Lincoln Bleveans (lincolnbleveans.com) leads, educates, and inspires people and organizations to seize actionable opportunities to do good and do well in our dynamic, complex and unprecedented world. Long story short, he’s been there and done that -- again and again.
Lincoln has spent his three-decade career as a hands-on executive at the forefront of the global power industry as it has transformed from highly regulated, local and stodgy into one of the most global, complex and competitive arenas in the world.
A liberal arts graduate in a sea of engineers, financiers, accountants, builders, and operators, he has leveraged his strengths as a voracious learner and outcome-driven strategic leader into a distinctive career portfolio at the forefront of innovation and change. Spanning every continent except Antarctica, he has succeeded in greenfield independent power project development; power plant and energy service company acquisitions, workouts, and divestitures; and utility planning, operations, and executive management.
Lincoln has synthesized this broad, deep, and diverse professional and intellectual journey – and his intense innate curiosity – into a unique and uniquely effective perspective on the world, the future, technology, human behavior, and how individuals and organizations can position themselves to thrive today and into the future.
Today he leads Stanford University’s mission-essential operations and world-leading innovation in climate action, including sustainability, adaptation, resilience, circularity, and climate justice; electric, thermal, water, and waste utilities; and infrastructure like dams, roads, bridges, and stormwater capture and sewer systems. He also serves on the Projects & Infrastructure Committee of the Board of Oversight for the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and on fiduciary and advisory boards for climate technology start-ups in the US, Canada, Italy, Australia, and India.
Throughout his career, Lincoln has communicated his experiences and insights to a diverse global audience of experts and non-experts alike: as a writer in industry publications; as a keynote speaker and expert moderator; as a guest lecturer at Stanford, MIT, UCLA, and other universities, and as a sought-after podcast guest. He has been quoted in general audience publications (Forbes, ABC News, Newsweek, S&P Global Market Intelligence, Los Angeles Times, USA Today) and industry publications (Fast Company, GreenBiz, The Gigaton, PV Magazine International, POWER Magazine), and is featured in the Smithsonian Science Education Center’s “Sustainable Energy Research Guide For Youth” and Springer's "Nordic Case Collection on Sustainability and Transition to a Circular Economy." He also co-authored a peer-reviewed academic paper on integrating equity, climate resilience, and renewable energy into governance frameworks.
His podcast, Climate+ | Purpose & Prosperity in an Unprecedented World, unpacks our climate-changing world to find the (often surprising) challenges, compromises, and opportunities to do good and do well today. A limited podcast series, Edison Squints, explores the future of our electricity system and how it is itself transforming and how it’s unprecedented impact on our lives, societies, politics, and economies.
Lincoln was educated at Kenyon College, Nanjing University, Northwestern University School of Law, Harvard University, and Stanford University, and has lived in the US, China, and Japan. An enthusiastic and spectacularly untalented surfer, Lincoln lives in Half Moon Bay, California, with his wife of 30 years and their loveably eccentric dog.
