Leadership, Brand Strategy & Transformation - Minter Dialogue

Minter Dialogue Episode #317 Jeremy Waite is the Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) of IBM Watson. Jeremy's a master storyteller, speaker, author of 3 books and host of the wonderful and timeless 10 words podcast. In this conversation, we discuss the state of AI, some of the prowesses of IBM's Watson, challenges of implementing AI in business and much more. Please send me your questions as an audio file...

Minter Dialogue Episode #316 James Bidwell is author of the best-selling Disrupt! 100 Lessons in Business Innovation, Chair of the innovation & tech trends observatory Springwise and co-founder of Re_Set, a leading transformation and innovation consultancy for the disruption economy. In this conversation, James and I discuss and spar about the most important new tech trends, some of the key lesson...

Minter Dialogue Episode #315 Rohit Bhargava is a leading authority on marketing, trends and innovation and a WSJ best-selling author, with his annual hit book on trends: Non Obvious, How to Predict Trends and Win the Future, with new trends for 2019. Before founding the Non-Obvious Company, Rohit spent 15 years as a marketing strategist for Ogilvy and Leo Burnett. In this conversation with Rohit,...

Marty Neumeier is a best-selling author who has penned such well-known books as The Brand Gap, The Brand Flip and MetaSkills. His latest book is a business thriller called, "Scramble, How agile strategy can build epic brands in record time." In this conversation with Marty, we talk about the importance of having a designer mindset in business and the challenge of building a superior brand in today...

Minter Dialogue Episode #313 Dr Rob Walker is VP of Decision Management and Analytics at Pegasystems, #1 in software for customer engagement and digital process automation, working with large business worldwide to redefine customer engagement and providing proactive, AI-powered service for customer service. In this conversation with Rob, we discuss how AI is being implemented in business, where ar...

Minter Dialogue Episode #312 Michael Ventura is Founder & CEO of Sub Rosa, a strategy and design practice that believes meaningful work starts with Applied Empathy™. He's also author of the book of the same title, Applied Empathy, The New Language of Leadership. Michael works with companies around the world on how to apply empathy to business, specifically focussing on cognitive empathy and provid...

Minter Dialogue Episode #311 Mark Miller is Chief Strategy Officer at Team One, part of the Publicis Groupe. He's also the founder of The Legacy Lab, a research and consulting practice based in LA, helping global brands drive change. He very recently co-authored with Lucas Conley the book, Legacy in the Making: Building a Long-Term Brand to Stand Out in a Short-Term World, which was just selected...

Minter Dialogue Episode #310 Gianpiero Petriglieri is a leading professor of management at INSEAD, with a focus on leadership and learning. In this conversation, we look at the most important qualities of leaders in today's business environment. As Professor Petriglieri calls it, leaders need to be both engineer and novelist. We also discuss the importance and role of ethics, the place of politics...

Minter Dialogue Episode #309 Caspar Craven is an adventurer, entrepreneur and speaker. He is also author of "Where the Magic Happens, How a Young Family Changed Their Lives and Sailed Around the World." Having sailed around the world twice, once with his entire family, Caspar draws on his experience as an entrepreneur and adventurous sailor to help companies and their leadership build winning team...

Rob Walch is the VP of Podcaster Relations at Libsyn, the world's largest podcast network with over 35,000 podcasts hosted, serving over 62 million audience members monthly. In this podcast with Rob, we discuss the state of the business of podcasting, why and how brands & companies could get into podcasting, what does the future of podcasting hold and some key tips and tricks for podcasters.   Mea...

Nafez Dakkak is CEO of the London office of the Queen Rania Foundation for Education and Development. As CEO, Nafez led the team behind Edraak.org an online learning initiative (MOOC) of the Queen Rania Foundation and is currently Executive Chairman. Edraak serves over 1 million learners across the Arab world for K-12 as well as continuous learning. Through its partnership with edX, the Edraak pla...

Norm de Greve is CMO of CVS Health. He's also a member of the Board of Directors for the ANA and Mobile Marketing Association. CVS Health, which is Fortune #7 and was voted one of the most innovative companies by FAST company in 2018, has undergone tremendous change. Norm has been at the heart of the change and innovation. In this conversation with Norm, we discuss CVS' journey, its most recent me...

Roman Krznaric is a social philosopher and bestselling author of multiple books, including Empathy, How Should We Live? Carpe Diem and How to Find Fulfilling Work, books that have been published in more than 20 languages. He is also the founder of the world's first Empathy Museum and of the digital Empathy Library. In this conversation, we discuss the intersection of the art of living and social c...

Kalle Palling has been an MP of the Estonian parliament starting in 2007, when he was just 22 years old. He was very active in pushing through legislation around technology and e-governance, helping Estonia to accelerate its transformation to a digital state, and becoming a lightening rod for change. Among his further credentials, aside from having been on a number of high profile supervisory boar...

Doug Stephens is the founder of Retail Prophet and one of the world's foremost retail industry futurists. He's a powerful speaker, retail columnist for CBC Radio Canada and has also penned two respected books on retail. In this conversation with Doug, we focused our discussion on Amazon following his provocative article in BoF, entitled The End of Amazon. We look at how Amazon is doing, parallax b...

Minter Dialogue Episode #302 Marty Neumeier is a best-selling author, having published such venerable books as The Brand Gap, The Brand Flip and MetaSkills. His latest book is Scramble, How agile strategy can build epic brands in record time. In this conversation with Marty, we talk about the creative process of converting a business book into a business thriller and the process of self-publishing...

Minter Dialogue Episode #301 Dr Jack Kreindler is a Doctor, Technologist, Investor. Founder CHHP - The Centre for Health and Human Performance, based in London. He's also the founder (Chairman and Chief Medical Officer) of Sentrian, working to finally make remote patient management an affordable and effective reality for patients, payers and providers alike. And, also of note, he's co-Founder of W...

Minter Dialogue Episode #300Lee Odden is author and an influencer in his own right. He's also CEO and co-founder of TopRank Marketing, an agency specialising in strategic internet marketing consulting services, such as content marketing, social media and influencer marketing. In this conversation, we discuss how Lee has gone about building his customer centric agency, a look under the hood of blog...

Minter Dialogue Episode #299 With an MBA and a PhD in Astrophysics, Dr Kim Nilsson is a pioneer in many aspects. She is founder and CEO of Pivigo and, in 2017, was awarded Entrepreneur of the Year, in front of 1,000 business and technology leaders. Pivigo is a data science marketplace; connecting the data science community with companies and organisations looking to outsource their data science an...

Minter Dialogue Episode #298 Joshua March is founder and CEO of Conversocial, a leading social customer service solution, used by some of the world's biggest brands. Joshua is an expert in social media and customer service and just released his book, Message Me, The Future of Customer Service in the Era of Social Messaging and Artificial Intelligence. In this conversation with Joshua, we discuss t...

Minter Dialogue Episode #297 Melanie Notkin founded a robust and thriving community, called SavvyAuntie. As such, Melanie is a leading voice of a group of women that has $61B in buying power. She's a national best-selling author having penned SavvyAuntie (2011) and Otherhood, Modern Women Finding a New Kind of Happiness (2014). She's also a speaker and marketing expert. In this conversation, we di...

Minter Dialogue Episode #296 Marie Miyashiro is an author, keynote speaker and trainer/consultant, specialised in bringing empathy into the workplace. Her book, The Empathy Factor - Your Competitive Advantage for Personal, Team, and Business Success, has been translated into several languages. In this conversation, we talk about why empathy is so important, the ways to bring empathy into the workp...

Minter Dialogue Episode #295 Liz Bacelar is a renowned entrepreneur and speaker, at the cutting edge of fashion, retail and technology. Credited with driving the link between fashion and technology, Liz is a dynamic and forward-thinking entrepreneur, who founded and sold Decoded Fashion. In this conversation with Liz, we discuss her journey with Decoded Fashion, some of the lessons learned within...

Minter Dialogue Episode #294 Latia Curry, whom I first heard and met speaking at SXSW. After spending 20 years in communications, marketing, government, and the world of international NGOs, Latia Curry is now a Principal at RALLY, channeling her wide breadth of experience into laser-focused messaging, strategy, and campaigns. In this conversation, we discuss the objectives and challenges of insert...

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...