Cara Olmsted
RWE Clean Energy | Senior Director, Portfolio Management Distributed Clean Energy
Speaker
Track J: Professional Development
Session J3: Professional Development Skills & Strategies
September 18, 2025 | 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Insights To Living Your Best Life
Create the life, you want to live – learn the techniques to finding and defining your path to self-realization, self-actualization, and achieving your goals/aspirations and fulfillment. Develop techniques for overcoming obstacles, self-sabotaging behaviors, your cave man brain, and modern-day distractions. Let go of the past, create new habits that support the life you want, learn from your journey and leave behind the defeatist self-talk that is holding you back. Own your power, build your confidence, and achieve your personal and professional goals.
Free yourself from limiting self-talk and overcome self-imposed barriers to achieving success. I will share the steps, techniques, thinking, actions, and resources that I have used to embrace my inner power and put myself on the path to Living my best life.
Speaker Bio
Cara is the Senior Director Program Management, Distributed Clean Energy for RWE Clean Energy.
Over the years she has actively marketed and sold energy efficiency, commodity supply, demand response, and solar EPC services. She has participated and led corporate strategic initiatives including new business start-ups and new/existing product growth and expansion. In her roles, she has had significant interaction with C-level executives and technical teams. For the past eight years she also launched and participated in the Committee for the company’s annual Environmental Health & Safety awards. As the Chairperson of the committee, she managed a team of 8 professionals, to develop an evaluation process, scoring approach, and reach consensus in selecting the winners. In addition, each year she has given the opening remarks at the awards ceremony with a focus on the three key points – ideation, process, and leadership in achieving success in the pursuit and execution of the work that we do. In Cara’s words “Leadership is framed not from the perspective of an external source or guide but from the leader that resides within each one of us to, define our path, act with integrity, and achieve happiness and meaning in our lives and through our work.”
Cara has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Missouri and a Masters Business Administration from Fordham University, New York, with a major in Finance and Marketing.