Caleb and I are delighted to announce that our book, Futureproof, has won the Business Book Award 2018 in the category of Embracing Change. While I was away at SXSW, fortunately Caleb was on hand to receive the award. By all accounts, it was a grand evening. The...
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Meaningful Entrepreneurialism – The 10 Minute Mind with Monique Rhodes (MDE270)
Minter Dialogue with Monique Rhodes Monique Rhodes is a singer, songwriter and producer born in New Zealand. She has toured the world performing and composing music. Monique has produced two platinum selling albums in New Zealand, toured Europe twice with Chuck Berry...
Making marketers better and how you can get a 79% open rate for your emails with Peter Shankman (MDE269)
Minter Dialogue with Peter Shankman Peter Shankman is the author of 5 books, angel investor and speaker with a talent for provoking and driving fresh perspectives in marketing, storytelling, PR and communications. Having started his career at AOL, he pioneered in...
Should Your Brand Be Political? Here Is How To Navigate Through Brand Politics
The question of whether your brand should be political is a hot topic these days. There was a great presentation I attended at SXSW 2018 by Latia Curry (from Rally) on the merits of politics in branding and how to get there. The idea of mixing politics and business,...
The Exciting Potential of Artificial Intelligence by Jeremy Waite, IBM Evangelist and Leader of CMO Programme (MDE268)
Minter Dialogue with Jeremy Waite Jeremy Waite is author of Ten Words, evangelist for IBM Watson Customer Engagement and Global Leader of CMO Programmes at IBM. In this podcast, we zoom in on artificial intelligence. We look at the state of the business of AI, the key...
The remarkable story of Starling Bank, a new generation of bank founded by Anne Boden (MDE267)
Minter Dialogue with Anne Boden Anne Boden is the founder and CEO of Starling Bank, a brand new online bank in the UK, that she started in 2014 and got licensed in 2016. Anne who comes with a heavyweight executive experience in the banking world (ex-COO of Allied...
How Does One Effectively Create An Enduring And Successful Team Spirit?
When a team punches above its weight This has to be one of the most enduring challenges for any business whether small or large. I was struck by the Bill Pennington article in the NYT, "The Ski Team That Sleeps Together Wins a Lot of Gold Medals" outlining the secret...
Want To Make A Good Customer Experience? How The Customer Journey Goes Wrong!
If you are an online travel agency (OTA) and an airline you work with changes an upcoming flight, you are of course bound to alert your customers of the change. One would have to imagine that's a regular occurrence at an online travel agency? As such, it would be one...
How to transform the police and how to futureproof your career with Justin Insalaco (MDE266)
Minter Dialogue with Justin Insalaco Before founding Innovation 4.0 with Will Donovan, Justin Insalaco spent nearly ten years as a police officer. With Justin's verve and need to provide IMPACT, he created a mobile app, Guidant Systems, as a side project, to help...
How To Develop The Futureproof Mindset
Whenever I get an inside view of a company culture, it seems so easy to find the faults. But what of the recipes for success? The bigger question becomes: How to develop a futureproof mindset? It starts at the top My first port of call is to see how switched on the...

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.










