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Energy Transitions Podcast: Transformational leadership in energy with Dr Angela Wilkinson
Energy Transitions Podcast: Transformational leadership in energy with Dr Angela Wilkinson
Pamela Largue
Posted on: 19 March 2024
Dr Angela Wilkinson unpacks the type of great leadership needed to address the energy trilemma and ensure a healthy planet for future generations.
Addressing the energy trilemma of security, affordability and sustainability, while ensuring a healthy planet and better life for its inhabitants, will require more than good leadership.
It will require great leadership and collaboration, which we have never seen before.
In this episode of the Energy Transitions podcast, Dr Angela Wilkinson, Secretary General and CEO of the World Energy Council, maps a divergent, uncomfortable but critical path to great leadership in energy and beyond.
Dr Angela Wilkinson shares her multi-dimensional and people-centred insights by answering the following questions about leadership in energy:
- How does the leadership in the energy transition differ from traditional leadership qualities?
- What are the differences between good leadership and great leadership?
- Why is it important to recognize emerging leaders who may not be well-known or celebrated in the energy transition space?
- How can leadership qualities in the public, private, and civic sectors be blended to drive effective energy transitions?
- What does it mean to have a "communal cookery kitchen" approach to leadership?
- How can the energy transition be redesigned for people and the planet?
- How does the people-centric approach to energy transition align with the goal of engaging a wider and more diverse pool of leaders and participants?
- Why is it important to include future generations in the dialogue and decision-making processes surrounding energy transitions?
- What role does emotional intelligence play in effective leadership?
- How can the energy transition movement promote collaboration and diverse perspectives to drive meaningful change?
This episode is brought to you in partnership with the World Energy Council leading up to the 26th World Energy Congress in Rotterdam, 22-25 April 2024.
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"I think we have to cultivate emotional intelligence. When I first started off on the leadership journey, that wouldn't have been part of what people would have talked about. But these days, I think we recognize that the people who we work with...are 360-degree people who have other contexts that they're operating in. And work is not the only thing they are..."
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Achieving just transition – The wicked problem of our time
Engineering wind energy with the titans of turbines
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Time to put humans at the centre of energy transitions
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