Many have been commenting the retail apocalypse, including the newly appointed Chief Product Officer, Tomas Pueyo, for the French startup Ankorstore, which gained a $2 billion valuation in its last round of financing. Founded in 2019, Ankorstore is planning to take on...
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Living Your Four Thousand Weeks with Oliver Burkeman (MDE457)
Minter Dialogue with Oliver Burkeman Oliver Burkeman is a journalist who wrote the long-running column for the Guardian, "This Column Will Change Your Life." He was the winner of the Foreign Press Association's Young Journalist of the Year award, and has been...
Fighting the Decline in Meaningful Conversation… with the Launch of DIALOGOS via Substack
Have you come across Substack, the home for great writing yet? Founded in 2017 as a platform that's geared for subscription newsletters (free, freemium or paid), Substack is well financed and represents a robust proposition for all types of writers, including...
Creating Big Little Legends with Gair Maxwell (MDE456)
Minter Dialogue with Gair Maxwell Gair Maxwell is a brand strategist and renowned speaker. He's also author of the recently released "Big Little Legends, How everyday leaders build irresistible brands," published by Page Two. In this conversation, we discuss his new...
Why Karma is a Key Leadership Skill
Have you ever heard about or listened to the band, The Grateful Dead? For those of you who know me, there should be no surprise about my referencing the Dead (I'm a dyed-in-the-wool fan). But, do you know the story about the original tale behind the name of the...
Defining Your Social Legacy and Leading with Authentic Purpose with Emily Chang, CEO McCann Worldgroup-China (MDE455)
Minter Dialogue with Emily Chang Emily Chang is CEO, McCann Worldgroup-China. Prior to joining McCann, Emily has been the CMO for Starbucks China, CCO for InterContinental Hotels Group, Greater China, headed Retail Marketing for Apple across APAC and spent the first...
Would you Accept such a Deceitful Display in Retail?
Over the Christmas period, I went to visit the mall in Towson, Maryland (USA). Outside of having difficulty in actually finding bona fide tennis shoes at several dedicated sports shoes stores (you can find all manner of fancy "running" and basketball shoes), I also...
Futureproof Your Career, Resilience and Pluralistic Leadership Skills with Dr Naeema Pasha (MDE454)
Minter Dialogue with Dr Naeema Pasha Dr Naeema Pasha is Director of Careers and Professional Development at Henley Business School. She's also Founder of World of Work, an annual conference on the future of work. She was named as one of the IFPC-online Top 50...
How to tag someone on LinkedIn if their name doesn’t come up?
Have you ever tried to tag someone on LinkedIn and not find their name in the drop-down menu that appears automatically (if sometimes a bit slowly)? This is something that regularly bugged me, so I wanted to share the solution now that I know it. The context: When you...
The Wisdom of Trauma, Life Lessons and Filmmaking with Maurizio and Zaya Benazzo (MDE453)
Minter Dialogue with Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo are the co-founders of the Science and Non-Duality (SAND) not-for-profit community. At SAND, they like to explore the big questions of life while celebrating the mystery of being. Zaya and...
To Book Minter!
I’m Minter Dial and I serve my clients by elevating the debate and energy, telling powerful stories and connecting people and ideas. My mission to insert more meaningfulness into our lives and at work. I relish being an engaging professional speaker on leadership, transformation and branding. I’m known for being someone who walks the talk and delivers on or above expectations. I’m the author of four award-winning books, including the second edition of my award-winning book, Heartificial Empathy (April 2023, available in English and French), You Lead published by Kogan Page that won the Business Book Award 2022, and Futureproof (FT-Press/Pearson) that won the Business Book Award 2018. I’m also the producer of the award-winning WWII book and documentary film The Last Ring Home.
My new project is Dialogos, Fostering More Meaningful Conversations that is being published weekly via Substack, which will be converted into a book end of 2023.