Ep. 10 | Salary Negotiation Tips & Taking Risks to Make Big Career Moves | Julia Hamm of SEPA
In today’s podcast, Catherine speaks with a woman who is leading and solving environmental injustices at the age of 27. That person is Julia Hamm, the President & CEO of Smart Electric Power Alliance, a non-profit organization helping electric utilities implement and deploy clean energy and distributed resources on a global scale. Julia and Catherine discuss the value of taking significant risks to achieve greater career paths, salary negotiation, and her own personal champions alon...
23 Sep 202024min
Ep. 9 | NEXTracker’s Mentorship Program & the Formation of Renewables Forward to Advance DEIJ | Dan Shugar, CEO of NEXTracker
Did you know 90% of solar employees believe mentorship is critical to advancement, yet only 37% of clean energy companies offer these programs, according to the Solar Foundation? NEXTracker is one such company that offers a robust mentorship program for women, people of color & lower-income residents in order to facilitate greater diversity, equity & inclusion within the clean energy industry. Catherine speaks with Dan Shugar, CEO of NEXTracker, about this particular program, in...
15 Sep 202029min
Ep. 8 | Clean Energy for Biden & How Climate Change Could be the Issue That Tips the Scales of the Upcoming Presidential Election | Nicole Steele
Is climate change the tipping point for the upcoming election? In this episode, we talk to Nicole Steele, Co-Chair of Clean Energy for Biden, about CE4B’s impressive accomplishments thus far and their plan for an equitable, clean energy-led economic recovery. Are you looking for your next role in climate tech? Join the largest growing network of cleantech professionals and be the first to know about when industry leading cleantech companies first post new job openings, from development ...
18 Aug 202015min
Ep. 7 | Why UtilityAPI’s Diverse Management Team Is a Strength & How Its CEO Transitioned Into Cleantech From Bartending | Devin Hampton of UtilityAPI
Is having zero overlap in demographics a strength for management teams? Devin Hampton, CEO of UtilityAPI answers this very question and why his recent LinkedIn post about the lack of diversity & inclusion in the clean energy industry went viral. Devin and Catherine also will speak about what it takes to transition into & succeed in this industry today and Devin's own transition from bartending to working for President Obama & the U.S. Department of Energy to eventually become the ...
11 Aug 202018min
Ep. 6 | Are you an inventor looking to move your clean technology to market or do you want to provide business guidance for early stage cleantech companies? | Kathy Magruder of The Maryland Energy Innovation Accelerator
Are you an inventor looking to move your clean technology to market but need some extra support? Are you interested in providing strategic business guidance for early stage cleantech companies? The Maryland Energy Innovation Accelerator (MEIA) is bringing key team members & strategic partners to new companies that are helping to mitigate climate change. One wind energy company has already earned sponsorship from Exelon as a result of MEIA. In today’s episode, we will speak wit...
21 Juli 20207min
Ep. 5 | Building a Solar Development Firm from the Ground Up & How Minority-Owned Businesses Tap into Explosive Growth in PPAs | Gilbert Campbell of Volt Energy
What does it take to build a solar development firm from the ground up and how can minority-owned businesses tap into explosive growth in PPAs? In today’s Green Light episode, Catherine will answer this question and more with Gilbert Campbell, CEO & Co-Founder of Volt Energy Utility & Board Member of SEIA & American Association of Blacks in Energy. Gilbert has been featured in the Huffington Post, Fast Company, and the Atlantic for his leadership in clean energy, environment...
14 Juli 202016min
Ep. 4 | Intersectionality, Climate Justice & Why More Cleantech Companies Can & Should Abide by Triple Bottom Line | Bee Hui Yeh of The Power of We
In this Green Light episode, Catherine speaks with Bee Hui Yee, the Founder of The Power of We, a social impact consultancy, focused on climate justice and the Black Lives Matter movement. We get into why more cleantech companies can and should abide by the triple bottom line and the importance of focusing on intersectionality. The framework for understanding how aspects of an individual’s social and political and other dimensions of their identity, such as race, class, sexuality, or ability,...
7 Juli 202027min
Ep. 3 | What was it like to launch a cleantech startup during the COVID-19 pandemic? | Katherine Ryzhaya of Marvel Power Group
In this Green Light episode, Catherine speaks with Katherine Ryzhaya, CEO and Founder of Marvel Power Group, a consulting firm with a fresh, markets-based approach to value creation for their energy, water, manufacturing and transportation clients. We discuss what it was like to launch a cleantech startup during the COVID-19 pandemic. And the key differences between the sales and business development worlds, how to handle mansplaining, as well as the most challenging roles to find div...
17 Juni 20209min
