Delivered in collaboration with the University of Oklahoma.
Developing exceptional natural gas leaders to foster a reliable, innovative, and abundant energy future.
Accredited Natural Gas Executive (ANGE) will enable high-potential industry leaders to benefit from intensive learning and leave equipped with new strategies to support them in the challenges ahead as they navigate the energy evolution.
The program is designed for diverse learning experiences such as face-to-face learning, short brainstorming sessions, peer-to-peer knowledge sharing, and technical applications. ANGE provides participants opportunities for intelligent and personal reflections on what it means to be a leader and to succeed as a thought leader and professional for organizations. Pre-readings and self-assessments encourage participants to reflect on their role in the organization and find opportunities for improvement.
Each participant will be assigned a seasoned natural gas executive as a coach and mentor.
Program participants will see their experience as a career milestone and a testament to their organization’s commitment to their professional development and building an industry-wide culture of learning and innovation.
Track: Building a Dialogue for Innovation
ESG Supercharged: Driving Organizational Progress and Sustaining the Stakeholder Connection
ANGE’s ESG immersion will be a groundbreaking session that will push you to the forefront of ESG innovation. As a leader, you understand the complexities of managing both internal and external stakeholders while driving ESG strategy and performance. Amid the changing ESG landscape, you must also navigate a polarized political climate and balance the financial and ecological sustainability of your strategies. As an incoming executive, it is time to redefine your understanding of business fundamentals for the future.
ESG Supercharged curriculum provides a practical and powerful mix of insights for senior executives who want to lead the way in ESG innovation. You will engage in a productive dialogue with the University of Oklahoma’s pioneering instructional team and the industry’s corporate thought leaders on how to best engage with ESG issues in a manner that promotes long-term shareholder value while serving as responsible stewards for environmental and societal change.
In this immersive program, you will discover how to assess corporate exposure to climate risk and opportunities, refine leadership skills for positive stakeholder management, navigate conflicting stakeholder demands, prepare for ESG activism, and strategically engage with political and regulatory stakeholders. You will gain best practices, data, and processes that you can immediately deploy in your organizations, including assessing strategies to address ESG risks and opportunities and developing internal governance structures.
This gathering of incredible institutional and practitioner strategist will give you the chance to dive deep into the skill sets required for successful leadership in ESG, including corporate diplomacy and engaging with stakeholders. You will gain a playbook for overcoming organizational silos and mitigating political risk. You will also analyze scenarios of climate change and the impact on asset values, gain perspective on alternative energy sources and innovation, and investigate risk factors that make firms more likely to face shareholder activism.
Tackle the critical topics of climate risks and opportunities, socio-political risk, shareholder activism, and corporate political activity. At the end of this immersion, you will have the tools and know the tactics to unlock value and put ESG at the forefront of value creation.
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Outcomes
Practitioners
Dr. David Ferris, Chief Sustainability Officer, Vital Energy
Trina Engels, Director of ESG, Talos Energy
Jill Cooper, Orion Resource Partners
Track: Building a Dialogue for Innovation
Powering Our Future: Innovation, Leadership, and the Energy Evolution + GRADUATION
ANGE’s final session is where everything you have worked toward will transform you into a bold and visionary leader, equipped with the knowledge, insights, and confidence to navigate the unprecedented levels of volatility in the energy landscape.
With the global energy industry accelerating transformation through technological advancements and innovation, this is your balance between driving your organization’s growth and innovating for future demand. Our extraordinary immersion program offers the ultimate opportunity to gain crucial insights from industry experts, thought leaders, and institutional masterminds.
Acquire a strategic framework for assessing uncertainty in the energy landscape, developing adaptive strategies for the future, analyzing risk management, implementing new business models to increase profitability, and assessing the societal, economic, environmental, ethical, and legal impacts of energy systems. You will also learn how to lead change through influential communication and build alignment to lead the industry forward.
Your final immersion will be a transformative experience, bringing each of you together with other industry leaders from the last 18 months to collectively tackle the challenges of the energy evolution. This final curriculum marks the beginning of your emergence as the ethical, innovative, and visionary leader that the energy industry is depending on to drive our future.
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Track: Leading Enterprise Transformation
Agile Organizations: Building Capacities to Sustain a Culture Equipped for Change
In the wake of the pandemic, the natural gas industry has experienced a significant flux of change, creating new challenges for organizations that were once stable and consistent in the workforce. Studies show that C-suite executives and upper management often don’t agree on how their organizations need to remake themselves, leading to considerable resistance from upper managers when implementing new plans.
This immersion takes a deep dive into an organization’s culture of change champions, the business’s key operators, and the resistors of change that can impact and influence successful and failed attempts at change management and organizational development. We will explore the latest post-Covid findings from surveys, focus groups, and various studies to understand the current challenges and opportunities facing the natural gas industry, and what you, as a new executive, can do about it.
We will examine new strategies and approaches for overcoming resistance to change, with a focus on developing a culture of change champions throughout the organization. We will also explore how to identify key operators who can drive successful change management initiatives and how to work with resistors of change to overcome their objections and bring them on board with new plans.
By the end of this immersion, you will have a clear understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing the natural gas industry and how to successfully navigate the complex landscape of change management and organizational development. You will leave with new strategies and approaches to overcome resistance to change and drive successful initiatives throughout your organization.
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Track: Strategy, Social Responsibility, and the Business Environment
Revolutionizing the Natural Gas Value Chain: A Strategic Vision for New Leadership
In this session, you will explore the global natural gas supply and demand, international gas trade and infrastructure, gas policy, regulation, safety, and environmental issues, as well as the natural gas resource base, including conventional and unconventional sources.
Designed to provide executives with a confident understanding of the value chain outside of individual segments, this immersion will provide the skills, knowledge, and tools to lead and transform the industry as a whole. Historically, the natural gas industry has segmented itself, with each portion unknowingly recognizing the needs, challenges, and trends of the other. However, in today’s interconnected world, it is crucial to have a holistic and extensive understanding of the natural gas value chain inclusive of production, transportation, storage, and distribution.
We will explore the latest technological advancements, regulatory and legal frameworks, global vantages, and industry trends that impact natural gas from extraction to distribution. Our immersive experience will equip you with a comprehensive understanding of the natural gas value chain, including gas exploration, drilling, and production, gas processing, storage, and pipeline, gas trading and marketing, gas utilization, LNG, chemical processing, and refinement.
By the end of this session, you will have a deep understanding of the natural gas industry value chain and be equipped with the skills, knowledge, and tools to lead and transform the industry.
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Track: Strategy, Social Responsibility, and the Business Environment
Energy Policy: Defining Strategy for the Natural Gas Industry in a Rapidly Changing World
April’s session is packed to equip you with the key aspects of energy policies that are impacting your organization and prepare you with action plans to maintain the health of your organization in the face of fluctuating energy policies at the federal level.
At an elevated level, discover government funding and regulations around climate change and emissions reduction, renewable energy, energy security, global markets, and innovation and technology. As a natural gas executive, it is critical to know international, federal, and state regulations regarding emissions reduction, carbon pricing and credits, energy efficiency, renewable energy technologies, and emerging technologies such as CCUS, hydrogen fuel and hydrogen fuel blending, and battery storage.
Explore existing and new energy policies at the federal level that pose challenges for the natural gas industry when maintaining stakeholder confidence and thus, shares. Understand the Biden Administration’s Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost GHG (Greenhouse Gases) and their responsibility to determine the cost of carbon emissions, how changes to the Methane Emissions Gas (MEGA) can hamper operational efficiencies and cause revenue losses and carbon pricing and credits.
In a roundtable, practitioner-guided facilitation, discover in-progress strategies that executives utilize to address present and future challenges presented by energy policy and global demands. These exercises will cover diversification, innovation, macro-industry perspectives, stakeholder engagement, transparency, and collaboration.
By fostering and adopting proactive, genuine, and strategic approaches, natural gas executives can execute the responsibility of sustaining the health of their organizations and support a lasting energy future.
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Track: Strategy, Social Responsibility, and the Business Environment
It’s About to Be Your First Rodeo: Executive-Level Strategy and Corporation-Wide Execution
As an emerging executive, it is crucial to possess the necessary skills and knowledge to navigate the intricate challenges and trends that our industry presents. This entails relinquishing the gratification of being a subject-matter expert and striving to adopt a higher perspective that facilitates corporate-wide execution.
In this immersion, you will gain a deep understanding of the key issues facing natural gas leadership, including regulatory and environmental concerns, market fluctuations, embracing emerging technologies versus grappling cost, workforce challenges, the global energy evolution, geopolitical risks, and investor pressure. Our immersive experience will provide you with the tools and strategies to successfully navigate these challenges and create a sustainable future for your organization.
In a hands-on style workshop, you will work through introducing carbon-offsetting initiatives with a strategic approach through executive-level planning and corporation-wide execution. You will be required to think through various outcomes and evaluate effectiveness across multiple channels to ensure shared endorsement and support. This exercise will provide an engaging and clear understanding of how to develop and implement effective strategies that align with your organization’s sustainability goals, and how to engage stakeholders at all levels to drive corporation-wide execution.
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Track: Strategy, Social Responsibility, and the Business Environment
Combining Financial and Operational Insights to Boost Performance and Deliver Stakeholder Value
Leave your scientific calculator at home for September’s immersion session, specifically designed to equip executives with the tactics and knowledge critical to maximize shareholder confidence and value through financial aptitude and multi-department budget analysis and operational insights.
Executives will be exposed to a broad range of topics, inclusive of financial statement analysis, budgeting and forecasting, financial risk management, capital budgeting, and valuation and investment practices in the natural gas industry. Maximize with instructors and practitioners, gaining a deep understanding of competitive comparisons, values of reserves in the ground, corporate restructuring, legal and tax environment for mergers and spin-offs, and valuations of bonds and preferred stocks.
Additionally, you will have the opportunity to workshop with today’s top financial leaders in our industry, so you can identify and master the techniques needed to prepare for and confidently navigate quarterly earnings calls and investor meetings. These best practices will help you successfully balance the demands of shareholders with the resources relied upon by your frontline stakeholders.
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Track: Strategy, Social Responsibility, and the Business Environment
Natural Gas Marketing and Risk Management for Global Resilience: Navigating Uncertainty and Building Sustainable Growth
Combined with the University of Oklahoma’s Finance Trading and Risk Management NGEM program, November’s immersion will equip you with the skills, knowledge, and tools necessary to manage risk and enhance returns for your organization. Developed by instructors and aided with insights from industry experts, curriculum delivers senior-level executives with a comprehensive understanding of marketing and risk management concepts and practices.
Course topics and discussion will cover risk identification, analysis, measurement, and reporting, as well as strategies for managing and mitigating risk. Executives will work together to understand tactics to develop and implement effective risk management plans, establish key performance indicators (KPIs) for measuring success, and leverage marketing techniques for improved returns.
Through interactive case studies, real-world examples, and simulations, participants will gain practical experience in risk management and marketing strategies with scenario-based decision-making experiences. Executives will also explore the latest trends and developments in risk management and marketing, including emerging risks and opportunities in the global marketplace.
Upon completion of the program, executives will have a deep understanding of the principles of marketing and risk management, as well as the competencies and tools necessary to manage risk and boost returns to aid in global resilience.
You will be equipped with the knowledge and confidence to lead your organizations with agility and precision in today’s dynamic and rapidly changing business environment.
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Outcomes
Track: Building a Dialogue for Innovation
ESG Supercharged: Driving Organizational Progress and Sustaining the Stakeholder Connection
ANGE’s ESG immersion will be a groundbreaking session that will push you to the forefront of ESG innovation. As a leader, you understand the complexities of managing both internal and external stakeholders while driving ESG strategy and performance. Amid the changing ESG landscape, you must also navigate a polarized political climate and balance the financial and ecological sustainability of your strategies. As an incoming executive, it is time to redefine your understanding of business fundamentals for the future.
ESG Supercharged curriculum provides a practical and powerful mix of insights for senior executives who want to lead the way in ESG innovation. You will engage in a productive dialogue with the University of Oklahoma’s pioneering instructional team and the industry’s corporate thought leaders on how to best engage with ESG issues in a manner that promotes long-term shareholder value while serving as responsible stewards for environmental and societal change.
In this immersive program, you will discover how to assess corporate exposure to climate risk and opportunities, refine leadership skills for positive stakeholder management, navigate conflicting stakeholder demands, prepare for ESG activism, and strategically engage with political and regulatory stakeholders. You will gain best practices, data, and processes that you can immediately deploy in your organizations, including assessing strategies to address ESG risks and opportunities and developing internal governance structures.
This gathering of incredible institutional and practitioner strategist will give you the chance to dive deep into the skill sets required for successful leadership in ESG, including corporate diplomacy and engaging with stakeholders. You will gain a playbook for overcoming organizational silos and mitigating political risk. You will also analyze scenarios of climate change and the impact on asset values, gain perspective on alternative energy sources and innovation, and investigate risk factors that make firms more likely to face shareholder activism.
Tackle the critical topics of climate risks and opportunities, socio-political risk, shareholder activism, and corporate political activity. At the end of this immersion, you will have the tools and know the tactics to unlock value and put ESG at the forefront of value creation.
Objectives
Outcomes
Practitioners
Dr. David Ferris, Chief Sustainability Officer, Vital Energy
Trina Engels, Director of ESG, Talos Energy
Jill Cooper, Orion Resource Partners
Track: Building a Dialogue for Innovation
Powering Our Future: Innovation, Leadership, and the Energy Evolution + GRADUATION
ANGE’s final session is where everything you have worked toward will transform you into a bold and visionary leader, equipped with the knowledge, insights, and confidence to navigate the unprecedented levels of volatility in the energy landscape.
With the global energy industry accelerating transformation through technological advancements and innovation, this is your balance between driving your organization’s growth and innovating for future demand. Our extraordinary immersion program offers the ultimate opportunity to gain crucial insights from industry experts, thought leaders, and institutional masterminds.
Acquire a strategic framework for assessing uncertainty in the energy landscape, developing adaptive strategies for the future, analyzing risk management, implementing new business models to increase profitability, and assessing the societal, economic, environmental, ethical, and legal impacts of energy systems. You will also learn how to lead change through influential communication and build alignment to lead the industry forward.
Your final immersion will be a transformative experience, bringing each of you together with other industry leaders from the last 18 months to collectively tackle the challenges of the energy evolution. This final curriculum marks the beginning of your emergence as the ethical, innovative, and visionary leader that the energy industry is depending on to drive our future.
Objectives
Outcomes
The Accredited Natural Gas Executive (ANGE) program is designed for high-impact, top-performing individuals—from function heads to directors to vice presidents—with 10–20 years of experience in roles of increasing responsibility.
ANGE is designed with your needs in mind. Busy executives have competing priorities so we have developed the program to run over 18 months to allow you to be fully present in the immersion and manage your responsibilities and company priorities. ANGE is structured to be flexible with your time without compromising the depth of education.
Senior leaders who want to guide their organizations toward high performance and build their leadership capabilities to deliver high-performing teams, innovation and future-ready skills will enroll in ANGE.
As an ANGE participant, you will acquire knowledge, resources, tools and insights to curate your own playbook for transforming your organization and sustaining a competitive advantage. You will network with accomplished peers from across the industry enabling collaboration and building relationships that will benefit you for the entirety of your career.
The natural gas business landscape is evolving. Southern Gas Association’s Accredited Natural Gas Executive program is designed to equip high-potential business leaders with the skills required to navigate an era of uncertainty and transformation successfully.
World-renowned faculty from the University of Oklahoma’s Ronnie K. Irani Center for Energy Solutions are thought leaders and industry experts equipping you to navigate and drive change.
ANGE provides a 360-degree view and integrated learning experience to help you gain the knowledge, insight and confidence to drive dynamic business results.
Opportunity to earn credit toward a Master’s degree in Natural Gas Engineering and Leadership.
Participating organizations will have first access to the University of Oklahoma’s energy focused interns through a career fair hosted by SGA.
The ANGE program is composed of three modules that together will prepare the executive to manage effectively in a changing environment:
20 Days over 18 Months
2 Days every other month
*Class size is limited to 20 enrollees.
Opportunities are available to sponsor a scholarship for high-potential leaders to attend this transformative executive program. By partnering with us as a sponsor, your company can play a vital role in nurturing talent and fostering the growth of our industry.