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In our world of 24/7 news cycles, where organizations are directly connected to their stakeholders, what role does governance play in a company’s overall performance? And what does good governance look like? Richard (Rick) Powers is the National Academic Director of the Governance Essentials Program and the Directors Education Program that operates at Canada’s top business schools. A recipient of...

What does investment look like at the intersection of impact and VC-paced growth? Rhiannon Davies and Cathy Bennett are both the Founding and Managing Partners of Sandpiper Ventures, running one of the first venture funds in Canada investing in women-led companies at the seed stage, and among the first all-woman GP national funds in Canada. Rhiannon’s business leadership spans Europe, Asia, South...

Why and how are we vulnerable to a global supply shortage of semiconductors? This episode kicks off a new recurring segment: “A Global Affair with Professor Janice Stein”. In these episodes, we will dig deep on a topic that influences society as we know it today. Whether it is public policy, geopolitical issues, or the impact of technological advances. Professor Janice Stein is a Canadian politica...

How did a trained architect become a global innovator and end up building a social entrepreneurship community? A seasoned advisor, mentor and an expert in healthcare, digital health and women’s healthcare, Eve builds and invests in ventures that transform how we define, access and interact with care. As Co-Founder of Future Family, the world’s first fertility company to bring together financing, t...

How does your individual leadership style change as you evolve as a person? Maja Djikic is an Associate Professor and the Director of Self-Development Laboratory at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. She is a psychologist specializing in the field of personality development. Her work focuses on how self changes, and means of developing a congruent and flexible self. Her work a...

Dr. Richard Norman is a researcher, lecturer, and futurist who works with people to affect change towards a more socially just, sustainable, and resilient future. His work is focused on the lived experiences of peoples who have been marginalized in our society via the “Sport, Diversity, & Race Project” for the Future of Sport Lab (FSL) in the Ted Rogers School of Management at Toronto Metropolitan...

We talk to Minister Navdeep Bains about his family - his wife and two daughters, how to know when to step away from a job you love, and his approach to being a role model. The Honourable Navdeep Bains is the Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at Rogers Communications, and most recently was the Vice-Chair of Global Investment Banking for CIBC where he was responsible for strengthening all Capital Mark...

This episode brings back our recurring segment < > because the list of things we bring to work sometimes includes viruses(!) The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed how and where we work, and made us all aware of the importance of public health. So, we invite epidemiologist Laura Rosella to chat about the state of global public health. In this episode, we go back in time to explore the insights lear...

Phil is currently an Expert, Sustainability at McKinsey & Company where he helps solve industry’s hardest decarbonization problems. Phil was the youngest-ever Director at the National Research Council of Canada where he built and led a $57M collaborative research program on Canada-made transformative technologies to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. He is a Governor General Gold Medal-winning sc...

Emily Scarratt is Vice Captain of the Red Roses, and may be most known as the player who secured England’s 2014 World Cup win with six minutes left in the final match. Emily was the top point-scorer at the 2014 World Cup; and helped lead England to finals in the 2017 and 2022 World Cups. She captained Team Great Britain at the Rio Olympics, won a bronze medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and rep...

Kristjan Vassil is the Vice-Rector for Research at the University of Tartu and an Associate Professor in Technology Studies. Kristjan has a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute, and his research group focuses on qualitative assessment of the impact of IT, analysis of Big Data in e-Government and prototyping of predictive digital services. He has studied the r...

Mary-Kay Messier is Vice President, Global Marketing at Bauer Hockey, the company that developed the first skate with a blade attached to a boot, forever changing the game of hockey. Mary-Kay is a committed advocate for the game with the goal of making it more accessible, inclusive, diverse and focused on fun. Under Mary-Kay's leadership, her team created the internationally successful First Shift...

Erin McLeod is a professional athlete, playing soccer for top teams around the world with an incredible 2-decade career as a goalkeeper for the Canadian Women’s National Team. She was inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame in 2019, as Erin has represented Canada at three Olympic Games. She competed in the 2008 Beijing Games and won a bronze medal in London in 2012. In 2021 at her third Ol...

After a distinguished career as a test pilot, Hadfield became an astronaut in 1992. Over the course of his career, he achieved a series of Canadian firsts: he was the first Canadian to be a space mission specialist, to operate the Canadarm in orbit, to do a spacewalk and to command the International Space Station. He was also the first to record a music video in space — a cover of David Bowie’s “S...

Jeff is the Assistant VP of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Dalhousie University in Halifax. He is also the Site Lead for Creative Destruction Lab – Atlantic. Prior to his role at Dalhousie, he practiced law in Halifax at McInnes Cooper, and in Toronto with both Fasken Martineau and CIBC. He taught law at St. Mary’s University in Halifax, Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto and the University of...

Sinead is a futurist and the founder of WAYE, an organization that helps prepare the next generation of business leaders for a world radically transformed by technology. Some may know her as the author of the Vogue article “I Am a Model and I Know That Artificial Intelligence Will Eventually Take My Job”. Sinead has given formal addresses to presidents, royalty, and Fortune 500 leaders on topics r...

In 2022, his sixth season as Head Coach of the Queen's Women's Rugby program, Dan Valley led the Gaels to an OUA gold medal and a silver medal at the Canadian national championship (U SPORTS). Valley was named the OUA Coach of the Year in 2021 after leading Queen's to a OUA silver medal, and a gold medal at the Canadian national championship. Prior to his time at Queen's, Valley was the Head Coach...

Professor Mark Kingwell joins the podcast to discuss his new book “Singular Creatures: Robots, Rights, and the Politics of Posthumanism.” We talk to Mark about everything from consciousness, boredom, happiness, and, of course, the Simpsons. Mark is a Canadian professor of philosophy and associate chair at the University of Toronto's Department of Philosophy. Mark has published dozens of books, mos...

This episode brings back our recurring segment "Going Viral with Dr. Rosella" because the list of things we bring to work sometimes includes viruses(!) The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed how and where we work, and made us all aware of the importance of public health. So, we invite epidemiologist Laura Rosella to chat about the state of global public health and its current main acts in January 2...

A dynamic duo joins Connected Intelligence – EC and Sam are the co-CEOs of Poppy, the world’s most advanced biosafety intelligence system for indoor spaces. EC and Sam talk about the unique advantages and challenges of being a Co-CEO team, building and scaling companies, life in the digital era, and the transformational technology they are building at Poppy. EC (known to some as Elizabeth Caley) h...

Joshua Gans is the Jeffrey S. Skoll Chair of Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Professor of Strategic Management at Toronto's Rotman School of Management. Joshua is a brilliant academic, an entertaining speaker, and an avid Star Wars fan. He is Chief Economist of Creative Destruction Lab, department editor (Strategy) at Management Science, and cofounder and managing director of Core Ec...

Albert Wenger (Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures) is imaginative, focused, and passionate. We talk about his book “The World After Capital” where he argues that technological progress has shifted scarcity for humanity. When we were foragers, food was scarce. During the agrarian age, it was land. Following the industrial revolution, capital became scarce. With digital technologies scarcity is...

It’s the holiday special - we bring you a few of our highlights from 2 seasons of 22 episodes in 2022! Wishing you a safe and happy holiday season. We are back in 2023 with more conversations about all the things we bring to work that aren’t actually about the work.

This is a Year in Review with Professor Janice Stein, a Canadian political scientist and international relations expert. Janice helps us understand key global events and news stories of 2022 – from a reflection on Ukraine and Russia, the vaccine rollout for COVID-19, pay equality in the US soccer ecosystem, climate change, inflation, and chatGPT. We also look ahead – Janice shares her research foc...

Eva and Allen Lau are high-impact entrepreneurs, investors, and business leaders who recently celebrated 25 years of marriage. Eva and Allen join Connected Intelligence to share their insight, advice, and fascinating stories from their decades-long marriage and business partnership. Eva Lau is a highly respected entrepreneur-turned-investor and one of the few women leading a venture fund in Canada...