Bethe Ansatz - How a Crisis Can Change Your Life: Lessons in Command Learned While Responding to the BP Oil Spill
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Professor of Practice & Associate Director, Masters of Engineering Program, R.F. Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Bethe House Fellow
In 2010, I served as Incident Commander for the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill cleanup—a response effort of unprecedented scale and complexity. Under intense global scrutiny, I led high-performing teams through political pressure and environmental devastation. Join me as I share the leadership lessons this crisis taught me about resilience, human nature, and how it transformed both my career and my outlook on life.