North Texas - Annual Leadership Conference

Terecia Martin is the Vice President of Land at Texland Petroleum, L.P and the current North Texas Chapter President of the Women's Energy Network.

After seventeen years of working in higher education Ms. Martin started her career in the energy industry with Pogo Producing Company, Inc. in Midland, Texas. In 2007, she accepted a position at Aruba Petroleum, Inc. in Plano as Manager over Land, Legal and Surveying. After ten years with Aruba, Ms. Martin moved to Fort Worth to take the Land Manager position at Texland Petroleum, L.P. She was named Vice President-Land six months later.

Ms. Martin is the 2024 President for the Women’s Energy Network – North Texas Chapter, has served as a Mentor and as Co-Chair for the WEN-NT Charitable Funds Committee. She is a Registered Professional Landman, member of the American Association of Professional Landmen, Fort Worth Professional Landmen and served on the American Association of Professional Landmen Forms Committee from 2019 – 2022.

She is passionate about the industry and the people in the industry.

Dr. Barcus is a behavioral scientist, passionate about empowering others by developing internal leadership. After two decades of developing individuals, teams and organizations, she believes that Leadership Development is not about teaching others how to be “good leaders,” but how to help them realize their own unique capacity for greatness and service. When people step into their own better selves, others feel compelled to follow. This unleashes individual leadership, personal fulfillment and stellar performance.
Over the past two decades, Dr. Barcus has served as an executive in organizational development in the Energy, Hospitality, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Financial, Legal and Transit industries. She has served on multiple boards, including WEN North Texas and WEN Global, and is currently a Director for the Age Equity Alliance. She is the founder of Barcus Solutions, solving intractable problems, an Executive Coach, and a trusted advisor to small and large businesses.

Michelle McGlade is an Award-winning CEO, best-selling author, speaker, podcast host and owner. Leveraged 25+ years’ experience to build three successful enterprises and coached hundreds of leaders in building, scaling, or exiting their businesses. She is focused on helping executive leaders answer, "What's Next for Me?"

The Modern Leader’s Maven, Michelle believes success is an inside out game and leadership of self is the key to building teams and unlocking your next level growth in business and life.

Michelle’s work has been featured by Microsoft, Thrive Global, Minneapolis St. Paul Magazine and beyond and she’s slayed the stage at organizations such as Autodesk, Gilead Sciences and Deluxe Financial Services.

Brandy is the Senior Director of the Cox Career Management Center and Adjunct Instructor at The SMU Cox School of Business, where she has served for the past decade. With a distinguished career spanning 16 years in career coaching, career management leadership, and teaching, Brandy brings a wealth of experience in guiding students and professionals toward successful career paths. She earned an undergraduate degree from Texas Tech University's Rawls College of Business and went on to obtain an MBA in Management and Strategy from the Cox School of Business at SMU. Her extensive background includes developing innovative career services strategies, leading impactful teams and initiatives, and fostering strong industry partnerships. Beyond her professional achievements, Brandy is happily married and a dedicated parent to a daughter who has just started high school. She is passionate about helping individuals achieve their career goals and is excited to share insights on short-term and long-term career management strategies and coaching.

Alyssa Wilken joined Texas A&M University School of Law in January 2020. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Letters from the University of Oklahoma, with a double minor in Classics and Spanish. Alyssa earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Oklahoma College of Law and is an active member of the State Bar of Texas. Before stepping into the role of Associate Director of Graduate Programs at the law school, she worked as the Associate Director of Admissions for the Juris Doctor program at the University of Oklahoma College of Law.

Jessica Cates is the Senior Director of Graduate Students Success in the Neeley School of Business at TCU. She has over 15 years of higher education leadership experience and has worked in both large public and small private universities. She recently served on the Southern Association of Colleges and Employers Executive Board as President and serves as a consultant for the National Association for Colleges and Employers. Jessica believes that some of the best career educational experiences come through travel and has led multiple student groups to New York, Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, Australia, Chile, Spain, Ireland and all across Texas. Jessica and her husband Cody have 2 daughters at Aledo High School and enjoy trying to keep up with all the teenagers.

Caley is a career and HR expert, entrepreneur, workshop leader, and speaker. She has helped women negotiate their salary or raise ($1M+ in increases), navigate career transitions (500+ moves), craft meaningful careers, hire kick-a** teams, and start successful businesses.

Since founding Iridium Helps in 2019 with her sister, Whitney, she’s been on a joint mission to help people make their work lives better. They use their know-how from nearly twenty years of working and consulting for 100+ organizations to help individuals in their work lives. They are building a community and creating a space for women to feel empowered to do the self-work to explore and actualize the things that will improve their working lives, where women have access to the resources and tools to thrive. Caley received the Top 40 Women In Energy award in 2020 from the Denver Business Journal. She served the Women’s Energy Network of Colorado in multiple capacities including President and Membership Director.

Hasmik Belich is Sr. Director of Product Management at Enverus bringing over 18 years of experience delivering analytics solutions in energy industry with a focus on upstream oil and gas. Hasmik leads Minerals market segment strategy working with customers to maximize business outcomes in the minerals and royalty sector. Hasmik has led different product teams at Enverus including MineralSoft, EnergyLink and RigData. Prior to joining Enverus, Hasmik was the Director of Upstream Energy Data at S&P Global Platts where she led a global team of analysts responsible for data enrichment across the life of a well for analytics.

Mrs. Belich received her M.Sc. from Bobby Lyle School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University and B.S. in Computer Information Systems and Business Administration from Howard Payne University.

Katie Pelton is the Business Operations Manager for Transmission Operations & Construction Management at Oncor Electric Delivery. She manages a team that oversees contract compliance to ensure cost controls and contractor performance metrics. Internally, the team provides oversight to Transmission Operations’ capital and maintenance budgets and provides field accounting support. Katie’s team was formed in 2021 to improve on construction business processes and provide analytics to make data driven decisions. The Business Operations team built a robust and customized KPI system that includes invoicing and change order systems, onboarding templates, end to end RFP process, and many more customized business solutions.

Katie first joined Oncor in 2014 in Supply Chain, Sourcing & Procurement working as a buyer for 5 years mostly focused on sourcing for risk mitigation and negotiating master service agreements. She rounds out her supply chain experience in warehousing and logistics during her time running the family business, an international supplier to the broom, brush and mop industry. Katie Pelton graduated from Texas Christian University with a Bachelors in Accounting & Finance.

Dusti Wofford is the Global Head of Digital & Technology Strategy at Trammell Crow Company.

Dusti is responsible for driving TCC products organization and engineering, which includes all proprietary and external products, Information Management in partnership with the business, change management, business process efficiencies and support of all network and equipment.
Prior to this role, Dusti was a Sr. Director of Global Finance and focused extensively with leading the design, build, strategy for many applications focused on the Advisory business. Dusti has been involved with the Advisory and Global GWS business to help streamline their business process, technology strategy and help with overall global organization.

In her twenty-year tenure with CBRE/TCC, Dusti has held many diverse roles which also included working within Asset Services and leading one of CBRE’s largest client accounts. Within this role she helped create Accounting and operational excellence to foster growth of CBRE/TCC largest account.

Dusti holds a bachelor’s degree in Finance & Economics from the University of Texas. She has 3 children and loves to travel which was born from traveling abroad extensively with her previous roles.

Sarah Magruder is the Owner/Founder, President and CEO of Houston-based Savvy Oil & Gas Consulting, a company that specializes in severance tax and federal, state and sovereign royalties. She launched her women-led consulting business in 2019 and has since invested in recruiting talent to build a highly experienced team that serves a broad range of E&P producers.

Sarah currently serves on the Texas Energy Council Board of Directors and is an active Executive Member and serves on the Board of Directors of the Women’s Energy Network Houston chapter. Previously, she was chosen as one of the “25 Influential Women in Energy” by Hart Energy’s Oil & Gas Investor magazine in 2023 and was also honored by the Greater Houston Women’s Chamber of Commerce with the Trailblazer Award in 2022.

Sarah holds a degree in Finance from Louisiana State University and an MBA from the University of Houston-Victoria. She is a sought-after speaker at industry events, frequent guest on industry podcasts, and has authored articles in several industry publications, and most recently had an article published in Newsweek!