This MasterCard MasterPass full page ad below was on the back of Section A of the Wall Street Journal (US edition) this past Saturday. It's the express line online It really caught my attention for a number of reasons, not least of which is because it features a total...
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Intelligence and Time – why do we exist?
I watched the film LUCY last night. The premise of the film is delightful: what if we were able to use our full intellectual capacity? What if we be able to activate 100% of our brain's computing power? While I was lured into the idea that this was another view on the...
Transparency. Whose line is it anyway?
We live in an increasingly transparent world, like it or not. In the wake of the SONY hack attack, I have been ruminating about the request by the company for the media NOT to broadcast the private (and embarrassing) emails. In September, when the Apple iCloud was...
Interview with Daniel Burrus, on new tech trends and ways for business to innovate (MDE126)
Minter Dialogue Episode #126 — This interview is Daniel Burrus, speaker, strategist and author of 6 books, including the NYT and WSJ's best seller, Flash Foresight. Dan is one of the world’s leading futurists on Global Trends and Innovation. He is a premier influencer...
Best of the Web or Death by Aggregation? Why don’t brands curate the news?
Every day, your email inbox is stuffed with a mixture of important to completely undesirable mails. Gmail has done a stellar job of helping to organize these, even automatically. Yet, we still get too many mails. Even if we have pre-identified all the important...
Nathalie Nahai, Web Psychologist – how to master online influence and web marketing (MDE125)
Minter Dialogue Episode #125 — This interview is with Nathalie Nahai, the Web Psychologist, who is a great speaker, trainer and author of “Webs of Influence,” published in 2012. Nathalie brings together psychology, design and technology to understand better online...
Luxury web design – Jaeger-Lecoultre’s response to the omnichannel luxury customer
When, how and where I want it... Luxury brands often have it tougher than the mass brands. First, on balance, their customer is decidedly and deservedly more demanding. A big component of this "exigency" relates to time. Secondly, the average luxury customer has more...
There’s a big chance your content strategy is missing this key ingredient…
What's missing in your content strategy? Great content? Available assets? Sufficient resources? Original storytellers? Appropriate platforms? Enough fans and followers? While crafting a robust content strategy already takes a certain skill, I believe that...
Interview with Ludovic Dujardin, co-founder of Petit Bambou, the little zenmaster (MDE124)
Minter Dialogue Episode #124 — This interview is with Ludovic Dujardin, a French serial entrepreneur, who has launched a number of vibrant Facebook fan pages, one of which hit 1 million fans, Petit Bambou, which he manages personally. Few are the community managers...
Leaders: if you are seeking to be customer centric, are you asking the tough questions?
Are you, like many others, trying to become more "customer centric"? If you look inside many corporate boardrooms these days, aside from stressing about next year's budgets, the C-suite probably has a combination of the following words or phrases in or near the top...

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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.










