The Impactful Engineer Project - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring Engineers

Steve and I remind you that every single project you work on has a huge impact on where your career will go. We cover the common pitfall most engineers make in their mindset when looking to be on the…

Steve and I reflect a little bit about some of the things you may be doing in your engineering career that are working against you. Subtle, but that have a huge impact. 

Enjoy!

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In this episode, we hosted Monte Pedersen from CDA Group, a prominent figure known for his expertise in strategic execution and leadership. With a rich background that includes a successful 30-year c…

Jim Schafer is with Nenni & Associates, a specialized recruiting firm working with engineers and executives of all experience levels, specifically in the energy sector for the built environment. His …

Steve delves into the importance of adaptability and flexibility in an engineering career. Drawing inspiration from Mike Tyson's quote about plans and unexpected challenges, Steve discusses how rigid…

Where you spend your energy will dictate how much control & influence you have over your career and your life. Your ability to consciously dictate where your energy flows will have a huge impact on y…

Want to instantly become more visible within your company? Want to improve yourself?

Learn to receive feedback. For engineers, feedback is so hard. Overcome the typical stereotypes, and unlock a grea…

In this episode, I cover something that really unlocked my ability to move the needle on my engineering career. It led other discoveries as well, including the need to prioritize, not just work strai…

In this episode, we discuss how you can accelerate your career and your experience through unreasonably high levels of preparation. Specifically, we talk about the process of creating operating proce…

In this episode, Jake discusses the fact that high performing engineers begin to master their next role before the opportunity arises to take said next role. Doing this while also maintaining a high …

In this episode Jake covers his recommendations for those egnineers just starting out or for those managing engineers just starting out.

This episode's topic centers around a couple of things you can…

In this episode, Steve and I rapid fire some hot topics and give you our persepctive from our combined nearly 30 years experience as career engineers in two different engineering fields.

This episode…

Let's talk about pairing people's strengths and weaknesses in order to win. This can happen at all levels of the business and your engineering career. It's one of those tactics that can lead to decre…

Most things that happen in your engineering career are not unique to your situation. Also, they are constantly occurring and changing with or without your conscious awareness.

Will you become aware o…

We met with talent acquisition specialists from Klein Tools to discuss their experience with hiring 0-5+ year level engineers.

If you are in that category, or are involved in the process of hiring eng…

Please allow Steve to clear this one up in this short but impactful episode with a strong message.  

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Momentum = Impact * Consistency

Our engineering careers are full of twists and turns and unknowns. It's just the way it is. It's also full of obstacles and roadblocks.

What allows you to straighten th…

Decrease the amount of time you spend on comparing yourself to others in your career who are "further along" than you and collecting reasons why they have what you want.

Instead, spend more time thin…

You even wonder why people outside of your job are always talking about leadership? And the skills they don't teach you in school? And how understanding each other and having "empathy" will increase …

If you and your organization could stand out in others' minds as the engineers that are stress free, solutions-oriented, organized AF, helpful, clear and concise communicating, bringers of problem re…