Mentoring and Sponsoring

Maria Angela Capello is a renowned leader in the energy sector. The lead author of Learned in the Trenches: Insights into Leadership and Resilience (Springer, 2018), she was the first woman to supervise seismic crews in the jungles of Venezuela, to advance a career that spans three continents. Maria Angela has had leading roles at Kuwait Oil Company, Halliburton and Petroleos de Venezuela SA, PDVSA. She was awarded the Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia (Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy) honorary distinction by the President of the Italian Republic. She received the highest individual recognition of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the Honorary Membership in 2019, and the Special Commendation and Lifetime Membership Awards by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG). She is a Physicist from the Universidad Simon Bolivar (Venezuela), a M.Sc. of the Colorado School of Mines (USA) and is certified in coaching, training and marketing. Dr. Eve Sprunt was the 2006 SPE President and is an SPE Honorary Member. She has 35 years of experience, 21 years with Mobil and 14 years with Chevron. In 2013 Eve received the Achievement Award from the Society of Women Engineers. She was the 2018 President of the American Geosciences Institute. She was the founder of the Society of Core Analysts in 1985. Her S.B. and S.M. degrees are from MIT (Earth and Planetary Sciences) and her Ph.D. (Geophysics) from Stanford where she was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in Geophysics . She has written more than 120 editorial columns, holds 23 patents, and has 28 technical publications. She is the author of A Guide for Dual-Career Couples: Rewriting the Rules (Praeger in May 2016) and Dearest Audrey: An Unlikely Love Story (2019).

Introduction.- The Mentees: What they need and what they want.- Mentors: Inside and Out.- The Real Cases: Stories of Mentees-Mentors that created an effective story of improvement.- Invited Interviews.- The Learnings.- Conclusions.- References.