Leadership, Brand Strategy & Transformation - Minter Dialogue

Dr Bruno Cignacco is an international business consultant, speaker and business coach. For over 20 years he has advised and trained hundreds of companies on International Trade activities and International Marketing. He is also a Principal Lecturer in Marketing and has published several books on business as well as one on Ho'oponopono, an ancient technique used to solve problems and difficulties....

Minter Dialogue Episode #366 Dr Phil Hopley is an MD, psychiatrist, revered coach, speaker, and wellbeing and performance expert. In his youth, he is Wasp's legend, having been capped 57 times and scored 113 points for famed Wasp rugby club. He founded and runs Cognacity, a leading health and performance consultancy, based in London. In this conversation, we discuss the values and role of rugby in...

Jon Burkhart is a speaker, firecracker content strategist, and author of two books including Newsjacking and Hacker, Maker, Teacher. He also cofounded Fast Forward Forum, the ultimate non-conference where guests share the stage. In this conversation, we discuss the issues, challenges and solutions for brand marketers in today's roller coaster world, how to create a powerful brand story and generat...

Minter Dialogue Episode #364 Dr Shama Rahman is an accomplished musician, vocalist, songwriter, with a PhD in philosophy, neuroscience and complexity. She has founded several initiatives including Jugular Productions, Deep Science Ventures and Neurocreate of which she is CEO. In this conversation with Shama, we discuss her pluri-disciplinarian approach, the concept and process of creativity viewed...

Minter Dialogue Episode #363 Dave Birss is a public speaker, consultant, educator and author. He published How To Get Great Ideas (Nicholas Brealey Nov 2018) and also contributed to Fast Forward Files volume 2, Changing Perspective (Harriman House, Mar 2020). In this conversation with Dave, we discuss creativity, how to define it, recognize it, stimulate it. What should someone in a business be do...

Minter Dialogue Episode #362 Tom Goodwin is head of Futures and Insights at the Publicis Groupe worldwide. He's the author of Digital Darwinism and is the top influencer on marketing in Linkedin with over 700,000 followers. In this conversation with Tom, we discuss some of the biggest challenges for marketers and how to overcome them, emerging trends in marketing and how to take advantage of them...

Minter Dialogue Episode #361 Ed Kirwan, filmmaker, teacher, coach and founder of the Empathy Week UK which runs Feb 24 through Feb 28th 2020. The ambition of Empathy Week to invite 200,000 young people -- at secondary schools -- to put empathy into action and create a better world. I'm an ambassador for Empathy Week and was delighted to get Ed on to talk about his ambitious project. In this chat,...

Minter Dialogue Episode with Theresa Caragol Theresa Caragol is CEO of AchieveUnite, providing leadership training programs that change lives. In this conversation with Theresa, we discuss her journey to become an influential woman in tech, her ACE leadership program, how to hold compelling conversations, to build trust and some of the keys to building a successful channel partner. If you've got c...

Minter Dialogue Episode #359 Tariq Hassan is CMO of Petco, a leading specialty retailer, serving pets and the people who own them for more than 50 years. Petco has about 1,500 locations throughout North America and employs approximately 26,000 partners.  In this conversation with Tariq, we discuss the journey that Petco has undertaken in putting its mission and vision (Healthier Pets. Happier Peop...

Minter Dialogue Episode #358 Maria Garrido is SVP of Vivendi, in charge of the Brand Marketing practice. She's also Global Chief Insights and Analytics Officer for the Havas Group, and champion of the Meaningful Brands global study. In this conversation, we discuss some of the  important findings in the study, the impact of meaningfulness for brands, how to bring and measure it? What are the limit...

Minter Dialogue Episode #357 Dr Mark Sagar, a double Academy Award winner, is the CEO and co-founder of Soul Machines and director of the Laboratory for Animate Technologies at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute. WIth his team, Mark is looking to bring technology to life, pioneering in the creation of autonomously animated virtual humans. In this conversation with Mark, we discuss people's rela...

Minter Dialogue Episode #356 Laurent Choain is Chief People Officer, head of people, education and culture at the Mazars Group, a global audit and consulting company employing over 40,000 professionals around the world.  In this conversation, we discuss how Human Resource management has changed, Mazars' strategy for recruiting and retaining the best talent (or the Creative Class), their focus on h...

Minter Dialogue Episode #355 David Meerman Scott, the man who invented newsjacking, a world renowned author, speaker and strategist on the key topics of sales, marketing and PR. His books include Real-Time Marketing & PR, a Wall Street Journal bestseller, the new hit book The New Rules of Sales & Service and my personal favorite: Marketing Lessons from The Grateful Dead. In this interview, we disc...

Minter Dialogue #354 Alan Trefler, founder and CEO of the publicly traded Pegasystems, a leader in cloud software for customer engagement and operational excellence, which he founded in 1983. In this podcast with Alan, we discuss the founder story, Pega's mission, the state of AI, Pega's focus on empathy in its CRM solution, the challenges of measuring empathy and the transformation path that Pega...

Minter Dialogue Episode #353 Adah Parris is a futurist, cultural innovator, keynote speaker and Board advisor. Adah's an enthusiastic curator of people, patterns and stories. In this conversation with Adah, we discuss some of the biggest challenges facing business and society, her take on storytelling, the idea of a human blockchain and cyborg shamanism. A wide-ranging and delightful discussion. I...

Minter Dialogue Episode #352 Ella Goldner, co founder and General Manager of Zinc VC, which exists to build and scale a brand new way to solve the most important societal problems faced by the developed world. In this conversation, we discuss Zinc's overall mission and business model, a deeper dive into the three first missions -- Mental Health, Globalisation & Automation & Later Life -- that Zinc...

Minter Dialogue Episode #351 Sarah Parsonage previously MD at PerformanceIN and publisher of The Memo, founded One Question, a unique event asking all speakers to tackle just one question. In this interview, we discuss the inspiration behind One Question, which was the best one and why, the state of the events industry, how to create great events, what the big challenges business executives face t...

Minter Dialogue Episode #350 Charlene Li, is the founder & Senior Fellow of Altimeter, a Prophet Company, giving business leaders the insights to thrive in the face of change. Charlene is a celebrated keynote speaker and has written or co-authored six books, the last of which is The Disruption Mindset. In this interview with Charlene, we discuss how disruption itself has changed, when or if you ca...

Minter Dialogue Episode #349 This week's interview is with Nicole Yershon who has been identified by The Drum as one of 25 women who have shaped the British digital industry over the last 25 years. Nicole is founder of the NY Collective, author of Rough Diamond, speaker and in 16 years at Ogilvy, founded the Ogilvy Lab. In this conversation with Nicole, we discuss how to be an intrapreneur -- brin...

Minter Dialogue Episode #348 Matt Phelan is an investor, advisor and entrepreneur, having successfully cofounded and sold his 4Ps Marketing Agency. In 2014, he cofounded The Happiness Index, using technology and data to give employees and customers a voice to help transform organisations. In this podcast, Matt reveals a scoop as we discuss the importance and opportunities for business to explore h...

Minter Dialogue Episode #347 Dr Michelle Zhou PhD is cofounder and CEO of Juji, an entrepreneurial initiative to help create responsible and empathic chatbots (or AI Helpers)) that can converse naturally, listen actively, and automatically infer users' interests, preferences, and needs to provide personalized guidance. In this conversation with Michelle, we look at how the team have been using AI...

Gang Lu is the founder and CEO of TechNode, the leading bilingual tech media in China, covering startups and large listed companions, the entrepreneurial community and angel/VC investment activities. TechNode is also the official partner of TechCrunch China. Gang is also the co-founder of OpenWeb. Asia a network of premium blogs that focus on the Asian web industry. In this conversation, we talk a...

Minter Dialogue Episode #345 Daniel Snell, Director and cofounder of Arrival Education, an award-winning talent and development business, offering total diversity solutions to forward-thinking businesses. Daniel has overseen 10,000 hours of classroom delivery, which has given him unique insights and knowledge about education. In this conversation, we dig in to his work on diversity and inclusion,...

Minter Dialogue Episode #344 Uday Akkaraju, CEO and founder of Bond. AI is on a mission to bring empathy to the finance world. Bond.ai is a human-centred AI Platform for financial institutions, powered by the world's first empathy engine for finance. Uday is a bona fide innovator, technologist and designer. In this conversation with Uday we talk about his entrepreneurial journey on why he started,...

Minter Dialogue Episode #343 Frequently featured for her research and inventions in The Financial Times, The Atlantic and the New York Times, Dr. Vivienne Ming is a theoretical neuroscientist, serial entrepreneur, and author of two books and many research papers. Vivienne has had a truly fascinating life journey as you'll discover. She co-founded Socos Labs, her fifth company, an independent think...