My SLB career spans three continents, a long list of countries, more roles than I can easily count, and 28 years. It’s hard to believe my journey with SLB is a quarter of the company’s 100-year legacy—and still it feels like just the beginning. Perhaps that’s because the company champions exactly that: empowering people like myself to create their own beginnings by embracing new roles, new landscapes, and new technologies.

I began my journey supporting software, and by embracing every new beginning that presented itself, forged a path to my current role as an SLB Fellow in Paris, where I help steer our global strategy around production, recovery, and produced water management. I also mentor future domain talent (my favorite job) and advance digital-enabled subsurface solutions.

Looking back, the assignment that truly shaped my globe-trotting career was my move to Nigeria as Reservoir Domain Champion for West Africa. Overnight, I found myself responsible for the Wireline Reservoir business in an entire region: Nigeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Chad, Ghana, and Benin. It was exciting, challenging, and transformative. But the story of how I got there is even better.

Before Nigeria, I was a junior Reservoir Domain Champion in Algeria, happily (and sandily) stationed in the beautiful desert of Hassi Messaoud. I was also the first person in my family to move outside of Italy.

My parents were already uneasy about their daughter living in the middle of the desert, so when I called my father to tell him I was moving out of Algeria, he was thrilled—until I added that I was moving to Nigeria.

His response? Pure shock.

I moved to Nigeria anyway—another bold new beginning—and those four years turned out to be the most exciting, fulfilling, and career-defining years of my life. It’s incredible how much one assignment shaped who I became both as a professional and as a person…

From the Algerian desert to windy Scotland, from vibrant Lagos to charming Paris, from fast-paced Houston back to Italy, every environment offered the support, challenges, friendships, and opportunities I needed to build an extraordinary life and career. I have learned constantly, grown continuously, and collected lifelong friends along the way.

So, yes, I consider it a privilege to be part of the SLB family. Without a doubt.

If change has been the only constant in my life, SLB has been the place that has always felt like home. It’s the thrill of a lifetime to serve as an SLB Fellow today. And as we embark on our second century, I know it’s just another wonderful beginning.