Featured guest speaker Greg Lyle
“Tumultuous Times: What recent polling can tell us about navigating stormy energy sector seas.”
Greg Lyle
President and Founder Innovative Research Group
Greg Lyle is the founder and President of Innovative Research Group Inc. (INNOVATIVE), a national public opinion research and consultation firm with offices in Toronto and Vancouver.
As a former Principal Secretary in Manitoba, Greg has built a career at the intersection of public opinion, communications and public policy. With over 30 years of communications and opinion research experience, Greg and his team of 25 researchers use a full range of research tools to provide strategic counsel to public, private and not-for-profit clients across a variety of sectors including financial services, transportation, resource industries, energy, and health care.
Greg has a strong background in energy. Since 2007, INNOVATIVE has run an annual national study on siting infrastructure that has tracked views on electricity transmission and various forms of generation. INNOVATIVE’s custom clients include electricity generators, transmission companies, distributors, and regulators. Greg’s polls have been highlighted in media across the country. In the last federal election, INNOVATIVE’s research was featured in the Globe and Mail and the Hill Times and was covered widely by such outlets as the Economist, the Guardian and the Wall Street Journal.