The Ampersand - Unplugged is a podcast that explores issues of the day that impact our community, affect businesses large and small and explores issues that impact human capital and, more broadly, the human condition. As with our monthly Ampersand blog post, which is fast approach 170 editions over the past 15 years, the podcast promises to be thoughtful, provocative, informative and above all, authentic.
The Conversation Has Consequences - The Ampersand October 2026
Send us Fan Mail The Ampersand Unplugged brings you an audio version of our October 2026 edition of The Ampersand, read aloud by the author. In this edition, Adam turns to Alberta's upcoming referendum and what it's already doing to the province's reputation, with a little help from one of the strangest meetings of his career. Back in 2013, a law firm leader insisted, unprompted, that the rumours of his firm's demise were false. Within weeks, the firm was gone. That lesson, that sometimes jus...
16 Sept 2026
Breaking Up to Break Through - The Ampersand May 2025
Send us Fan Mail The Ampersand Unplugged brings you an audio version of our May 2025 edition of The Ampersand, read aloud by the author. In this edition, Adam shares the story behind a significant chapter in the firm's history: why, after a well-intentioned but ultimately misaligned partnership, the Calgary team chose to walk away, and why joining forces with Amrop Rosin felt less like a new beginning and more like a long-overdue one. From a rain-soaked limousine farewell at Korn/Ferry to a p...
1 Sept 2026
My Fellow Humans... - The Ampersand September 2026
Send us Fan Mail The Ampersand Unplugged brings you an audio version of our September 2026 edition of The Ampersand, read aloud by the author. In this edition, Adam returns from a summer hiatus with a new tagline—Human. Thought. Leadership.—and a question worth sitting with: in an age of artificial intelligence, what should we never delegate? He makes the case that AI is a tool worth embracing, but that the parts of our work that express who we are—the conversations, the mentorship, the stori...
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