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 Pernicious Rise of Critical Race Theory” (Salem Books, 2023). In this conversation, we discuss his journey to launching Informed Dissent and his book, the role of art and music in his life and work, some of the key components and concepts in his book, such as identity, community, CRT and hostile attribution bias, the state of society and some of the big issues of our day.
Please send me your questions — as an audio file if you’d like — to nminterdial@gmail.com. Otherwise, below, you’ll find the show notes and, of course, you are invited to comment. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to rate it here.
To connect with Leonydus Johnson:
- Leonydus Johnson’s eponymous hub site where you can find his Informed Dissent podcast and all the channels on which it’s available
- Check out Leondus’ Substack: Informed Dissent
- Buy his book, Raising Victims, on Amazon
- Find/follow Leonydus Johnson on Twitter
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Music credit: The jingle at the beginning of the show is courtesy of my friend, Pierre Journel, author of the Guitar Channel. And, the new sign-off music is “A Convinced Man,” a song I co-wrote and recorded with Stephanie Singer back in the late 1980s (please excuse the quality of the sound!).
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Minter Dial
Minter Dial is an international professional speaker, author & consultant on Leadership, Branding and Transformation. After a successful international career at L’Oréal, Minter Dial returned to his entrepreneurial roots and has spent the last twelve years helping senior management teams and Boards to adapt to the new exigencies of the digitally enhanced marketplace. He has worked with world-class organisations to help activate their brand strategies, and figure out how best to integrate new technologies, digital tools, devices and platforms. Above all, Minter works to catalyse a change in mindset and dial up transformation. Minter received his BA in Trilingual Literature from Yale University (1987) and gained his MBA at INSEAD, Fontainebleau (1993). He’s author of four award-winning books, including Heartificial Empathy, Putting Heart into Business and Artificial Intelligence (2nd edition) (2023); You Lead, How Being Yourself Makes You A Better Leader (Kogan Page 2021); co-author of Futureproof, How To Get Your Business Ready For The Next Disruption (Pearson 2017); and author of The Last Ring Home (Myndset Press 2016), a book and documentary film, both of which have won awards and critical acclaim.
His current work is around fostering more meaningful conversation, with his featured publication on Substack: Dialogos, Fostering More Meaningful Conversations. It’s easy to inquire about booking Minter Dial here.
