Real estate and its sub-sectors have felt the impact of COVID-19 in varying degrees with diverse implications for its many stakeholders. To unpack the latest in what’s driving change, KPMG in Canada’s National Industry Leader, Lorne Burns, sits down with four distinguished guests. In the second episode, KPMG’s Global Head of Asset Management and Global Chair of Real Estate and Construction, Andrew Weir, provides a view into China’s industry response, as well as the larger implications for the new reality.

In this episode, KPMG’s BLC Co-Leaders Jim Newton and Janet Alderman, with Stephanie Terrill, KPMG’s National Leader, Management Consulting, discuss which questions board members should be asking as their organizations consider returning to the workplace.

Disclaimer: This podcast was recorded in English only. 

One of the hardest hit industries, retail weathers the brunt of COVID-19’s force. The impacts have challenged retailers in novel ways, making resiliency and flexibility vital for survival. In this series, KPMG in Canada’s National Industry Leader for Consumer and Retail, Kostya Polyakov, explores how these changes will mould retail’s new reality. In Episode 1, Paul Martin, Head of Retail at KPMG in the UK, joins Kostya to share a global perspective.

Real estate and its sub-sectors have felt the impact of COVID-19 in varying degrees with diverse implications for its many stakeholders. To unpack the latest in what’s driving change in the industry, KPMG in Canada’s National Industry Leader, Lorne Burns, sits down with four distinguished guests. In the first episode, Lorne is joined by Augusto Patmore, Head of the Capital Projects and GTA Power & Utilities practices, to discuss Canada’s construction landscape.

What is sustainable finance? How has the Canadian financial community embraced its principles? How will it evolve in a post COVID-19 reality? Just a few of the questions KPMG in Canada’s Impact Ventures Lead, Tania Carnegie, will explore in this podcast series. In Episode 1, join Tania and President & CEO of Toronto Finance International, Jennifer Reynolds, to explore what the sustainable finance landscape looked like before the pandemic and what comes next.

In this episode, Anne Eskedjian, Senior Manager in Risk Consulting, discusses COVID’s impact on people, technology, and organizational operations and what banks should be thinking about as they embark into their new reality.

This episode explores the credit risk implications of COVID-19 and highlights strategies to help financial institutions recover from these impacts. The episode features KPMG Canada’s Senior Manager of Financial Risk Management, Michael McCausland.

In the final episode, Yvon Audette and Maria McKay explore the New Reality phase with Len Bastien, Sophie Martel, and MGen Andrew Jayne, and how the CIO organization is contributing to National Defence’s overall people strategy for both civilian and military so that they can continue to deliver on their mandate and achieve digital workplace transformation outcomes in COVID-19 times and beyond – so that no one is left behind. 

This episodes explores the Recovery phase with MGen Andrew Jayne and highlights the pre-existing conditions that are currently guiding National Defence’s response and what will carry on into the New Reality.

In part two, Yvon Audette continues the discussion with Len Bastien, Sophie Martel and MGen. Andrew Jayne about National Defence’s technology story, and how the command and control like governance model helped them rapidly adapt, plan and introduce a digital workplace ecosystem and provided modern tools to support critical business operations.