Becoming Mommygineer: One Engineer’s Perspective on Finding Balance
Engineer or Mommy? Call me Mommygineer Change does not come easily for me. Yet, after 16 years in a full-time job as an engineer in…
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Wendy D’Attilio: Rediscovering the Energy Within
Wendy D’Attilio finds herself in unfamiliar territory Having been in the regulatory side of industry for 35 years, in a variety of sectors from waste…
Why Energy Needs Women to Help Rebuild Our Infrastructure
In 2017, a rapid succession of powerful hurricanes battered coastlines from Florida to Texas, the Virgin Islands to Puerto Rico. Collectively, we realized something we’ve…
Rock your Personal Brand on LinkedIn: A Cheat Sheet
One of the questions we get asked here at Pink Petro is, ‘how do I build my personal brand?’. We gathered some top tips from…
Blue Oceans Crush Red Oceans: Why I Formed a Business and Not a Charity
I grew up in Middle Class America during the Reagan Administration. It was a time when civics and free enterprise were prolifically taught in junior…
A Return to Work is Now Easier
It was 2014 when I took my paper napkin scribble idea to Halliburton and Shell. They were “in”. Despite the crash of oil prices from…
Why I Leaned Out
I’m a big fan of Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In. I read it on a flight to London in 2013 and it was a game changer.…
Making Self Care a Priority
Jenny McCauley, SVP of Administration at Southwestern Energy (SWN), shared her deeply personal and at times alarming story of near-death and physical collapse in a…
Your Body Keeps Score – And It Always Wins
The evening started out with getting ready for a charity gala, ended with a life-changing experience. Jenny McCauley, SVP of Southwestern Energy, was socializing and…
Self-Care is Not Selfish
If there is one take-away about self-care from Thursday’s Coach’s Corner with Jenny McCauley, it’s this: “Your body keeps score. And, your body always wins.”…
Empowering Women on a Global Scale
ExxonMobil’s Pam Darwin shares her tales of trial and triumph. Pam Darwin, Vice President of Exploration, Africa at ExxonMobil faced challenges early on in her…
Op-ed: Capitol Hill Hearing Shows Why Energy Sector Needs Diversity
This originally appeared in the Houston Business Journal’s OP-ED column on March 1, 2019 When I was asked to testify on Capitol Hill this week,…
Colette Honorable Built a Life and a Legacy on GRIT
Colette Honorable is originally from Arkansas. Still bearing a slight trace of a Southern drawl — she introduces herself as a “grit”: girl raised in…
Helena Bourdillon, UK Freediver to Keynote HERWorld19 London
FREEDIVER | SPEAKER | BREATH TRAINER Meet Helena Bourdillon. She is 44 years old and has survived and triumphed over chronic depression. Since then, she…
Career Tips Over Coffee: Find Your Strength
Normally when I write about your strengths, I’m referring to characteristics that you can leverage for career success. Today I’m focused on a different kind…
Overcoming Challenges Through Persistence and Faith
Meet Patricia Guillory, the Chief Financial Officer of Gulf Copper & Manufacturing Corp. Gulf Copper provides services for the repair, conversion and refurbishment of offshore…
Otaku and The Purple Cow – Looking For Something Special
Marketing and business development are not the same for this industry as they are for shoe industry, athletic equipment, or food and beverage sales. I…
Dionne Auguste on Building a Personal Brand in a Foreign Land
This week on Profiles in GRIT, we meet Dionne Auguste. Dionne is the operations manager for NES Global Talent in Perth, Australia. NES is a workforce provider that…
The Fight For My Son’s Life: Lessons Learned
It’s 1995. My son is less than 12 months old, has already been hospitalized countless times for pneumonia and, now, infected by Clostridium, a bac…
