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FEATURING LANCE MORTLOCK
Check out the latest press, videos and podcasts featuring Lance on a variety of topical business and industry trends in the market.
LATEST PRESS
August
2024
Chief Executive Magazine
As companies face the need to transform frequently, having the right kind of leader becomes even more critical for success....
July
2024
Chief Executive Magazine
I recently had the opportunity to attend the Fraser Institute’s 50th-year celebration event, and during the evening, I connected with Stephen Harper, former Prime Minister of Canada. As I reflected on our conversation, his time in office and listened to his Q&A dialogue on stage with the CEO....
June
2024
Canadian Mining Magazine
The race for global LNG dominance is ongoing, with fierce competition. The global landscape of natural gas consumption has experienced a significant transformation in the last few years, marked by a remarkable surge in demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG)....
May
2024
The Globe And Mail
The path forward for Canada's LNG industry is clear: We must act now. This is not a call for reckless haste, but for strategic urgency. By increasing capacity, streamlining approvals and forging effective partnerships, Canada can secure its position as a global LNG leader....
May
2024
Calgary Herald
Megaproject to reset the landscape for Canada's oil and gas sector by opening up the country’s ability to export energy to the world....
May
2024
Business in Vancouver
The race is on to supply the world with natural gas, but despite having an abundance of it, Canada is squandering its chances to be a major supplier through LNG exports. That is one of the messages Lance Mortlock, managing partner of energy and mining in Canada for EY, has for Canadians....
February
2024
Canadian Mining Magazine
Future success depends on how effectively energy and resource-based organizations reevaluate environmental and social impacts here and now. The way organizations approach this process will have a tremendous impact on long-term results....
February
2024
Chief Executive Magazine
Future success depends on how effectively energy and resource-based organizations reevaluate environmental and social impacts here and now. The way organizations approach this process will have a tremendous impact on long-term results....
January
2024
CEO World Magazine
According to the International Monetary Fund, global recovery remains subdued, with growing regional divergences and little room for economic policy mishaps. The baseline forecast expects global growth to slow from 3.5 percent in 2022 to 3.0 percent in 2023 and 2.9 percent in 2024....
October
2023
Chief Executive
Strategy execution success is driven by top-line and bottom-line growth. By optimizing their portfolio, companies can maximize ROI, reduce risk and ensure that resources are used effectively and efficiently....
August
2023
Take-It-Personel-ly
If your dreams don’t require a team, they are too small. After every mountain, particularly the tough ones like Mt Robson, McKinley, or the Matterhorn, I always say, “That’s the last one, and I’m never doing that again”....
June
2023
Yahoo Finance
Tensions between Alberta and the federal government are slowing Canada's shift to cleaner forms of energy, say experts, warning Ottawa and the fossil fuel-producing province need to align quickly on a nationwide approach....
June
2023
The Future Economy
With less than 30 years left to meet net-zero targets and the impetus to decarbonize and address climate change looming, Canada must act now on the energy transition if the country expects to tackle its energy trilemma and continue as a world leader in sustainability...
April
2023
Chief Executive Magazine
Refocusing your strategic approach to ride continuous waves of unprecedented events and shifting priorities starts by framing your planning around three fundamental priorities...
January
2023
CEO World
The world has been plagued by the disruptive forces of climate change, COVID-19, the war in Ukraine, and rising inflation causing social and economic upheaval at a scale we have not seen in decades...
November
2022
CEO World
Success is becoming harder in a competitive and uncertain world: Today’s business environment is a cocktail of competition and uncertainty...
September
2022
Financial Post
Canada fell five spots in an index that rates how prepared nations are to bring electric vehicles (EV) into their economies, despite a notable increase in government efforts to develop the sector in the past year...
August
2022
Business Insider
R&D for emerging tech is sometimes viewed as a discretionary expense. But it's critical for oil-and-gas companies if they want to reduce their massive operating costs amid energy-price volatility...
August
2022
CEO World
By 2025, global data creation is expected to reach 175 zettabytes and the global big data and analytics market is on pace to reach $135.71 billion. Data will fuel global economic development throughout the remainder of the 21st century...
June
2022
Chief Executive Magazine
Wall Street’s fear gauge, the Cboe Volatility Index, is up 75%. Conventional approaches to strategic planning are no longer agile enough to respond to this volatile, complex and uncertain business environment we find ourselves in...
June
2022
Take It Personel-ly
The more things change, the more things change. That’s just the way it is these days. As we learn how to navigate one complexity, a new one emerges...
June
2022
CEO World
The more things change, the more things change. That’s just the way it is these days. As we learn how to navigate one complexity, a new one emerges...
April
2022
CEO World
In the midst of an increasingly volatile geopolitical environment, Canada has a unique opportunity to foster energy security abroad while leading the energy transition at home. These priorities are not mutually exclusive. Rather, Canadian stakeholders can — and should — focus on decarbonization while also working to solve today’s urgent global oil and gas demand challenges...
February
2022
CEO World
There’s no skirting around it, the travel industry was among the hardest hit at the onset of COVID-19. According to International Air Transport Association, the global airline industry incurred net losses of $52bn in 2021 and is expected to lose an additional $12bn in 2022...
December
2021
Canadian Mining Journal
With conversations wrapping up at the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties last month, there’s an ongoing narrative and heightened awareness about the importance of accelerating action towards meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement...
December
2021
Sustainable Biz
Canada can not afford to miss out on the potential of hydrogen as an energy source as it did with liquified natural gas (LNG), says one of the authors of a new report on Canada’s hydrogen future. The report, Canada’s hydrogen future – risks and rewards, notes hydrogen currently makes up less than one per cent of Canadian energy demand but it is projected to reach 27 per cent by 2050...
December
2021
CEO World
I’m excited about the future of energy. Granted, unknowns abound, and ambiguity persists. It’s also fair to say the energy sector faces greater complexity than at any other time in recent memory. Even so, there’s a new year just around the corner, and I’m optimistic about what that means for energy in Canada, and businesses nationwide...
October
2021
LEAD.EXE Podcast
Leaders must be prepared, even for the unforeseen. This is the origin of business continuity and disaster recovery plans, and for the most forward-thinking, disaster avoidance planning. Author Lance Mortlock takes it a step further with his book "Disaster Proof: Scenario Planning for a Post-Pandemic Future"...
October
2021
CEO World
Management and the board should define “long-term” and develop a strategy that is focused not on where the organization “is going” but where it “can go." It is essential for an organization’s talent strategy and ESG priorities to be aligned and integrated with the overall strategy...
September
2021
Harvard Law School
C-suites have adapted to the tumultuous environment created by the global pandemic, and only a few could have predicted the rebound occurring in specific geographies and sectors so quickly...
September
2021
Best Business Minds Podcast
The best business minds hosted by Marc Kramer explores Disaster Proof - Scenario planning for a Post Pandemic Future...
September
2021
CEO World
We live in a time of unparalleled disruption: Supply chains are being knocked sideways, consumer markets altered, and public institutions are stretched to their limits. The world over, organizations are spending significant amounts of time, talent and treasury navigating our increasingly complex business system...
September
2021
Leveraging Thought Leadership Podcast
Today’s guest is Lance Mortlock, a Strategy Partner at EY (Ernst & Young) Canada, where he manages a team tasked to drive growth for clients in the oil, power, and mining industries. Earlier this year, Lance authored his first book, Disaster Proof: Scenario Planning for a Post-Pandemic Future...
September
2021
Take It Personel-ly
As Beverly Sills once said, “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” Mt Robson is the most prominent and highest mountain in the rocky mountain range. The mountain is heavily glaciated with a colossal snow-capped peak. It has an insane failure rate for climbing to the peak...
August
2021
CEO World
The strategist’s dilemma: According to Forbes, the amount of data created in the last two years is more than 90 percent of the world’s total data combined. Furthermore, IDC Global DataSphere forecasted in May 2020 that more than 59 zettabytes of data...
August
2021
Forbes
In recent months the number of people who are leaving the workforce or switching jobs has become so great that it has been characterized as the "Great Resignation". Indeed, a recent survey from Microsoft found that over 40% of workers...
August
2021
OODA Loop Podcast
In this OODAcast, we ask Lance for insights into what planners can learn from major global events from the last few decades and how scenario planning can help organizations prepare for the big shocks...
August
2021
Jeff Bullas Podcast
Lance Mortlock has spent his career working in the strategy space. Early on, he was part of a team at Shell looking into its planning processes, which gave him exposure to one of the imminent leaders in scenario planning...
July
2021
Manage This Podcast
How can you prepare for an unexpected challenge? How do you plan for something you can't predict? Strategist Lance Mortlock demonstrates how scenario planning can help identify risks and expose vulnerabilities...
July
2021
CEO World
Scenario planning is not exclusively an enterprise organizational tool. It can be just as effective with high-level global issues like climate change and disease, or even smaller business units and functional issues within an organization...
July
2021
Tanveer Naseer Leadership
Despite numerous warnings over the last decade from various leading international experts at organizations like the World Economic Forum, CSIS and others leaders failed to recognize the warning signals of a potential global pandemic...
July
2021
Elev8 Podcast
We talk real world scenario consequences of disasters that can affect your business, keys of how to stay on the ball, and what the next disaster he sees on the horizon. It's a discussion filled with incredible knowledge and insight, so buckle up and enjoy!...
July
2021
Work and the Future Podcast
Can you use scenario planning to prepare for the future and the future of work? As the pandemic has shown, you can never be completed prepared for what might happen, but planning and imagining scenarios can definitely give you an advantage...
July
2021
Lean Effect Podcast
In this episode, Lance Mortlock, A Six Sigma Black Belt who spent more than 20 years consulting, talks about planning for the future and the lessons learned from the pandemic...
July
2021
Management Today
As the vaccine rollout marches on and borders and businesses begin re-opening, every entrepreneur, small to mid-size business and global behemoth in the world right now is confronted with the same fact...
June
2021
Chief Executive Magazine
If we assume, as we should, that history will inevitably repeat itself in some shape or form, how can we ensure we'll be ready for the next crisis?...
June
2021
Strategy Simplified Podcast
What is scenario planning, and what is EY looking for in its new recruits? Lance Mortlock, EY Senior Strategy Partner based out of Canada, is here to answer those questions and much more...
June
2021
Take It Personel-ly
You might ask yourself what scenario planning in business has to do with climbing, and I would not blame you. However, business leaders can find all kinds of lessons from the most unlikely sources...
June
2021
Executive Commute Podcast
“Scenarios in some way help with the thinking process that may lead to wanting to transform.” Transformation leads to the preparedness of any possibility, which could result in a turnaround of a company or just the need to retain the current success....
June
2021
Onboard Online
Trans-ocean crossings are serious business. They can be carefully prepared and a great experience, but they can also be an encounter that hits you broadside with no prior warning...
May
2021
Leadership Now
As finally start to see the light at the end of the tunnel of the catastrophic COVID-19 pandemic, many business leaders are looking for ways to better anticipate future disruptions and prepare for the uncertainty ahead...
May
2021
Digital Journal
How soon is now? Scenario planning for a post-pandemic future. A new book has been issued titled Disaster Proof: Scenario Planning for a Post-Pandemic Future...
May
2021
Conversations with Canadians Podcast
We had a great conversation about Scenario Planning, why it is important, and how to implement it...
May
2021
Policy Magazine
Lance Mortlock’s new book, Disaster Proof: Scenario Planning for a Post-Pandemic Future couldn’t be more timely...
March
2021
Global News
November
2020
Daily Oil Bulletin
August
2020
Consulting.ca
August
2020
Oil & Gas Product News
Automation making inroads into upstream oil and gas due to pandemic and price pressures...
April
2019
Financial Post
As Canada dithered, America signed off on 3 oil pipelines to carry 2.4 million barrels a day...
April
2019
Daily Oil Bulletin
February
2019
Financial Post
January
2019
Calgary Herald
January
2019
June Warren Nickel
Canadian oil and gas sector struggles to identify where to focus advanced technology investments...
January
2019
Calgary Business
July
2018
Financial Post
How smug politicians — including Harper — sabotaged Canada's dreams of energy superpowerdom...
June
2018
Calgary Herald
June
2018
Edmonton Journal
August
2017
June Warren
Data analytics helping upgrader, refinery operators reduce maintenance spend without compromising safety...
June
2017
National Post
February
2017
Globe & Mail
January
2016
National Post
March
2016
BOE Report
Oil and gas quarterly financial results highlight need to improve operational excellence...
April
2015
National Post
Canada’s oil, gas companies lack long-term strategy amid price plunge, survey shows...
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