About Shift podcast: Helping you rethink business transformation
Successful business transformation is taking on the demands of today while preparing for the challenges of tomorrow. In each episode of Shift, we amplify the voice of leading industry experts, to share their unique perspectives on what it takes to transform.
Join us to learn how these leaders are approaching and executing on their transformation journeys while ensuring they perform as they transform. Listen as they describe what they're doing to create sustained outcomes for their employees, customers and communities.
The Future Is Iterative: Powering Canada's Energy Shift
Canada needs to double its power capacity by 2050, and we're already wasting 50% of the energy we produce today. So how do we close the gap?
In this episode, Emily Heitman, President of Schneider Electric Canada, joins us to unpack the urgent reality of Canada's energy future and why "we need more power, and we need it now." Emily makes the case that the technology to solve our energy challenges already exists. The real work is in adopting it.
We dig into the digitization of our electrical infrastructure and why sustainability is a financial advantage rather than a cost. But this conversation goes beyond the grid. Emily shares her philosophy on authentic leadership, why "your EQ is as important as your IQ," and how embracing an iterative mindset makes the future exciting instead of scary.
Because as Emily puts it: the future isn't scary if it's iterative.
10 Sept 2026
The trust economy: why curiosity matters more than ever
What if the most important leadership skill isn't knowing the answer, but being willing to hear one you don't like?
Amanda Lang, one of Canada's most recognized business journalists, Chief Financial Correspondent for CTV News, host of Taking Stock on BNN Bloomberg, and bestselling author of The Power of Why and The Beauty of Discomfort, joins Shift for a conversation about the things that quietly shape every decision we make: what we pay attention to, how we stay curious, how we exercise judgment, and how we decide who to trust.
We talk about why the smartest people are the least likely to act like know-it-alls, why real curiosity requires humility, how to lead when certainty is impossible, and why trust is earned the same way in a boardroom as it is at home, through transparency, repair and showing up the way you said you would.
It's a reminder that in an era of infinite information and AI-generated certainty, the human superpowers, curiosity, judgment and trust, matter more than ever.
23 Jul 2026
Legacy & The Next 40 Years — A Generational Handoff in Canadian City-Building
What survives when you hand a company to the next generation—and the world has changed underneath you?
Mitchell Cohen has run the Daniels Corporation since 1984, building a development company on a conviction that traces back to his roots in Montreal's 1970s housing co-op movement: that housing is a right, not just a product. This September, his son Jacob stepped into the president's chair—by his own account, "in the toughest market our industry's ever seen."
In only their second-ever joint interview, Mitchell and Jacob sit down with PwC's Shift for a candid conversation about what it actually takes to pass the torch without losing the soul of a company. They get into why brand isn't a logo but a promise ("we do what we say we're going to do"), what it means to build in a "trust recession," and the chance sidewalk encounter that turned into a quilt called a love poem to an entire community.
Along the way they make a surprisingly persuasive case that empathy belongs on the balance sheet—and that the way out of Canada's affordability crisis comes down to a single word: collaboration.
If you take one idea away, it's this: you don't have to choose between doing well and doing good—and the next chapter of our cities depends on more people believing it.
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Gillian Stein
John Ruffolo
David Usher
Curtis Stange
Tracy Robinson
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