Solving for Change welcomes business and technology leaders to share stories of bold business transformation within complex organizations. In an era when technology and markets are changing around businesses, the key to staying competitive is to evolve in response to those changes.
MOBIA’s Mike Reeves and Marc LeBlanc investigate business transformation, deconstructing the challenges, ambitions, and market disruptions that drive companies to embark on transformation journeys, and exploring their unique approaches to achieving meaningful outcomes.
What sparks leaders to pursue business transformation? How do they overcome the challenges along the way? What are the keys to creating enduring change?
Through in-depth conversations with business and technology leaders, Mike and Marc answer these questions and explore how businesses evolve by pulling four key transformation levers: people, process, technology, and culture.
Why Every Canadian Business Needs Cyber Insurance in 2025
Joseph Hines from Gallagher Insurance in Canada reveals why cyber insurance is critical for every Canadian business in 2025 and beyond.
Joining host Mike Reeves, Joe walks through the big shifts we've seen in cyber insurance over the past five years. From nice-to-have to must-have, it isn't t just about building cybersecurity resilience anymore–it's become a requirement for working with partners and customers across industries. They also discuss how companies can navigate the process of getting insurance and the importance of having a strong cybersecurity foundation for speeding the process and lowering premiums.
5 Sept 2025
Why Effective OT Security Hinges on Visibility
Not long ago, operational technology (OT) remained disconnected from corporate networks, safe from the cyberthreats that preyed on IT networks. With today's OT and critical infrastructure becoming increasingly connected, organizations are up against a growing number of threats that threaten to disrupt their operations. So, how can these organizations secure their operational technology and build resilience across IT and OT?In this episode, Mike Reeves welcomes Kirsten Turnbull from Dragos to explore the most urgent challenges we face in securing OT environments and how turning the lights on to gain visibility is the first step.
4 Jul 2025
Observability Isn't About Tools—It's About People
Adriana Villela, Principal Developer Advocate at Dynatrace, discusses with Marc LeBlanc how observability ensures applications run optimally by prioritizing people and culture over tools in complex enterprise systems; this is an interview.
30 May 2025
Reflecting on Important Trends Shaping Enterprise Technology, From AI to Cybersecurity
Hosts Mike Reeves and Marc LeBlanc reflect on key enterprise technology trends like AI and cybersecurity, forecasting their evolution in upcoming "Solving for Change" episodes.
2 May 2025
A Data-Driven Blueprint for Transformational Leadership in the Age of AI
In the age of artificial intelligence, enterprises must embrace new leadership to transform and thrive. In this episode, workplace analytics expert, Mike DeVenney, joins host Mike Reeves to discuss a blueprint for transformational leadership in today's AI-driven landscape. DeVenney shares the three most important elements of this blueprint, according to data he's gathered in enterprises and from the Canadian Survey of Workplace Perspectives. Touching on everything from compensation to communication, DeVenney outlines what it takes to lead and foster openness to change among enterprise employees.
3 Apr 2025
Why Evolving Your Enterprise Data Strategy is Essential for AI Success
With enterprises scrambling to bring in artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs), many are learning the importance of clean data and strong data strategy. In this episode, Amna Jamal from IBM joins host Marc LeBlanc to talk about data strategy in the age of AI. Working with clients to help them address their data and AI challenges, Amna shares a unique perspective on the importance of a well-developed data strategy for AI success within enterprises. Covering everything from practical ways to identify the skill sets you need to achieve data and AI success within your organization to the opportunities AI creates for businesses, Amna and Marc underscore the inextricable link between data and AI.
6 Mar 2025
Reducing Wait Times in Canadian Healthcare with Intelligent Referral Technology
Access to care is the biggest challenge facing Canadian healthcare. With wait times at record highs, Canadians are waiting longer than ever to for necessary procedures and hospitals are struggling to manage the backlog. But a new technology already being tested in Newfoundland and Labrador has the potential to change all that. In this episode, Rob Lane, CEO at MOBIA and Mobia Health Innovations, joins Marc LeBlanc to share how his personal healthcare inspired a project to tackle wait times in cardiology with an innovative technology solution. Developed and launched in just 18 months, the solution has increased efficiency in cardiology in the province by 25%. Find out how Mobia Health worked with clinicians to make it happen and what the future holds for this groundbreaking technology.
7 Feb 2025
How GE Aerospace Reimagined Delivery of Technical Manuals to Global Service Centres
At GE Aerospace, an engine manual could consist of more than thirty 4 to 8-inch thick binders in the past.
Twenty years ago, the company converted these manuals to digital. But there were challenges ahead.
In this episode, Steve Pasch, a technology leader at GE Aerospace talks about how his team, focused on innovation and meeting user needs, has modernized the application with advanced functionality. The results of their efforts speak for themselves. In less than 18 months, GE Aerospace has gone from 40,000 pages of documents uploaded to close to 300,000 and reduced the workload of its librarians by 50%.
10 Jan 2025
The Strategic Advantages of Anything-as-a-Service IT Consumption
Traditional hardware consumption models are evolving and the benefits of pay-as-you-go consumption are changing the way leaders approach IT investment. In this episode, Mike Reeves welcomes Terry Sledz, Western Canada Sales Specialist for HPE GreenLake, to discuss the strategic benefits of anything-as-a-service consumption models. Terry shares insights on how these models improve agility, flexibility, and scalability. They also discuss the positive impact of the predictability they offer on financial planning. The conversation touches on the role of a service like GreenLake in supporting strategic business outcomes and reducing friction in IT procurement.Terry can be reached for discussions around pay-as-you-go IT consumption and HPE Greenlake at terry.sledz@hpe.com
12 Dec 2024
Harnessing AI to Boost Velocity in Operations and Development
Red Hat's Todd Wilson shares insights on harnessing AI to accelerate operations and development initiatives by empowering teams with intelligent platforms and development tools.
21 Nov 2024
Power of Patterns: A Practical Approach to Introducing Enterprise AI
Chris Falloon shares practical advice for introducing AI in enterprises by identifying patterns of use cases that benefit from AI, providing a structured approach to decision-making.
24 Oct 2024
How AI Reshaped Network Operations for a Telecom Provider
Telecommunications is a competitive industry where success is defined by network performance. In this episode, we take a close look at how a Canadian telecommunications provider transformed its network operations with artificial intelligence (AI). Welcoming Hart Ripley, National Automation Lead & Solutions Architect for the Office of the CTO at MOBIA, Marc Leblanc uncovers how this organization implemented AI and ML tools to take its network operations centre (NOC) from reactive to proactive, anticipating issues that could arise on the network and planning their resolution in advance.
Like many large-scale transformations, this one wasn’t straightforward. For this telecom, modernizing infrastructure was a necessary first step to implementing AI. Find out how they tackled this challenge and what lessons they learned along the way on the journey to improving network operations.
1 Aug 2024
Retail Resilience: On Cybersecurity and Recovery
Cyberattacks on the retail sector are on the rise and the costs are adding up for Canadian retailers. According to the Retail Council of Canada, the average cost of a data breach for a Canadian retailer is $5.64 million–more than $1 million higher than the global average. But these attacks affect customers and employees, too. Exposing personal identifiable information, phishing, ransomware, and other cybercrimes leave people vulnerable to fraud and theft. In this episode, cybersecurity expert, Ashif Samnani joins us as we discuss the importance and nuances of cybersecurity and security incident recovery in retail.
20 Jun 2024
How to Build a Smart Organization
Emerging technologies, like artificial intelligence, are bringing forward a lot of fears around job displacement to the surface. However, they present a significant opportunity to augment and support roles across every level of an organization through co-intelligence.
Mike Reeves welcomes Mike DeVenney to discuss how leaders can build smart organizations by bringing out the best in both employees and technology, and putting it together. A data-driven technology and change-management professional, DeVenney gives us insight into the surprising keys to successfully implementing technologies like AI to employee satisfaction and retention all while increasing productivity.
1 Jun 2024
Is Automation with AI the Key to Navigating the IT Talent Shortage?
As layoffs dominate headlines and speculation about AI replacing jobs swirls, organizations are navigating a surprising challenge: a tech talent shortage. According to statistics published by ManpowerGroup, 75% of employers around the world are having a trouble filling roles, with IT and data roles being the most difficult to fill. Over time, this shortage will undoubtedly impact productivity and innovation. But what's the solution?
On this episode of Solving for Change, our host, Marc LeBlanc tackles this question with Ryan Clements, a systems architect from Red Hat. Tune in as they discuss how automation with AI can, rather than replacing jobs, help organizations navigate the skills shortage, simultaneously boosting productivity and employee satisfaction.
13 May 2024
Trends in Business Transformation
Over the past few years market shifts, advances in technology, and major global events have been the catalysts for major transformation in organizations around the globe. In fact, these events have had such a profound impact on the rate of change that they’ve replaced the focus on digital transformation, ushering in the age of digital acceleration.
In this episode, hosts Mike and Marc set the stage for future episodes by exploring the trends, major market shifts, and world events that have driven organizations to execute transformations that, in the past, would have taken them years in a matter of months.
30 Apr 2024
Solving for Change Trailer
Welcome to Solving for Change, a new podcast about business transformation in the age of digital acceleration. Join hosts Mike Reeves, MOBIA Technology Innovations' President, and Marc LeBlanc, MOBIA's Director of the Office of the CTO, as they explore the market disruptions and advances in technology that inspire businesses to embark on transformative journeys. Deconstructing the new challenges, opportunities, and technologies that motivate leaders to initiate ambitious changes, Mike and Marc talk with business leaders and industry experts as they share their stories of bold transformation.
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