Nick Akins, former executive chair of American Electric Power’s board of directors, recently spoke with Electric Perspectives magazine to share his lessons of leadership from his decades of service to the electric power industry.

“When I started [in this industry], you had never even heard of some of the challenges and opportunities we have in front of us today. This industry has so many opportunities for young people to make a dramatic impact on their communities, on technologies, on future policies, and on issues that have a national and even international scale.”

Read the full interview in Electric Perspectives.