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In this episode of Energy Sector Heroes, I sit down with Dennis Banks, Vice President of Maintenance at Syncrude, to talk about career growth, leadership, and the evolving energy sector.For those of you navigating your own career path—whether you're a student, early-career professional, or someone aiming for a senior role—Dennis shares practical advice on how to stand out, progress, and adapt in a competitive industry. He also challenges common assumptions about the energy transition and explains why he sees it as energy addition rather than replacement.If you're wondering how to build a fulfilling career, avoid stagnation, and make the most of industry changes, this conversation is for you.Three Actionable Takeaways

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In the second installment of our five-part series on the chemical industry workforce, "Chemical Industry Workforce: Shaping Tomorrow's Talent," Dennis Banks, vice president of Syncrude Maintenance at Suncor Energy Inc., offers his definition of DEI.  “I grew up in a place where there were drive-by shootings — I have bullet holes in my childhood home,” says Dennis Banks, vice president of Syncrude maintenance at Suncor Energy Inc., who grew up in Detroit, went to college in Louisiana and now resides in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. “Some people freeze in the face of chaotic situations. I don't view [many] situations as perilous. So, I'm able to maintain calm and composure in the face of a lot of adversity and chaos because of what I went through growing up.”

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, April 10, 2024.TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and around the world.Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed.Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcastReferenced articles:Story 1 - Oral surgeon who directed a cop in extracting four teeth from a sedated inmate receives absolute discharge.Story 2 - Syncrude fined $390,000 for worker's death. The money will go to three group to develop an ... app ... about excavation safety, even though the trouble was a lack of analysisn of the ground where the worker was working from an engineer.Story 3 - The AFN says that there is a $350 billion gap between infrastructure within Indigenous communities compared to non-Indigenous communities. When you add in Inuit communities, the number rises to $425 billion.Story 4 - Very little information about Canada's Syrian embassy, which was damaged when Israel struck Iran's embassy which is right beside.Story 5 - UNRWA says that Israel is lying about how much aid is reaching Gaza via truck.Story 6 - At least three dead in hydroelectric plant explosion in Italy.

Cypher is a Canadian manufacturer of environmentally friendly dust control and soil stabilization solutions that distribute their products globally, primarily in the mining industry. They help mines reduce their GHG emissions by creating more efficient roads that use less fuel. Meanwhile, their products have absolutely zero environmental impact and have proven long-term results. They have built roads in over 50 countries for customers such as Syncrude, Teck, Agnico, and Baffinland. As part of their goal to “Always do what's right” Cypher has launched their CSR program, Cypher Green Roads, which involves product donations and training to communities near mining sites. Most recently they have just completed their first official product donation to the small indigenous community of Pond Inlet, Manitoba in conjunction with Baffinland Iron Mine. Cypher's CEO Todd Burns is a very passionate presenter and speaker and shares his perspective on expanding Canada's innovation, mistakes he sees the mining industry commonly makes, and how he plans to continue to expand Cypher Environmental's global reach.

In this week's episode, I bring on Dr. Marvin Washington, Ph.D. Join Dr. Washington and I as we cover how to construct a market-winning strategy that will set you up to dominate your competitors and gain massive market share for your business, be it a start-up or otherwise, you don't want to miss it.Learn to Launch your own Fundhttps://www.fundlaunchlive.com/2022?affiliate_id=3730376BlockFi Pays You Interest on Your Crypto Savings Account:https://app.blockfi.com/signup/?ref=155c31ecSubscribe on Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTOe79EXLDsROQ0z3YLnu1QQConnect with Ryan Miller:Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rcmiller1/Email: ryan@pentiumcapitalpartners.comWebsite: pentiumcapitalpartners.com[MY GUEST]: Dr. Marvin Washington is most known as a Pracademic (practicing academic).  The focus of his research, teaching, and consulting work is on leadership development and organizational change. is on organizational and institutional change. Over the past 20 years, Dr. Washington has taught leadership development to a wide array of organizations. Most notably, he was the Academic Director for the Alberta Health Services executive education program as well as the Academic Director for the Corporate Boards Director's Education Program.  Dr. Washington has also worked with organizations such as Enbridge, Shaw Communications,  AIMCo, Blue Cross, YMCA, Parkland Fuels, Syncrude, and SportChek, many ministries and departments in the Country of Botswana, the state of Oregon, the Government of Alberta, and the City of Edmonton on topics of leadership, organizational change, and diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice.Currently, he is a professor of management at Portland State University. Prior to that, he spent 15 years at the University of Alberta and 5 years at Texas Tech University[THE HOST]: Ryan is a Venture Capital & Angel investor in technology and energy. He achieved placement growth of 5200% ROI in his first 5 years in the industry. His Podcast, “Making Billions”, was recently ranked in the top 20 Venture Capital Podcasts on the Planet! Previously he served as a Chief Financial Officer for a National, award-winning InsurTech company, which he grew 50% year-over-year. Managed and mentored 250 professionals while serving in this role. Additionally, he has mentored over 500 emerging fund managers to start and scale their investment funds, totaling nearly $1B in funds raised to date. In addition to mentoring emerging fund managers, Ryan has managed a $250M portfolio of technology investments & start-ups. He has a BSc. in Finance and a Master of Financial Management and he is currently the Founder & Managing Director at Pentium Capital Partners specializing in Financial Consulting and Venture Capital investments.The private equity podcast for startup founders and venture capital investors.      DISCLAIMER: The information in every podcast episode “episode” is provided for general informational purposes only and may not reflect the current law in your jurisdiction. By listening to our episodes, you understand that no information contained in the episodes should be construed as legal and or financial advice from the individual author, hosts, or guests, nor is it intended to be a substitute for legal, financial, or tax counsel on any subject matter. No listener of the episodes should act or refrain from acting on the basis of any information included in, or accessible through, the episodes without seeking the appropriate legal or other professional advice on the particular facts and circumstances at issue from a lawyer, finance, tax and other licensed in the recipient's state, country or other appropriate licensing jurisdiction. No part of the show, its guests, host, content or otherwise should be considered as a solicitation for investment in any way. 

The June Bug Festival is back to in person this year in Fort McMurray and tickets are available through The Hub. We're joined by Samantha Simpson from The Hub who explains what people can expect this year, the fun of being back in person and what's been going on down at The Hub. The June Bug Family Festival presented by Syncrude is on June 25-26.

Our Business Development Manager, Cory, sat down for an interview on "Talk to the Experts" on 650CKOM - a Saskatchewan NewsTalk radio station. This podcast is a recording of the first half of the interview, providing an introduction to eMotors Direct and what we do here. The following transcript was automatically generated: Welcome to talk to the experts this half hour a presentation of EA motors direct. I'm Brent cloaks your host joined by Corey. So tarde Corey is the business development manager with eMotors Direct and our half hour we're talking about electric motors being electric motors used on the farm. Electric motors used in the oil patch, electric motors used in mining electric motors used in industry, you're involved in any of these areas with electric motors, you'll want to pay close attention to our message today. E motors direct.ca. Cory, what's the story of your company. So eMotors Direct is an online platform for customers to find electric motors, gearing products and control products. The neat thing about eMotors is that we give real time inventory, you can look at your pricing, you can download your own quote, it's kind of like a self help website. Traditionally, bricks and mortar stores, you have to phone them up, give them the specs, and they take a certain amount of time to get you information back. With our website and the motors platform. You have all the information at your fingertips, you can look up data packs, drawings, all that stuff in one spot, boy, good efficient use of online services with eMotors Direct and you can find their website, EA motors direct.ca. And this is right across this great country of ours. If I'm in the far north, or I'm down on the US border or I'm out on the coast, I can get online to eMotors Direct take a look at your inventory and make an order right there and have it delivered to where I am correct. So we dropship from 30 different warehouses across Canada. So whenever you order wherever the stock is closest to you, that is the warehouse we ship from, what are the industries that you tend to serve the most here, Cory we do a lot with the agricultural industry, food med food manufacturing, aggregate and mining, and as well as a variety of oil and gas industries. Well, let's pretty well nailed all the industries right here in our great province of Saskatchewan. We got a lot of farm folks, of course, listening in to our expert show we got a big mining industry here the oil and gas industry and a good amount of manufacturing as well. So for somebody who's never explored IE motors direct.ca, what kind of inventory depth are we talking Have you got motors, all shapes and sizes pretty well for for every need that's out there? Correct. We have a full line of industrial electric motors, as well as h back and agricultural duty motors. Across the Canada there's a boat 75 million worth of inventory with all of our vendors, stocking warehouses, so pretty good product range. So I'm guessing then with that inventory that you've got spread across the country, we know how time is money these days. So if I'm online, no matter what my need is, I find the product I need at eMotors direct.ca turnaround time pretty quick from my purchase my online order and getting it to my yard. Typically the order is placed, say a Monday, the order to be processed Monday, during the day sometime and ship Tuesday. Average delivery would be two to three days. If it has to ship say from Vancouver to Ottawa, obviously, it's going to be four to five days. That's pretty impressive, though. So you guys have really changed the way that businesses and industry and farms are able to purchase electric motors. You're relatively new company, though, too, aren't you? We've been around for about four years, and obviously just still building up our presence and our exposure to the electrical motor industry. When you think about the inventory of electric motors to you must be talking about 1000s of different shapes and sizes of motors are we Yeah, we list about 20,000 active skews on our website. And with our cross reference database, we're sitting about 60,000 skews. So motors have been around for 100 years. And one of our our claims to frame on our website is we've listed all of the obsolete part numbers. So if you look up something that's 20 years old, that no longer exists, that part number likely will come up on our website and give you a cross reference to the new current cross referenced model. Man, that's brilliant, I think of so many different areas of life and work where you try to find that older product and it'll just say, you know, not in stock anymore, and you can't get the back history on it to find out what a new replacement part would be. That's got to be a huge plus for your customers. Oh, for sure. For sure. That's one of the one of the downsides is trying to find those replacement items. Especially if a company has gone out of business or in our industry. Corporate takeovers are a big thing. So your old us electric motor is now branded nidek. And the part number might be different, same product. But unless you know those crossovers very difficult to find. We're talking right now with our guest on talk to the experts Cory so Todd Cory is a business development manager with EA motors direct they are Canada's industrial motors supplier, see them online. It's all online shopping at E motors direct.ca For people that are listening in right now and hearing about that amazing amount of inventory, do they have to do all the work? Or if they're stuck on something, Cory? Is there phone numbers? Do you have customer service people that come online even and do a chat to help me figure out my order? For sure, we do have a managed chat. Basically you on the chat, it will ask you a bunch of questions, and that email will be sent to one of our experts. And we will get back to you with answers right away. There's also our one 800 numbers on the website 108 907593 that can put you to to our office where we can help you walk you through placing an order, or we have technical experts on staff to help you cross reference your product or even find the product that you need. Orders are typically placed online. It's usually the best model just for security purposes. I don't really want your credit card information myself, where if it's entered on the website, all of that is encrypted and well looked after sure. But you guys have really changed the way businesses are dealing with the purchase of electric motors. How's the uptake been from your customer base over the past four years? Oh, really, really good. Are you know, we're growing in leaps and downs, year over year. So it's it's been well accepted. And people really like the idea of having all that information at their fingertips as opposed to waiting one two to five days for for someone to get back to them. Well, and I'm guessing the beauty of it is everything online, all your inventory there the information, can I basically shop seven days a week, 24 hours a day? Correct. So those companies that have tween 24 hour day service, you know, the night shift guy wants to have everything put together. So their purchaser the next morning could order it, they can go on our site, download all the information, see where the inventory is at and just shoot an email to their purchaser, here's what I want. Here's where to get it. Here's the price just makes it more convenient for those next shift operators. You need a new electric motor or any of the other products they carry at eMotors Direct go online right now and take a look see for yourself. II motors direct.ca. And from what you're seeing out there, Cory? Is there more and more demand for electric motors? Are you seeing a lot of industry in that transition away maybe from diesel generation, that sort of thing and going to electric motors in the work that they're doing? most industries are very heavily incorporated with electric motors. every industry has multiple motors in every business. You think it goes everywhere from your mixmaster on your kitchen counter all the way up to conveyors at Suncor and Syncrude mining sites. Sure. So they're there. They're everywhere yet adoption. Electric motors have been well adopted into industry for many, many years. And with their push for more green energy, for sure. You know, the diesel market is being pushed out a bit and electrical electrically driven products are more prominent. Sure. Hey, you touched on something I wanted to ask you about. You mentioned the mixmaster on my kitchen counter. So if I've got a kitchen appliance, and I'm trying to figure out why it isn't working. So I get on YouTube and I find a how to video, do you even have motors of that size for a lot of the smaller household stuff. So we don't get into appliances and such most of those are made specifically for those applications. We do carry a lot of H back products. So for your little furnace, motor fans, AC units, that kind of thing. stuff that we wouldn't get into would be say your bathroom fan, or your mix master or appliances. Those are so specific. Just you have to go back to the OEM. Sure, sure. Boy, I liked how you mentioned though, you do carry motors for my furnace or for my AC unit, because with the heat that we've been having here on the prairies this summer, I know the people that are involved in servicing air conditioning units and furnaces have been super busy in my own home included and to know that I could get online and get that particular motor delivered. That's pretty impressive service that you're offering. So we're gonna take a quick break here. We've still got another segment to go but we're on the topic of E motors direct totally online with Cory so Tara Cory is the business development manager with eMotors Direct great Canadian company providing online electric motors, motor controls, gearing parts and accessories eMotors direct.ca. We're back with more of our experts in two minutes on Newstalk radio

#010 The journey for Alvin was not a straight line to success. Alvin's journey from dropping out of high school to joining the army to dating the daughter of Syncrude with dreams of taking over the company..  It is a wild ride that led him to raising enough money to acquire a $24M business and becoming nominated for Entrepreneur of the year. Come along for the ride.

On this edition of Fort McMurray Matters, we chat with Syncrude who's planning to move around 300 employees downtown, we talk with the municipality about the municipal development plan, and more.

On this edition of Fort McMurray Matters, we talk about a Syncrude Haul Truck which has set a world record by becoming the first of its kind to surpass 150,000 operating hours.

On this edition of Fort McMurray Matters, we chat with Suncor and Syncrude about Suncor taking over operatorship of Syncrude by the end of 2021.

On this edition of Fort McMurray Matters, we speak with Syncrude Spokesperson Will Gibson about the latest cases of COVID-19 among Syncrude employees.

On this edition of Fort McMurray Matters, we talk with Syncrude as an employee and contractor have tested positive for COVID-19. We also learn more about a curfew in Fort Chipewyan.

On this edition of Fort McMurray Matters, we discuss the 2019 Syncrude Food Drive and a unique donation given to the local Legion.

On this edition of Fort McMurray Matters, we discuss the upcoming play Freeing Heaven's Secrets and we hear from Syncrude as they are donating over $2.3 million to the United Way.

On this edition of Fort McMurray Matters, we speak with the Superintendent of the Fort McMurray Public School District as he's locked in jail trying to help raise funds for the United Way. We also discuss two milestones for Syncrude.

On this edition of Fort McMurray Matters, we talk with the Wood Buffalo Regional Library about their programs and we discuss Syncrude's annual turnaround project.

On this edition of Fort McMurray Matters, we discuss the ‘Discovery’ dragline which Syncrude retired over 20 years ago.

On this edition of Fort McMurray Matters, we speak with the Hub, Pastew Place, and the Wood Buffalo Youth Science Foundation who each have a chance to win $10,000 from Syncrude.

Forty years ago today, Mildred Lake staqrted producing heavy oil for the Syncrude partners.

On this edition of Fort McMurray Matters, we hear from Annie Lelievre, Founder of the Memorial Ride, about remembering all the lives lost on Highway 63. We also discuss new fossil remains found at Syncrude.

MacroVoices welcomes Chris Cook to the show. Erik and Chris discuss the blow out of time spreads in WTI, oil deals outside of the market and the impact of Syncrude going offline. They further discuss dark inventories, what is it and how does it fit into the big picture. They further discuss the China and the Petro-Yuan contract and gaming US exports and inventories.

On this edition of Fort McMurray Matters, Michele Taylor, Executive Director of Waypoints, discusses the region's first ever 'Child and Youth Advocacy Centre' and Mal Carroll with Syncrude talks about how they're using salt to help with bitumen recovery rates.

Leading Organizational Change can be challenging. This week we are joined by Author and Management Professor, Dr. Marvin Washington to learn how to lead change more effectively. Marvin Washington has Ph.D.  in Organization Behaviour and Sociology, a B.S. in Industrial Engineering. Currently he is a professor in the Alberta School of Business, and Chair of the Strategic Management and Organization Department. His research, consulting, and teaching focus is on the processes of organizational and institutional change. Dr. Washington is the author of two books on leadership and organizational change: Pack Leadership: Lessons from the Wild Dogs of Africa, and Successful Organizational Transformation: The Five Critical Elements. He has published many academic and practitioner articles and presented his research at conferences all over the world. He has taught undergraduates, graduates, and executives during his 12 years as a University Professor. Dr. Washington has worked with a variety of organizations including government and industry leaders in the Botswana and Mexico, Texas, Illinois, Michigan, and Oregon, and companies like Bayer, Core Mark, Stantec, Enbridge, AIMCo, Blue Cross, YMCA, Delnor, Mark’s Work Wearhouse, Parkland Fuels, Syncrude, and SportChek and more. Dr. Washington, has won two MBA awards for teaching excellence, and was awarded the 2013 McCalla Professorship for Teaching Effectiveness at the University of Alberta. He was also the 2017 recipient of the University of Alberta’s Last Lecture Series which is given to the professor that University students and alumni think was the most impactful during their time at the University. He currently is the Academic Director in the Executive Program and the Alberta Health Services Executive Leadership program with the Executive Education Faculty at the Alberta School of Business. Links: Dr. Marvin Washington on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/marvin-washington-a000275 Dr. Marvin Washington on Twitter: @Marvin_bus-doc https://twitter.com/Marvin_Bus_Doc Dr. Marvin Washington’s Website: https://sites.ualberta.ca/~washingt/ Book: Leading Peak Performance: Lessons from the Wold Dogs of Africa”: https://www.amazon.ca/Leading-Peak-Performance-Leadership-Transformative/dp/0873897080 Dr. Marvin Washington’s Email: washingt@ualberta.ca Terry Lipovski: UbiquityLeadership.com Next Week’s Show: Leading with the Law with Major Kashmeel McKoena

On this edition of Fort McMurray Matters, we speak with three women blazing trails in their chosen field, including Manager of Maintenance Services at Syncrude Kerry Barwick, Syncrude's first woman to manage the hydroprocessing business unit, Roslyn Darroch, and Music Director for 100.5 CRUZ FM Shauna Mackinnon.

On this edition of Fort McMurray Matters, Syncrude's Vice President of mining and extraction Greg Fuhr and former President Jim Carter discuss the 25th anniversary of the bison ranch and Doug Webb, Syncrude's Aboriginal Business Liaison, talks about a record breaking performance when it comes to spending with Aboriginal-owned businesses.

Today on Fort McMurray Matters, Steve Morrison, Lorne Shearing, and Mal Carroll discuss the development of Hydrotransport Technology, the current efficient method of mining, which started at Syncrude.

Environmental prosecutions are making headlines again as Syncrude finds itself in court in Alberta. The company has contaminated ponds at its tar sands site in Alberta and is facing charges from both the provincial and federal governments after 1600 migratory birds died there in 2008. We talk about public and private environmental prosecutions today. Our […]

August 14, 2009: Jane Van Ryan reports on a recent tour of oil sands operations in Alberta, Canada. Oil sands are a critically important energy resource, providing crude oil to the United States. Of the more than 2 million barrels of Canadian crude oil that are imported in to the U.S. every day, about half is derived from Canada’s abundant oil sands.