Overview

The world unleashes daily tidal waves of information, and in our current news cycle, it can be overwhelming. Our planet's energy is changing-not just industrially, but fundamentally and spiritually too. As the current conversation around global energy, sustainability, technology, and the economy pushes our collective psyche to burst, how can we learn to ride these waves?

Katie Mehnert is staying in the water to find out. She's spent decades building her career as a health and safety executive working for Shell and BP. In 2014, she leaned in to form ALLY Energy, a startup that's addressing the intersection of an inclusive workforce and the energy transition.

When Hurricane Harvey uprooted her work and life in 2017, she began to think less about controlling energy and more about how to grow from it. Grow with the Flow is a roadmap that show you how to turn challenging situations into opportunities. It explains what fix mindsets; work cultures and behaviours prevent you and overall an organisation to growth and gives you the tools to overcome those challenges and thrive in all parts of your personal and work life. Also, she focuses on how gender balance, any kind of differences, abilities and unconventional ideas are required for us as human to evolve and to address our world’s energy transition.

Presenter

Katie Mehnert, Founder and CEO, Ally Energy

Katie is a diplomat, speaker, author and sought-after expert shaping the workforce needed to address our world’s energy transition. She is the Founder and CEO of ALLY Energy™, the community accelerating connections, jobs, and skills to drive an equitable energy transition. ALLY is an inaugural member of Greentown Labs Houston, the top climate technology incubator in North America.

Katie has held global leadership roles with BP and Shell in safety and environment during periods of financial crisis, spills, divestment, and globalisation. Her corporate path drove her to entrepreneurship to help energy companies prepare for the looming talent shortage and workforce diversity needs to address energy poverty and climate change.

She was appointed an Ambassador to the United States Department of Energy in 2020 and has testified before Congress on the clean energy workforce of the future.

Katie has been published in Scientific American, Forbes, The Hill, CNBC, CNN, and in 2020, she published her first book, Grow with the Flow, Embracing Difference, Overcoming Failure, and Progress with Purpose. She's the co-author of Everyday Superheroes: Women in Energy, a children's book focused on energy careers to be released in 2022. Katie appeared in Hot Money, a 2021 documentary produced by Academy Award-winning actor, Jeff Bridges and Retired NATO General Wesley Clark on the financial complexities of climate change and finance.

Katie is an Energy Institute Fellow and an advisor to Clean Energy for America. She's a 1997 graduate of Louisiana State University and attended Rice University's Executive Energy education program in 2004. She is also is a four-time World Major marathoner having completed London, Chicago, New York, and Berlin Her husband Mark is VP of Legal with Baker Hughes. They live with their 11-year-old daughter; Ally, in Houston.

The material presented in this webinar has not been peer-reviewed. Any opinions are the presenter’s own and do not necessarily represent those of IChemE or the Aberdeen Members Group. The information is given in good faith but without any liability on the part of IChemE.   

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