In 2010, I wrote for the first time about what it means when Branding Gets Personal. Some companies and cultures prefer to keep what is personal at home and to keep everything at all professional and all business. Evermore, however, I believe that brands need to find...
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Will Meaningfulness Actually Disrupt Business? Finding Your True North
Peace for Paris A photo posted by @jean_jullien on Nov 13, 2015 at 3:05pm PST As I wrote on my personal blog, #ParisAttacks Aftershocks and the Urge to Find Meaning, there seems little doubt that we are going to see a lasting effect of the cumulative terrorist...
#ParisAttacks Aftershocks – And The Urge to Find Meaning
I think it is finally dawning on all of us that we are living in a radical new era. It seems that little by little, methodically interspersed with several months and country by country, we find a new date to mark on the calendar as a day of memorial, of grief and of...
Michael Molinaro Is Helping Bring Digital transformation to Barclays Bank via HR (MDE175)
Minter Dialogue Episode #175 This interview is with Michael Molinaro, COO for Human Resources & HR Transformation Lead at Barclays Bank. Michael, who was a speaker at HR Tech World 2015, leads the HR Technology function, taking Barclays HR into the future with...
Sephora Flash – Interactive Robot And Digital Experience Explored
I recently visited the new Sephora Flash store, located in central Paris. This pilot "concept" store was opened on October 21, 2015. Not to be mixed up with Sephora's Flash 2-day eCommerce delivery service, the Sephora Flash boutique is much smaller than the average...
Communication Anxiety – You Are How You Communicate
After a post I wrote last week about burn out, I was gifted some wonderful comments. They were not comments one might easily publish since, at the end of the day, they represent some of our deepest fears, issues and convictions. What is for sure is that many of us...
Web Summit 2015 – What You Missed At The Last #WebSummit In Dublin
The Web Summit 2015 was held in Dublin under an air of change, dare I say, disruption. The three-day event featured 21 different streams or "summits" as they are called, along with 700 speakers, over 2,100 startups (spanning 17 categories) and 1,500 "journalists". The...
Interview With Craig Newmark, Web Pioneer, Nerd And Philanthropist (MDE174)
Minter Dialogue Episode #174 This interview is with Craig Newmark, a self-described nerd, Web pioneer and advocate of technology for the public good. Craig is also the founder of Craigslist, the classifieds site that is today 64th on Alexa’s global ranking, 11th in...
How HR At Jaguar Land Rover Helps Drive Innovation With Matt Anderson (MDE173)
Minter Dialogue Episode #173 This interview is with Matt Anderson, HR strategy manager at Jaguar Land Rover. After speaking at the HR Tech World 2015 conference, I caught up with Matt to discuss how Jaguar Land Rover approaches innovation from an HR perspective, the...
How To Drive High-Performance Leadership With Heidi Spirgi From The Marcus Buckingham Co. (MDE172)
Minter Dialogue Episode #172 This interview is with Heidi Spirgi, head of product and services at The Marcus Buckingham Company, providing research, tools and coaching for high performance leadership. In this discussion, we look at the role of leadership in driving...

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.










