The Show
Join co-hosts Jim Ellis and Gary Hepworth every Thursday at 1pm EST, as they they discuss the transformation of the world of work in Canada. A show filled with insight, excitement, pride and tools for people navigating their next steps through it. With special guests from industry, government, recruiting/employment services, financial services and employees themselves, each episode is informative and engaging.
Our Latest Interview
What Are SMB's Saying These Days?
Join us next week where we talk with CFIB's Vice President of Legislative Affairs & Communications, Ryan Mallough. If there's one group feeling the impacts of today's uncertain economy, unpredictable tariffs, customers delaying purchases and all the stressors that come with competing today, SMB's are really feeling it.
Join us with our discussion with Ryan to find out what SMB's are saying these days and what the CFIB is doing to support them.
Coming Next Week
What Is Organizational Resilience?
Next week we are joined by another interesting guest and it’s our very own co-host, Gary Hepworth, CEO of PeopleView. When Gary isn’t co-hosting here on WorkPlace Radio, he’s a popular advisor to business for many years for human resources, organizational development and executive coaching.
I’ll be interviewing Gary about Organizational Resilience, a brilliant approach to creating competitive advantage through those very people that make your business happen as well as about his launch of PeopleView, a new advisory firm dedicated to developing that very organizational resilience that is key for businesses of all sizes today.
Our Show Library
Since our launch in early 2025, we've interviewed the following guests, making for some insightful and often amazing discussions. They are available here via our Apple Podcasts channel (at no charge), just by clicking on the show image you'd like to hear. Enjoy!
Your Co-Hosts
Jim Ellis
A 20+ year veteran of multiple industries from both the operational and advisory side of large enterprise, medium-size business, small business and the high-speed world of the entrepreneur.
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Gary Hepworth
Another 20+ year professional of multiple industries from both the operational and advisory side of business from small to corporate enterprise as well as with a penchant for entrepreneurial spirit and drive.
As CEO of Cambiara Group, a Toronto-based organizational change and transformation consultancy, his experience makes for engaging, real-life dialogue with our guest interviewees as well as insightful perspectives on today's business news for our listeners regarding the ongoing change in today's workplace.
Gary is CEO of PeopleView, a human resources/capital advisory providing invaluable guidance to clients on organization engagement, labour law, government updates, communications strategies and executive coaching. Gary's depth of experience makes him an insightful interviewer and conversationalist for the series, on the subject of all things human resources.
Our Listeners
Our listeners come from across Canada and beyond, made up of employers, employees, aspiring entrepreneurs, those joining the workforce, those leaving the workforce, and those returning to the workforce. These audiences come lead, service or work for small business to large business and all age groups and demographics.
Why They're Listening
The dynamics of today's workplace has everyone revisiting where they work, what they do, what they need and how to get there. People are listening to WorkPlace Radio for information, insight, ideas and concepts to create there own navigational paths today.
Enter now.... the fabulous people at RadioDowntown.ca
Through a long relationship with one of Canada’s top internet radio stations, we had some discussions and tossed ideas out loud and they said "let's do it", so we did. And our first episode aired May 8th, 2025, and it was a hit right out of the gate.
With 1,000 of listeners, emails and social media love, we knew within weeks that we were on to something. The foundations for WorkPlace Radio had been poured and we began to build, with incredible thanks to the team at RadioDowntown.ca!
A Little History.....
It was in March of 2025 when some curious behaviours began bubble up from our neighbours to the south. Those behaviours continued to bubble and eventually manifest in the form of trade tariff threats against Canada. The threats, which seemed to change in levels from one day to the next, began to impact Canadian workplaces in the form of layoffs, hiring freezes, business closures and a wave of stress not felt by employers or employees for some time.
Co-hosts Jim Ellis and Gary Hepworth's consulting practices were dealing with their client's tariff worries, along with the already present retirement wave of “boomers”, the increase of Canadian-based (and proud of it) industries, and an emergence of entrepreneurs like never before, are all shifting the world of work as we know it... when they realized that the participants of today's workplace were experiencing a stressful time for many and an inspirational time for others.
It was clear that insight and conversation needed to be shared.
And with that, a radio show and podcast series called Work In Progress was launched in May 2025.