Powering Your Career
Powering Your Career
Podcast Description
Powering Your Career Podcast 🎙️ Bringing You Insights from Australia’s Energy Leaders Welcome to the Powering Your Career Podcast, a show dedicated to exploring the energy transition and the professionals shaping its future. Hosted by David Smith, founding partner and director of West Energy and West Recruitment, this podcast delivers authentic conversations with senior leaders from Australia’s energy sector. Whether you’re an experienced energy professional or considering a career transition into the industry, this podcast will equip you with: ✅ Career development insights from top energy executives ✅ Leadership lessons in a rapidly evolving sector ✅ Perspectives on the energy transition and its challenges ✅ Mental health and wellness strategies for thriving in a high-pressure industry Why Listen to Powering Your Career? The energy transition is one of the biggest shifts in Australia’s economy, and it’s being led by people who are navigating new technologies, policies, and challenges. Our goal is to bring you real stories and actionable advice from energy leaders who have built successful careers and are shaping the future of the sector. Meet Your Host: David Smith David Smith has over 20 years of experience in executive recruitment and leads a team specializing in placing professionals across the entire energy supply chain. His passion for connecting great talent with transformative opportunities makes him the perfect host to guide you through these conversations.
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The podcast focuses on the energy transition and professional development within the industry, covering topics such as leadership lessons, career transitions, mental health strategies, and the future of renewable energy, with episodes featuring professionals like Andy Evans discussing offshore wind and Daphne Yao on innovation in energy retail.
Powering Your Career Podcast 🎙️
Powering Your Career is Australia’s leading energy careers podcast, sharing the stories of the people shaping Australia’s energy future. 🍃⚡
Hosted by David Smith, Founder and Executive Director of Enertia Talent, each episode features candid conversations with leaders across energy, renewables, infrastructure, investment and technology.
We go beyond job titles to explore how people built their careers, the decisions they made, risks they took, setbacks they faced and lessons they learned.
Hear perspectives on leadership, career changes, building high-performing teams, resilience and innovation, alongside the challenges and opportunities driving Australia’s energy transition.
Whether you work in energy, want to enter the sector or seek lessons from its leaders, Powering Your Career brings you career stories, practical insights and ideas to guide your next step.
Learn from their experience and take charge of your career.
Conversations with the people shaping Australia’s energy future.
Donald Jenkins’ career has taken him from the US Marine Corps and US Navy submarine program to technology, data science and renewable energy.
In this episode of Powering Your Career, David Smith speaks with Donald Jenkins, Chief Operating Officer at FRV Australia, about the experiences and career transitions that have shaped his approach to leadership.
Don shares what more than 20 years in the military taught him about discipline, teamwork and decision-making under pressure, and how he went about completely reinventing his career when he decided to move into clean energy.
They also discuss the importance of building genuine professional networks, mentoring and developing people, the growing role of data and AI in the energy sector, and what Don has learnt since moving from the US to Australia.
The conversation also explores Australia’s energy transition, including the need for greater storage and network capacity, stronger market signals and genuine community engagement to build social licence.
A wide-ranging conversation about career reinvention, curiosity, leadership and continuing to learn, regardless of where you are in your career.
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