MCJ AMA: Tisha Schuller - Adamantine Energy
Join us in the MCJ Community Slack for our next MCJ Ask-Me-Anything with Tisha Schuller, founding CEO of Adamantine Energy.
Let’s meet our guest…
Meet Tisha: With a background as the former president and CEO of the Colorado Oil & Gas Association and as a strategic advisor for Stanford University's Natural Gas Initiative, Tisha offers valuable insights into the energy sector. She's a member of the Natural Petroleum Council and has been on the advisory board to the Secretary of Energy under the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations. In 2017, Tisha chaired Stanford’s symposium to reduce energy poverty in the developing world using natural gas. Tisha has a B.S. from Stanford University, and serves on many academic and non-profit boards including The Breakthrough Institute, The Energy for Growth Hub, The Denver Museum of Nature & Science Institute for Science & Policy Strategic Council, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin, and the Colorado Wyoming Red Cross.
She has authored three books, most recently, Real Decarbonization: How Oil and Gas Companies Are Seizing the Low-Carbon Future, as well as The Gamechanger's Playbook: How Oil & Gas Leaders Thrive in an Era of Continuous Disruption, and Accidentally Adamant, her own story of her time running the Colorado Oil & Gas Association. Tisha authors a weekly series entitled Both of These Things Are True and hosts the Energy Thinks podcast.
About Adamantine Energy: Adamantine Energy advises energy companies on translating sustainability aspiration to action. At Adamantine, Tisha consults with clients ranging from Fortune 100 energy companies to nonprofit environmental organizations on topics related to energy policy, business strategy, politics, and community engagement. Tisha comes from oil and gas, and now she's focused on breaking down knowledge silos around the energy transition - helping oil and gas leaders navigate their companies through it.
→ MCJ Podcast: Published on 2nd January 2024, Cody’s episode with Tisha is here.
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Our AMA with Tisha will start on Thursday 8th February at 9.30am PST - 12.30pm EST - 5.30pm GMT - 6.30pm CET and will run asynchronously in the MCJ AMA slack channel for 24 hours.
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In Cody’s conversation with Tisha, they cover:
[05:10]: Different mindsets on energy and climate and how to speak to an oil and gas audience
[06:57]: Climate “personas” and how Tisha finds common ground among them
[10:12]: The assumption that everyone thinks they're doing good
[13:07]: Lessons from a DAC project community engagement
[16:01]: Perspective on youth activists opposing projects
[18:18]: Challenges permitting any new energy projects
[21:27]: Tisha's personal journey on fossil fuel use views
[23:38]: Consequences of US stopping oil and gas production
[32:02]: Oil and gas company evolution archetypes
[37:20]: Role of startups vs large companies in the energy transition
[45:13]: Making space for oil and gas in climate solutions
→ You can find a transcript of the full conversation here.
You can also learn more about Tisha's work via...
Tisha’s blog, Both Of These Things Are True
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