BASELOAD POWER
The people behind our energy projects
In power generation, baseload is the foundation everything else is built on: steady, essential, always running.
These profiles highlight the qualities and leadership approaches that shape Endeavor's team.
A Common Language
One project in South Africa left a lasting mark on how James Greaney builds teams.
Over a 30‑year career spanning engineering, construction, commissioning, and operations, James has delivered complex power projects across four continents.
In 2011, he took over as site manager on one of the largest power construction projects in the world: nearly 5,000 megawatts of capacity, 25,000 workers at peak, towering boiler structures rising more than 100 meters into the air, and immense pressure to deliver.
Getting the right tools, equipment, and people in place was essential. So was building trust across a large and varied workforce.
To help accelerate construction, James brought in experienced steelworkers from northern England. He was confident in their technical ability, but how quickly the teams would find common ground was harder to anticipate.
About six months in, James walked into the mess hall and found his answer taking shape.
Newcastle and Everton flags hung on the walls. South African workers were wearing Premier League jerseys, brought back by British colleagues returning from home rotations.
Football had become more than just football.
“Football became a common language. These guys came out with jerseys, flags, boots. They embraced it completely.”
James observed that the two groups had far more in common than the project itself may have suggested. Many came from working‑class communities where football, community, and hard work were sources of pride and identity.
“There was more in common than I had actually budgeted for,” he recalls.
What began with football grew into something more. Relationships formed. Trust developed. Experienced crews began mentoring local workers. Skills were shared. Teams that had once worked alongside one another began working together.
By January 2012, less than seven months after James assumed leadership, the boiler structure on the project’s first unit had reached full height, an outcome many believed was unattainable on that timeline.
It is an approach James has carried throughout his career, and continues to bring to Endeavor’s projects across Africa.
Delivering power in West Africa requires technical depth and careful planning. As James demonstrates, it also requires the ability to build trust across cultures, develop local capacity, and build teams capable of executing in complex environments.
That combination is what makes Endeavor’s people the foundation behind our projects.
Before the Starting Line
For Endeavor's Lizzie Pholosa, preparation comes first.
Lizzie Pholosa knows a marathon doesn't begin at the starting line.
Her day routinely starts at 3:30 in the morning.
By 4 a.m., she is out running through Johannesburg with her running group, sometimes in the cold or rain. Since taking up marathon training seriously in 2022, she has completed races including Paris, Amsterdam, Two Oceans and South Africa's Comrades Marathon, one of the world's most demanding ultramarathons.
Her preparation is deliberate. Working with a coach, she studies the course, plans her pacing and nutrition, and builds her training around the demands of each race.
Ahead of Comrades, one training run alone covered more than 60 kilometers. It took over seven hours.
“By the time I get to a starting line, I want to know that I've done the work.”
In 2026, she completed the Comrades Marathon for the second consecutive year.
Lizzie has spent more than 14 years working on energy and infrastructure projects across Africa. As Associate Project Manager at Endeavor, she supports project development, project controls, governance documentation and stakeholder coordination.
She works backward from deadlines, identifying the information required, the people responsible, the necessary reviews and where delays could emerge.
"Preparation means trying to answer the questions before they are asked."
Before joining Endeavor, she led the development-cost audit workstream for a $655 million gas-fired power project in Africa. The result was a clean audit by the lenders' independent auditor, enabling full recovery of development costs.
Running has also become a shared interest with colleagues. When Lizzie is in Ghana, she runs with Kofi Asiedu, Early Power LTD's Manager of Commercial & Contracts, in Accra and Takoradi. Between visits, they keep up with each other's training on Strava.
"Lizzie's commitment to running and her work at Endeavor inspires us. That, and her generosity," Kofi says.
True to form, she made sure he was prepared. She gave him a pair of running socks, which he now wears on his runs.
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