Who We Are
We are a community of business professionals developing frameworks, standards, and solutions to help utility professionals build the customer-centric utility of the future.
Our members advance their personal, professional, and company goals through opportunities to influence the collaborative’s focus areas, and deliverables.
Who We Represent
Our membership body includes representatives from electricity, gas, water, and wastewater investor-owned utilities, municipalities, cooperatives, and the vendors who support them.
Because of their value helping us with our transformation goals, the collaborative includes educators and researchers. Additionally, students interested in learning more about the utility industry can join for free.
Participate at Your Own Pace
Our Differentiators
Knowledge
ACQUISITION
Knowledge is power, so we assemble experts for meetings, mastermind panels, published content, and Annual Summit.
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Networking
Who you know is as important as what you know, so invite the right people to our community and offer effective ways to connect.
Leadership
Development
Transformation initiatives fall short without the right people leading them, so we offer a robust leadership development learning path.
Featured Virtual Sessions
Virtual Roundtable
Tesla, Algonquin Power & Utilities, and Other Companies on Innovating in Highly Regulated Industries
January 14, 2020
Leadership Path Panel
ON-DEMAND
Cleaning Up Operational Clutter to Build a Customer-First Company
Virtual Roundtable
Don’t Forget Your Employees
February 11, 2021
Featured Panel
Learn from Tesla, Algonquin Power & Other Companies About Innovating in Regulated Industries
With transformation intiatives high on the list of corporate priorities, many companies are hiring innovation executives and strategists to guild them on their path forward. In many cases these folks are clashing with traditional leaders focused on maintaining the table stakes of highly regulated businesss like safety and reliability.
Hear cross-industry insights for acheieving the right balance during this important panel discussion
Leadership Development Learning Path
Ask the Leadership Coach
Weekly questions answered by Leadership Development Coaches.
Learn from the Woodcutter Take Time to Sharpen the Axe
You are critical to building the #customercentric utility of the future.
To help you avoid being “transformed” out of a job, we are offering the leadership development learning path, “Developing the Customer-Centric Utility Leader of the Future” that will include sessions and content to help you:
-Provide direction
-Create structure
-Build trust
-Inspire hope
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Get Started
You’re first question is likely, “How much time is this going to require?” We’re offering a 1/720 engagement opportunity. One hour out of the typical 720 hours you have each month is all you need to get started.
Visit our calendar page and register for any or all of our open upcoming 60-minute leadership development sessions. Can’t make it? Register anyway and we’ll send you the recording.
Become a member of the collaborative and receive access to additional member-only leadership development opportunities including a pass to our annual summit that will include leadership development workshop.
Utility 2030 Leadership Roles
board of directors
Team of Utility 2030 Founders and company executives representing electric, gas, water & wastewater, utilities.
advisory committee
Emerging or growing utility leaders and platinum member, vendor executives.
Meet Our Executive Board
Vanessa Edmonds
Co-founder, Executive Director & Board Chair
Frankie McDermott
Chief Energy Delivery Officer & Executive Sponsor of U2030 Leadership Development
SMUD
Sean Vanslyke
CEO
SEMO Electric Cooperative
Jack Doueck
Co-Founder
Utility 2030 Collaborative
Larry Leiken
Co-Founder
Utility 2030 Collaborative
Meet Our Advisory Committee
Christina Corcoran
Advisory Committee Chair & COO
Appos Advisors
Brandy Bolden
Director Revenue Services & Operations
SMUD
Bashir Bseirani
CEO
Avertra
Theresa Burch
Customer Solutions, Billing & Payments
Puget Sound Energy
Tracy Carlson
Director, Community Energy Services
SMUD
Katy Cook
Director Transformation Customer Operations & Strategy
Liberty Utilities
Audra Dzraga
VP Operations
Energy Central
Kay Fuhrman
Executive Search Partner & Leadership Advisor
Heidrick & Struggles
Josh Gould
Director of Innovations
Duquesne Light
David Holmes
Director of Transformation Operations Strategy
Liberty Utilities
Chris Moyer
Senior Research Director
Zpryme
Dave Reim
President
Questline
James Riley
Partner
Appos Advisors
EJ Schuck
Director of Revenue Mgmt
Duquesne Light
Mark Wilkinson
Senior Vice President
IBEX
We offer no-cost memberships to educators, researchers & students
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