Unique Conversations
Southern Company’s Jonathan Porter is Alabama Power Senior Vice President for Customer Operations. Consultant Larry Glover is CEO of Glover Group.
How energy and utilities companies show up in their communities takes thoughtful and hard work these days. That is because companies realize the importance of the workforce reflecting those communities in which they serve, and yet it is so much more.
But realizing importance and achievement are two different things, because there are layers involved in equity. Equity involves employees, yes, but all stakeholders in a service territory, as well as weaving together issues surrounding the environment, economics, education, and more.
Public Utilities Fortnightly brought together three experts on equity issues, who have dedicated their lives to this endeavor and have powerful voices on the subject. Listen in on these conversations with Southern Company's Jonathan Porter and Eversource Energy's Theresa Hopkins-Staten, led by Larry Glover.
Larry Glover: Talk about your rise to Senior Vice President of Customer Operations for Alabama Power.
Jonathan Porter: I've been with Southern Co./Alabama Powermpany for a little over twenty-three years. I began working here in June 1991, a week after I graduated high school. I was the only non-engineering intern hired through INROADS.
The INROADS organization, founded 1970, is dedicated to identifying high potential minority talent. INROADS partnered with several Fortune 500 companies, and Alabama Power/Southern Company was one.