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Minter Dial press kit
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Bios
Minter Dial is a professional speaker, author and elevator, specialised in leadership, branding and transformation. An agent of change, he's a three-time entrepreneur, who has exercised twelve different métiers and moved country fifteen times. Minter's core career stint of 16 years was spent as a top executive at L’Oréal, member of the worldwide Executive Committee for the Professional Products Division. He’s author of the award-winning WWII story, The Last Ring Home (documentary film and book, 2016) as well as six other business books, three of which won prizes, Futureproof (2017), You Lead (2021) that won the Business Book Awards 2022, and Heartificial Empathy, 2nd edition (2023). For his other writings, you can check out Meaningful Communication, Making Empathy Count, and Dialogos, a featured publication on Substack, all about fostering more meaningful conversation. He is passionate about the Grateful Dead, padel tennis and languages. @mdial / www.minterdial.com
Minter Dial is an international professional speaker, elevator and a multiple award-winning author. An agent of change who has exercised twelve different métiers and moved country fifteen times, he’s author of the WWII story, The Last Ring Home as well as 6 business books, including Futureproof, Heartificial Empathy (2nd edition) and You Lead.
Long bio
Minter Dial is a professional speaker, storyteller, author, and consultant, specialised in leadership, branding and transformation. Minter, who prides himself in elegantly elevating the debate, has given over 600 talks and seminars to audiences in five continents, including conferences at SXSW, Twitch, Yext, Cision, Netexplo, and Tencent. He was voted Top 3 out of 150 speakers at the Adobe Summit EMEA three years in a row (2014-2015-2016).
He is the author of five award-winning books, including The Last Ring Home, A POW’s Lasting Legacy of Courage, Love, and Honor in World War II (2016) that was turned into an award-winning documentary film for PBS and History Channel. Other books include; Futureproof, How to get your Business Ready for the Next Disruption (co-written with Caleb Storkey and published by Pearson, 2017), winner of the Business Book Award 2018 in the category of Embracing Change; Heartificial Empathy, Putting Heart into Business and Artificial Intelligence (2nd edition, 2023), which won the Book Excellence Award 2019 in the category of Technology and was finalist for the Business Book Awards 2019; and You Lead, How Being Yourself Makes You A Better Leader (Kogan Page, 2021) that won the Business Book Awards 2022 in the category of Leadership. Among his latest writings, you can find Dialogos, a featured publication on Substack, about fostering more meaningful conversation. His other two books, Making Empathy Count and Meaningful Communication, cowritten with Helen Rantsevitch, both came out in 2024. He’s currently working on a new book, The Avatar Trap, coming out in 2027.
Previously, he enjoyed a 16-year international career at L’Oreal, including being Managing Director Worldwide of Redken, the Canadian subsidiary of the Professional Products Division (PPD) and on the Executive Committee worldwide of the PPD. He also worked at the DLJ investment bank, the Philadelphia Zoo, the NJ State Aquarium and has founded three startups, including a travel agency for entertainers and a high-end handmade leather Gladstone bag maker.
He’s on the board of GTA/Future of Work and Rythmessence, and was previously NED of LastminuteGroup, ECV Digital School, and SBT-Humans Matter. He’s a renowned blogger and podcaster (in English and French); and he’s passionate about the Grateful Dead, padel tennis (check out his award-winning Joy of Padel podcast) and languages.
Find more at www.MinterDial.com or listen to his weekly podcast which has been running since 2010. On X and Instagram: @mdial.
Headshots and photos
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For podcast hosts
As you’ve kindly decided to have me as a guest on your podcast, I’ve put together some useful resources and materials that will help you to get prepared, as time is such a precious commodity!
Suggested questions and topics
- How can you be fully yourself when you are imperfect?
- Why a new book on leadership, now? What is different about running a business today versus even ten years ago?
- How important is the governance model of a company in curtailing or liberating a leader to be the best version of him or herself?
- What is the connection between the Redken 5th Ave NYC brand for hairdressers (that you ran worldwide) and the Grateful Dead band (that you followed)?
- In the book, You Lead, you discuss the CHECK framework for leaders. What is this framework, what’s different about it and how can leaders best implement the CHECK mindset?
- How can you warrant that by onboarding the You Lead mindset, you’ll achieve success?
- What are the new ingredients to high performance leadership?
- How to manage ethics and politics at work in today’s environment?
- How does purpose and authenticity actually drive performance?
- Is it better to be customer first or employee first?
Exotic and/or eccentric facts and stories
- I've exercised fifteen different professions, including three entrepreneurial startups in three different industries, working in a zoo and an aquarium, being a teaching tennis pro, investment banker, pots & pans salesman and more.
- I've changed countries fifteen times.
- I've given a speech that's over five-minutes long in eight different languages.
- I produced an award-winning documentary film on World War II (and wrote the book), The Last Ring Home, which has been shown widely on television in North America (PBS) and ANZ (History Channel). The research took 25 years. The film changed my life.
- I'm obsessed with padel tennis, one of the fastest growing sports in the world and that ought to become de rigueur at all tennis clubs!
- I've been concussed seven times and what I've learned from the 7th time (June 2020)
- I have been to see the Grateful Dead and the various different parts and forms of the Dead around 200 times -- and I think businesses have plenty to learn about from the Dead in the way they went about their 'business'.
Interviewing or booking Minter?
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