Minter Dial is a professional speaker, emcee (MC), storyteller, author and consultant, specialised in leadership, branding and transformation who has given over 550 talks and seminars to audiences in six continents.
He is the author of four award-winning books, 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). His newest book, Heartificial Empathy, Putting Heart into Business and Artificial Intelligence (2023), now in its second edition, won the Book Excellence Award 2019 in the category of Technology and was finalist for the Business Book Awards 2019.
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 and podcaster and is passionate about the Grateful Dead, padel tennis and languages.
Minter received his BA in Trilingual Literature from Yale University (1987) and gained his MBA at INSEAD, Fontainebleau (1993).
Minter is a Board member of the ECV School (Paris) and GTA Future of Work (London), and previously served as NED Board Member of Lastminute.com (Amsterdam) and SBT-Human(s) Matter (Paris).