Speaker Biographies
Mike Kuhl
Mike is Supervisor, Operations and Planning Compliance Audits for SERC Reliability Corporation and reports to the Senior Manager of Compliance Monitoring. Prior to joining SERC in January 2013, Mike worked at the Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company/Cinergy/Duke Energy for nearly 24 years. His responsibilities were primarily in the areas of electric generation and transmission electric system operations. Mike began his career during the construction and start-up phases of W.H. Zimmer Station, a 1,300 MW supercritical unit and the world's first nuclear-to-coal conversion project. Mike transitioned to control area operations in the mid-1990s, subsequently became a NERC-certified transmission system operator, and worked as a Control Area Coordinator. Mike then served as Project Manager of Cinergy's energy markets integration with the Midwest ISO. Several years before reliability standards became mandatory and enforceable, his job focus transitioned to NERC reliability standards compliance where he developed, implemented, and managed Cinergy’s and Duke's initial Reliability Standards Internal Compliance Programs. Mike earned a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Cincinnati. He is a NERC Certified System Operator at the Reliability Coordinator level, and holds an Internal Auditor Practitioner certification.
Leslie Beam
Leslie is an influential leader with over 20 years of progressive corporate experience, including pivotal roles in business transformations, executive engagements and strategic communications across multiple industries. As a Prosci certified organizational change management professional, she has a passion for connecting the dots between an organization's intentions and results by developing strategies that focus on the human experience. She has created and implemented end-to-end change operation models for large transformational change initiatives (mergers & acquisitions, process standardization, enterprise system implementations, etc.) impacting global Fortune 500 companies such as Duke Energy, Siemens, Dell and Cisco.
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