable and inspirational story.  Please send me your questions as an audio file or text 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 to rate/review the podcast. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Minter Dialogue Episode #327Isabel Naidoo is the head of People, Strategy & Analytics at FIS, the world's largest provider of financial technology solutions. Isabel has led the digital transformation programme of people services at FIS through the very disrupted and disruptive world of financial services. Isabel takes us through how she has successfully navigated the change, using data and other key mindsets. Many useful learnings for anyone deal with digital transformation.  Please send me your questions as an audio file or text 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 to rate/review the podcast. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)