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How will AI transform leadership and work? Can we "delegate empathy" to it? Can we have empathic AI that fills a need we all have as humans? Today, I discuss all of this and the role of empathy in AI with my special return guest Minter Dial author of Heartificial Empathy, Putting Heart into Business and Artificial Intelligence, the 2nd edition, just released in 2023 to include all the latest AI shenanigans and progress.Minter shares his emotional leadership story about how 9/11 opened his eyes to his own priorities and how he wanted to show up as a leader. We discuss how to put heart into AI and three key questions leaders need to answer before investing in it. Minter shares use cases where AI can help us at a very human level, can help us create engaging customer experiences, and helps solve both the loneliness epidemic and the shortage of mental health professionals. We also muse on how AI is transforming leadership and work - and why we can't expect perfection from a system if we can't be perfect ourselves! To access the episode transcript, please click on the episode title at www.TheEmpathyEdge.com Key Takeaways:Not everything needs to be told to everybody. You can still have secrets and still be authentic, vulnerable, and full of integrity. As humans, we are not perfect. We cannot create something and expect perfection from that without holding ourselves to the same level.The AI will only be as good as what you put into it. It is about intentionality and working with the AI, not just expecting the AI to do everything perfectly on its own. "People tend to hold AI up to a higher standard than we hold ourselves up to. I find this to be a problem. [If we are expecting perfection] we are never going to get it!" — Minter Dial References Mentioned:The Empathy Edge Podcast: Minter Dial: How Being Yourself Makes You a Better LeaderThe Empathy Edge Podcast: Paul Marobella: Leading Through CrisisBrand Story Breakthrough course to help you craft a clear, compelling brand story - includes weekly office hours with Maria!About Minter Dial, Professional Speaker, Author & Filmmaker​Minter Dial is an international professional speaker, elevator and a multiple award-winning author. Minter's core career stint of 16 years was spent as a top executive at L'Oréal, where he was a member of the Worldwide Executive Committee for the Professional Products Division (PPD). Previously, he was MD of L'Oréal PPD Canada and CEO Worldwide for Redken. He's the author of the WWII biography and documentary film, The Last Ring Home (2016) and three business books, Futureproof (FT Press ​2017), You Lead (Kogan Page 2021), both of which won heralded Business Book Awards, and Heartificial Empathy, 2nd edition. He also runs three podcasts, Minter Dialogue in English and French, and The Joy of Padel.Connect with Minter Dial: Mydial LLP: minterdial.com X: twitter.com/mdial LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/minterdial Facebook: facebook.com/minterdial Instagram: instagram.com/mdial Threads: threads.com/mdialBook: Heartificial Empathy, Putting Heart into Business and Artificial Intelligence (2nd Edition) DigitalProof Press 2023 Substack Newsletter: Dialogos, Fostering More Meaningful Conversations Podcasts:Minter Dialogue (in English and French)The Joy of PadelJoin the tribe, download your free guide! Discover what empathy can do for you: http://red-slice.com/business-benefits-empathy Connect with Maria: Get the podcast and book: TheEmpathyEdge.comLearn more about Maria and her work: Red-Slice.comHire Maria to speak at your next event: Red-Slice.com/Speaker-Maria-RossTake my LinkedIn Learning Course! Leading with EmpathyLinkedIn: Maria RossInstagram: @redslicemariaX: @redsliceFacebook: Red SliceThreads: @redslicemaria

Our guest this week to share 3 thoughts on this topic is Minter Dial, who is an international professional speaker, elevator and a multiple award-winning author. Minter has his finger on the future of technology in business and has great advice on how to ensure the human side of business stays ever present. TOPIC: How to Put the Heart into A.I. GUEST: Minter Dial   THOUGHT #1 - Don't Ignore It - Have it Represent the Brand in Your Culture & Values THOUGHT #2 - Support Human Conditions like Mental Health THOUGHT #3 - Listen More - This Plays a Big Part   CONNECT: Website: MinterDial.com Blog (Substack): Dialogos - Meaningful Conversations Podcast: Minter Dialogue Book: Heartificial Empathy Book: You Lead Book: FutureProof PBS Documentary: The Last Ring Home Instagram: @mdial Linkedin: Minter Dial Twitter: @mdial YouTube: DialMinter   MINTER DIAL'S BIO: Minter Dial is an international professional speaker, elevator and a multiple award-winning author.  Minter's core career stint of 16 years was spent as a top executive at L'Oréal, where he was a member of the worldwide Executive Committee for the Professional Products Division (PPD), in charge of Digital, Communications, Education, the Eco-Salon and Business Development. Previously, he was MD of L'Oréal PPD Canada and MD Worldwide for Redken.  He's the author of the WWII biography and documentary film (The Last Ring Home 2016) and three award-winning business books, Futureproof (FT Press 2017), You Lead (Kogan Page 2021), both of which won heralded Business Book Awards, and Heartificial Empathy, 2nd edition (2023).  He has a weekly podcast, Minter Dialogue, and is currently working on a new book, being published serially online, Dialogos, Fostering More Meaningful Conversations via Substack https://minter.substack.com    RESOURCES: A.I. Platforms - hume.ai, cyrano.ai, mpathic.ai Evergreen Podcast Network - EvergereenPodcasts.com Thoughts That Rock – ThoughtsThatRock.com Certified Rock Star - CertifiedRockStar.com Booky Call - https://www.bookycall.com Booky Call - Book Review App on Apple - Apps.Apple.com Booky Call - Book Review App on Google Play - Play.Google.Com  Service That Rocks: TCreate Unforgettable Experiences and Turn Customers into Fans (Jim Knight) - ServiceThatRocksBook.com Leadership That Rocks: Take Your Brand's Culture to Eleven and Amp Up Results (Jim Knight) - LeadershipThatRocksBook.com Culture That Rocks: How to Revolutionize Your Company's Culture (Jim Knight) – CultureThatRocks.com Black Sheep: Unleash the Extraordinary, Awe-Inspiring, Undiscovered You (Brant Menswar) - FindYourBlackSheep.com Rock ‘n Roll With It: Overcoming the Challenge of Change (Brant Menswar) – RocknRollWithIt.com Cannonball Kids' cancer – CannonballKidscancer.org Big Kettle Drum - BigKettleDrum.com Spectacle Photography (Show/Website Photos) – SpectaclePhoto.com Jeffrey Todd “JT” Keel (Show Music) - JT Keel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Minter Dialogue with Josh Shelov Josh Shelov is an Emmy award-winning filmmaker who has written, directed and produced feature-length films, documentaries and shorts, including directing for ESPN 30 for 30. Among his portfolio is my own film, The Last Ring Home. After 25 years of making films in Hollywood, Josh turned his attention to spreading the pleasure of writing. He founded and is CEO of Written Out Loud, designed to give creative kids the same team- and community-oriented validation that young athletes receive. In this chat, we discuss his career, lessons learned, and the power of storytelling. We also delve into his tremendous work at Written Out Loud as well as reflect back on the film we made together. If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes or your favourite podcast channel, to rate/review the show. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter.

Minter Dial is a professional speaker, author and elevator, specialized in leadership, branding and transformation. An agent of change, he's a three-time entrepreneur, who has exercised twelve different métiers and moved country fifteen times. Minter's core career stint of 16 years was spent as a top executive at L'Oréal, member of the worldwide Executive Committee for the Professional Products Division. He's author of the award-winning WWII story, The Last Ring Home (documentary film and book, 2016) as well as three prize-winning business books, Futureproof (2017) and Heartificial Empathy (2019). His book on leadership, You Lead, How being yourself makes you a better leader (2021) won the Business Book Awards 2022. Minter is working on a new book, Dialogos, a featured publication on Substack, about fostering more meaningful conversation. He is passionate about the Grateful Dead, Padel Tennis and languages. Take a stroll down ‘shakedown street' as Minter and Lou connect on Thrive LouD. ***CONNECT WITH LOU DIAMOND & THRIVE LOUD***

Based in London, Minter Dial is a Franco-American professional speaker and a multiple award-winning author who specialises in leadership, branding, and transformation. An agent of change, he's a three-time entrepreneur who has exercised twelve different métiers and changed countries fifteen times. Minter's core career stint of 16 years was spent as a top executive at L'Oréal, where, in his last position, he was a member of the worldwide Executive Committee for the Professional Products Division. He's the author of two prize-winning business books, Futureproof (2017) and Heartificial Empathy (2019). His next book on leadership, You Lead, how being yourself makes you a better leader (Kogan Page) came out on January 3, 2021. For the history buffs among you, he's also the author of the book and producer of the award-winning WWII film, The Last Ring Home, which ran on History Channel in ANZ and PBS in North America. He is passionate about the Grateful Dead, Padel Tennis, languages and generating meaningful conversations. Connect with Minter: www.minterdial.com https://www.twitter.com/mdial https://www.facebook.com/minterdial https://www.instagram.com/mdial ▼ ▼ You can connect with/follow Talking with the Experts: Buy me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/rosesdavidson Become a patron https://www.patreon.com/talkingwiththeexperts Leave a Google review: https://g.page/r/CaXk7K3UlEhzEBI/review Leave a review on Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/talking-with-the-experts-1491692 Email: guest@talkingwiththeexperts.com Website: https://rose-davidson.com/ LinkedIn: Rose Davidson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rose-davidson/ Talking with the Experts: https://www.linkedin.com/company/talkingwiththeexperts/ Facebook Page: [Rose Davidson] https://www.facebook.com/onlineeventmanagerandpodcasttrainer Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/talking_with_the_experts SoundCloud: [Follow] https://soundcloud.com/talking-with-the-experts YouTube: [Subscribe] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkM5n5QJhnNAmUiMzii73wQ

Minter Dial interviews Michele Nevarez Michele Nevarez is Founder and creator of the Beyond EI suite of Coaching and Training programs, Michele's vision is to democratize EI as a means of igniting personal and global agency. This driving force for Michele is at the core of how our programs translate EI from theory to a powerful and practical vehicle for meaningful transformation and lasting habit change. Michele brings 25+ years of executive leadership experience working for industry leaders in healthcare, investment management, management consulting, and manufacturing. A founding member of Rangjung Yeshe Institute based in Kathmandu, Nepal, Michele has practiced mindfulness-based training for 27+ years. Michele received a B.A. in Religion from Bryn Mawr College and a Master of Science degree in Positive Organizational Development and Change from the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. In Beyond Emotional Intelligence, renowned educator and leadership expert S. Michele Nevarez delivers a powerful guide to building ingrained mental habits to help us achieve desired outcomes, improve our relationships, and live in alignment with our values. The 12 Self-Discoveries discussed in the book provide clues and insights into who we are and what motivates our decisions and behaviours. Functioning as an internal barometer for our emotional and mental habits, they provide a clear path to uncover and work with our cognitive patterns and tendencies of action and reaction. Beyond Emotional Intelligence is the perfect guide for anyone interested in self-discovery and growth. Readers will discover how concealed thought patterns influence life, relationships, and goals, and how to build emotional intelligence by recognising your reactions and perceptions for what they are: changeable. Containing proven methods for influencing your outcomes, decluttering your mind, and shifting your own awareness to a more positive, productive place, Beyond Emotional Intelligence offers a solid foundation from which readers can begin to build mental habits that will serve them, their family, colleagues, and friends as they work together to achieve their goals. Minter Dial is a professional speaker, elevator and a multiple award-winning author, specialized in leadership, branding and transformation. An agent of change, he's a three- time entrepreneur who has exercised twelve different métiers and moved country fifteen times. Minter's core career stint of 16 years was spent as a top executive at L'Oréal, where he was a member of the worldwide Executive Committee for the Professional Products Division. He's author of the award-winning WWII story, The Last Ring Home (documentary film and biographical book, 2016) as well as two prize-winning business books, Futureproof (2017) and Heartificial Empathy (2019). His latest book on leadership, You Lead, How being yourself makes you a better leader (Kogan Page) came out in January 2021. His newest project is being published weekly on Dialogos, Fostering More Meaningful Conversations via Substack. He's been host of the Minter Dialogue weekly podcast since 2010. He is passionate about the Grateful Dead, Padel Tennis, languages and generating meaningful conversations. @mdial / minterdial.com

Who is Minter?Minter Dial is an international professional speaker, elevator and a multiple award-winning author, specialised in leadership, branding and transformation. An agent of change, he's a three-time entrepreneur who has exercised twelve different métiers and moved country fifteen times. Minter's core career stint of 16 years was spent as a top executive at L’Oréal, where he was a member of the worldwide Executive Committee for the Professional Products Division, and previously MD of L'Oréal PPD Canada and MD Worldwide for Redken. He’s author of the award-winning WWII story, The Last Ring Home (which is a documentary film and book, 2016) as well as three business books, Futureproof, Heartificial Empathy and his latest book on leadership is, You Lead, How Being Yourself Makes You A Better Leader (Kogan Page). He is passionate about the Grateful Dead, Padel Tennis, languages and generating meaningful conversations. Key Takeaways1. The issue we have today is a big problem around talent, and motivating the people who are working in the teams considering the environment we're working in2. iI you look at the issue of transformation programmes they are set up as a one-time solution, which will lead to disappointment. It needs to be a mindset change more than a programme. It takes a concerted effort and executives need everybody participating and feeling like they're contributing, feeling like they're being heard as well.3. Transformation requires five 'E'sEngagement, how are you engaging your team and making them feel like they're part of it. Exchange. And this idea is how do you make sure that you're listening as much as you're talking, and make sure that there's a two way flow, people feel like they are contributing, people feel that they are being heard. Emotion, where is the emotional link? How are you making things fun? Where do people feel like they're part of a team. Experience. it's through experiences that people learn. It's through experiences, like on a rugby pitch with a team that you bond together. So you must create experiences. Essence, - purpose. What is your essence? Who are you? What do you stand for? Valuable Free Resource or ActionMinter has a bi-weekly newsletter: https://www.minterdial.com/subscribe/A video version of this podcast is available on YouTube : _________________________________________________________________________________________________Subscribe to our newsletter and get details of when we are doing these interviews live at https://TCA.fyi/newsletterFind out more about being a guest at : link.thecompleteapproach.co.uk/beaguestSubscribe to the podcast at https://link.thecompleteapproach.co.uk/podcastHelp us get this podcast in front of as many people as possible. Leave a nice five-star review at  apple podcasts : https://link.thecompleteapproach.co.uk/apple-podcasts and on YouTube : https://link.thecompleteapproach.co.uk/Itsnotrocketscienceatyt!Here's how you can bring your business to THE next level:1. Download my free resource on everything you need to grow your business on a single page : https://link.thecompleteapproach.co.uk/1pageIt's a detailed breakdown of how you can grow your business to 7-figures in a smart and sustainable way2. Join The Complete Approach Facebook Group :  https://TCA.fyi/fb Connect with like-minded individuals who are all about growth and increasing revenue. It's a Facebook community where we make regular posts aimed at inspiring conversations in a supportive environment. It's completely free and purposely aimed at expanding and building networks.3. Join our Success to Soar Program and get TIME and FREEDOM. : https://link.thecompleteapproach.co.uk/Success-to-SoarIf you're doing 10-50k a month right now: I'm working with a few business owners like you to change that, without working nights and weekends. If you'd like to get back that Time and still Scale, check the link above.4. Work with me privatelyIf you'd like to work directly with me and my team to take you from 5 figure to 6 and multi 6 figure months, whilst reducing reliance on you. Click on https://link.thecompleteapproach.co.uk/DiscoveryCall  tell me about your business and what you'd like to work on together, and I'll get you all the details. Get full access to It's Not Rocket Science! at thecompleteapproach.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode, we talk with Minter Dial, who is an international professional speaker, elevator, entrepreneur and a multiple award-winning author, specializing in leadership, branding and transformation. Previously, he was a top executive at L'Oréal and Redken. He is truly one of the most interesting people we know. THOUGHT #1"You'll Grow from this Experience"THOUGHT #2"If You are not Willing to Learn, No One Can Help You. If You are Determined to Learn, No One Can Stop You.”- Zig ZiglarCONNECT:Website: MinterDial.comPodcast: Minter Dialogue Radio ShowBook: You Lead: How Being Yourself Makes You A Better Leader (Jan 2021)Book: Futureproof: How To Get Your Business Ready For The Next DisruptionBook: Heartificial EmpathyBook: The Last Ring HomeInstagram: mdialLinkedin: Minter DialTwitter: @mdialYouTube: DialMinterBRAND & RESOURCE MENTIONS:"Whip My Hair" (Willow Smith) - YouTubeThe Walking Dead - IMDB.comL'Oréal - loreal.comRedken - redken.comThe Grateful Dead - dead.netPadel Tennis - Minter Dial BlogVideo Clip of Padel Tennis - YouTube.comTennis - wikipedia.orgSquash - wikipedia.orgPickelball - wikipedia.orgTequila - wikipedia.orgSangria - wikipedia.orgOlympics - olympics.comShrek - dreamwork.comRugby - wikipedia.orgFind Your Red Thread, Tamsen Webster - TamsenWebster.comThe Rolling Stones - RollingStones.comZig Ziglar - ziglar.comEmpathy Circle = active listening in front of othersFranklin-Covey - FranklinCovey.comBanding People Together - BandingPeopleTogether.comJohn Coltrane - JohnColtrane.comPhil Lesh - PhilLesh.netJim Sullivan - sullivision.comSubstack - substack.comHard Rock International – HardRock.comBooky Call - https://www.bookycall.combookstarPR - bookstarPR.comThoughts That Rock – ThoughtsThatRock.comCertified Rock Star - CertifiedRockStar.comLeadership That Rocks: Take Your Brand's Culture to Eleven and Amp Up Results (Jim Knight) - LeadershipThatRocksBook.comCulture That Rocks: How to Revolutionize Your Company's Culture (Jim Knight) – CultureThatRocks.comBlack Sheep: Unleash the Extraordinary, Awe-Inspiring, Undiscovered You (Brant Menswar) - FindYourBlackSheep.comRock ‘n Roll With It: Overcoming the Challenge of Change (Brant Menswar) – RocknRollWithIt.comCannonball Kids' cancer – CannonballKidscancer.orgBig Kettle Drum - BigKettleDrum.comSpectacle Photography (Show/Website Photos) – SpectaclePhoto.comJeffrey Todd “JT” Keel (Show Music) - JT KeelMINTER DIAL'S BIO:Minter Dial is an international professional speaker, elevator and a multiple award-winning author. An agent of change who has exercised twelve different métiers and moved country fifteen times, he spent 16 years as a top executive at L'Oréal, having been MD of Redken Worldwide, MD of L'Oreal Canada's professional subsidiary and then a member of the worldwide Professional Division's Executive Committee. He's author of the WWII story, The Last Ring Home, as well as three business books: Futureproof, Heartificial Empathy and You Lead (2021). He writes Dialogos (on Substack) with the intention to foster more meaningful conversation at home, in society in general and at work. HIs main site is MinterDial.com and his social handle is @mdial. 

@Passion, People & Purpose #business #podcast #author #branding #leadership Minter Dial is a professional speaker, elevator, and multiple award-winning authors, specializing in leadership, branding, and transformation. An agent of change, he's a three-time entrepreneur who has exercised twelve different métiers and moved country fifteen times. Minter's core career stint of 16 years was spent as a top executive at L'Oréal, where he was a member of the worldwide Executive Committee for the Professional Products Division. He's the author of the award-winning WWII story, The Last Ring Home (documentary film and biographical book, 2016) as well as two prize-winning business books, Futureproof (2017) and He artificial Empathy (2019). His latest book on leadership, You Lead, how being yourself makes you a better leader (Kogan Page) came out in January 2021. He's been hosting the Minter Dialogue weekly podcast since 2010. He is passionate about the Grateful Dead, Padel Tennis, languages, and generating meaningful conversations. @mdial / minterdial.com Quick Summary: 00:22 Introduction 02:26 Passion & Interest 03:37 Questions from Audience 13:51 Fun Segment 17:55 Career/Work/Volunteering 21:38 Tips/Advise/Books 27:46 Leadership 30:41 Closure & Thank you So, watch the complete episode - https://youtu.be/7MkYcyFmDbE Listen to the complete episode - https://anchor.fm/vaishali-lambe/episodes/SoLeadSaturday---Episode-104---Minter-Dial-business-podcast-author-branding-leadership-e1bj0g1 If you would like to connect further, please feel free to connect on @twitter or @linkedin Until we meet, happy leading and let's lead together. Stay safe. Bye for now. Find me on - YoutTube - https://bit.ly/3dA0Qko #SoLeadSaturday Community Website - https://vaishalilambe.club/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/vaishalilambe LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/vaishali-lambe/ Instagram - @PassionPeoplePurpose Website - https://www.vaishalilambe.com/soleadsaturday Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/vaishalilambe17 Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/soleadsaturday/id1496626534?uo=4 Google Podcasts - https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8xMzFiYTA0MC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0bFOIm9EGFalhPG8YPBhVp --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/vaishali-lambe/support

The Nice Podcast is brought to you by Futureforth.com. Helping fast-growing tech companies how to onboard, create, and keep happier more connected employees. Watch the on-demand webcast of the ROI of Nice. Minter Dial is an international professional speaker, elevator and a multiple award-winning author. Minter is an agent of change who has exercised twelve different metier and moved country fifteen times, he's the author of the WWII story, The Last Ring Home as well as three business books: Futureproof, Heartificial Empathy, and You Lead: How Being Yourself Makes You a Better Leader. What we talked about: Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park, London.  The importance of meaningful conversations.  Dunbar's Number.  The power of a hug. How The Grateful Dead and the best brands create unique and special experiences.  Company retreats, off sites, special events, and conferences.  How trust is the critical glue. Trust comes from vulnerability.  Walk the talk. Say something do it. Tap into your own humanity. Why touch is important. You can only learn empathy if you want it. The core idea is observation and listening.  Repeating what you heard.  Close Communication Bias. Finishing off sentences of the people we're close to. Complacency creeps in. The CHECK mindset. Curious. Humility. Empathy. Courage. Karma. (VIDEO) Angry Voicemail We Got From an Alamo Drafthouse Customer. NSFW. Bringing back handshakes, hugs, and high-fives. Culture eats strategy for breakfast.  Recognizing and rewarding your team members.  When you ask for advice - take it and report back. Tips for helping employees to establish their personal brands.  Read Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari.

In this conversation, Minter Dial discussed with Dr Naeema Pasha her new book cowritten with Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj, "Futureproof your career, How to lead and Succeed in A Changing World," published by Bloomsbury. We look at Dr Pasha's work on career resilience, how leaders need to mix science and empathy, fitting in versus belonging, and pluralistic leadership. Dr Naeema Pasha is Director of Future of Work, Equity and Careers in Henley Business School where she established the World of Work (WOW) to explore future of work readiness. Her work focuses on AI impact, human skilling and equity leadership. She recently led a major piece of research on Race Equity in Henley, which highlighted the importance of addressing Race from a future of work perspective. Naeema has contributed to various publications and media outlets including Wired, Forbes, The Voice, Stylist, Cosmopolitan, Raconteur, and the BBC.. She also contributed to Microsoft's ‘Unlocking the UK's Potential with Digital Skills' report. Naeema has been shortlisted as one of the Top 30 Global Thinkers, 2021 by HR Magazine, and was voted in the Top 50 Global AI Ethics Thinkers, 2020. She has also spoken at the UK Parliament on Equity and Future of Work. Minter Dial is an international professional speaker, elevator and a multiple award-winning author. He's author of the WWII story and documentary film, The Last Ring Home (2016) as well as three business books: Futureproof (2017, Heartificial Empathy (2019) and You Lead (2021).

Being an effective leader requires you to be able to truly see yourself as you are - to know who you want to be, where you're strong, and where you might fall down - and that requires hard inner work! In today's episode, I had the great pleasure to talk to leadership, branding, and transformation expert, speaker and multiple award-winning author Minter Dial. We talk about the importance of empathy in being a leader, why everyone on your team is technically an individual contributor, what living through 9/11 in Manhattan taught him about perspective and knowing if you truly align with your organization or not. Listen in for a fantastic conversation! Key Takeaways:As a professional, fundamentally, you lead two things: 1) yourself and 2) your whole self.Ultimately, empathy has an ability to help in absolutely everything you do.Intangibles do matter. You may not be in the right place if your values and your authentic self don't align with where you're working and that's okay. You are being strong as a leader if you know yourself well enough to walk away from those kinds of environments or companies. "We're not all cut out to be leaders. If you don't have patience to listen, if you are not interested in working with teams, or it's all about you - you have to learn how to step aside." —  Minter Dial About Minter Dial:Leadership and brand speaker and author of You Lead: How Being Yourself Makes you a Better LeaderMinter Dial is an international professional and energetic speaker and a multiple award-winning author, specialised in leadership, branding and transformation. An agent of change, he's a three-time entrepreneur who has exercised twelve different careers and changed countries xfifteen times. Minter's core career stint of 16 years was spent as a top executive at L'Oréal, where he was a member of the worldwide Executive Committee for the Professional Products Division. He's author of the award-winning WWII story, The Last Ring Home (documentary film and biographical book, 2016) as well as two prize-winning business books, Futureproof (2017) and Heartificial Empathy (2019). His latest book on leadership, You Lead, How being yourself makes you a better leader (Kogan Page) released in January 2021. He's been host of the Minter Dialogue weekly podcast since 2010. He is passionate about the Grateful Dead, Padel Tennis, languages and generating meaningful conversations. Connect with Minter:  Website: http://minterdial.comTwitter: http://twitter.com/mdialLinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/minterdialFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/minterdialInstagram: http://instagram.com/mdialPromoting: http://minterdial.com/books/you-lead  Don't forget to download your free guide! Discover The 5 Business Benefits of Empathy: http://red-slice.com/business-benefits-empathy  Connect with Maria: Get the podcast and book: TheEmpathyEdge.comLearn more about Maria's brand strategy work and books: Red-Slice.comHire Maria to speak at your next event: Red-Slice.com/Speaker-Maria-RossLinkedIn: Maria RossInstagram: @redslicemariaTwitter: @redsliceFacebook: Red Slice

Being an effective leader requires you to be able to truly see yourself as you are - to know who you want to be, where you're strong, and where you might fall down - and that requires hard inner work! In today's episode, I had the great pleasure to talk to leadership, branding, and transformation expert, speaker and multiple award-winning author Minter Dial. We talk about the importance of empathy in being a leader, why everyone on your team is technically an individual contributor, what living through 9/11 in Manhattan taught him about perspective and knowing if you truly align with your organization or not. Listen in for a fantastic conversation! Key Takeaways:As a professional, fundamentally, you lead two things: 1) yourself and 2) your whole self.Ultimately, empathy has an ability to help in absolutely everything you do.Intangibles do matter. You may not be in the right place if your values and your authentic self don't align with where you're working and that's okay. You are being strong as a leader if you know yourself well enough to walk away from those kinds of environments or companies. "We're not all cut out to be leaders. If you don't have patience to listen, if you are not interested in working with teams, or it's all about you - you have to learn how to step aside." —  Minter Dial About Minter Dial:Leadership and brand speaker and author of You Lead: How Being Yourself Makes you a Better LeaderMinter Dial is an international professional and energetic speaker and a multiple award-winning author, specialised in leadership, branding and transformation. An agent of change, he's a three-time entrepreneur who has exercised twelve different careers and changed countries xfifteen times. Minter's core career stint of 16 years was spent as a top executive at L'Oréal, where he was a member of the worldwide Executive Committee for the Professional Products Division. He's author of the award-winning WWII story, The Last Ring Home (documentary film and biographical book, 2016) as well as two prize-winning business books, Futureproof (2017) and Heartificial Empathy (2019). His latest book on leadership, You Lead, How being yourself makes you a better leader (Kogan Page) released in January 2021. He's been host of the Minter Dialogue weekly podcast since 2010. He is passionate about the Grateful Dead, Padel Tennis, languages and generating meaningful conversations. Connect with Minter:  Website: http://minterdial.comTwitter: http://twitter.com/mdialLinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/minterdialFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/minterdialInstagram: http://instagram.com/mdialPromoting: http://minterdial.com/books/you-lead  Don't forget to download your free guide! Discover The 5 Business Benefits of Empathy: http://red-slice.com/business-benefits-empathy  Connect with Maria: Get the podcast and book: TheEmpathyEdge.comLearn more about Maria's brand strategy work and books: Red-Slice.comHire Maria to speak at your next event: Red-Slice.com/Speaker-Maria-RossLinkedIn: Maria RossInstagram: @redslicemariaTwitter: @redsliceFacebook: Red Slice

Minter is an international speaker, elevator and a multiple award-winning author. Minter is an agent of change who has worked in twelve different professions, lived in 15 different countries, authored the World War II story, The Last Ring Home as well as 3 business books: Futureproof, Heartificial Empathy, and You Lead.

By understanding the core principle of empathy, we can authentically apply it in our own lives and effectively use it to be genuine in dealing with our employees and customers as well. On today's episode, Minter Dial shares what empathy truly means within an organization and how brands can inject it into their culture. Minter is the award-winning author of Heartificial Empathy and The Last Ring Home and is an international professional speaker. He instills the value of empathy in every organization he's been a part of. In addition, he shares personal stories of how developing kindness made a difference within organizations and how they dealt with their employees and customers. If you want to learn how to develop empathy and use it to make a difference, tune in to today's episode! The show notes, including the transcript and checklist to this episode, are at marketingspeak.com/298.

Minter Dial catches up with Dr Marie Taillard, who is a French-American senior marketing academic and business leader, faculty member at ESCP Business School and co-author with Béatrice Collin of the brand new Digital Makeover: How L′Oréal Put People First to Build a Beauty Tech Powerhouse, Wiley Press. In this conversation, we discuss her book and the digital transformation process that L'Oreal has undertaken over the last decade. Is it top down or bottom up? How will the changes and accelerated transformation imposed by the pandemic stick? The role of the Chief Digital Officer and how to make it work in a large organisation. We also look at the changes to marketing, the importance of social media and the collaborative mindset. I'm Minter Dial and I serve my clients by elevating the energy and connecting people and ideas. I relish being an engaging professional speaker on leadership, transformation and branding with a specialization in digital transformation since 2009. I'm known for being someone who walks the talk and delivers on or above expectations. I'm the author of three award-winning books, including my last book Heartificial Empathy, Putting Heart into Business and Artificial Intelligence that won the Book Excellence Award 2019 and was shortlisted for the Business Book Awards 2019. My newest book on leadership just launched, You Lead, How Being Yourself Makes You A Better Leader. It is published by Kogan Page and is available at all fine e-tailers as an audiobook, ebook and paperback. I'm also the producer of the award-winning book and film The Last Ring Home and co-author of Futureproof that won the Business Book Award 2018.

This week on Timeless Leadership, the topic is Authenticity. Trust sits at the intersection of vulnerability and authenticity. We hear a lot about authenticity these days, but what is it and why is it important? Our guest this week is Minter Dial, a former executive at multinational companies, leadership, branding, and transformation consultant, and author of You Lead: How Being Yourself Makes You a Better Leader.   Links: It's You I Like (Timeless & Timely) You Lead: How Being Yourself Makes You a Better Leader (Minter's book) Minter Dial's website The Last Ring Home (documentary) Please leave us a rating or review so other people can benefit from Timeless Leadership. And subscribe to the Timeless & Timely newsletter.   This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.timelesstimely.com/subscribe

The most successful people I know all share some common attributes. Two of which are being self-reflective and adaptable. Self-reflection is key in evaluating your successes and challenges and brings clarity to your journey. Then you can use this new-found knowledge to plan strategic changes to take you from where you are to where you want to be.  My guest this week is Minter Dial, a self-described agent of change, a three-time entrepreneur, professional speaker, and award-winning film producer and author. Minter showcases his storytelling as he shares insightful, witty and funny experiences from his journey to become the authority and leader he is today. Questions I ask:·      How did you realized that just being yourself makes everyone you a better leader?·      How should anyone go about finding out who they are?·      Should anyone take a job just for a paycheck?·      What are your thoughts on having a midlife crisis/enlightenment?·      How has humility served you?·      How did you create an environment of honesty and authenticity at L'Oreal?·      What perspective did you gain from your Grandfather's experience as a POW?What you will learn from this episode:·      How to identify what is important to you and build a career around it·      The type of people should you build a network around·      The principles attribute to creating a high-performing team·      How to choose one company over another ·      How to balance humility and confidence·      How to lead yourself before you lead othersAbout Minter DialMinter Dial is a professional speaker, elevator and a multiple award-winning author, specialized in leadership, branding and transformation. An agent of change, he's a three- time entrepreneur who has exercised twelve different métiers and moved country fifteen times. Minter's core career stint of 16 years was spent as a top executive at L'Oréal, where he was a member of the worldwide Executive Committee for the Professional Products Division. He's author of the award-winning WWII story, The Last Ring Home (documentary film and biographical book, 2016) as well as two prize- winning business books, Futureproof (2017) and Heartificial Empathy (2019). His latest book on leadership, You Lead, How being yourself makes you a better leader (Kogan Page) came out in January 2021. He's been host of the Minter Dialogue weekly podcast since 2010. He is passionate about the Grateful Dead, Padel Tennis, languages and generating meaningful conversations. @mdial / minterdial.com 

As a founder, you are a critical component to your startup’s ability to grow and succeed. And I’m not talking about who you know. This time, it’s all about how well you know yourself. Leaders lead and pave the way for businesses to reach new heights. Today’s guest is very passionate about helping entrepreneurs transform their organizations by first looking within and leaning into their personalities and finding that meaningful purpose to tap into that powerful energy that will drive growth. Dive into this inspirational episode to help you build the backbone of a business built for success. Tune in now. We’ll talk about: Minter's life and global background [02:05] Companies need to have a purpose [03:24] What led to him writing his book, You Lead [04:47] Why entrepreneurs should lean into their personalities [11:41] Create a brand that is real for people [16:39] Make your purpose meaningful [16:49] The two components needed for long-term success [14:56] Purpose is key to unlocking discretionary energy [20:17] Be intentional with your communication [26:14] How to harness that discretionary energy in a remote workforce [23:28] Why you shouldn't only surround yourself with like-minded people [30:11] The critical work entrepreneurs need to do on their own selves [33:27]  The one thing Minter highly recommends [42:06] Resource Links: Brett Trainor Website (https://bretttrainor.com/) Download Startup to Scaleup: A 4-Part Framework to Grow Your B2B Business to $10 Million (https://bretttrainor.com/resources/) How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan (https://www.amazon.com/Change-Your-Mind-Consciousness-Transcendence/dp/1594204225) Being Mortal by Dr. Atul Gawande (http://atulgawande.com/book/being-mortal/) Lost Connections by Johann Hari (https://thelostconnections.com/) Minter Dial Website (https://www.minterdial.com/) YOU LEAD, How Being Yourself Makes You A Better Leader by Minter Dial (https://minterdial.com/books/you-lead) The Last Ring Home Documentary Film (http://www.thelastringhome.com/) Minter Dialogue Podcast (https://www.minterdial.com/resources/podcasts/) About Our Guest: Minter Dial is a professional speaker, elevator and a multiple award-winning author, specialized in leadership, branding and transformation. An agent of change, he's a three- time entrepreneur who has exercised twelve different métiers and moved countries fifteen times.  Minter's core career stint of 16 years was spent as a top executive at L’Oréal, where he was a member of the worldwide Executive Committee for the Professional Products Division.  He’s author of the award-winning WWII story, The Last Ring Home, as well as prize-winning business books, Futureproof and Heartificial Empathy. His latest book on leadership, You Lead, How being yourself makes you a better leader came out in January 2021. He’s been host of the Minter Dialogue weekly podcast since 2010.   If you liked this episode, please don’t forget to tune in, subscribe, and share this podcast.  Connect with B2B Founder:  Subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCySoKsETeKxu-Fnf2VfE7Gg/

Minter Dial is a renowned professional speaker and author of four books He's a consultant on leadership branding and digital strategy, along with being a film producer too! In this episode you'll learn: About Minter's eclectic careers and fascinating leadership hacks How grasping opportunities enriches your life and work You need to Lead “You” before you can lead others The Leadership CHECK model Join our Tribe at https://leadership-hacker.com Music: " Upbeat Party " by Scott Holmes courtesy of the Free Music Archive FMA Transcript: Thanks to Jermaine Pinto at JRP Transcribing for being our Partner. Contact Jermaine via LinkedIn or via his site JRP Transcribing Services Find out more about Minter below: Minter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/minterdial/ Minter Dial Website: https://www.minterdial.com Minter on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mdial Minter on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mdial/ Full Transcript Below ----more---- Introduction Steve Rush: Some call me Steve, dad, husband or friend. Others might call me boss, coach or mentor. Today you can call me The Leadership Hacker.   Thanks for listening in. I really appreciate it. My job as the leadership hacker is to hack into the minds, experiences, habits and learning of great leaders, C-Suite executives, authors and development experts so that I can assist you developing your understanding and awareness of leadership. I am Steve Rush and I am your host today. I am the author of Leadership Cake. I am a transformation consultant and leadership coach. I cannot wait to start sharing all things leadership with you. Our special guest on today's show is Minter Dial. He's a professional speaker, author of four books, consultant on leadership branding and digital strategy, along with being a film producer. But before we get a chance to speak with Minter, it's The Leadership Hacker News. The Leadership Hacker News Steve Rush: The subject of leadership is an enormous subject matter, but what is leadership? And how do we know when we see and hear it? Is it seen in the captains of countries, corporations and communities? Is it heard from onstage lectins and corner offices? Could it be the research from Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Oxford, or Cambridge? The reality of course is leadership is a very bespoken, very personal to us. We've been surrounded by a generation of corporate and civic leaders. Some of whom have been tainted with visions and values. What are the qualities that are missing and why do we look for leadership? More than 60 years ago, the last place we might have expected to look for leadership was on the Montgomery Bus. And yet on the 1st of December in 1955, when a diminutive passenger occupied a seat, she set the direction for an entire country, no small feat in leadership. Rosa Parks has now been referred to as the quiet leader and she has a lot to teach us. Humbled, determined, and flappable, self-sacrificing. She was forced in a bold vision. She was willing to take a courageous risk, not knowing the results, but driven by her values and her integrity. And there was no other option for her, but to stay sat in that seat in the face of adversity. At that time, her only vision was at bus free of segregation. She inspired Dr. Martin Luther king Jr, who could articulate in words, what she had said in gesture, but they had the same dream. They marched the same march. They sang the same song. Her leadership was a quiet one, but not any less powerful. So, as we pay tribute to the first woman to be laid in state in Washington, she seems like a new icon of leadership. Named the mother of civil rights, she led by being a role model by inspiring the city to walk instead of ride and a country to re-examine itself and its values, her leadership statement ignited a genesis of change in people in assumptions, actions and attitudes, irrespective of race, color, or creed. So, what the lessons learned from this great leader? Compelling a great mission, ignites passion for commitment, challenge assumptions, be courageous and take risks, lead by example, be humble, give credit to others and pass the torch to your successors. We need more leaders like that in our corporations and our communities. The quiet leader can create levels of greatness, only if we listen beyond what they say and what they do. And Rosa Parks was a perfect example of that. That's been The Leadership Hacker News. If you have any news, insights or stories, please get in touch. Start of Podcast Steve Rush: Our special guest on show is Minter Dial. He's an international professional speaker, author and consultant on leadership branding and digital strategy. After successful corporate career, Minter returned to his entrepreneurial roots and the spent the last 10 years, helping senior managers adapt to the world of digital. During the last 10 years or so, He's also penned four books and has also become a film producer. So, Minter, welcome to The Leadership Hacker Podcast. Minter Dial: Hey Steve, great to be on your show. I love the idea of hacking leadership. Steve Rush: Yes, and we'll be doing plenty of hacking through this opportunity of the next half an hour or so as we get to hack into your mind, before we do that though, in the last time we met, the one thing that really struck me about you is, you've got this really eclectic backstory as to how you've arrived to do what you do today. It might be really useful for our listeners to just get a sense of what your corporate career was like and how that took several turns in the roads so to speak? Minter Dial: Yeah, another way of saying is I've done a million things. I've done a lot of things, but I'm good at nothing. I graduated from University in the United States. I haven't been schooled in England in Trilingual Literature and Women's Studies as my minor. And with that, I went into investment banking, of course. And from there I started a travel agency for musicians and that went, flamingly horribly wrong after two years. I worked in a Zoo and Aquarium, I taught tennis, I wrote a novel and then I went to business school and I straightened myself out. And then I worked at L'Oréal for 16 years in various roles around the world. Mostly through the marketing ranks. I ran a company called Redken, which has a hairdressing company worldwide, 40 countries. And then I arrived in Canada. Then I was on the executive committee worldwide for the professional division, before charting my own path yet again, where I have essentially been trained to help elevate the debate, connect people, ideas, and dots, and make the world a little bit of a better place through business. Steve Rush: Awesome. Now, for me, it sounds that your corporate career, if you like started to really gain its momentum through your work in L'Oréal and Redken, but what was it that you were looking for perhaps in your previous careers that you didn't find until then? Minter Dial: Well, I just liked communicating actually. That was sort of, how do you use communication in a professional space? And so, for example, when I was at the investment bank, what I enjoy doing was translating the mumbo-jumbo of stock analysts into a terminology that the investment advisors and customers would understand. When I was at the agency, my travel agency for musicians, I was really interested in the marketing concept. How do you make us known to such a niche world of musical managers and entertainers? And after L'Oréal, when I was at INSEAD it  really struck me as at the summum of marketing and capabilities. And so, I wanted to go to the big pond where you had the best marketers and minds, I felt in the world of commerce at the time. And so that's what I was seeking to thrive in and master this idea, this weird concept that I really actually didn't fully understand before I got into L'Oréal marketing. Steve Rush: Yeah, and marketing is so diverse these days. Isn't it? It's kind of, where does communication start and marketing end almost? Minter Dial: A hundred percent. Steve Rush: Yeah. Minter Dial: I think the world of marketing has changed dramatically as has leadership, sales, gosh knows research and development. The list goes on. Steve Rush: It does. Yeah, so what's the kind of focus of the work that you're up to right now? Minter Dial: Right now, as we speak, I'm really continuing to focus on the promotion of my book and behind that, the promotion of a new style of leadership, what that concretely means is that when you write a book by the way, you make cause ziddly, diddly, nothing. So, it's really about helping companies transform their leadership to accommodate these new technologies, new context and a very new customer. Steve Rush: And we're going to get into the new book, You Lead in a moment, but you started writing that last book before all of your first three. So how did that end up? Minter Dial: Yeah, that's one crazy long story. To try to make it a compact Steve. So, I graduated with a degree in Trilingual Literature, and I loved writing. I had done poems, short stories, one novel and 19 songs to my effective. And this idea of publishing a book at the age of 18. I said, gosh, mentor, to fulfill your life, you have to do five things. And one of which was to publish a book. And so, there I was at the age of 50 basically saying, ah, I still haven't published that bloody book. So, I went off to Croatia and spent a lovely 10 days in Dubrovnik. I wrote 30,000 words. I came back home and I got basically a message that my mother's husband had died. I went to the funeral, at the funeral I chatted with my stepfather's oldest son, there for my stepbrother. And I talked about this research I've been doing in a film I wanted to do about my grandfather. And next thing you know, I get an email from a chapel I'd never heard of before, who was running PBS, the television station in America saying, I love your story. I want to run it on my television station. Well, it's not every day you get a call like that. Steve Rush: True, very true. Minter Dial: So, I shift gears, turn left. And then I got my film, The Last Ring Home, put it on television. And in the same space, I wrote and published my first book, which was about my grandfather, The Last Ring Home. Then I kind of put that to bed, because that had a long lifespan and it involved going to film festivals and lots of speeches with veterans and military organizations around the world, fascinating time. Meanwhile, this book, which was supposed to be my first book really was supposed to be the book of my life, the summer of everything I've ever done. Alright, good. I'll go back to that. So, I went back to it. I went off to Iceland, my wife, let me go to Reykjavik for 10 days to write another 30,000 words. And now I had 60,000 words. I'm like, all right, things are looking good. I come back home and know very shortly after that, I have a chat with a good old friend and he says, I'm so jealous about you. You know, you've written books and I wanted to do one and my parents haven't. Anyway, so his name is Caleb. And I said, well, why don't we write one together? Our next thing you know, I had to drop my ball and I focused on that one and then thus was born, Futureproof. Anyway, finish that. The next thing happens is I'm set to go back to my book, but unfortunately my best friend had died and I felt a need to do some sort of therapy and the therapy through which I did that was to think and focus on empathy. And I quickly whipped out that book, self-published and it was a fun exercise if you will, to consider how to put empathy into business. But for me underneath it was really an a more personal journey in thought of my friend, Phillip, and put that to bed. Gosh, well, what do I do now? Well, of course, I got to go back to my, you know, the book of my life. And that's how I ended up writing You Lead. Steve Rush: Brilliant. It's almost reminiscent of the way your career has panned out almost, and it seems to me Minter, you have this almost, “in the moment”, energy that drags you and draws you to a certain places in time. Is that something that you've noticed over your life and work? Minter Dial: So, I think it's hard for me to imagine that over the 16 years at L'Oréal, because a lot of it is directed, you know. I change countries 50 times, I had nine different roles over 16 years. So, these are opportunities that are presented to me and I jumped on them. So, the first thing I think about is, I try to connect all the weird shit together. What links them all? And it's true that I do have a tendency to want to live in the present. Steve Rush: Right. Minter Dial: And take full advantage of everything comes up. And I have very much that attitude off line, or at least, you know, in real life in my person as I do at work. And I think that perhaps to your point is something that has been a thread throughout everything. Just to really live 110% kind of feeling to every day. And that definitely includes my 800 or 900 hundred concerts I've attended and enjoyed in my life. Steve Rush: And the ironic twist and fate here is that when we first met, it was just as you were going to publish You Lead and the pandemic hit and it kind of put things off a little bit, right? Minter Dial: Oh, yeah. Well, you know, actually that's the last chapter of this chapter, this, you know, never ending story because in fact, I did submit my manuscript to Kogan on the 13th of March, which was essentially two weeks before we went on into wholesale lockdown. And then I got this email saying, we're on furlough, everything's on hold. And I was like, oh my gosh, is this book ever going to make it? And so, a couple of things happened. Well, first of all, the furlough happened and they came out of it. But more importantly, I was as observing society leadership and myself to be exact Steve. Steve Rush: Yeah. Minter Dial: I saw how absolutely bloody relevant the topic was. When you see cats in the background, you know, to, to use an allegory for how your personal life seeped into your new professional life, through Zooms and all that. The idea of being your whole you. Unkempt, unshaven in your own living room or bedroom meant that ipso facto your personal and professional lives were merging. Anyway, that's what that happened there. Steve Rush: I wonder, you know, whether you call it a higher spirit, call it a force of nature, but the timing with irony couldn't have been any better because the whole principle of You Lead, how being yourself makes you a better leader is the focusing on you, the whole you, and it's now given people the opportunity to be that whole you. Tell us a bit about kind of the notion of what that you in the You Lead means for you? Minter Dial: Well so, I have a first point out, which is, this isn't necessarily a book for the CEO of a 10,000-employee company. This is a book for anybody because really, it's about you leading yourself. Steve Rush: Yeah. Minter Dial: And when you lead you, you then can actually model the behavior that you want others to do. You're demonstrating how to do things, but if you don't know how to do it yourself, then how on earth can you tell anyone else to do it? So really, it's all about walking the talk in that capacity. Steve Rush: Yeah. Minter Dial: So, the second thing is, is understanding who you are. So, the way to lead you is actually to lean into understanding yourself, which means being aware of your foibles, your weaknesses, things that pop up, that trigger you. And the more you're aware of all these aspects, the less you're going to have a bloody chip on the shoulder, or some attitude that you don't need to have to put on somebody else. Steve Rush: So, I love the whole notion of, and I've actually said this for many years, leadership is not about the job of work you do. It's a behavior that you have, or you don't have. And it absolutely starts with that. Self-Leadership, doesn't it? Minter Dial: Yeah. I mean, everything has a nuance, Steve. We do need to perform, bring in the results, but how you do things matters deeply. It's generally the desire of everybody to focus on the results because it's rational. It's something you can put on a piece of paper and measure. This other stuff is sort of wifty, wofty almost abstract. How much of you, do you know who you? It's not like you could put down a 79% score. Steve Rush: Right. Minter Dial: All these other softer tissue elements that are messier, but actually once you lean into those things, then you become more complete and you can't just extract the emotions from rationality. We are one and other, your stomach impacts your brain, you know, outside of the story of the second brain, the way you sleep impacts the way you are. So how you operate absolutely will dictate the way you lead? How you are perceived as a leader and how engaged the people that are listening to you are and believe in your way, your authenticity. Steve Rush: Yeah. Minter Dial: It's so linked Steve Rush: Now, you wrap your model of leadership around a model called check. I'd love it, if we could just maybe get into some of the thinking behind the curiosity, the humanity, the empathy, the courage, and the comic? Minter Dial: Yeah, so check. These are five words and like words on a wall. They don't really mean anything until you sort of plow into them. And that the challenge with these words is to understand what they mean and how much you need to change in order to really embrace them in your work life. So, let's say that the beginning step into this check framework, really starts with self-awareness. Because if you don't do that, pre-work the rest is just a yada, yada, yada. Steve Rush: Yeah. Minter Dial: Of course, duh, let's take curiosity, which is the first one. And, oh, well, it's true that in my observation, I had done something like 600 podcasts. One of the things I ask is, you know, who are you in? And so often people will describe themselves as curious. Steve Rush: Yeah. Minter Dial: It's a wonderful trait. I mean, who wouldn't want to be curious? I mean, close minded, that doesn't seem like a good one. Open-Minded seems better. So yeah, I'm really curious. I love learning. Well learning actually, or that curiosity for me is so representative of the child within us, it is what define children. So, hallelujah to curiosity. However, there are a couple of things, first of all, being endlessly curious is a road to nowhere. Because you actually need to shit. So, if you spend your entire day reading, ferreting down rabbit holes and doing all sorts of the great learning, oh, it's so great. But what did you produce? Steve Rush: Yeah, exactly right. Minter Dial: So, curiosity needs, you know, kills the cat because too much curiosity. Steve Rush: Yeah, and without action, of course, it's just knowledge that I own. It only becomes real curiosity when I do something with it and I inspire other to do the same. Minter Dial: Yeah, exactly. So, the second point with curiosity, this is like the thing we need to get real about, is it's not about what you want to learn. It also has to be about what you need to learn. And it's too easy for me to just open up a book about the Grateful Dead, you know, my favorite rock and roll band or paddle tennis, my favorite sports, you know, I just love to learn about that stuff, right. That just passionate, that's endless, but is that what I need to learn today? And so, in the self-awareness. Understand what you are motivated by, what you're passionate about. Love that, however, also consider what you need to learn, get uncomfortable. If you use iPhone, use Android, check it out. How different is it? Because that is and could be how many of your customers are. Steve Rush: Yeah. Minter Dial: You know, if you are dealing, a male a lot of your clients are women. Well then, how are you learning about how women operate? Because it's so easy to think as me, but how do you think as others? Steve Rush: Great tip. Yeah. So, humility is the next one, right? Minter Dial: Yeah, Humility. So, think about humility is, that it's basically something someone says about you, not something that you can necessarily drive. So, you have to be again, self-aware and aware how others perceive you. And there are times when you are humble, and other times that you might come off, especially with other people's perceptions as less humble. So, it's, not an easy trait to drive. You need to understand that some people have different perceptions and you, by the way, come with baggage, you have, whether you like it or not, a label on your forehead, you know, people research where you might've gone to school, what sort of person you are, short hair, long hair, what you wear and all these other perceptions that go into you. And when your leader, people sometimes say, oh, well, you need to be giving all the tips, you need to be given the vision, give me the orders. And that can be easily fallen into for leader and then comes the necessarily big head of like, well, I know everything. I can do everything. The key point here is to move away from that and to think (A) and it's okay not to know everything, my goodness. So, which helps curtail your curiosity streak. I'm not saying stop being curious, but when you have humility, you understand, you can't know everything. Steve Rush: Definitely, so. Minter Dial: We're taught at school to kind of learn everything, sort of a drive, whatever your topic is and so on, and that's great. Yet, we are never as strong as when we have a great network. So, humidity is also about the ability to say help. I need your help. Can you tell me this? And there's no big deal to show you don't know everything. There's nothing worse than a leader who gets asked the question, what should we do sir? And you think you need to give the answer. Well, that's a great question. What do you guys think we need to do? Turn it around. And specifically with regard to humility, believe that others can help you. Everybody has an interesting story, everybody can contribute. It's not necessarily true because some people don't show up and some people, you know, are not as equipped as others. And maybe you didn't ask the right question, but if you go in with that attitude, the chances are, you're going to get a lot of more people around you who want to help you. And humility is the juice that lets that flow. Then comes empathy, and of course we could spend another hour or two on this topic. It being the topic of my last, you know, one before that. Empathy is really a super power, but here's the deal. If you have no self-awareness, you're going to get it wrong. Steve Rush: Yeah. Minter Dial: So, I've done a survey and I've had 10,000 people answer this particular question. To what extent do you believe your empathic? And there are five possible answers. One above average, above average, average, below average and well below average. And do you know that 72% of people believe that they have either well above or above average level of empathy. Steve Rush: That's very interesting, yeah. Minter Dial: Isn't it? So, for the mathematicians or the statisticians out there, we have a problem. Unless of course the other 28% are all well below average and maybe mathematically that works out to have some sort of distribution. However, the point is this, we tend to think we're more empathic than we are perceived to be. Steve Rush: Yeah. Minter Dial: And the reality is that empathy depends on the, again, like humidity on the observer's eyes. Steve Rush: It's quite subjective, Isn't it? Empathy. Minter Dial: Of course. Steve Rush: I can think I am, but I won't really know unless the other people I'm working with or the other person I'm communicating with can let me know. Minter Dial: Right, and the nuance in that, Steve is that empathy is in the eye of the beholder. Yet doesn't necessarily mean a perceptible action. Let me give you an example. You're doing research and development for a product or a service for potential customers. So, you haven't produced a product, but by listening and understanding your customer base, you then develop the better product. That better product, many actions down the road serves or sells well, then you see that your empathy was well instructed and well-informed, you see what I mean? Steve Rush: Yeah. Minter Dial: So, it's not like, oh, Steve, I really understand what you're thinking today and feeling today. And in like of that, this is what I'm going to say or do, and have some action that follows. Then Steve says Minter is being very empathic. It's not necessarily a direct relationship. So, empathy is a skill that you can use. And this is a very important concept inside and outside the organization. In fact, if you want to be empathic and have smart product development, have great customer service, deliver exceptional customer delight, all of that needs empathy. But the key to delivering that empathy will be by being empathic as an organization, within your culture, within your organization. And once you have that coherence and congruency within your team, then you're going to be better able to let's say, quote, unquote, farm out that empathy into all the other touch points with your external stakeholders. Because by the way, sometimes in between you and your customers, you have things called distributors or third-party suppliers, and they too are going to contribute to your customer experience. So, you really need to think of it as an entire system inside out. Steve Rush: And here's the thing. Empathy is actually a learned behavior for most people. And therefore, the more you can live and breathe and demonstrate being empathic, the more likely that people around you are going to notice that and replicate those same behaviors. Minter Dial: Yeah, exactly. I love the way you say that. A learned behavior because in the end of the day, people always ask me, can you teach empathy? And I tend to say, knit, you can't teach empathy. More than you can teach a dead horse to drink. If the horse don't want water, won't take water. And in the case of many people, basically there are many people who empathy challenged. And so, if you want to become empathic, first of all you need to start by understanding how, where you sit on the empathy, truly, because if you think your above average, chances are, you really wanted to learn more, a little light. So, reassess where you sit on the scale and then you can adopt it. And the here's the key other sort of non-obvious concept, which is, it's not about being empathic all the time with everybody in every instance, because that's just like curiosity, that's endless. Because empathy really is all about understanding and just like curiosity, you need to have action after it. You need to do stuff, and so empathy needs to be deployed in certain moments, some more than others. And the idea of the tyranny of empathy is something I fight against because you just can't understand everybody all the time. Otherwise, you might just run yourself ragged and you do need to protect yourself, start with self-empathy. Steve Rush: And in my experience of having coached very senior leaders in lots of different jurisdictions, being empathic is probably the one thing that really shifts the dial more readily than anything else I've experienced. Minter Dial: Hmm. It's a remarkable skill. And, you know, I don't know about you, Steve, but it's been my observation, not just through the pandemic, but well, before that, our deep inability to listen, the number of conversations, I see. Dinner tables, on Zooms, people cutting off others without allowing for the full flow of what's being said to finish. It just demonstrates that we're not in that moment, present enough to be able to listen deeply, whether it's not just the words, but the tambour, the emotions, especially you and I are now speaking through audio. So, it's really from my mouth into a microphone, through the internet, into your earphones and the people who are listening the same idea, and to be able to just seize what's being said, feel what's being said, and that's the skill that really is behind developing that real empathy and not needing to jump to the action right away until the other person's full sack, if you will, has been unloaded. Steve Rush: Yeah. Very wise words Minter. So, the next part of your check model is courage. Tell us a bit about that? Minter Dial: Well, courage is a long one and in today's politically correct world, it actually requires I think, a lot more courage these days to have courage. So, for me, it's one of my core three values personally, to have courage. The courage to stand up for what you believe in. Not only is that important, just from a integrity standpoint, it's actually what helps you stand out as well. So, there's a really pragmatic element to having courage because not having courage is tantamount to seeking to be average. And a lot of things in society tend towards that. I was listening to a podcast the other day, about how, when you teach a monkey to do a really cool trick, like to use stones to break open nuts, when it goes back with an average group of monkeys that don't know how to open that swell, it dummies down and will re-employ old fashioned techniques, which aren't as effective as the ones that it has learned to do, which would equate to a smarter monkey. So, we have lots and lots of reasons and ways to dummy us down. Well, if I say that Steve, I might piss off somebody. Well, so be it, when you build a community, when you build a tribe, it doesn't have to include everybody. Because if you want to please everybody all the time, you are nobody, you have to stand up for something. Steve Rush: Yeah. Minter Dial: And so, the key there is to lean into what you personally stand for, not what you professionally stand for, because this idea of putting it behind a smokescreen of professional and say, oh, I don't personally believe in it. Oh, that's really trustworthy. You get a lot of people who then said, well, I personally believe in the professional, yeah. Steve Rush: Straight away. You can hear the lack of authenticity, can't you? Minter Dial: Exactly. So, courage is a bombshell and it requires a certain amount of understanding that you are going to people off when you have courage and that's okay. You can't be liked by everybody. In my book, I talk a lot about this rock and roll band I followed and they're definitely not for everybody. And so, what? I stand up for this group, just like, I support a football club and I'm sorry if you don't like the same football club, but that's what I do, and it's okay. Well, why don't we have the same attitude when it comes to work? It's not about being unethical. I mean, that is a choice. Steve Rush: Yeah. Minter Dial: But standing up for what you believe. And when you say you believe that it means you believe that is the right way. So, your ethics are intrinsically linked into this courage. You're fighting for what you believe and what you believe is right. And ethics is deeply personal. Steve Rush: It is, yeah. I love that. I'm really intrigued at how karma plays in here. Minter Dial: Right. Well, this is the least obvious and the one you probably don't see so frequently written emblazoned on corporate walls. Steve Rush: In fact, I don't think I have. Minter Dial: It's unlikely. It's unlikely, because the basic premise is give away shit and don't expect in return. And let's say that the misconception is that karma is what goes around. It's a sort of a fatalistic, goes around, comes around. The reality of karma is, it's about two things, intentions and actions. So, the very first point, this word of intentions is super important. And in a world where we tend to deconstruct stuff and decontextualize stuff, I would warn that we really need to get a focus back on intentionality, because just because these words are coming out of my mouth and you take them out of context, well, you can't re attribute a meaning to them. They exist in a context, whether it's historical or a conversation between two people in a certain situation, a certain country and so on and so forth. So, each to understand what your intentions are and dial into those, again, self-awareness. If what you are trying to do and have the courage to stand out for and do actions on that, is impregnated in something that's deeply ethically you and meaningful and purposeful, but you fuck it up when you come to the action, but at least you have integrity and you can look yourself in the mirror. If on the other hand, you are intentions, look like you're giving away shit, but then you're going to deceive them and nail them in the back with a newsletter that you can't unsubscribe so easily. For example, to name a few ideas. Well, that's not good karma. So, karma for me is really about learning how to give away good value without immediately expecting in return. And that's how the chances are. You're going to build up a more trustworthy network and hopefully a long-term relationship. Steve Rush: Yeah. I love the way that you've wrapped karma into something that I would have perhaps called before, thought leadership even, so where I'm giving information or insights to people, and I'm not expecting anything back. And I've had many conversations with my team that says, you know, we're giving insights, we're giving information, we're showing people how to do things, but we're not asking for anything in return because that would be then marketing. And what you've just described is something fairly similar. Minter Dial: Exactly. I mean, we were brought up with this, know it, all attitude, you know, build up information, information is king, and I'll keep it to my chest and this idea to have the humility and generosity to give away things that is valuable to your customer is absolutely the new form of marketing in my mind. Steve Rush: Hmm, yeah. Really powerful model. Love it. Now time is moving on. So, I want to hack into that great mind of yours some more. So, this is where I'm going to ask you to distill all of the years of experience you've had in very different environments and to try and fine tune those down to your top three leadership hacks Minter, what would they be? Minter Dial: Well, we kind of touched on the first one at the very beginning, which is be present. You know, as much as leadership is about vision and the future and all these other things. Learning to listen is the juice with him being present. When you can solidly focus on the exact moments that are going along, which include, feeling my own heartbeat, hearing my own breathing and hearing within you on the other side, whomever you with, whomever you're dealing with. What's going on in their heart rate? Their words, their emotions. And so that is the first one being present. And so, my little hack for that has been for the last seven years or so to do 10 minutes of guided meditation every morning. And I use a wonderful New Zealand woman called Monique Rhodes, R-H-O-D-E-S, who does a 10-minute mind mindfulness. And she's amazing musician by the way, and a lovely voice which counts. And she helps spring me into me and help me be present all day long. Steve Rush: Awesome. I will be tuning into that. I do exactly the same thing every day. I have a 10, 10, 10 philosophy, which follows a similar principle. Minter Dial: What is your 10 and 10? Steve Rush: My other 10 is 10 minutes of yoga and stretching. 10 minutes of meditation. And then 10 minutes of journaling. Minter Dial: Lovely. Well, I do the stretching as well, I should say Steve Rush: It's just a great way to be present and to be thoughtful about, you know, and I don't check my emails. I don't do any work before that. That's kind of to the priority. Minter Dial: I love it. So, my second hack is about time and it's unbelievable how I get triggered when I hear somebody say, I don't have time. No, you chose to spend your time differently. And so, you really need to master your time. And so, here's the hack. Consider in your role, how much of your day do you need to keep free? And for absolutely everybody, there are three things that you need to keep free. Time for you, time for others that matter and time for serendipity. You can't plan serendipity, but if you have no time for it, you're sure shit won't have it. So, these three things you block off and then the fourth one is really according to much more your position on what you need to do. So, when I was a CEO or Managing Director, I considered that I needed to have 50% of my day free. So that 50% accommodated my other three ideas that I just mentioned, but also the time to do strategic thought, there's no way you can be strategic if you're constantly being interrupted. So, I blocked off meetings, I blocked off, I closed my door and I allowed within the 50% free of my day opportunities to do deep thought and come up with some strategic ideas. And sometimes I've included having a deep conversation with somebody, right, but you know, sometimes a little bit, not planned in some ways, just sit down, listen to others and have deep expected conversations. It can also be informal because that's also good for, or nurturing stronger relationships and friendships an so on. But anyway, so as a head of a company, you need to look at your agenda and to see if you can carve out 50% of your day to not have meetings. I would encourage, I would implore you to think that way. Because that's going to give you the time to do all four actions. If you don't have that. And you're living back-to-back in meetings, good luck. The third and last one. It maybe not quite as obvious, but it's gets connected. As leaders, one of the issues is, it's very easy to be isolated all the more so when you're living in a lockdown, of course. Steve Rush: Agree. Minter Dial: And getting connected has so many benefits. So, we talked about being mindful, get connected with you, your breathing, your body with stretching, but get connected with people because we are social animals. So even if you're locked down, there are ways to connect with new people. Every day I've been doing that, I call it my green meeting. So, every day in my calendar, I'm very color-coded. I have my green meeting and my green meeting is, I'm meeting, somebody new. And I go into that very much comically with no agenda. I'm just there to listen to get to know somebody else's story. And so, getting connected to people is one of the types of connections you can. So, getting connected to strangers, get connected to someone you haven't spoken to a long time, a friend from school, you said, oh, I really liked him or her. Oh, it'd be cool if I, oh, I wonder where they are. Send a message to your spouse or someone important in your family and say, Hey, thank you. Thank you for doing what you do and who you are. There are so many ways to get connected because that is for me, how to tap into your extra energy is, in today's world. If there's one thing that is sorely depleted along with of course, empathy, deficits, and a few other things, including financial deficits is an energy deficit and finding ways to get connected into nature. Put your hands in the dirt, my goodness. Look up and see if the stars at night. That connected and find out how small you are in the universe to understand what's important and what matters in life. Those are my three hacks, Steve. Steve Rush: Love them. Thank you so much for sharing them. The next part of the show, our listeners have become affectionately familiar with, we call Hack to Attack. So, this is where something is screwed up in our life or work. But now we use it positively. What would be your Hack to Attack? Minter Dial: Well, Steve, at some level, I kind of think of myself as a storyteller and funnily enough, my biggest failures have ended up being some of the best material for my storytelling. So, while I had heartache, crying and the feds busting down my door. This has created wonderful stories for the future. I mean, the biggest lessons I learned in the two startups that I flamingly failed was finding the right partners. We had great ideas, good execution, but in both cases that happened before I went to business school, the failure was deeply linked to not having the right partners, which means that I didn't have the right partners for me because having somebody who's like me is the wrong partner. Steve Rush: Right. Minter Dial: So that was the lesson learned. And the, you know, having the feds bust down my door has been an opportunity to tell stories at many dinner tables throughout my life. Steve Rush: Exactly. Minter Dial: There you go. Steve Rush: And if you look at any great movie and stories, there's always adversity that can trigger the hero opportunity the outcome, right? Minter Dial: Oh yeah. Well, I don't know how heroic my outcomes were, but they certainly, I mean, I really, I now embrace the journey that I went on. I mean, outside of getting the chance to hang out with, but really, you know, at some level, hanging out with the music world, not necessarily all the biggest stars, but we had Sting and Madonna as clients. So, it was a, you know, an exceptional opportunity to do things which are different and not just do run of the mill shit, which I was unfortunately can be part of everyone's day. Steve Rush: Yeah, and loads of great stories I should imagine. Minter Dial: Oh my gosh. Steve Rush: Obviously, we are going to have a version two in the future Minter. So then last thing we want to do with you today is to do a bit of time travel, give you the chance to go all the way back and bump into Minter at 21 and give them some advice. What would your advice to him be? Minter Dial: Well, first of all, it made me think or makes me think that I'd rather be 21 again, anyway. I always feel like I'm a little child somehow within me and my mum, who's 82 years old. She writes at the end of her email, I'm an 80-year-old running around with a 20-year-old mind saying where did my life go? So yeah, when I was 18, I had these five ideas, which I wanted to, which I thought would be the fulfillment of my life. And I kind of sort of pushed them off. So, as long as I do them in my life. And, so my inclination would have been to have pushed quicker earlier and specifically on one, which was get published earlier. One of my five was to publish a book. And if I had that gumption to write and publish earlier, I think that would have sent me on another path because the very act of writing has been always very therapeutic for me, publishing it makes you, I feel for me, it's helped me to become more me because if I'm putting it out in the world, I don't want it to be shit. Also, I don't want it to be wrong about me. It's got to be well thought through. So, to take an example, writing a book about empathy. So, I've written a book about empathy, in the process I learned so much because my friend Phillipe killed himself and I really was pondering, how empathic am I and how could I become more empathic? So, I lend into that idea to figure out how I could be more empathic, studied it, what people say or what the errors one makes when we think about that and so on and so forth. So, the idea of publishing earlier, really, it's not about making or suggesting that everyone else should publish earlier. It was more about being quicker to seize what was important to me and learn and lean into being earlier quicker. Steve Rush: Great advice. So finally, I guess, folks who are listening to you and I talk thinking, how can I find out what Minter does? Where can I find some of these workbooks, information films, where's the best place for us to send them? Minter Dial: Well, first of all, they're probably saying, oh my God, thank God it's finished. I've had enough of this already. I've got other shit to do then just to follow on this guy, but should you be interested? Google and my parents gave me a weird enough name. I'm easily Find-Able thanks to that little search engine and others, of course, minterdial.com is where I write a lot. I post my podcast, which has been going on for 12 years. You can find a tab to all my books, my speaking engagements. In other social media, I have a YouTube channel under my name and on a lot of social. My handle is mdial, M-D-I-A-L, and my book about and film about the second world war documentary is called thelastringhome.com, and you can find links that or valuable there. Hey, Steve, thank you so much for having me on and thanks for asking me. Steve Rush: Minter It's been delightful. Always loved chatting to you. You're such an inspirational guy, and I always get a different perspective from you, each time we speak. So, I just want to say thank you for becoming part of our community on The Leadership Hacker Podcast. Minter Dial: Hack away, Steve. Steve Rush: Thanks, Minter, take care.   Closing   Steve Rush: I genuinely want to say heartfelt thanks for taking time out of your day to listen in too. We do this in the service of helping others, and spreading the word of leadership. Without you listening in, there would be no show. So please subscribe now if you have not done so already. Share this podcast with your communities, network, and help us develop a community and a tribe of leadership hackers.   Finally, if you would like me to work with your senior team, your leadership community, keynote an event, or you would like to sponsor an episode. Please connect with us, by our social media. And you can do that by following and liking our pages on Twitter and Facebook our handler their @leadershiphacker. Instagram you can find us there @the_leadership_hacker and at YouTube, we are just Leadership Hacker, so that is me signing off. I am Steve Rush and I have been the leadership hacker.

Welcome to episode #773 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #773 - Host: Mitch Joel. After a long and successful career at L’Oréal, Minter Dial returned to his entrepreneurial roots to become an author, consultant and speaker. Minter has spent over a decade helping senior management teams and boards to adapt to the new exigencies of the digitally enhanced marketplace. Minter’s focus is on brand strategies, technology integration and digital tools. He is the author of five books, producer of one award-winning documentary film, as well as numerous white papers, eBooks and contributions to countless media outlets. Minter’s newest book is You Lead - How Being Yourself Makes You A Better Leader. In 2016, Minter wrote and produced the award-winning book and documentary, The Last Ring Home. It’s a moving personal story that returns our focus on the important values of love, courage and honor. The film has won ten prizes. Minter is a true renaissance man with a penchant for making business better. Now, we discuss how to stand for something, radiate your purpose, and lead by example. Enjoy the conversation… Running time: 54:55. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at Apple Podcasts. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with Minter Dial. You Lead - How Being Yourself Makes You A Better Leader. The Last Ring Home. Follow Minter on LinkedIn. Follow Minter on Instagram. Follow Minter on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

On this episode of VistaTalks, host Simon Hodgkins is in discussion with Speaker, Connector and Elevator, Minter Dial. Minter is a professional speaker and multiple award-winning author, specializing in leadership, branding and transformation. An agent of change, he's a three-time entrepreneur who has exercised twelve different métiers and moved country fifteen times. Minter's core career stint of 16 years was spent as a top executive at L’Oréal, where he was a member of the worldwide Executive Committee for the Professional Products Division. He is the author of the award-winning WWII story, The Last Ring Home (documentary film and biographical book, 2016) as well as two prize-winning business books, Futureproof (2017) and Heartificial Empathy (2019). His latest book on leadership, You Lead, How being yourself makes you a better leader (Kogan Page) came out in January 2021. He’s been the host of the Minter Dialogue weekly podcast since 2010. He is passionate about the Grateful Dead, Padel Tennis, languages and generating meaningful conversations. #VistaTalks #Podcast

This is the twenty third episode of the Tiger Heart Chats podcast featuring Tiger Heart CEO Sanj Surati and creator of You Lead, Minter Dial recorded on Wednesday 24th February 2021. Minter is an international professional speaker, elevator and a multiple award-winning author, who specialises in leadership, branding and transformation. On this podcast Minter talks about his experience working for L'Oréal, developing You Lead and writing and producing a remarkable film called “The Last Ring Home”. Some of the topics raised include: TennisZooAquariumInvestment Banking You Lead - https://minterdial.com/you-leadSolving corporate problems LeadershipEntrepreneurL'Oréal - https://www.loreal.com/en/Redken - https://www.redken.comHaivision - https://www.haivision.comAviation Medical Branding Miroslav Wicha - https://www.linkedin.com/in/miroslav-mirko-wicha-816585/CovidConsultancy Speaker Zoom - https://zoom.usStand-up comedy Yale University - https://www.yale.eduWomen's Studies Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette - https://bit.ly/30c1GfpInsead - https://www.insead.eduThe green person strategy Chris Voss - https://twitter.com/VossNegotiationBlack Swan Limited - https://www.blackswanltd.com/homeEmpathy Developmental MarketingEcommerce Comedy The Last Ring Home - http://www.thelastringhome.comWorld War 2 Prisoner of war Samurai SwordTorture Feature film making Irish pub PBS – https://www.pbs.orgTom Hanks Bookshop.org Places:AmericaLondonCanada China Belgium Paris New HavenWashington DC France New York JapanManhattan Advice:Be a leader of youUnderstand the nuances of your clients Inject spirit into your teams Try to elevate the debate Learn to listen profoundly Focus on how to understandDevelop trust Figure out how to distinguish yourself Be authentic Investigate who you areAllow yourself to be a fuller version of yourself Find out who you want to beMinter Dial Links:https://www.Minterdial.comhttps://www.twitter.com/mdialhttps://www.instagram.com/mdialSanj Surati & Tiger Heart: https://www.twitter.com/tigerhearttech/https://www.instagram.com/tigerhearttech/ https://www.twitter.com/sanjsurati/ https://www.instagram.com/artistryinsentiment/You can listen to the Podcast on the following links: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tiger-heart-chats/id1507957892?uo=4 Google: https://bit.ly/2znRXIKDeezer: https://www.deezer.com/show/1048492Spreaker: https://www.spreaker.com/show/tiger-heart-chatsCastbox: https://castbox.fm/channel/id2779314Podcast Addict: https://podplayer.net/?podId=2855948Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/tiger-heart-chats-1112186JioSaavn: https://www.jiosaavn.com/shows/Tiger-Heart-Chats/1/TJgps4JXdps_Don't forget to share: #tigerheartchats https://www.tigerheartlondon.comTiger Heart is an innovation agency that specialises in emerging technologies set up by Digital Atelier Sanj Surati. Sanj is an award winning multi-disciplined Digital Atelier with over twenty years of experience within the music, fashion and luxury industries. London-based Sanj has been working within digital and technology since 1998. He has seen the cultural shift in human habit and behaviour as we all evolve into digital consumers. Some of his successes have been burgeoning, ground breaking and, more importantly, culturally relevant.

Minter Dial is a seasoned exeutive, speaker and author on leadership. In this conversation we "go cosmic" in a conversation about leadership as energy, the power of language and the spaces between words, how grounding into youself as a leader can help you better serve others, and how to cultivate meaningfulness on a daily basis.Minter Dial is a professional speaker, storyteller, author, and elevator, specialized in leadership, branding, and transformation. Minter has given over 500 talks and seminars to audiences in six continents. He is the author of three award-winning books, Heartificial Empathy (2019), Futureproof (2017), and The Last Ring Home (2016), the latter of which he turned into an award-winning documentary film shown on PBS (US) and History Channel (A/NZ). His newest book on leadership, published by Kogan Page, is You Lead, How Being Yourself Makes You A Better Leader (2021), which hit #1 on the hot new releases. Previously, he enjoyed a 16-year international career at L'Oreal, including being Managing Director Worldwide of Redken, MD of the Canadian subsidiary of the Professional Products Division (PPD) and on the Executive Committee worldwide of the PPD. He's a renowned blogger and podcaster and is passionate about the Grateful Dead, Padel Tennis, and languages.

Minter Dial is an international professional and energetic speaker and a multiple award-winning author, specialised in leadership, branding and transformation. An agent of change, he's a three-time entrepreneur who has exercised twelve different métiers and changed country fifteen times. Minter's core career stint of 16 years was spent as a top executive at L'Oréal, where he was a member of the worldwide Executive Committee for the Professional Products Division. He's author of the award-winning WWII story, The Last Ring Home (documentary film and biographical book, 2016) as well as two prize-winning business books, Futureproof (2017) and Heartificial Empathy (2019).  His next book on leadership, You Lead, How being yourself makes you a better leader (Kogan Page) comes out in January 2021. He's been host of the Minter Dialogue weekly podcast since 2010. He is passionate about the Grateful Dead, Padel Tennis, languages and generating meaningful conversations. What we'll be discussing today: Transparency on a personal and business level Authenticity in Business What is Minter working on at the moment? I am passionate about bringing about change for the better through business and leadership. The premise of my new (4th) book, You Lead, How Being Yourself Makes You A Better Leader (Kogan Page), is for leaders to be more human and fulfilled, all the while delivering on results. It's largely based on my practical experience, including running Redken worldwide (part of L'Oreal) as well as being a lifelong and dedicated groupie of an epic rock'n'roll band.  Look out for Minters new book You Lead officially released on January 3.   How to get hold of Minter: https://twitter.com/mdial  https://www.linkedin.com/in/minterdial  https://www.facebook.com/minterdial  https://instagram.com/mdial His websites: https://MinterDial.com & https://MinterDial.fr  (all in French) A Bit about Fearless Business: Join our amazing community of Coaches, Consultants and Freelancers on Facebook: >> https://facebook.com/groups/ChargeMore And check out the Fearless Business website: >> https://fearless.biz

Minter Dial is an international professional and energetic speaker and a multiple award-winning author, specialised in leadership, branding and transformation. An agent of change, he's a three-time entrepreneur who has exercised twelve different métiers and changed country fifteen times. Minter's core career stint of 16 years was spent as a top executive at L'Oréal, where he was a member of the worldwide Executive Committee for the Professional Products Division. He's author of the award-winning WWII story, The Last Ring Home (documentary film and biographical book, 2016) as well as two prize-winning business books, Futureproof (2017) and Heartificial Empathy (2019). His next book on leadership, You Lead, How being yourself makes you a better leader (Kogan Page) comes out in January 2021. He's been host of the Minter Dialogue weekly podcast since 2010. He is passionate about the Grateful Dead, Padel Tennis, languages and generating meaningful conversations. @mdial / minterdial.com    His new book, You Lead, How Being Yourself Makes You A Better Leader (by Kogan Page), which launches Jan 3, is available at all fine etailers. Support this podcast

Interesting conversation with Minter Dial about how to be a great leader, and why he decided to write his next book about this concept. More about Minter on his website here https://www.minterdial.com/ and in his words -> I'm Minter Dial and I serve my clients by elevating the energy and connecting people and ideas. I relish being an engaging professional speaker on leadership, transformation and branding with a specialization in digital transformation since 2009. I'm known for being someone who walks the talk and delivers on or above expectations. I'm the author of three award-winning books, including my latest book Heartificial Empathy, Putting Heart into Business and Artificial Intelligence that won the Book Excellence Award 2019 and was shortlisted for the Business Book Awards 2019. My next book on leadership, You Lead, How Being Yourself Makes You A Better Leader, published by Kogan Page, comes out January 2021. I'm also the producer of the award-winning book and film The Last Ring Home and co-author of Futureproof that won the Business Book Award 2018.

Based in London, Minter Dial is a Franco-American professional speaker and a multiple award-winning author, specialised in leadership, branding and transformation. An agent of change, he's a three-time entrepreneur who has exercised twelve different métiers and changed country fifteen times. Minter's core career stint of 16 years was spent as a top executive at L'Oréal, where, in his last position, he was a member of the worldwide Executive Committee for the Professional Products Division. He's author of two prize-winning business books, Futureproof (2017) and Heartificial Empathy (2019). His next book on leadership, You Lead, How being yourself makes you a better leader (Kogan Page) comes out January 3, 2021. For the history buffs among you, he's also the author of the book and producer of the award-winning WWII film, The Last Ring Home, that ran on History Channel in ANZ and PBS in North America. He is passionate about the Grateful Dead, Padel Tennis, languages and generating meaningful conversations. Connect with Minter: www.minterdial.com https://www.twitter.com/mdial https://www.facebook.com/minterdial https://www.instagram.com/mdial WeChat @mdial64

The Japanese Empire. Ruled 1/5th Of the World during World War 2. The Asian pacific War is mostly known for The Battle of Midway and Pearl Harbor. But today we go in debt on the Battle in Philipines. What was it like during the Japanese ocupation? Find out this and more during the epic story of the Battle of The Philipines, on "Well That Aged Well" With "Erlend Hedegart"Minter Dials documentary can be found on Youtube and it is called: The Last Ring Home https://youtu.be/o4o1DPHrfF8. Minter Dials website http://www.minterdial.com/ Here you can buy his book on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Minter-Dial/e/B0753G7NCF/ Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/well-that-aged-well. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/well-that-aged-well. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

One of Minter Dial's works is the award-winning documentary film and book that he produced and wrote, “The Last Ring Home”. It's the story of Minter's grandfather's missing ring, which miraculously made its way home 17 years after he was killed in World War II as a Japanese prisoner of war.

Minter Dial is a storyteller, filmmaker  (The Last Ring Home trailer below), two-time author and an international professional speaker. Founder of The Myndset Co. and then of the DigitalProof Consultancy, Minter speaks and consults on Branding, New Tech and Digital Transformation, working with major global brands, such as Samsung, Kering and Tencent and more. Prior to setting up his own ventures, Minter led a 16-year international career with the L'Oréal Group - including 9 different assignments in France, England, USA and Canada. Among these, Minter was managing director Worldwide of REDKEN, then of the Professional Division for the Canadian subsidiary. In his final position at L'Oreal, he was a member of the Executive Committee worldwide, in charge of eBusiness, Business Development and Education. Happy to have Minter on to discuss his journey and his latest book, Heartificial Empathy, Putting Heart into Business and Artificial Intelligence which Minter masterfully makes the case for why empathy is not only teachable but a requirement for success in business and in life. Sponsor/Partnership Blooom – Your 401k could earn more. Take a minute to link up your 401k to and maximize your investments. For $10/ month, we manage your nest egg so you can enjoy life.

Welcome to episode #596 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast.  Here it is: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast - Episode #596 - Host: Mitch Joel. Back in early 2002, when I first got started in this agency business, I was networking as much as possible. One of the first major local executives that I met was Minter Dial. A man with an international reputation who was senior leadership at L'Oreal. We became friends, but Minter moved on. I believe that Minter and I bonded so well, because we were both interested in very divergent cultural spaces, while developing very corporate lives at the same time. To give you some context, Minter Dial is an American, with French citizenship, born in Belgium, educated in England, living in France and married with two children. He is the author and producer of the award-winning documentary film and book, The Last Ring Home. A personal and moving story that traces the lives of his grandfather and grandmother through WWII. The film, which has won multiple awards, including Best Foreign Film, Best Documentary and Best Screenplay, was shown on PBS in May of this year. On the professional front - after a 16-year international career with the L'Oréal Group -- including nine assignments in France, UK, USA and Canada -- Minter launched The Myndset Company, a boutique agency providing business speaking and consultancy on leadership, branding and digital strategy. Most recently, Minter co-authored (with Caleb Storkey), Futureproof - How to get your business ready for the next disruption. The book explores the three core mindsets and twelve disruptive technologies that brands must have to grow and succeed... and to get ready for the next disruption. Enjoy the conversation...    Running time: 49:33. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on twitter. Six Pixels of Separation the book is now available. CTRL ALT Delete is now available too! Here is my conversation with Minter Dial. Futureproof - How to get your business ready for the next disruption. The Myndset Company. The Last Ring Home. Follow Minter on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'. Download the Podcast here: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast - Episode #596 - Host: Mitch Joel. Tags: advertising advertising agency advertising podcast brand branding business blog business podcast business speaking caleb storkey culture digital marketing digital marketing agency digital marketing blog digital marketing podcast digital strategy disruption disruptive technology documentary future proof futureproof innovation j walter thompson jwt leadership leadership podcast loreal management podcast marketing marketing agency marketing blog marketing podcast minter dial mirum mirum agency mirum agency blog mirum blog mirum canada mirum in canada mitch joel mitchjoel pbs podcast six pixels of separation speaking technology the last ring home the myndset company wpp

David Yakir Interviews Minter Dial on his documentary, “The Last Ring Home” The Project to Bring the Ring Home The Last Ring Home is the story of Lt Minter Dial's Annapolis Naval Academy ring, that miraculously made its way home 17 years after he was killed as a POW of the Japanese in WWII. The Last Ring Home is a tribute to Lt Dial, the producer's grandfather, and all members of the Greatest Generation. It is also a journey of self-discovery, having an impact on the filmmaker, his wider family and many other people in its wake. This story, which took over 25 years of research, illustrates the importance of serendipity and the role of good and bad luck in piecing together a personal historyYak On!