Minter Dial
Minter Dial is a global keynote speaker, author, and thought leader on leadership, empathy, and the human side of technology.
Why book Minter Dial for your next event
- Draws on 16 years of executive experience at L’Oréal to deliver powerful leadership insights.
- Blends business expertise with emotional intelligence and AI understanding.
- Award-winning author who challenges audiences to lead with purpose and humanity.
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Inspiring speaker on leadership, empathy, and the future of business.
Minter Dial is an internationally recognized keynote speaker, author, and entrepreneur who helps organizations and leaders navigate transformation with heart and purpose. With 16 years as a top executive at L’Oréal and a seat on the Worldwide Executive Committee for the Professional Products Division, he brings deep business acumen and leadership insight to every stage. Minter is also a multiple award-winning author and the creator of the PBS documentary The Last Ring Home. His talks inspire audiences to connect leadership, empathy, and technology for a more human future.
About Minter Dial
Minter Dial is an international keynote speaker, storyteller, and award-winning author dedicated to helping leaders and organizations thrive in an ever-changing world. His career began at L’Oréal, where he spent 16 years in leadership roles and ultimately served on the Executive Committee Worldwide of the Professional Products Division. This experience shaped his deep understanding of leadership, brand strategy, and human motivation, elements that today form the backbone of his inspiring talks.
Beyond corporate success, Minter’s passion for storytelling and connection has taken him in many directions. He wrote and produced the PBS documentary The Last Ring Home, a deeply personal World War II story that reveals his ability to combine emotion, purpose, and narrative in powerful ways.
Award-Winning Author and Thought Leader
Minter Dial has authored six books, including three award-winning titles that explore the intersection of leadership, empathy, and technology. Futureproof encourages leaders to embrace adaptability and human connection in a rapidly evolving digital world. You Lead explores how authenticity and empathy can redefine leadership for the modern age. Heartificial Empathy: Putting Heart into Business and Artificial Intelligence (DigitalProof Press, 2023) examines how empathy can and must coexist with AI and automation in the workplace.
Through these works, Minter has earned a reputation as a thought leader who bridges the gap between human values and technological advancement. His approach is both intellectually rigorous and deeply human, inviting audiences to question not just how they lead, but why they lead.
Speaking Topics and Impact
As a professional keynote speaker, Minter Dial brings energy, warmth, and depth to every event. His keynotes often revolve around themes such as:
Empathy and leadership: How to lead with compassion in the digital age.
The future of work: Adapting to change while preserving human connection.
Artificial intelligence and ethics: Integrating technology without losing humanity.
Purpose-driven business: Building cultures that inspire loyalty and innovation.
Minter’s talks are interactive, reflective, and highly actionable. He challenges audiences to think differently — not only about business, but about themselves as leaders and humans. His unique blend of corporate insight, academic rigor, and emotional intelligence leaves a lasting impact on organizations across industries.
From Boardroom to Stage
Minter’s 16-year tenure at L’Oréal gave him first-hand experience with leading teams, managing transformation, and driving innovation in a global organization. This corporate foundation allows him to connect deeply with executive audiences who face the realities of business change, competition, and cultural evolution. He weaves together stories from the corporate world with lessons from his research and personal journey, creating talks that resonate across levels of leadership.
Book Minter Dial for Your Event
Booking Minter Dial means inviting a speaker who delivers more than insights, he delivers transformation. With his combination of business acumen, emotional intelligence, and global perspective, Minter inspires leaders to create more human organizations in a digital age. Whether speaking to executives, entrepreneurs, or innovators, he leaves audiences with a renewed sense of purpose and a clear path toward leading with empathy and vision.
Keynotes
Keynote by Minter Dial:
How to Create a More Empathic Culture
Many if not most companies working on digital transformation are failing. The reasons are multiple, but without the superpower of empathy, efforts to transform and create genuine customer centricity are bound to falter if not fail. In this speech, Minter looks at why empathy is such an important leadership skill in today’s world. He explores ways for a company to embed empathy into its culture and processes in order to improve employee engagement, innovation and customer satisfaction. Minter is also fascinated by the options and opportunities to encode empathy into artificial intelligence, such as with humanoid robots, chatbots and voice-activated speakers.
Key takeaways:
- Understand why empathy is going to be central to your transformation
- Discover concrete ways to embed empathy into your leadership and organisation
- Learn where empathy can help solve some of your big strategic issues
Keynote by Minter Dial:
Encoding Empathy into Business and Artificial Intelligence
As companies look to boost their business with Artificial Intelligence initiatives, many of these projects are bound to fail, with some evoking the possibility of yet another AI winter: much talk, but little concrete progress. There are undoubtedly many legitimate opportunities where AI can help drive the business, but leaders are often unwittingly setting expectations too high and/or not applying the correct resources. The ways that AI are being used in business, whether in the back end (e..g logistics, data analytics, operations, employee engagement…) or at the front end (e.g. chatbots, content creation and distribution, HR recruitment…), each require special skillsets and multi-disciplinary teams. In this speech, Minter looks at how and why you should flex your empathic muscle and how to encode empathy into your AI projects.
Key takeaways:
- Explore the latest Artificial Intelligence trends and recent examples of how companies are using AI (and empathy) to drive their business
- Understand the keys to implementing AI in your business
- Appreciate better the role of empathy in AI and how to flex your organization’s empathic muscle
- Explore the options and challenges of actually encoding empathy into AI
Keynote by Minter Dial:
Making A Great Story
What makes for a great story? In this speech, largely based around his personal story, The Last Ring Home, Minter looks at the art of storytelling in a digitally enhanced world. Taking advantage of certain technologies and using a portfolio of storytelling techniques, Minter has crafted well over a dozen versions of the story using 8 different media. What are the strengths and weaknesses of each media? Do different mediums evoke different emotions or experiences? How to optimize your story for a given audience on a given platform? How best to get your story out there. Using snippets and concrete examples, Minter presents the options and challenges of using different media.
Key takeaways:
- Understand the key elements of a great story
- Open your mind to the range of possibilities of forms and formats
- Learn from real life experience, how to adapt to a specific media or repurpose your story across different channels
- Improve your content distribution
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