Irina Filippova
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Apr 2025
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Chief Change Officer™: Ensemble · #281 Irina Filippova: Courage Is the Career Plan · 8 Apr 2025
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So our goal is to expose them to as many of us, as many of our colleagues as possible so that they can see that the level of professionalism with which we approach our challenges is very high and that we do what we said we would do rather than sign a contract and then perform suboptimal.
That's a great question. I'm typically asked what excites you and then on the flip side, what scares you? And sometimes it's the same thing that excites me and that scares me. And that is, of course, the potential, right? We're at the very, very start of a massive transition. again, of the transportation industry and of the energy industry.
These two are fundamental to the way in which our world works, in which our whole economy works. We're at the very, very start on this process and this will continue to grow. But as we grow, there are fits and start, there are peaks and valleys. And as entrepreneurs, we have to be very tenacious and very consistent. And again, stay in integrity with what we have promised the market to do.
The most exciting part of this job is, of course, no two days are the same. We wake up to another news announcement, another company going through a transformation, another customer going through a transformation. There's new technology coming on the market every single day. We could be going to shows and conferences every week of the year just to keep up with the technology advancements.
So it's going to continue to be a very exciting sector. It's going to continue to be a very challenging sector because, of course, change is not easy. And again, that change has to happen within before it happens outside oneself. So we're talking about a lot of people changing their mindsets, changing the way in which they work, changing what they value.
It does have to happen on the individual level and it does have to happen on the leadership level because without that, we won't see the impact that leaders can make on their respective organizations, on their respective nations, and all throughout the world, throughout the industry. It's a global chain. And that's another exciting component of this.
We're constantly in communication with other partners worldwide because, again, we are a global village now. Energy transformation, transportation transformation affects everyone. So we have to learn from those who may be ahead in one area or the other.
We have to import, export this knowledge and share this knowledge because again, we're trying to accomplish something for humanity as a whole without sounding too lofty. We're trying to create a new way that the transportation works in order to not only reduce the carbon emissions. but in order to create something more sustainable, something more reliable for the future.
So again, this change has to happen at absolutely every level.
I advise them to choose the area that fascinates them, that they have curiosity about, that interests them. Research it. Do as much as they can do to understand trends in a particular industry, in a particular company on their own. People who invest themselves.
in understanding how the world works and what challenges there are and how they can help address those challenges always land on their feet. I interview folks for roles here at Electrata all the time. We are constantly hiring for different types of roles. Hands down, I would always prefer a candidate who is invested Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you.
Thanks for having me, Vince. It's a pleasure. I grew up in Moscow, as you know. My father was a nuclear scientist, so he was in energy. But I was not. I was interested in languages. And when the time came to choose a career, I truly wanted a career that would expose me to different cultures and the way the world works. worked as it were.
So I chose a career in diplomacy, which was a very tall task for, first of all, a female. Typically, career in diplomacy would be reserved to men. But I did succeed in entering the very exclusive Moscow State Institute for International Relations, and I was studying international law.
when I had the opportunity to travel to the United States and see how, if you will, human rights practices worked in reality. And this is where my big journey began, as it were. So the career evolved. I went actually on to work for a UN think tank and peace and conflict resolution. I did that for about five years. And while it was a very, very interesting time,
in world politics, being a young person living in New York City, surrounded by kind of all the mystery of international relations. I was looking for something more challenging and potentially even more substantive as I was thinking about my future. So I decided to apply to a business school and of course a business school like Yale, a school of management.
stands out, certainly stood out for me because of their mission and the focus on leadership for business and society. And that helped me articulate where I saw myself heading as an adult, as a mature professional. I truly wanted to make a difference for society, for global society, as it were. But I also was interested in the mechanic of the business in terms of solving problems
some of the challenges that we're facing, not only the mechanism of politics that I was exposed to before. So that's how the journey started as it were. That's when we met at Yale. And when I was enrolled as an MBA student, I did not necessarily have a very clear idea of a path. If you recall, there were tracks, a finance track, a consulting track, a marketing track, a nonprofit track.
I did not see myself fully on any of the tracks because somehow that definition seemed a bit limiting. So I went down a limp. I got an airplane ticket to London during my spring break in the first year, and I went and introduced myself to BP. That was then becoming a leader in not only energy, but energy writ large.
With its new branding campaign, Beyond Petroleum, looking at alternative sources of energy, that vision really appealed to me and the company culture very much appealed to me. So that's where my journey into energy, if you will, began with that summer internship. I then got a full-time job offer upon graduation.
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