The SPE San Joaquin Valley Section Invites you to attend a General Meeting in Bakersfield, California, featuring our guest speaker, Behrooz Fatahi, former SPE International President.
Topic: A Leadership Approach to Management
Abstract: This lecture offers a discussion of perceptions of management and leadership, and how the ability to manage is augmented through leadership. The talk is very beneficial for employees, employees who want to become managers, and current managers who wish to become future effective leaders.
Although leadership training has become popular in recent years, it seems that lack of proper practice has diminished its impact on management effectiveness resulting in a persistent poor employee engagement at the workplace.
While managers plan, organize, and measure value, leader managers take the additional steps of inspiring, motivating, enabling, and adding value. It will be shown that the key to success for an organization is to transform its managers to leader managers through the ongoing process of soft competency learning followed by effective soft capable practicing. A new Leadership-Management model which offers a new leadership approach to management is introduced and explained.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Behrooz Fattahi holds Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace Engineering and in Mechanical Engineering from Iowa State University. After 37 years of working in the industry, he retired from Aera Energy LLC, an affiliate of Royal Dutch Shell and ExxonMobil companies in 2014. In his last position as the Learning Advisor, he taught internal company technical courses including topics on reservoir engineering and enhanced oil recovery.
He served as the Executive Editor of the SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering Journal, President of SPE Americas, VP-Finance, and SPE Foundation Vice President. He also served as a member of the United States National Petroleum Council. He is the recipient of AIME/SPE’s DeGolyer Medal for Distinguished Service, AIME’s Presidential Citation, recognized by SPE as a “Distinguished Member”, “A Peer Apart,” and elected as AIME/SPE’s “Honorary Member.” He was a 2018-2019 SPE “Distinguished Lecturer.”
Dr. Fattahi was elected as the 2010 President of SPE International, and as the 2014 President of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers. He is now the President of the EnerTrain Institute, providing petroleum heavy oil training and consulting as well as lectures, and workshops on soft competencies internationally.
Time: Doors open at 11:00AM for lunch and networking
Program begins at 11:30 AM
Registration Fee: $15.00
Registration will close 24 hours prior to the event. You can attend as a walk-in and pay at the event. However, walk-in lunch availability will be limited.
Location Details:
The meeting will be held in the building adjacent to Berry's main office. Enter from the Southwest door of 11109 River Run Blvd.
