In today’s episode, Laura welcomes author, podcast host, co-founder, and CEO at muGrid Analytics, Amy Simpkins. Amy solves problems at the intersection of energy, technology, and economics using math and modeling.  

The clean energy industry is booming and changing the way we have thought about energy over the past 100 years. There is a disruption to the stability that we have relied on, due to the nature of innovation and the changes that come with it. Around this, there is a common theme of “both, and” and the balance that is necessary in order for them to work hand in hand. Innovation is for everyone; innovation is an inherently human process. Through that process of innovation, there is a leap between theory and practice – and the leap is a chasm.  

Tune into this episode to learn about the types of innovation, who can be an innovator (and how to do it), recognizing the need for, and knowing when to innovate, and the need for diversity, equity, and inclusion in leadership to have a boundary-breaking webbed perspective.

Thank you for tuning in! If you haven’t listened to episode 62 where Laura and Lauren Lofton talk about nonbinary identity at work, then go back and check it out!

In this episode, we cover:
-How the energy industry is changing.
-The two types of innovation and their impacts on change.
-Who can be an innovator.
-How to innovate and the human innovation cycle.
-Knowing when to implement the different types of innovation.
-Processes for recognizing the need and execution of innovation in each of our lives.

Resources and links mentioned during this episode:
-Connect with Amy via Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin.
-Learn more about muGrid Analytics here and connect with them via Facebook and Twitter.
-Tune into Amy’s podcast, the Power Flow Podcast and read her book Spiral: A Catalyst for Innovation and Expansion.
-Laura’s first book – Values First. How Knowing Your Core Beliefs Can Get You the Life and Career You Want – is now available! Grab your copy today!
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More about Amy Simpkins:

As co-founder and CEO at muGrid Analytics, Amy Simpkins solves wicked problems at the intersection of energy technology and economics using math and modeling. muGrid provides bankable techno-economic analysis, optimized control, and project development of renewable energy, energy storage, and microgrids to maximize economic return, increase energy resilience, and promote energy equity in the US and around the world. Amy is the author of Spiral: A Catalyst for Innovation and Expansion and host of the Power Flow Podcast, which amplifies diverse voices in the clean energy revolution. Amy holds a Master’s in Astronautical Engineering from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor’s in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT.