Leadership, Brand Strategy & Transformation - Minter Dialogue

Minter Dialogue Episode #217 — This interview is with Celine Lazorthes, founder and CEO of Leetchi, a leading online money-pot (group payment) platform, with 6 million active users and hatched in 2009 in Paris. Aside from winning many awards, Leetchi is a great example of a startup that has grown with strong fundamentals. In this conversation, we discuss the founder’s journey and vision for Leetch...

Minter Dialogue Episode #216 — This interview is with John J Wall, co-host of the marvellous Marketing Over Coffee podcast with Christopher S. Penn. He’s also VP of Marketing at EventHero, a real-time event management platform. In this podcast, we chat about John’s journey in podcasting, the trends in podcasting, where are the opportunities for brands to podcast, and his favourite tips and stories...

Minter Dialogue Episode #215 — This interview is with Mikhail Naumov, 27, and already a serial entrepreneur, pioneering in the use of artificial intelligence for customer service. Mikhail is a contributor at Forbes and was recognized this year as one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in enterprise tech. In this podcast, we explore the state of advancement in artificial intelligence, with a focus on how it ap...

Minter Dialogue Episode #214 — This interview is with Diane Aubry, a French entrepreneur with a wonderful initiative called Gladtrotter. This is a platform that matches guides with tourists looking for roads less traveled and tours less typical when visiting cities such as Paris or London. Just six months old, Gladtrotter is an expedient site, very efficient on mobile and I enjoyed chatting with D...

Minter Dialogue Episode #213 — This interview is with Oisin Lunny, speaker, musician and mobile expert. Oisin is Senior Marketing Development Manager and roving evangelist at Open Market, a mobile engagement platform for enterprise. In this conversation, we talk about how music can help set your digital mindset, what’s going on in mobile, how to optimise your mobile strategy and the power and setb...

Minter Dialogue Episode #212 — This interview is with Henry Stewart, founder and CEO of the London-based training business Happy Ltd. Happy was rated one of the top 20 workplaces in the UK for 5 successive years and now helps other organisations create happy workplaces. In 2011 Henry was listed in the Guru Radar of the Thinkers 50 list of the most influential business thinkers in the world. Henry...

Minter Dialogue Episode #211 — This interview is with Jamie Riddell, co-founder of BirdSong Analytics, the world’s leading pay-as-you-go social media analytics platform. He is an active and well-respected writer, having been published on many important media, including The Drum, The Guardian, WSJ. Previously, he founded and sold his digital marketing agency, Cheeze. Having been at the forefront of...

Minter Dialogue Episode #210 — This interview is with Adrian Swinscoe, expert in the customer experience, author of Pearson-published How to Wow, 68 Effortless Ways to Make Every Customer Experience Amazing, a frequent Forbes contributor all the while running Rare Business, focused on helping companies to improve their customer service and experience. In this conversation, we look at some of the k...

Minter Dialogue Episode #209 — This interview is with Cathy Brown, Executive Director at Engage for Success, a social movement committed to releasing the capabilities of employees to improve performance and enhance wellbeing. In this podcast, we discuss the different enablers that employers can spark up in order to enhance employee engagement. We look at the challenge of creating “corporate cultur...

Minter Dialogue Episode #208 — This interview is with George Northcott, co-founder and head of business development at the Founders Factory, an accelerator with great ambitions and very interesting business model. Closely affiliated with the Founders Forum, the Founders Factory -- whose other co-founders count Brent Hoberman, Henry Lane-Fox and Jim Meyerle -- links startups with corporates in very...

Minter Dialogue Episode #207 — This interview is with Jenny Biggam, founder and owner of the7stars, the largest independent media agency in the UK with over £228 million billings, with clients such as Warner Music, Suzuki Cars and Iceland. Jenny Biggam has run the7stars with an incredibly refreshing leadership style. I wanted to dig in and find out more what happens under the hood. In this podcast...

Minter Dialogue Episode #206 — This interview is with Simon Burridge, former CEO of Virgin Games, once the right hand man to Sir Richard Branson, and with a meaty history in agencies, notably at JWT. Simon is now CEO of Playzoola, a very new kind of gaming offer that is about to be launched. Find out more about that game as well as his take on what it takes to make great brands today, the role of...

Minter Dialogue Episode #205 — This interview is with Loren Weisman, fellow business advisor, speaker, host of the podcast, Wait What Really OK! and author of two books, The Artist’s Guide to Success and Music Business for Dummies. In this interview we look at some of the keys for artists to drive their business via online and what are the important lessons to be taken for business executives and...

Minter Dialogue Episode #204 — This interview is with Jeremy Goldman, founder and CEO of Firebrand Group, a digital branding and marketing consultancy based out of New York. Jeremy is also a two-time author, first with Going Social and now with Getting To Like, co-written with Ali Zagat. In this podcast, we discuss some of the tips and tricks for getting a social following, what executives in big...

Minter Dialogue Episode #203 — This interview is with Marcus Tandler, or @mediadonis, one of the premier and longest standing experts of SEO, or Search Engine Optimization. Marcus is now co-Founder and CEO at OnPage.org, a software that provides a way to create better, faster and safer sites, with the vision to make the Web a better place. He is also a lecturer at the Universities of Applied Scien...

Minter Dialogue Episode #202 — This interview is with Sarah Van Mosel, Chief Commercial Officer at Acast, a global podcast platform that provides premium hosting, distribution and monetisation services. Previously, Sarah had a senior leadership position at NY Public Radio, dealing with the podcast opportunities at radio. In this interview, we talk about podcasting trends, why podcasting is such a...

Minter Dialogue Episode #201 — This interview, recorded last week at the GEN 2016 Summit, is with Siobhan McHugh, one of the world’s premier experts on podcasting. Siobhan is also an oral historian and author of 6 books, including the award winning, The Snowy, The People Behind the Power. In this podcast, we discuss Siobhan’s favourite podcasts, why podcasting is such a powerful tool, what makes f...

Minter Dialogue Episode #200 — This interview is with Jeffrey Kofman, the Emmy award-winning foreign and war correspondent, who is now CEO and co-founder of a really fascinating startup TRINT. Trint is a platform for taking speech-based media and converting it in text. To quote Jeff, Trint transforms how newsrooms transcribe & share media content. Ideal for journalists and podcasters, TRINT also w...

Minter Dialogue Episode #199 — This interview is with Mark Waugh, Managing Director Worldwide of Newcast ZenithOptimedia, part of the Publicis Group. Newcast is a specialist agency for branded content and engagement, developing and executing 'non-traditional' communication projects for a host of major clients. In this conversation, we discuss the challenges of defining and implementing a content s...

Minter Dialogue Episode #198 — This interview is with Simon Cocking, Senior Editor at Irish Tech News. Simon is an entrepreneur, coder and writer. In this podcast, we discuss tech trends, what are some of the most exciting areas in new tech, including drones and biotech, the Irish tech scene, some amazing startups as well as what drives the growing success of the Irish Tech News. Meanwhile, please...

Minter Dialogue Episode #197 — This interview is with Pete Downton, Deputy CEO of 7Digital, a publicly traded agency that has a digital music platform, with nearly 50 million tracks powering 50 music services around the world. In this podcast, we discuss the state of the music industry, some of the most important trends in music, including the role of the DJ, as well as MQA and the technological a...

Minter Dialogue Episode #196 — This interview is with Margaret Molloy, CMO and Head of Business Development at Siegel+Gale, a premier global strategic branding firm, part of the OMNICOM Group. Margaret is a regular on lists of the most influential and most savvy marketing pros, including the top 5 most influential CMOs on Social Media as voted on Forbes. In this conversation, we discuss how to exe...

Minter Dialogue Episode #195 — This interview is with Chris Palmedo, Associate Professor of Marketing, Media and Communications, City University of New York (CUNY) School of Public Health. In this podcast, we discuss the rise and importance of social marketing. Where social marketing is about driving a higher purpose, there is much for business to pick up on, especially in changing consumer behavi...

Minter Dialogue Episode #194 — This interview is with Erik Bernstein, Vice President at Bernstein Crisis Management. Working alongside his father, the renowned Jonathan Bernstein, the publisher of Crisis Manager and author of Keeping the Wolves at Bay, Erik has has been working on crisis management since 2009 through the massive changes brought about by the Internet and Social Media. In this discu...

Minter Dialogue Episode #193 — This interview is with Greg Verdino, business futurist, author, pundit, speaker and leading authority on digital transformation. Greg is also managing partner and chief strategist at Verdino & Co, a consultancy that helps companies create content-driven digital experiences. In this conversation, we discuss the state of digital transformation, the definition and execu...