Minter Dial
Minter Dial is an author, speaker, and entrepreneur whose work explores the evolving landscape of leadership, branding, digital transformation, and personal authenticity. With a career that has spanned corporate executive roles, startups, filmmaking, and writing, Dial brings an unusually broad perspective to his work — combining deep commercial experience with genuine philosophical curiosity about what it means to lead with integrity in a rapidly changing world.
Dial spent over a decade as a senior executive at L’Oréal, eventually rising to the position of President and General Manager of the company’s professional products division. That experience gave him a global vantage point on brand building, organizational culture, and the human dimensions of corporate leadership. After leaving L’Oréal, he founded the Myndset Company, a consulting firm focused on digital transformation and brand strategy, and has since worked with organizations across Europe and North America.
His book Dare to Be Naive: Lessons from the Battlefield is part leadership reflection, part family history — woven together with a remarkable personal story. The title speaks to Dial’s conviction that some of the most important qualities in leadership — openness, curiosity, vulnerability, a willingness to not already know the answer — are precisely the qualities that professional culture most often trains out of people. The book uses the story of his grandfather, a World War II veteran, as a lens through which to explore questions of courage, values, and authentic identity.
Dial has spoken at events and conferences worldwide on topics ranging from the future of leadership and branding to digital ethics and customer experience. His podcast, The Minter Dial Show, has featured conversations with hundreds of thought leaders across business, technology, and culture. He is also the director and producer of the documentary Heartificial Empathy, which explores the human dimensions of artificial intelligence.
What distinguishes Dial’s contribution to the leadership conversation is his insistence on integrating the personal with the professional — his own story of identity, inheritance, and moral clarity runs through his work and gives it a depth that purely strategic leadership content rarely achieves. He writes and speaks as someone genuinely grappling with the questions he poses, and that authenticity resonates with readers and audiences navigating their own uncertainties about who they are and how they want to lead.