
Leadership, Brand Strategy & Transformation - Minter Dialogue
With the Minter Dialogue podcast, your host Minter Dial is on a mission to help elevate the debate and insert more meaningfulness into our lives. He gives weekly interviews around leadership, brand strategy and transformation, featuring top business leaders, personalities, entrepreneurs and authors from around the world who are making things happen! The show was ranked as the #6 Leadership and #5 Branding Podcast 2021 by Feedspot, Julie Livingstone’s Top 15 Marketing Podcasts 2020 and Top 50 Marketing Blog/Podcasts by Linkedin.Minter Dial is a filmmaker and author of multiple award-winning books, including The Last Ring Home, Futureproof (FT Press), You Lead (Kogan Page) and Heartificial Empathy, 2nd edition (2023).Podcast show notes are on minterdial.com. To rate & review: RateThisPodcast.
Latest episodes

Jul 22, 2018 • 39min
Using Artificial Intelligence To Decode Our Heart Beat Into Emotions with Limbic AI's CEO, Ross Harper (MDE286)
Minter Dialogue Episode #286 Ross Harper, with a Masters in Neuroscience and a PhD in Computational Neuroscience, is founder and CEO of Limbic AI, a recent startup building a robust dataset and using artificial intelligence to infer the emotional state of the user, wearing an appropriate wearable device, from his/her heart beat. In this conversation, we discuss the opportunities that reading the heart beat could do for many different businesses. We look at the key to building a business on the basis of AI, the state of the art of understanding emotions via the different methods, as well as the courses and sources for people interested in knowing more about AI.Meanwhile, please send me your questions as an audio file (or normal email) 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)

Jul 15, 2018 • 41min
Talking Digital Transformation, Leadership and the Challenging Media Landscape with Esra Dogramaci (MDE285)
Minter Dialogue Episode #285 Esra Dogramaci works at the intersection of politics, international relations, communications and all things digital. Presently, the senior editor, digital at Deutsche Welle, Esra has worked as a consultant for the BBC, as a new media analyst for Al Jazeera all while having started off her career as a high level ice hockey player. In this conversation, we discuss the challenges of transformation in media companies, how to create and distribute powerful content, how to lead change, and how to make training more effective.Meanwhile, please send me your questions as an audio file (or normal email) 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)

Jul 8, 2018 • 41min
Using Data & AI to create preemptive and preventative recommendations for athletes with Helene Guillaume, CEO of WILD (MDE284)
Minter Dialogue Episode #284 Helene Guillaume is co-founder and CEO of WILD, a health tech startup backed by Entrepreneur First, pioneering in creating pre-emptive, preventative care for athletes. Specifically, WILD collects various data inputs and uses AI to help understand your body and provide smart, personalised recommendations. With Helene's combination of a high-performing athlete and her quant/data background, WILD is a fascinating venture.Meanwhile, please send me your questions as an audio file (or normal email) 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)

Jun 24, 2018 • 35min
James Monaghan, building a trusted digital identity infrastructure for the world at Evernym (MDE283)
Minter Dialogue Episode #283 James Monaghan, whom I met as a fellow speaker at CogX 2018, is VP Product Management at Evernym, a startup based out of Utah, building the next generation of identity infrastructure for the world. It's a fascinating project, tackling a big challenge that is designed to enable trusted peer interactions between individuals, organizations, and objects and to give the individual true control and ownership of his/her personal data. It's a cutting edge technology.Meanwhile, please send me your questions as an audio file (or normal email) 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)

Jun 17, 2018 • 42min
Building A Unique And Successful Brand In A Crowded Market: Madison Reed by Amy Errett (MDE282)
Minter Dialogue Episode #282Amy Errett is an unique businesswoman who has worked in big business, led a VC, has operated on many boards and also started multiple entrepreneurial outfits. Her latest is Madison Reed, launched it in 2014, manufacturing and selling hair products in the US. In this conversation, we look at the early lessons learned, the trifecta of ingredients that has contributed to Madison Reed's success, their effective way of using tech to drive the business and a good deal more.Meanwhile, please send me your questions as an audio file (or normal email) 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)

Jun 10, 2018 • 44min
How to Tackle Disruption, Ask Better Questions and Adapt to Survive with Jack Uldrich, Futurist and Best-Selling Author (MDE281)
Minter Dialogue Episode #281 Jack Uldrich is an acclaimed global futurist, keynote (including TEDx) speaker, and best-selling author. In this conversation, we discuss why business executives need to unlearn and embrace ambiguity in order better to lead, how leaders should be asking better questions, how change comes about, the most exciting prospective new technologies as well as those that keep Jack up at night.Meanwhile, please send me your questions as an audio file (or normal email) 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)

Jun 3, 2018 • 39min
Discover the Pragmatist's Guide to Life and a new approach to finding purpose with Simone and Malcolm Collins (MDE280)
Minter Dialogue Episode #280 Simone and Malcolm Collins are wedded entrepreneurs, authors and travellers. Working with Malcolm, Simone is the CEO of Travelmax, selling wholesale travel tickets to boutique agencies and providing white-glove travel management services to celebs. Malcolm is a neuroscientist by training and co-founded with Simone, the art commission marketplace ArtCorgi. Together, they also founded the Pragmatists Foundation and are the authors of the Pragmatist's Guide to Life, a best-selling kindle book that elaborates a new way of looking at life. In this podcast we examine some of the most intriguing tenets of their book, the notion of finding one's objective function and the implications for you and me.Meanwhile, please send me your questions as an audio file (or normal email) 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)

May 27, 2018 • 34min
Behind the scenes with the successful Somnai Experience in London with Andrew McGuinness (MDE279)
Minter Dialogue Episode #279 Andrew McGuinness is the CEO of Ellipsis Entertainment and founder of the BMB and Seven Dials PR agency. Through DotDotDot London, part of Ellipsis, Andrew partnered with a couple of agencies to create an innovative and provocative entertainment experience in the heart of Clerkenwell London. It's an immersive multi-reality 60-minute experience that is well worth the visit. In this conversation, we look behind the scenes at the making of the experience, the challenges and surprises as well as the future plans.Meanwhile, please send me your questions as an audio file (or normal email) 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)

May 20, 2018 • 41min
Understanding and Leveraging Cryptocurrencies and the Blockchain with Peter McCormack (MDE278)
Minter Dialogue Episode #278 Peter McCormack is one of the pioneers in bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. Having literally fallen into the space, Peter is an experienced cryptocurrency trader, miner, blogger, podcaster and advisor, cruising the world and advocating cryptocurrencies. In this podcast, we discuss the world of cryptocurrencies, why you might want to get involved, how companies could or should be viewing the bitcoin/cryptocurrency/blockchain opportunities and risks, the investment opportunities for individuals, the problem with Ethereum as well as a host of great resources to learn more.Meanwhile, please send me your questions as an audio file (or normal email) 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)

May 13, 2018 • 43min
The state of marketing technology, building community and purpose into your brand experience with Kelly Hungerford (MDE277)
Minter Dialogue Episode #277 Kelly Hungerford is a digital marketing and marketing operations expert, based in Switzerland, and helping small and mid-sized enterprises and brands on their digital transformation initiatives. In this podcast, we discuss some of the differences between marketing in Europe versus the US, the state of the business in marketing technology, how to establish a genuine purpose in enterprise as well as how to build community.Meanwhile, please send me your questions as an audio file (or normal email) 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)