Last week, I read how Pickleball is "the fastest growing sport" in the US, where nearly 5 million people now play it [source NYT]. Having been brought up in Europe, as a kid, I always had the impression that sports in the US were...
Last week, I read how Pickleball is "the fastest growing sport" in the US, where nearly 5 million people now play it [source NYT]. Having been brought up in Europe, as a kid, I always had the impression that sports in the US were...
Some of you will be aware of my uber-keen love of padel tennis. Some, hopefully, will even have been bitten by the love of padel as well. If you've not heard of padel tennis and are interested in a game that is fun, energising and exciting to play, then you need to...
Minter Dialogue with Sarah Rozenthuler Sarah Rozenthuler is a dialogue coach and leadership consultant, founder/CEO of BridgeWork Consulting, who has authored two interesting books, Powered by Purpose and How to Have Meaningful Conversations. In this conversation, we...
Minter Dialogue with Ian MacRae Ian MacRae is a work psychologist and psychometrician, author of six books, including the recent award-winning, "Dark Social, Understanding the darker side of work, personality and social media," published by Bloomsbury Press. In this...
Minter Dialogue with Jay Godfrey Jay Godfrey is an entrepreneur and cofounder of Nushama that provides medically supervised psychedelic treatments for sustained relief from depression, anxiety, chronic pain, PTSD and addiction. Previously, Jay built an eponymous...
Minter Dialogue with Penny Power Penny Power OBE, is an entrepreneur, cofounder with her husband Thomas of Ecademy, a Mastermind Host, who is obsessed by community-led growth, and also author of "Business is Personal, Be the leader of your life and business." In this...
Minter Dialogue with Thomas Telving Thomas Telving, who is a Copywriter and Digital Content specialist, is the author of "Killing Sophia: Empathy, Consciousness, and Reason in the Age of Intelligent Robots" (published by University of Southern Denmark Studies), which...
Did you ever see the satirical musical, Oh, It's A Lovely War? I had the pleasure of acting in a production at my high school (Eton) in England back in 1980. I had the role of an American profiteer, someone who was finding ways to benefit economically from World War...
Minter Dialogue with Stephen Kelly Stephen Kelly is the chair at Tech Nation, the UK's leading growth platform for tech companies and entrepreneurs and The Algorithm People, a leading transport decarbonisation firm. He was appointed Chair of the Science &...
I attended the 2022 version of Pegasystems' iNspire conference (May 24th & 25th) which, for a third year in a row, was held online. I've long been attracted to what Pega are up to due to their emphasis on empathy within the decision-making of their platform....

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.