

Leadership, Brand Strategy & Transformation - Minter Dialogue
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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! This show has had multiple awards and citations over the years, including the #2 Brand Strategy podcast worldwide by Feedspot in 2025 (#1 in the UK), as well as #22 among all Leadership podcasts. It was also listed as a Top 50 leadership podcast by LeadersHum for 2022 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). He also hosts The Joy of Padel podcast.Podcast show notes are on minterdial.com. To rate & review: RateThisPodcast.
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Dec 19, 2014 • 36min
Daniel Burrus - Predicting the future of new technology and the impact on business (MDE126)
Minter Dialogue Episode #126 — This interview is Daniel Burrus, speaker, strategist and author of 6 books, including the NYT and WSJ best seller, Flash Foresight. Daniel is one of the world’s leading futurists on Global Trends and Innovation. He is a premier influencer on Linkedin and the NYT identified him as one of the top three business gurus for speaking. In this interview, we discuss all manner of new tech trends, such as the Internet of Things, the cloud, big data, Moore’s Law, and, importantly, how companies should be looking at these trends to make business decisions. Meanwhile, you can comment and find the show notes on themyndset.com where you can also sign up for my weekly newsletter. Or you can follow me on Twitter on @mdial. And, if you liked the podcast, please take a moment of your precious time to go over to iTunes to rate the podcast.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Dec 14, 2014 • 34min
Nathalie Nahai, Web Psychologist - how to master online influence and web marketing (MDE125)
Minter Dialogue Episode #125 — This interview is with Nathalie Nahai, known as the Web Psychologist, who is a great speaker, trainer and author of “Webs of Influence,” published in 2012. Nathalie brings together psychology, design and technology to understand better online persuasion. In this interview, we discuss how brands can improve their online presence, the challenges that brands face in creating engagement and issues of aligning brand values with online conversation. Nathalie provides us with lots of great insights and practical tips. Meanwhile, you can comment and find the show notes on themyndset.com where you can also sign up for my weekly newsletter. Or you can follow me on Twitter on @mdial. And, if you liked the podcast, please take a moment of your precious time to go over to iTunes to rate the podcast.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Dec 6, 2014 • 56min
Interview with Ludovic Dujardin, co-founder of Petit Bambou, the little zenmaster (MDE124)
Minter Dialogue Episode #124 — This interview is with Ludovic Dujardin, a French serial entrepreneur, who has launched a number of vibrant Facebook fan pages, one of which hit 1 million fans, Petit Bambou, which he manages personally. Few are the community managers who have created and manage such a large number of fans. Ludovic gives us the history of the site, launched in Jan 2012, and some tips and tricks as to how he manages such a large community and some lessons for social media managers. Warning: it’s a lot about attitude and mindset!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.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Nov 30, 2014 • 18min
Life lessons and the implications for business today by Minter Dial (MDE123)
Minter Dialogue Episode #123 — This podcast is a little different as my intended guest had an urgency. In this podcast, I talk (solo) about my three biggest life lessons and the implications for business. I discuss topics such as sleep, left handers and Women's Studies... and more. Meanwhile, you can comment and find the show notes on themyndset.com where you can also sign up for my weekly newsletter. Or you can follow me on Twitter on @mdial. And, if you liked the podcast, please take a moment of your precious time to go over to iTunes to rate the podcast.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Nov 23, 2014 • 47min
The risks of cyber crime in business - Interview with Greg Sim, CEO of Glasswall Solutions (MDE122)
Minter Dialogue Episode #122 — This interview is with Greg Sim, CEO of GlassWall Solutions, providing security software to protect companies from cyber theft and criminality, including such risks as Zero-Day malware attacks and Advanced Persistent Threats. It’s a topic of burgeoning importance. All companies have some level of intellectual property, sensitive data or customer information. The strategic question is identifying what needs to be protected and then how to protect it effectively. In this interview, we discuss the types of threats and attacks that are out there, what a company and an individual can do better to protect themselves. Definitely, we all need to get a better grip on the topic! Meanwhile, you can comment and find the show notes on themyndset.com where you can also sign up for my weekly newsletter. Or you can follow me on Twitter on @mdial. And, if you liked the podcast, please take a moment of your precious time to go over to iTunes to rate the podcast.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Nov 15, 2014 • 31min
Olivier Gimpel, CMO of 3Suisses - A live business model transformation (MDE121)
Minter Dialogue Episode #121 — This interview is with Olivier Gimpel, CMO of 3Suisses, which is owned by the Otto Group. Over the last year, 3Suisses, one of the leading catalogue companies in France, has undergone a total transformation, abandoning its paper catalogue to go 100% digital, as of this past September. It is a bold move, including a revisiting of its positioning, logo and team. In this podcast, Olivier goes over the key elements of this transformation and some of the lessons learned so far. 3Suisses journey will be well worth following. Meanwhile, you can comment and find the show notes on themyndset.com where you can also sign up for my weekly newsletter. Or you can follow me on Twitter on @mdial. And, if you liked the podcast, please take a moment of your precious time to go over to iTunes to rate the podcast.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Nov 9, 2014 • 48min
Luxury digital marketing with Steve Grout, CEO of Tangent Snowball (MDE120)
Minter Dialogue Episode #120 — This interview is with Steve Grout, CEO of Tangent Snowball, a digital agency, specialized in connecting data, technology and creativity with strategy. In this interview, Steve and I discuss a wide range of topics around digital marketing for brands, with a particular focus on digital marketing for luxury brands, where Steve has experience working with luxury brands including Bentley, Jaguar, Dunhill and Bang & Olufsen. Meanwhile, you can comment and find the show notes on themyndset.com where you can also sign up for my weekly newsletter. Or you can follow me on Twitter on @mdial. And, if you liked the podcast, please take a moment of your precious time to go over to iTunes to rate the podcast.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Nov 2, 2014 • 36min
Odile Roujol, Chief Strategy and Data Officer at Orange France (MDE119)
Minter Dialogue Episode #119 — This interview is with Odile Roujol, Chief Strategy and Data Officer at Orange France. In this podcast, Odile and I discuss the importance of digital in Orange’s strategy, the need and opportunity as a top executive to embrace digital, the challenges of customer centricity with an omnichannel customer. Of course, we also chat about the importance of data. Meanwhile, you can comment and find the show notes on minterdial.com where you can also sign up for my weekly newsletter. Or you can follow me on Twitter on @mdial. And, if you liked the podcast, please take a moment of your precious time to go over to iTunes to rate the podcast.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Oct 26, 2014 • 28min
Kevin Ryan - Chairman and Founder of GILT, Business Insider & MongoDB (MDE118)
Minter Dialogue Episode #118 — This interview is with Kevin Ryan, a serial and highly successful entrepreneur. Kevin is the founder and Chairman of GILT, the luxury flash sale online site with over 9 million members, as well as the founder of Business Insider and co-founder of MongoDB. Previously, Kevin was CEO of DoubleClick which was sold under his stewardship in 2005 for $1.1B. in this conversation, focusing largely on Gilt, we discuss issues of digital transformation and leadership in the digital age. Among other topics, we discuss the reality of test & learn, getting leadership buy-in and driving change. Meanwhile, you can comment and find the show notes on themyndset.com where you can also sign up for my weekly newsletter. Or you can follow me on Twitter on @mdial. And, if you liked the podcast, please take a moment of your precious time to go over to iTunes to rate the podcast.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Oct 20, 2014 • 43min
Uncovering the keys to successful Digital Transformation with Georges-Edouard Dias (MDE117)
Minter Dialogue Episode #117 — This interview is with Georges-Edouard Dias, my former digital sparring partner and ex-CDO at L’Oreal, and now co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Quantstreams Agency, helping big companies master customer data. In this interview, we discuss the challenges of the digital transformation from the inside. We look at key topics, like the demands on business of the new, digitally connected customer, challenges that organizations face in revisiting governance, how best to get top leadership buy-in and how to install a test & learn philosophy. Enjoy the show. Meanwhile, you can comment and find the show notes on themyndset.com where you can also sign up for my weekly newsletter. Or you can follow me on Twitter on @mdial. And, if you liked the podcast, please take a moment of your precious time to go over to iTunes to rate the podcast.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)