One of my favorite activities while in government was speaking with groups and individuals about their career trajectories, often basing my advice on my own experiences. Since retiring from the Federal government, I have created this blog, based on my career, with the intention of providing insight and perspective to those in their early to mid-careers working in large organizations. I have found that reflecting on my career – both the ups and especially the downs – brought a lot of relief to the many folks I have interacted with at all levels of their careers. There is a lot of advice about how to advance, but not a lot of advice about how to calm down and understand that a career is a long game, with wins and losses along the way. Nothing in this blog is rocket science. Rather, it is about providing nuggets collected along a long career (and life) to others. Consider it a pep talk.

Through LS Insights Consulting, Linda Silverman provides consulting services in clean energy and climate change. Her services include:

• Clean energy and climate action policy advice for local or State government, corporations and higher education.
• Meeting facilitation
• Public speaking
• Creating and implementing a student competition — as the former Director of the Solar Decathlon Linda can offer advice on setting up competitions large and small.

Linda Silverman retired from the US Department of Energy in 2018 after thirty years working on clean energy and climate change. She brings a range of work experiences: commodities trading in the World Trade Center in New York City, international climate change negotiations as part of the U.S. negotiating team to the UN Framework on Climate Change, domestic climate change policy, renewable energy market analysis, natural gas policy, US trade policy, workforce development and education, local government climate action and finally as Director of the US Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon. For more information, find her on Linked In.