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.
In Episode 030 of Powering Your Career, David Smith is joined by Darren Miller, CEO of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), for a wide-ranging conversation about leadership, career progression, entrepreneurship and the future of Australia’s energy transition.
Darren’s career has taken him from accounting and corporate finance at EY to investment management with Consolidated Press, technology entrepreneurship, co-founding energy retailer Mojo Power and ultimately leading ARENA.
He shares the experiences that shaped his career, including the importance of backing yourself, learning from setbacks, finding mentors who provide honest feedback and being willing to say yes when opportunities arise.
The conversation also explores ARENA’s role in accelerating clean energy innovation, the enormous potential of low-cost solar, batteries, electric vehicles and green steel, and the challenges of delivering Australia’s energy transition.
Darren and Dave also discuss the impact of AI on future careers, the skills likely to be in demand, and why workplace culture, respect and personal wellbeing are fundamental to effective leadership.
An insightful conversation with one of Australia’s leading clean energy executives, bringing Season 2 of Powering Your Career to a close.
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