Are you an on-time kind of person or one who is typically running late? I certainly strive to be the former, albeit not with 100% success. No one's perfect, but whenever I hear someone start a sentence with "Sorry for being (or replying) late" or "I didn't have time...
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Using Empathy and Artificial Intelligence to Improve the Customer Experience, with Pegasystem’s Peter van der Putten (MDE424)
Minter Dialogue with Peter van der Putten Peter van der Putten, Director of Decisioning & AI Solutions at Pegasystems, a company that delivers innovative software designed to increase customer lifetime value, streamline service and boost efficiencies of their...
Have Padel, Will Play! How Many Padel Courts Are There In … The World?
I'm a massive fan of one of the fastest growing sports in the world: padel tennis. No, it's not paddle misspelled. It's not platform tennis nor paddle tennis. It's not pickle ball, either. It's one of the most elastic sports in the world in that it is supremely easy...
Connected Leadership and How To Build a Strong Professional Network, with Andy Lopata (MDE423)
Minter Dialogue with Andy Lopata Andy Lopata is an acclaimed professional relationships strategist, who has written four books on networking. Both Forbes.com and The Independent called him ‘a true master of networking’. In 2020, Andy published two books: Connected...
The Incredible Flexibility and Power of Animation Video with Christine MacKay (MDE422)
Minter Dialogue with Christine MacKay Christine MacKay is a worldly entrepreneur, speaker and the award-winning founder of Salamandra UK, animation studios that help organisations to convey complex messages using a variety of state-of-the-art technologies. In this...
Have You Found Your Voice?
As a speaker, I've been working hard to refine my "voice." The challenge is in making the content and the form consistent and congruent with who I am. In an audio-infused world, finding your voice is now a first-degree question. What voice should you as a business...
Mastering Long-Distance Leadership and Work with Kevin Eikenberry (MDE421)
Minter Dialogue with Kevin Eikenberry Kevin Eikenberry is a world-renowned leadership expert, speaker, consultant, and author of many books, including being a two-time bestseller, while being Chief Potential Officer at The Kevin Eikenberry Group. In January 2021, he...
Has The Pandemic Pushed Us To Be More Tribal?
To be labelled as tribal these days is frequently considered a bad thing. Tribalism has negative connotations. At a minimum, it's associated with driving a gap between "us and them" and often suggests some form of sense of superiority. At its worst, it's downright...
Filmmaking and Storytelling through a Third Culture Lens, with Mary Hasavari (MDE420)
Minter Dialogue with Mary Hasavari Mary Hasavari is a filmmaker and screenwriter based in Oslo Norway. With her mixed Thai/Iranian heritage, Mary has a most unique story and viewpoint in her filmmaking, leveraging her third culture life to make engaging films. In this...
Five Future Tech Trends
I attended the Pega World Inspire 2021 which, for the second year in a row, was held online. Let's hope in 2022, it'll be back in person (Las Vegas!). It was, overall, a highly polished and high-speed 2.5-hour affair with a lot of content delivered. I especially liked...
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.