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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Mar 15, 2012 • 42min
MDE22: Edwin Metcalf, Rainmaker for all things mobile
Edwin "Ebert" Metcalf is partner at Rainmaker Capital, a boutique investment bank. Rainmaker represents both sellers and buyers in developing and executing corporate development strategies, with a major focus on enabling technologies at the crossroads of telecom and digital media. In this podcast, we discuss a host of topics around mobile, including the battle between the telecoms, internet and handset players. We also chatted about the different platforms, mCommerce, data security, the future of Augmented Reality and what came out of the recent Mobile World Congress 2012. 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 to go over to iTunes to rate the podcast. Enjoy the show!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)
Mar 7, 2012 • 32min
MDE21: Lukas Maixner, co-founder of SocialBakers
Lukas Maixner is a co-founder of Socialbakers, an analytics platform for social media. Socialbakers, based in Prague, made its mark by providing deeper analytics on Facebook, including its own proprietary rating. It has now added on other sites and is developing others. In this conversation, we discuss the SocialBakers service, hint at the developments under works, as well as some insights on how to optimize one's social media strategy. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)
Feb 29, 2012 • 28min
MDE20: Michael Goitein @ UsableNet, mobile for everything
Michael Goitein is Senior Project Manager at UsableNet, specialized in rendering sites -- including eCommerce -- compatible and optimized for the mobile. UsableNet is the leading mobile and multi-channel platform company, serving 25% of Fortune 1000 companies. With offices in the UK, Italy and USA, UsableNet is in the sweet spot in terms of business model: helping companies to make their sites mobile and multi channel. Mike is an expert in the area and a source of some great insights.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)
Jan 9, 2012 • 29min
MDE19: Kathleen Carroll, President & Founder of the Branding Clinic (NJ)
MDE19: Kathleen Carroll is President and Founder of the Branding Clinic, helping major brands to uncover the key customer insights. Her clients include some very well known brand names, including Johnson & Johnson, Abbott Labs, Playtex, Amex and P&G. In this interview, we discuss how Kathleen goes about finding these key insights, the role of the Internet in market research, as well as some of the big challenges faced by brands in the current environment. Meanwhile, you can comment and find the show notes on www.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 to go over to iTunes to rate the podcast.Enjoy the show!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)
Jan 1, 2012 • 32min
MDE18: Joakim Nilsson, Head of Social Media at Betclic Everest
Joakim Nilsson is a Swede living in Paris, whom I met on an Internet TV show at TechToc. Joakim is in charge of Social Media group wide at Betclic Everest, one of the leaders worldwide in online gambling and gaming. In this interview, we discuss social media at Betclic, explore a couple of interesting case studies, as well as discuss the big trends for 2012. Meanwhile, you can comment and find the show notes on www.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 go over to iTunes to rate the podcast.Enjoy the show!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)
Nov 14, 2011 • 26min
MDE #17: Roy Lindemann CIO and co-founder of ReadSpeaker
Roy Lindemann is a co-founder of ReadSpeaker, a B2B service which enables a text-to-audio conversion of your website. Available in 35 languages and 88 different voices (ie. female/male, British English and American English, etc.), ReadSpeaker is a great add-on to make your site accessible and, as Tim Berners-Lee would say, in line with the spirit of the web. Meanwhile, you can comment and find the show notes on www.themyndset.com, where you can also sign up for my weekly newsletter. Or you can follow me on Twitter on @mdial. Enjoy the show!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)
Oct 27, 2011 • 26min
MDE #16: Jonathan George, founder and CEO of Boxcar: the end to the notifications nightmare!
This interview is with Jonathan George, the founder and CEO of Boxcar. I have been a big fan of boxcar as I tried to figured out how best to deal with the multiple accounts and over-abundant series of notifications and reminders. I like to think of Boxcar as the best answer to the notification nightmare. If you don't know the system, you should give it a try and let us know how you get on. For those of you users of Boxcar, you get to hear about the business model, latest developments and how brands might be able to get into the action. Meanwhile, you can comment and find the show notes on www.themyndset.com where you can also sign up for my weekly newsletter. Or you can follow me on Twitter on @mdial. Enjoy the show!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)
Oct 17, 2011 • 21min
MDE #15: Interview with Barbara Mallinson, founder of OBAMI, a social network & eLearning platform specifically for schools
Barbara Mallinson is an ebullient entrepreneur from South Africa, who created and runs Obami, an online environment specifically created for schools. With eLearning, social media and resource sharing functions, Obami provides a safe, closed environment for schools. It's a fascinating project that provides the benefits of a Facebook with a number of specific tools and functions for the school.Meanwhile, you can comment and find the show notes on www.themyndset.com where you can also sign up for my weekly newsletter. Or you can follow me on Twitter on @mdial. Enjoy the show!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)
Sep 9, 2011 • 27min
MDE #14, Cedric Hutchings, co-founder and CEO of Withings, creator of connected objects about the house
Cedric Hutchings is an entrepreneur who co-founded and runs Withings, which design, develop and industrialize objects connected to the internet. They have three products: Body Scale, Tensiometer (blood pressure) and a Baby Monitor. Each of these products have a link with health, but also leverage the access to the internet and other tools to deliver more effective "rich data."Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)
Aug 25, 2011 • 25min
Mitch Joel, President of Twist Image Digital Media Agency (Montreal) (MDE013)
Mitch Joel, President of Twist Image and author of Six Pixels of Separation (the book and the blog), was my first guest on Minter Dialogue. On a recent trip through Montreal, I was able to catch up with Mitch and we recorded this show, discussing as ever digital marketing and how to help get companies improve their digital strategies and results. Meanwhile, you can comment and find the show notes on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment of your precious time to go over to iTunes to rate the podcast. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)
