Are you finding it hard to ask about your career next steps when the world seems like it’s falling apart? You don’t want to seem selfish or “not a team player” when so many are struggling and organizations don’t know what’s next. Thing is, if you are wanting to grow professionally, waiting a year can set you off track.  It’s understandable, and it can be figured out.  Join the Women in Energy program for this workshop where Claire Steichen, career coach with two decades in corporate life, shares how to stay on track. You will learn: — How to have a strategy that can flex to a changing reality — The secret to a difficult conversation that will make your boss eager to support you — Why asking is harder for women, and how to avoid that pitfall — How to know what you want so you find the courage to overcome your hesitation — This webinar will be hosted via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Upon registration, you will receive a confirmation email with access details. For more information, please contact Jully Merino Carela (jem2245@columbia.edu) or Nicolina DueMogensen (energypolicyevents@columbia.edu).

Please join the Center on Global Energy Policy’s Women in Energy program for a virtual roundtable discussion with Kristin Barbato, Founder and CEO of Build Edison and Co-founder of Dynamo Energy Hub. Ms. Barbato will discuss her academic background, career path, and her transition from government and utilities to entrepreneurship.  Biography: With 25 years in energy, Kristin has a background in energy innovation as an executive in utilities, government, and private sector energy operations and investment. She’s founded two companies to scale innovative solutions in the clean energy economy and make a positive impacts in efficiency and the environment. She is Co-Founder of Dynamo – a unique global network of thought leaders and energy hubs in different cities. Kristin is also Founder and CEO of Build Edison, which helps early-stage energy companies get to scaled commercialization faster through utilities advisory and demo project partners. In her previous executive roles, she helped cities and corporations optimize their capital planning, commodity supply, efficiency projects, renewable investments, and smart operations performance. Kristin served as Managing Director of Enterprise Development at Edison Energy, Vice President of Customer Energy Solutions at the New York Power Authority (NYPA), and was appointed to Deputy Commissioner / Chief Energy Management Officer for New York City during Mayor Bloomberg’s Administration to manage the long-term sustainability plan (PlaNYC) for the country’s largest municipal energy infrastructure and operations with an annual budget of $1.3B. Kristin also worked for Veolia Environment, ConEdison, and Florida Power & Light in various technical and strategic leadership roles.   Kristin graduated Cornell University with a B.S. in Civil Engineering. She also holds an M.S. in Organizational Leadership from Mercy College and completed her MBA in Finance and Economics from Columbia University in May 2008. For the last five years, she has been a Professor of energy management for graduate level international policy schools at Columbia and New York University. She also serves on the advisory board for the Tom Coughlin Jay Fund to help families of children with cancer. — This webinar will be hosted via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Upon registration, you will receive a confirmation email with access details. For more information, please contact Jully Merino Carela (jem2245@columbia.edu) or Nicolina DueMogensen (energypolicyevents@columbia.edu).

Are you discovering that after months of working from home, it is not the dream you thought it would be? You’re not alone. Community, workflow, and time management can all suffer when we step out of the rhythm of the office. And the fatigue that comes from routine change and uncertainty can hinder mindset and energy levels. Join the Women in Energy program for this session where Claire Steichen, entrepreneur and coach who has worked from home since 2008, shares her best secrets. You will learn: — How to structure your time for energy throughout the day — The keys to creating a To Do list that maximizes your capacity — The daily habits that make you more productive — How to put down your work so you can enjoy your social life and restore — This webinar will be hosted via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Upon registration, you will receive a confirmation email with access details. For more information, please contact Jully Merino Carela (jem2245@columbia.edu) or Nicolina DueMogensen (energypolicyevents@columbia.edu).

An equitable, sustainable, and just global energy transition will not be possible without the broad and equal participation and leadership of women in all aspects of the energy industry. Yet worldwide, the energy industry continues to be one of the least gender inclusive segments of the global economy – women make up only 22% of the traditional energy workforce and 32% of the renewable energy workforce. We need all hands on deck and diverse ideas and innovations in order to realize critical climate and emissions reductions targets by 2050 and a clear plan of action to bridge the gaps and harness the full potential of women in energy. 2020 is a pivotal year in the global climate change efforts, and the Center on Global Energy Policy’s Women in Energy (WIE) program is pleased to host a dialogue with dynamic industry leaders who are making vital contributions towards the global energy transition. The expert speakers will share their contributions to the energy transition and engage in a candid discussion about the barriers to women’s equal participation that must be addressed in order to ensure a just and sustainable transition. Panelists include: — Maria S. Jelescu Dreyfus, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Ardinall Investment Management — Vaishali Nigam Sinha, Chief Sustainability, CSR and Communication Officer, ReNew Power — Adaku Ufere, Deputy Chief of Party, USAID-funded Power Africa West Africa Energy Program — Moderated by Laurie Fitzmaurice, Executive Director, Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia SIPA — This webinar will be hosted via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Upon registration, you will receive a confirmation email with access details. The event will be recorded and the video recording will be added to our website following the event. This event is open to press, and registration is required to attend. For media inquiries or requests for interviews, please contact Artealia Gilliard (ag4144@columbia.edu) or Genna Morton (gam2164@columbia.edu). For more information about the event, please contact Caitlin Norfleet or Nicolina DueMogensen (energypolicyevents@columbia.edu).

Please join the Women in Energy program for a virtual roundtable discussion with Erin Blanton, CGEP Senior Research Scholar. Ms. Blanton will discuss her academic background and career path covering the energy sector as well as her current research on the role of natural gas in the energy transition. Biography Erin Blanton is a Senior Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy focused on natural gas and renewable energy. Before joining the Center, Blanton spent 16 years at Medley Global Advisors, an independent macro policy research firm. Blanton was a Managing Director and led natural gas and renewable coverage as part of the firm’s energy team. Her clients consisted of the world’s leading hedge funds, asset managers, and investment banks. Blanton has a master’s degree in Energy Policy from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Cornell University.   — Registration is required. There is limited capacity for this event. We ask that you register only if you are sure you can attend this event in its entirety. For more information contact: energypolicy@columbia.edu.

Please join the Women in Energy program for a virtual roundtable discussion with Virginia Snyder, Energy Sector Specialist at the Inter-American Bank.Ms. Snyder will discuss her background and experience working in the energy sector. In addition to her career path and current work, she will discuss how the Inter-American Development Bank is mainstreaming gender in the operations of the energy division. Biography Virginia is an Energy Sector Specialist at the Inter-American Bank (IDB) in Washington, DC. She works for the Infrastructure and Energy Sector where she is working on program and policy issues across Latin America and the Caribbean. She is leading Gender Initiatives for the Energy Sector, is the focal point for innovation and digitalization, and is co-leading and working in new initiatives such as the future Energy HUB for LAC. She works on technical and operational issues on diverse projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. Prior to her work at the IDB, she worked for the California Center for Sustainable Energy, where she was the Associate Program Manager for the California Solar Initiative (the US’s largest solar initiative) and worked for the US Department of Energy (DOE). She collaborated with the team members of DOE’s Solar Technologies Program working in the Solar America Cities program. Through this effort, 25 American cities have been working to accelerate the adoption of solar energy technologies for a cleaner and more secure energy future. Virginia earned an MBA from the University of San Diego, CA.    — Registration is required. There is limited capacity for this event. We ask that you register only if you are sure you can attend this event in its entirety. For more information contact: energypolicy@columbia.edu.

Please join the Center on Global Energy Policy’s Women in Energy program and SIPA’s Energy & Environment Concentration for a student-only virtual roundtable discussion with Amy Myers Jaffe, co-chair of the CGEP Women in Energy Steering Committee and the David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and the environment and director of the Energy Security and Climate Change program at the Council on Foreign Relations. Jaffe will discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic is influencing energy markets. Jaffe’s talk will lay out how sheltering in place worldwide has dramatically reduced oil use and created new geopolitical challenges related to the price of oil. Jaffe will also address the long-term future of fossil fuel use in light of digital technologies coming to the fore in the coronavirus crisis such as remote working, e-commerce and shrinking global supply chains and how the aftereffects of the pandemic will bode for future global climate agreements. Biography Amy Myers Jaffe is Co-chair of CGEP’s Women in Energy Steering Committee. In her full-time capacity she is the David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and the environment and director of the Energy Security and Climate Change program at the Council on Foreign Relations. Jaffe has a long and distinguished career in academia. She served as executive director for energy and sustainability at the University of California, Davis, and senior advisor on energy and sustainability at the Office of the Chief Investment Officer of the University of California Regents and as a global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She was formerly the Wallace S. Wilson fellow for energy studies and founding director of the Energy Forum at Rice University’s James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy. She has taught energy and sustainability classes at Rice University, the University of California, Davis and Yale University. Jaffe has previously served on steering committees for a variety of policy task forces, including the U.S. National Petroleum Council study on emergency preparedness and state of California’s Petroleum Market Advisory Committee and the state’s advisory panel on advanced drilling technologies. Jaffe has also served as chair of the World Economic Forum’s (Davos) Global Agenda Council on the Future of Oil and Gas and a member of the WEF’s International Security council. She was awarded the Senior Fellow award from the United States Association for Energy Economics in 2015 for career contributions to the organization and to the field of energy economics and is president-elect of the organization. She holds a Bachelors of Arts from Princeton University in Near Eastern Studies and Arabic. — Registration is required. This event is open to all University students. There is limited capacity for this event. We ask that you register only if you are sure you can attend this event in its entirety. For more information contact: energypolicy@columbia.edu.

This webinar is part of The Cocooning Series:   Four Webinars to Help You Stay on Track During the Stay at Home Order At some point we will go back to the office.  And thing might feel different.  You might suddenly resent having to be accountable to someone else.  Or that it’s so good to see everyone, that you can get your work done!  Or that there are things about your work rhythm that you’d love to change.  Join Claire Steichen, entrepreneur and coach, in this one-hour webinar where you will learn the executive coach’s secrets to being happy at the office: •    The key to increasing your influence so you can work according to your preferences •    How to hang on to being in control of your time •    How to optimize the introvert-extrovert spectrum now that you are back Registration is required. The meeting link will be emailed on April 27 only to those who register for this webinar.

This webinar is part of The Cocooning Series:   Four Webinars to Help You Stay on Track During the Stay at Home Order There’s one thing I know career women want:  Focus. You want a roadmap, so you can turn down the noise.  So you can feel confident that you will get the things you want.  And so you can be more present.  I know because I’ve been hearing it from clients since 2008.  What’s more…most of us find it hard to know what we want.  No kidding.  Join Claire Steichen, entrepreneur and coach, in this one-hour webinar where you will discover: •    How to figure out what you want (it’s more straight-forward than you think) •    What gets in the way, and how to manage it •    The key to finding the confidence to take the first step Registration is required. The meeting link will be emailed on April 20 only to those who register for this webinar.

This webinar is part of The Cocooning Series:   Four Webinars to Help You Stay on Track During the Stay at Home Order For many of us, the looming economic impact of Coronavirus is causing enormous anxiety.  What if I get laid off?  What if this break derails my promotion?  How do I prepare for the fierce competition when the economy bounces back?  These are all normal concerns.  And there are moves to make now that can set you up for success.  Join Claire Steichen, entrepreneur and career coach, for this one-hour webinar where you will: •    Get clear on your superpowers – the core skills that make you stand out •    Learn how to find the jobs that align with what you do best •    Find out what you can do now to get out of the gate running when work picks up again Registration is required. The meeting link will be emailed on April 13 only to those who register for this webinar.