Sabrina Watkins
Future 500
Board Director
Sabrina Watkins consults on accelerating profitable sustainability and collaborative relationships between companies, investors and activists. Her focus is streleadership capability for sustainability leaders, executive teams, and boards of directors. She retired from Conoco Phillips in 2017 after nearly a decade as global head of sustainability, with responsibility for corporate policies, positions, implementation strategies, results, and reporting. She worked directly with the board, executive team, and investors. During her tenure, the company reduced over 7 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions, saved over $100 million through innovative sustainability, dramatically reduced shareholder concerns and implemented a leading human rights position, all within a comprehensive framework of 5 year goals and action plans. She currently serves on the boards of Future 500 and Presidio Graduate School and previously served as chair of the board of the U.S. Business Council for Sustainable Development (USBCSD) from 2007-2009. In 2012, she was named to the Industrial Safety and Health News “Power 101” list of influential leaders in sustainability. Ms. Watkins’ career in the oil and gas industry began in 1981 in upstream production and drilling engineering for deep water operations in the Gulf of Mexico. She held senior management roles in US regional assets, operations, procurement, drilling, and HSE. She later led corporate teams for early-stage innovation, upstream and downstream emerging technologies and global environmental technology. Ms. Watkins earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Lehigh University in 1981 and an MBA in Sustainable Business from Bainbridge Graduate Institute, now Presidio Graduate School, in June 2007.
