On this episode of the Energy Thinks Podcast, host Tisha Schuller is answering your questions with guest host (and eldest son) Carter Schuller. Season 2 focuses on the bridge from vision to pragmatic execution in game-changing leadership.

Kicking off season two of the Energy Thinks Podcast, Tisha Schuller sits down with Kevin Krausert and Bryan Trudel of Avatar Innovations. Rewiring how the world powers itself is no small task, and Avatar has a solution—creating an independent innovation hub where technological advancement is accelerated and risk is mitigated.

Tisha Schuller sits down with Chris Smith, Sr. Vice President of Policy, Government, and Public Affairs at Cheniere Energy. Discussing the role LNG will have in the energy future, Chris provides an array of insights on how Cheniere Energy is positioning itself to lead the industry toward a decarbonized future.

In a turning of the tables, host Tisha Schuller switches roles and is interviewed by Mike Ming of Ming Energy Partners and Robert Hefner of Hefner Energy as part of the webcast series, “The Future of Energy” produced by the University of Oklahoma Energy Institute at the  Michael F. Price College of Business.

Tisha Schuller sits down with Danielle Fugere, President of As You Sow to learn about shareholder activism from the activist perspective. Shareholder resolutions are increasingly successful in pushing oil and gas companies to address climate concerns on activist terms. To meet the incoming challenges, oil and gas leaders must both build an understanding of the activist perspective, and develop an engagement strategy.

Guest host Anne Carto, Engagement Manager at Adamantine Energy, sits down with Katie Tate, Senior Local Affairs Specialist at PDC Energy. Anne and Katie, two millennial oil and gas leaders and alumni of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association’s (COGA) Energy Generation Leadership Program (EnGen), discuss how oil and gas companies can continue to connect to the communities they serve in the age of social distancing.

Tisha Schuller sits down with Emily Reichert, CEO of Greentown Labs, the largest cleantech incubator in North America. Tisha and Emily discuss how cleantech and oil & gas can team up to solve pressing issues in energy: decarbonization, climate change, and racial equity and justice.

Tisha Schuller sits down with Southern Company Gas CEO Kim Greene to discuss Southern Company Gas’s current efforts on racial equity and justice, decarbonizing natural gas operations, embracing telecommuting, and quarantine-related family balance.