Author · CB Storyworks
Carina N Beger
Field guides for when getting it wrong isn’t an option.
Carina writes for the environments most business books never enter: fuel depots, mine sites, chemical plants, and the supply chains that keep them running. Two decades in high-risk procurement taught her that the difference between a contract and a catastrophe is rarely the price. Her books pass that hard-won judgement on.
Most procurement training teaches you to manage cost. Carina writes about the moment cost stops being the point.
Across fuels, chemicals, explosives and critical materials, in mining and energy operations where a supply failure halts everything, she has spent two decades making the decisions her books now unpack. She writes for the practitioner: clear frameworks, real consequence, and the risk patterns generic guidance never covers. Her books are published by CB Storyworks, and her procurement work continues through the PATHWAY5™ advisory practice.
What Carina writes about
Critical supply
Securing the inputs that operations literally cannot run without.
High-risk categories
Fuels, chemicals, explosives and critical materials. Where failure is physical.
Energy transition
The real engineering and economics of industry’s shift to sustainable energy.
Decision frameworks
Structures that pre-empt failure instead of explaining it afterwards.
Two books from the field
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High-Risk Procurement
Securing critical supply in energy, resources and industrial operations
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The Biofuel Breakthrough
How industrial nations shift to sustainable energy, biofuels and climate solutions
Read more →High-Risk Procurement is also a practice. The book is the foundation of the PATHWAY5™ methodology and Carina’s advisory work helping energy, resources and industrial operations secure their most critical supply. For advisory engagements, that work lives at PATHWAY5™.
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Judgement you’d otherwise spend twenty years earning, now on the page.
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