Earl Shockley
President and CEO of INPOWERD
earl.shockley@INPOWERD.com
Short Bio
Earl W. Shockley is the President and CEO of INPOWERD LLC and a nationally respected authority on NERC reliability, compliance strategy, and grid-risk governance. With more than 40 years of experience in real-time system operations, regulatory oversight, and enterprise risk management, he brings rare operational and regulatory depth to the challenges facing today’s electric grid. A former NERC executive and certified auditor, Earl has led or supported over 100 compliance and enforcement engagements, including audits, investigations, and major blackout reviews. He now serves as a trusted executive advisor and leadership coach to utility boards, CEOs, COOs, CFOs, CIOs, senior executives, and frontline leaders helping them strengthen decision-making, clarify accountability, and align governance, culture, and internal controls with reliable outcomes. Through INPOWERD, Earl helps organizations move beyond check-the-box compliance to build resilient, accountable cultures. His leadership approach blends real-world regulatory experience with trust-based leadership, adaptive leadership skills, and emotional intelligence empowering leaders to manage risk, navigate uncertainty, and protect reliability while strengthening public trust.
