
Across beer, wireless, ride-hailing, retail and now TELUS, Kevin McLaughlin has kept returning to one practical question: what friction can the customer do without?
A radio bet became a national telecom, then swallowed cable, sports and satellites. Rogers now wants one household to buy the connection, the content and the perks - while never forgetting the day its own network went dark.

Before CPA Ontario, Olivia Ibell helped build a wireless brand, led business intelligence at Bell and co-founded a small business. Her career offers a practical lesson in making complicated organizations feel coherent to the people they serve.
The Canadian telecom turned a $7-billion fibre build into a launchpad for health, software and sovereign AI. The bet is clever, capital-heavy and newly tested by the one thing every phone company fears: customers losing patience.