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.

C-Suite Agenda

What is strategy, and why is it so important?

Dr. Lance MortlockC-Suite Agenda

"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...

C-Suite Agenda

Accelerating energy transition with human centricity

Dr. Lance MortlockC-Suite Agenda

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?

Dr. Lance MortlockCEO Insider

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...

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

Dr. Lance MortlockCEO Insider

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...

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Who dares wins: Leadership strategies in the face of adversity

Dr. Lance MortlockCEO Insider

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...

C-Suite Insider

Canada’s turning point for energy and natural resources is now

Dr. Lance MortlockC-Suite Insider

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...

CEO Insider

Disrupt your planning before your business gets disrupted

Dr. Lance MortlockCEO Insider

Aligning strategy, planning, risk, people and technology is key for businesses to adapt to and survive in today’s disruptive world. Disrupt your planning before your business gets disrupted Any conversation around energy today is going to be intertwined with the geopolitical crisis in eastern Europe. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's recent...

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Escaping the eye of the storm – Lessons in crisis management from the airline industry

Dr. Lance MortlockCEO Insider

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. The total number of passengers...

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New year, new reason to be optimistic about Canada’s energy

Dr. Lance MortlockCEO Insider

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...

Executive Education

Three superheroes to help your organization plan the future

Dr. Lance MortlockExecutive Education

To combat business uncertainties and risks, leaders must adopt a strategic mindset to approach competition, the market, and the rest of the business realities at play. They must also look beyond the present to predict what changes and disruptions might lie in the future. As Javier Gimeno, Professor of Strategy...

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