Thirty-six years working in the oil & gas sector, 31 of those years as an explorer for Shell International, with assignments that took me across the world from Oman, New Zealand, The Philippines, The Caribbean, Malaysia, Gabon, Indonesia, Texas, London, PNG, Canada and The Hague.  As an explorer, I was involved in new ventures, asset management, shooting seismic, interpreting prospects and drilling wells to make discoveries of oil and gas to open up new opportunities, rejuvenate tired portfolios and take discoveries to production. I created K2V Ltd in 2016 to unlock the value of knowledge and have been giving lectures and workshops to postgraduate students at universities around the the world to help incipient and actual young professionals prepare their careers for the Energy Transition. I have also been conducting research with co-workers to aid decision making by embracing and compensating for cognitive bias, seeing through perceptual blindness and testing geoscientists' attitudes to risk, particularly in support of decision making.