Minter Dial

Minter Dial is a professional speaker - online and offline storyteller, author and consultant, specialised in leadership, branding and transformation. Dial has given over 550 talks and seminars to audiences in six continents.

He is the author of four award-winning books, Heartificial Empathy, Putting Heart into Business and Artificial Intelligence (2023), You Lead (2021), 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). Two of his books, You Lead and Futureproof, won prestigious Business Book Awards. His latest book, Heartificial Empathy, is on topic given the changes in work conditions, the stress and mental health challenges and the massive step changes in artificial intelligence.

Previously, he enjoyed a 16-year international career at L'Oréal, 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 also worked at the DLJ Investment bank, the Philadelphia Zoo, the NJ State Aquarium and has founded three startups. He's a renowned blogger, frequently cited as top influencer worldwide in marketing, and podcaster and is passionate about the Grateful Dead, padel tennis and languages.

Dial received his BA in Trilingual Literature from Yale University (1987) and gained his MBA at INSEAD, Fontainebleau (1993).

Dial is a Board member of the ECV Digital School (Paris) and the Global Tech Advocates Future of Work, and previously served as NED Board Member of Lastminute.com (Amsterdam) and SBT Inc. (Lyon).