7 Letters to My Daughters: Light Lessons of Love, Leadership, and Legacy
By 2017, I had been working in my father’s company, Worldwide Oilfield Machine (WOM), for over ten years and had been recognized as the 2016...
Diversity
The Search Continues
They are the explorers, the treasure hunters in search of black gold. Every exploration and production (E&P) venture is a gamble with no certainty of...
Making Virtual Meetings Inclusive
by Richa Bansal
The case for inclusion is clear: Inclusive teams make better decisions 87 percent of the time and drive decision-making two times faster with half the...
Transformative Shifts in the Oil and Gas Industry
by Kendra Lee
Over the last two years, traditional context for decision-making has fundamentally changed, and business leaders worldwide have been thrust into a historic intersection – adapt...
Anomalies: Pioneering Women in Petroleum Geology 1917 – 2017
by Robbie Gries
Anomaly anom·a·ly | ə-ˈnä-mə-lē plural anomalies Definition: A departure from the expected or normal; a geologic feature that is different from the general surrounding and...
New Era for AAPG as Executive Committee Has Potential to Achieve Equal Representation
“I was honored to represent women in that breakthrough,” Robbie Gries says of being named the first woman president of the American Association of Petroleum...
Erika Anderson: Engineering an Inclusive Future
by Erin Twamley
For many students, math and science often feel like subjects that – even if you’re good at them –you can’t use in the real world....
Erika Symmonds and the Power of Encouragement
Encouragement changes lives. Erika Symmonds, vice president of Workforce Development and Service at GRID Alternatives, knows that for a fact. GRID Alternatives, founded in 2001,...
A Strategic 50 Year Gender Blueprint
by Ogutu Okudo
We live in a world today where discussions pertaining to gender as a prefix are almost immediately assumed to be about women’s welfare, participation and...