If there is one phrase I hear over and over, it is: "I don't have the time...I'm super busy." In conjunction with an ever growing realization of the need for digital education in organizations, I believe there is an even more urgent need to rethink time management...
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MDE #11: François Pétavy, CEO Of Eyeka – Co-creation & crowdsourcing for brands
I had the chance to meet François Pétavy, a fellow INSEAD alum, who is CEO of Eyeka, a successful French start-up providing a co-creation and crowdsourcing platform for brands around the world. Eyeka manages a community of over 140,000 creative consumers who...
Really Virtual or Virtually Real? A social media experiment
A SOCIAL MEDIA EXPERIMENT Minter and Lisa Porter Dial, NY, circa 1938 I am on a mission. I have launched a social media experiment (over on Minter Dialogue Blog) regarding the 100th anniversary of the birth of my grandfather, Lt Cdr N Minter Dial, after...
Please Help Celebrate Minter’s 100th Anniversary on March 21st, 2011
PERSONAL LETTER TO READERS OF MINTER DIALOGUE Dear readers, I am asking you to join in a 5-minute social experiment. It is for a good cause, I believe you will agree. Minter and his wife, Lisa, in New York (c 1938) In just over a week, on March 21st 2011, it will be...
Bahrain: Have Suitcase, Will Leave
Bahrain's advertisement in the Economist A country under lock & key? I wonder how that lock is feeling these days?
Great Presentations For Tweeting Digital Media Sound Bytes
Cutting up your speech into 140-character Tweets A few nights ago, I was asked to deliver a speech at a Media Aces dinner on what makes a great presentation. Below is a resume of what I said, but the point I wanted to highlight, thanks to a comment by Fadhila Brahimi...
Are you 37 years old? At the vortex of the digital leadership mindset!
What is on your mind? Are you 37 years old...and counting Are you 37 years old and working for a larger sized company? If so, my hunch is that you have been doing an awful lot of thinking recently. Over the course of the last two years, I have had the chance to get to...
Apple Accessories – a first level of customer service?
Modern brand marketing - redefining what is the "product" The new iPad 2 is likely to make me crack. I held out for the iPhone until v3 came around (the delay was also partly because I was still having to use Blackberry with my previous job). Up until now, I had not...
Rachel Weiss Redken Interactive Digital Marketing – MDE10
Interactive Marketing at its best I got to know Rachel Weiss while working at L'Oreal. Specifically, Rachel began at L'Oréal in 2007 working on the digital strategy for PureOlogy and Redken USA ('professional' brands that sell through the hairdresser channel and is,...
What’s the difference between PR and Marketing?
I have been working with some PR teams recently and it is clear for me that the line between PR and Marketing is very grey. Whether PR is Public Relations or Press Relations, the definitions are increasingly muddled. Where does one stop and the other begin? No one...

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 last major published project was Dialogos, Fostering More Meaningful Conversations that was published weekly via Substack, over 79 weeks. I am currently working on a new book, The Avatar Trap.










