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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Jun 14, 2014 • 37min
Greg Pouy, talking digital transformation in big business (MDE106)
Minter Dialogue Episode #106 - This interview is with Gregory Pouy, one of the best known bloggers in France, recently cited as one of the top 70 rising social media stars worldwide by the phenomenal Mark Schaeffer. Greg has been working with many major companies on their digital strategy and on digital transformation. Moving to New York soon, I wanted to catch up with Greg to chat about the challenges of digital transformation and look at how the C-suite needs to adjust. 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)
Jun 2, 2014 • 34min
Interview with Carolyn Pearson, CEO of Maiden Voyage, social network for ladies on the road (MDE105)
Minter Dialogue Episode #105 - This interview is with Carolyn Pearson, an entrepreneur based in Leeds, UK, who started up a social network for women travellers, called Maiden Voyage. With 7,000 members, this is an interesting niche business, providing a valuable service to women on the road on the one hand and travel-related businesses and brands on the other. In this interview, we discuss Carolyn’s journey, the Maiden Voyage business model and her strategy for developing her business. Some excellent tips for hoteliers, in particular. 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. Enjoy the show!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)
May 23, 2014 • 30min
Leo Bonanni - CEO and founder of SourceMap for greater supply chain transparency (MDE104)
Minter Dialogue Episode #104 - This interview is with Leo Bonanni, whom I met through my work at Netexplo, for whom Leo is one of the new tech experts. Leo is, meanwhile, CEO and founder of Sourcemap, a social network and collaborative platform that essentially helps companies to map their supply chain around the world. In this conversation, we discuss the Sourcemap business, how it has evolved and pivoted to its current situation, helping blue chip companies to render their supply chain clearer and, by extension, more transparent. 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)
May 16, 2014 • 31min
David Goldenberg, CEO of CV Trust in search of trustworthy credentials (MDE103)
Minter Dialogue Episode #103 - This interview is with David Goldenberg, co-founder and CEO of CVTrust, whose main product, Smart Diploma, provides a way to certify diplomas for educational bodies who sign on. In this interview, we discuss the CVTrust business model, how it provides value to its clients as well as its marketing strategy. BTW, at the end of the show, there’s a bonus offered by David! 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)
May 8, 2014 • 39min
Celica Thellier - Choose My Company, a French improvement on GlassDoor (MDE102)
Minter Dialogue Episode #102.This interview is with Celica Thellier, who is co-founder of a French start-up called "Meilleures Entreprises" (aka Best Companies). For those of you who know GlassDoor, it’s in a similar space: helping to understand better what’s going on inside companies for prospective employees. Hence the new English name: "Choose My Company". We talk in this interview about issues such as transparency — especially on money — as well as the challenges of control and employer branding in the French market. 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)
May 1, 2014 • 40min
David Mattin - Trendwatching new tech trends around the world (MDE101)
Minter Dialogue Episode #101 -- This interview is with David Mattin, Head of Trends & Insights at trendwatching.com. Trendwatching is an independent trend firm based out of London, with an impressive network of trend spotters around the world. Trendwatching evaluates consumer trends and provides a freemium service, with paying services such as their latest Trend Reports, a Trend Framework and their Innovation Database. Given my association with the Netexplo Observatory, I was eager to get to know more about Trendwatching and their slant on what’s going on in consumer trends.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)
Apr 23, 2014 • 46min
Meet Cliff Fluet, a digitally savvy lawyer talking music and entertainment (MDE100)
Minter Dialogue Episode #100 -- This interview is with Cliff Fluet, partner at Lewis Silkin law firm, specialised in media and entertainment law. Lewis Silkin is clearly not your average law firm either, with a slogan “A rather more human law firm.” In this podcast, we talk about the state of the music business, the ad agency business model and key issues such as the ongoing Samsung Apple patent warfare, managing privacy online and using social media as an executive. 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)
Apr 18, 2014 • 14min
Louis-Philippe Morency, Principal for SIMSENSEI, Netexplo 2014 Laureate (MDE099)
Minter Dialogue Episode #99 -- This interview is with Louis-Philippe Morency, one of the Principal Investigators on the SIMSENSEI project being run at USC. SIMSENSEI was one of the top ten award winners at this year’s Netexplo Forum. Louis-Philippe, was voted one of the top 10 people to watch in AI for 2008 by IEEE Intelligent Systems, is at the forefront of the burgeoning digital health movement. SIMSENSEI is a software-based virtual psychological counsellor. Fascinating frontier. 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)
Apr 9, 2014 • 44min
Bjorn Ognibeni, digital marketing in Germany (MDE98)
Minter Dialogue Episode #98 -- This interview is with Bjorn Ognibeni, founder and CEO of Buzzrank.de (based in Hamburg). With Bjorn, we discuss the German market, which brands are doing well (or not) and find out about the particularities of doing digital marketing in Germany. It’s certainly a big and challenging market. 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.Enjoy the show!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)
Apr 7, 2014 • 18min
John Matherly, Shodan Founder and CEO - search engine for the internet of things (MDE097)
Minter Dialogue Episode #97 -- This interview is with John Matherly, founder and CEO of Shodan, one of the top 10 laureates at Netexplo 2014. Shodan is a search engine for the Internet of Things (iot). John is at the cutting edge of online security and privacy issues as it concerns the connectivity of all our surrounding objects that are increasingly connectable to the internet and, therefore, findable from afar. 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.Enjoy the show!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)
