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 Insider

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

CEO InsiderDr. Lance Mortlock

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

CEO InsiderDr. Lance Mortlock

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...

Education and Career

Three superheroes to help your organization plan the future

Education and CareerDr. Lance Mortlock

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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Five essential strategy questions boards should be asking

CEO InsiderDr. Lance Mortlock

What boards should keep top of mind as they refresh strategies to be future-ready. In brief 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...

CEO Advisory

Weathering disruption: From cost management to cost excellence

CEO AdvisoryDr. Lance Mortlock

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, the challenges of which are exacerbated...

Executive Insider

AI: The New Frontier of Scenario Planning

Executive InsiderDr. Lance Mortlock

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 would be created, captured, copied and consumed in...

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Scenario planning – Solving Your Future Business Problems, Big and Small

Executive InsiderDr. Lance Mortlock

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. It is a strategic tool for problems, big and small. Strategy development and the identification...

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