Leadership, Brand Strategy & Transformation - Minter Dialogue

Minter Dialogue with Judy Piatkus Judy Piatkus is a Business Leader, Coach and Author, bringing conscious leadership development to the forefront of entrepreneurship and business. Having founded and successfully sold her eponymous publishing company, in 2011, Judy founded the global non-profit organisation ConsciousCafé which connects people around the world with regular local groups and events th...

Minter Dialogue with Leonydus Johnson Leonydus Johnson is a man of many talents. For starters, he's a speech language pathologist. He's also a hip-hop artist, film writer, director and actor. Further, he's the host of the mightily popular and well noted Informed Dissent podcast that digs in on many hot-button topics. He's also a writer on Substack and author of the new book, "Raising Victims: The...

Minter Dialogue with Thom Dennis Thom Dennis is the CEO of Serenity in Leadership. A former Marine, he's also a facilitator, speaker, consultant, educator and change agent. In this conversation, we discuss his experience as an officer in the Royal Marines, his work on creating culture change in business, crafting an organisation's purpose and the necessary qualities for successful leaders today. ...

Minter Dialogue with Dr Nicole Price Dr Nicole Price is a keynote speaker, training leader and CEO of Lively Paradox, providing expertise in leadership training, olympic-level performance improvement, and engineering team concepts into the workplace. She also author of the brand new "Spark Your Heart, Engineering Empathy In Your Organization," published by Forbes Books. In this conversation, we di...

Minter Dialogue with Josh Shelov Josh Shelov is an Emmy award-winning filmmaker who has written, directed and produced feature-length films, documentaries and shorts, including directing for ESPN 30 for 30. Among his portfolio is my own film, The Last Ring Home. After 25 years of making films in Hollywood, Josh turned his attention to spreading the pleasure of writing. He founded and is CEO of Wri...

Mark Schaefer is a globally recognized keynote speaker, educator, business consultant, and multiple time bestselling author. His blog {grow} is perennially considered as one of the top marketing blogs in the world. His latest book is "Belonging to the Brand: Why Community is the Last Great Marketing Strategy," which explores how three global megatrends are colliding to make community the next sign...

Minter Dialogue with Dr Alex Connock Alex Connock, PhD, is an academic in Media Business and Artificial Intelligence at Oxford University, who has been shortlisted six times as Entrepreneur of the Year and is Vice Chair at UNICEF UK. He's also author of the book, Media Management and AI, Understanding Media Business Models in the Digital Age, published by Routledge. In this conversation, we discus...

Minter Dialogue with Rupert Robson Rupert Robson studied philosophy of mind at Oxford and pursued a career in banking until 2006, when he turned his attention to writing about how humankind might shape the world and in turn be shaped in the coming decades. The result is his book, "The Sentient Robot: The Last Two Hurdles in the Race to Build Artificial Superintelligence." In this conversation, we...

Minter Dialogue with Ben Renshaw Ben Renshaw is a leadership thought leader, doing keynote speaking and coaching on leadership and purpose-led cultures. He's author of several books and notably, his last book, cowritten with Sophie Devonshire, "LoveWork, The Seven Steps to Thrive at Work." In this conversation, we discuss Ben's atypical background as a classically trained violinist, his work in le...

Minter Dialogue with Dr Alan Cowen Dr Alan Cowen is the CEO and Chief Scientist at Hume AI, a science-backed expression API platform for researchers and developers, whose mission is to align science and technology with human well-being. In this conversation, we discuss his background, including 5 years working at Google, doing scientific research on AI, the Hume AI project and business model, the...

Minter Dialogue with Martijn Schirp Martijn Schirp is the cofounder and Chief Visionary Officer at the Synthesis Institute, that offers safe, legal, medically supervised psychedelic retreats, based out of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. As they write on their site, they "make the psychedelic experience accessible for curious individuals who want to utilize moderate-to-high doses of truffles to catal...

Minter Dialogue with Scott Sandland Scott Sandland is the CEO and cofounder of Cyrano.ai, a natural language understanding system that improves human:computer communication and trains people and machines in improved soft-skills related to active listening techniques he honed in his private clinical practice. Given Scott's ambition to improve AI's ability to hold more meaningful conversations, I ha...

Minter Dialogue with Anne-Elisabeth Moutet Anne-Elisabeth Moutet is a French journalist who has worked with some of the most prestigious titles, including VSD, France Soir, The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph and Elle. Today, she's a regular commentator on television (including on the BBC, Arte, France24, C'est dans l'Air...) and a columnist for The Telegraph, UnHerd, The New York Post, CapX an...

Minter Dialogue with Marianne Hartley Marianne Hartley is a brand consultant and designer who loves to create irresistible brands through her consultancy, Hartley & Soul. Having worked on such projects and brands as The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Pageant, Intercontinental Hotels, Toyota and Bacardi, Marianne is a seasoned brand expert. In this conversation, we discuss the challenges of building a pow...

Minter Dialogue with Charlie Birney Charlie Birney is a fellow podcaster, who co-founded Podville Media and the Podcast Village where he consults and helps produce notable podcasts, such as The Lincoln Project or The 1600 Sessions. He is also author of the newly published, “The Tao of Podcasting,” that uses the wisdom of Tao to help navigate the world of podcasting. In this conversation, we discus...

Minter Dialogue with Dr Michael Hauser Dr. Michael Hauser is an Emeritus Astronomer. In his capacity as Deputy Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, he was instrumental in transforming the Institute into a multi-observatory organization that included the work on the Hubble and James Webb space telescope programs. Michael was a member of the COBE science team and was part of the Nobel...

Minter Dialogue with Hedi Mardisoo Hedi Mardisoo, CEO and cofounder along with Kalle Palling, of Cachet that creates smart insurance solutions that take into account your lifestyle and work schedule. Based out of Estonia, Cachet is an insurance tech initiative that was voted top 100 most innovative startups in the space in 2021. In this conversation with Hedi, we discuss the notions of platform ec...

Minter Dialogue with Victor Dial Victor Dial, who is also my father, had a long career in the automotive industry, rising to be Chairman and GM of Ford France, then VP of Sales and Marketing at Peugeot. Simultaneously, he was Chairman, and then CEO as well of the American Hospital of Paris. He was board member for many companies and lived the majority of his adult life in Europe, between the UK, B...

Minter Dialogue with Eva Pascoe Eva Pascoe is famous for having co-founded the world's first ever Internet Cafe, Cyberia Cafe, back in 1994. With a career deep in e-commerce and retail -- she's been a standout pioneer having worked at TopShop, Dorothy Perkins, Miss Selfridge and more. She's currently Director of Ecommerce at The Retail Practice consultancy, cofounder and chair of the Cybersalon.or...

Minter Dialogue with Lou Diamond Lou Diamond is a keynote speaker, consultant, podcast and TV host, CEO of Thrive and bestselling author. His latest book is called "Speak Easy. Connective with Every Conversation," published by Page Two. In this conversation, we discuss Lou's business, how he came up with his personal purpose, the push for transparency of salaries, managing uncomfortable conversati...

Minter Dialogue with Brenda Keesal Brenda Keesal is a writer, filmmaker and digital storyteller, based in Montreal. She's also the founder and Creative Director of The Village, a human and media platform, and an innovative model for interactive storytelling, transformative entertainment and social impact. Both online and in-person, it offers deep experiences and profound connection, through a live...

Minter Dialogue with John Andrews John Andrews is a career shopper marketer, entrepreneur and intrapreneur having worked for the likes of Newell Rubbermaid, Hanes and, on the retail side, Walmart where he built Walmart Elevenmoms. He has also founded and exited several startups. He is coauthor along with Ted Rubin of Retail Relevancy: How Brands and Retailers will Connect in a Post-Physical World....

Minter Dialogue with Alison Jones Alison Jones, MA MBA, has been a pioneer in publishing since 1992 from her days as an editor with Chambers Harrap and Oxford University Press to Director of Innovation Strategy at Macmillan, before setting up Practical Inspiration Publishing in 2014. Today she helps businesses leaders write and publish exceptional business and self-development books, and also cham...

Minter Dialogue with Anita Nowak Anita Nowak, PhD, is an empathy activist and expert, principal and founder of PVM Studio, a global advisory firm, that supports purpose-driven individuals, family offices, foundations, and companies. She's also author of "Purposeful Empathy, Tapping Our Hidden Superpower for Personal, Organizational and Social Change," which is due out in April 2023. In this conver...

Minter Dialogue with Alex Pattakos Alex Pattakos is the founder of the Global Meaning Institute, a political scientist, philosopher and bestselling author. He has written (or cowritten) "The OPA! Way", "Discovering Meaning through the Lens of Work," (for the Journal of Constructive Psychology) and most recently, "Prisoners of our Thoughts, Viktor Frankl's Principles for Discovering Meaning in Life...