{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Owl Have You Know","title":"Finding What Drives You Mid-Career feat. Stuart Bell ’23","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1965,"description":"With over 15 years of experience at Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, Stuart Bell ’23 is leaving his mark on the sustainability world through his mission-driven and service-oriented mindset – a mindset that, he says, Rice Business helped him unlock. \n\nBeginning as a process engineer, Stuart has held a multitude of positions across the Chevron Phillips ecosystem and is now the senior manager of sustainability. Stuart joins co-host Maya Pomroy ‘22 to discuss why, a decade into his career, he decided to enroll in an MBA program and how Rice Business has helped shape the way he leads and sees the world.  \n\nThey also chat about his experience participating in Rice Board Fellows, why he started a wine club for Rice Business alumni, and his ultimate “ROI” from his time at Rice: a fiancee! \n\nEpisode Guide:\n00:00 Meet Stuart Bell\n01:32 Roots in Sports and Academia\n03:45 Choosing Chemical Engineering\n06:01 Chevron Phillips Career Journey\n08:47 The MBA Spark Moment\n10:47 Why Rice Business\n13:33 Board Fellows and Giving Back\n17:13 Wine Club and Houston Favorites\n19:40 MBA ROI and Career Pivots\n23:37 Sustainability and Leadership Lessons\n29:43 Advice to Future Owls\n\nThe Owl Have You Know Podcast is a production of Rice Business and is produced by University FM.\n\nEpisode Quotes:\n\nHow Rice shaped Stuart’s sustainability path\n22:14: I'm a very mission-driven person. You know, the way you opened the dialogue around community really sticks with me, that we want to be service-oriented. And so, within our business, I saw sustainability as a way to merge so many of my passions, passions for the outdoors, passions for the communities that we serve, and leverage a lot of the both experience I'd had at CPChem, but also the lessons I'd learned while at Rice, and hopefully, help advance the organization and that mission. And so for me, I would say pivoting then again a second time out of the commercial space into the sustainability one, is a direct result of my time at Rice.\n\nOn...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/TJ_bP9v1zp60qvMRjx8jTuTiOVRFDdgjR-9C4xy2Tmg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzE1ODMyLzE2MDM5/OTczNzQtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}