Dr. Lance Mortlock

Dr. Lance Mortlock is managing partner at Ernst & Young Canada for the energy market segment, visiting professor at the Haskayne School of Business; and author of Disaster Proof: Scenario Planning for a Post-Pandemic Future. Lance leads EY Canada’s oil and gas, power and utilities and mining sectors across Canada. As a strategy practitioner working with the C-suite, Lance has provided consulting services on more than 150 projects to over 60 clients in 11 countries. He brings a broad set of strategic skills and experiences, helping clients solve some of their most complex strategic problems.

Dr. Lance Mortlock serves as an external advisory board member for the CEOWORLD magazine. You can follow him on LinkedIn.

CEO Advisory

Royal treatment: Elevating performance with a customer-centric approach

CEO AdvisoryDr. Lance Mortlock

The historical context and a sporting example of a customer lead approach. The phrase "the customer is king" was popularized in the early 1900s by retail legends Harry Gordon Selfridge, John Wanamaker, and Marshall Field. While it's true that customer expectations and behaviour can make or break a business, they're...

CEO Opinions

From Chaos to Clarity: The Path to Strategic Execution Success

CEO OpinionsDr. Lance Mortlock

Why strategic execution is the ultimate game-changer. James Clear, renowned thought leader and author of Atomic Habits, once said, “You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.” It’s a powerful reminder that ambition alone isn’t enough. Success depends on the...

CEO Insider

Energy transition: An opportunity and risk for Canada’s metals and minerals dominance

CEO InsiderDr. Lance Mortlock

Accelerating demand for metals and minerals driven by the energy transition revolution. The outlook is clear. The demand for critical metals and minerals is advancing dramatically as the energy transition gathers momentum globally. Rare metals and minerals such as lithium, copper, nickel, cobalt, and graphite are some of the essential...

CEO Insider

Racing to stay competitive in 2024: Business Resilience

CEO InsiderDr. Lance Mortlock

A world beset with continued challenges. 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,...

CEO Explainers

Generative AI: Hype or reality?

CEO ExplainersDr. Lance Mortlock

Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI) said, "AI will probably most likely end the world, but in the meantime, there will be great companies." The rapidly changing technology landscape pressures management teams to transform organizations. Generative AI (GenAI), a cutting-edge technology, accelerates this need to change. According to an article in...

CEO Agenda

What is strategy, and why is it so important?

CEO AgendaDr. Lance Mortlock

"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat." - Sun Tzu We live in a time of great complexity. Today’s business leaders need to navigate an environment that changes by the hour. The uncertainty faced by businesses today makes development of...

CEO Agenda

Accelerating energy transition with human centricity

CEO AgendaDr. Lance Mortlock

A world beset by uncontrollable change: 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. A recent report by the International Monetary Fund indicates that...

CEO Insider

The co-CEO model: Risk or reward?

CEO InsiderDr. Lance Mortlock

Success is becoming harder in a competitive and uncertain world: Today's business environment is a cocktail of competition and uncertainty. High performance is harder to come by, as indicated by a Forbes study of 400 top global executives, where 90% stated they do not believe the current environment is friendly to...

CEO Insider

A new era of leadership – The DNA of the Chief Data Officer

CEO InsiderDr. Lance Mortlock

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. Organizations worldwide are scrambling to reengineer their data strategy to capture...

CEO Insider

Who dares wins: Leadership strategies in the face of adversity

CEO InsiderDr. Lance Mortlock

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. The pandemic may be receding right now, but the reality we’re entering next is unusual. Rising inflation, the threat of stagnation, an...

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