Leadership, Brand Strategy & Transformation - Minter Dialogue

Minter Dialogue Episode #293 Esther Dyson is a trained Cosmonaut, author, philanthropist and one of the world's most active angel investors, focusing on breakthrough efficacy in healthcare. Esther is advisor or on the board of many interesting companies including 23andme and Yandex. She's currently executive founder of Wellville, a fascinating nonprofit project dedicated to demonstrating the value of investing in health. In this wide-ranging conversation, we look at exciting new and different business models, how to improve communications and fix the world's spam problem, as well as dive into the wonderful Wellville project.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)

Minter Dialogue Episode #292 Ann Handley is a keynote speaker of great renown, digital marketing pioneer, WSJ best-selling author, and partner and chief content officer at MarketingProfs. In the first ever themed podcast here, Ann and I riffed on ultimate frisbee metaphors and images throughout, talking about how brands should go about making ridiculously good content, the importance of developing pathological empathy, and how to navigate great digital marketing in today's crowded marketplace. Ann provides a ton of tips and tricks to generate and distribute great content. So, if you want content delivered with a brilliant spin, give this interview a twirl. 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)

Minter Dialogue Episode #291 Simon La Fosse is founder and chairman at his eponymous firm, La Fosse Associates, an award-winning recruitment agency founded in 2007 and specialised in technology recruitment. While based in the UK, they also have a presence in LA and NY. It's a co-owned business that deals with one of the hottest topics: how to win the battle for tech talent. In this conversation with Simon, we look at the lay of the land for recruiting techies, what do companies need to be thinking about and doing to make sure they hire and retain the best. We look at how companies should be addressing tech as well as what advice he'd share for those just starting out in the job world. A great chat about an important topic.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)

Minter Dialogue Episode #290 Celia Francis is CEO of Rated People, a marketplace in the UK for tradespeople, such as plumbers and electricians. It's a disruptive player, making waves. In this interview with Celia, we look at the challenges of setting up and driving this business in a £50B market, how to create a trusted network, build up the consumer demand with 31 different trades in as many neighbourhoods as possible in the UK. We also explore how Rated People does its marketing, and tackles issues such as machine learning. A world of opportunities with lessons to be learned.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)

Minter Dialogue Episode #289 Merrill Brown is founder and CEO of The News Project, a startup helping to make news and news rooms better and more affordable. With a deep background in media, Merrill has been involved as a board member or adviser of many notable organisations, including GoLocal24 and the City University of NY Graduate School of Journalism. He's also Principal at MMB Media, a strategic and management consulting firm for media and digital businesses. In this conversation, we look at the News Project, the challenges and opportunities for media companies, how brands could be taking advantage or adopting the same mindset and much 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)

Minter Dialogue Episode #288 Ofer Lidksy is a serial entrepreneur, with his finger on the pulse having launched a handful of startups, including in security (Terrasafe) and Computer Brain Interface (Excellent Brain). In this conversation we discuss his startups and the mission that drives Ofer. We also take a deep dive on his latest initiative with Digital DNAtix, a genetics blockchain company that is striving to create an open, worldwide platform for confidential and anonymous genetic storage. It's a fascinating space for an important topic.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)

Minter Dialogue Episode #287 Dr Tom Stubbs is the CEO and co-founder of Chronomics. With a PhD in epigenetics, specialised in aging, Tom and his team launched Chronomics late last year. It's a service that looks at your epigenetics and provides an analysis that encourages action because you can evaluate the progress (as opposed to a stable genetic test). Tom has offered a salivating offer for listeners of this podcast, so please take a look. If you're interested in preventative health, Chronomics might be just the trick.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)

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)

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)

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)