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174: Here’s Why Being Busy Blocks Engineering Success with Dr. Andy Garrett

174: Here’s Why Being Busy Blocks Engineering Success with Dr. Andy Garrett

In this episode, meet the world’s leading authority on identity and resilience, Dr. Andy Garrett.

Andy holds a doctorate in clinical psychology and has invested his life’s work teaching organizations how to become Radically Resilient – to maximize your successes & limit losses!

We show how the world’s definition of success is part of the problem, and why everyone walks around feeling so busy all the time. Spoiler alert, doing more is not the answer to your next promotion.

If you have ever struggled with motivation, or bouncing back from adversity, then what Andy has researched about authenticity, resilience, and agility will be a game-changer for your career.

So press play and let’s chat… it’s time to change your story from post-traumatic stress, to post-traumatic growth!

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173: Now You Can Make Hard Career Decisions Seem Simple

173: Now You Can Make Hard Career Decisions Seem Simple

In this episode, I explore the critical importance of aligning your core values and vision before making significant career decisions.

Drawing from my experience working with an engineering leader named Ashley, who faced a pivotal career move, I illustrate how defining your values and vision ahead of time can transform decision-making from a stressful and uncertain ordeal into a confident and clear process.

You’ll learn why it’s essential to understand what truly matters and how to create a roadmap for your ideal life and career, emphasizing the importance of doing the inner work in advance to make informed, aligned decisions.

By the end of our discussion, you’ll have practical insights on how to prioritize your core values and articulate a compelling vision for your future.

So press play and let’s chat…about making career decisions that truly reflect who you are and where you want to go!

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143: How to Quickly Operate and Succeed at Work with Dr. Robert Santer | Navigating an Engineering Organization

143: How to Quickly Operate and Succeed at Work with Dr. Robert Santer | Navigating an Engineering Organization

In this episode, skip ahead 40 years of experience and learn from someone else’s mistakes what it takes to succeed at work with Dr. Robert “Bob” Santer.

Bob knows that transitioning new engineers into professionals who can blend in and contribute to the technical organization is, at best, doubtful.

Worse still, you and I both know that even a decade later as engineering managers, we still have huge gaps in what it takes to succeed outside our technical acumen!

Bob has his PhD in Engineering from the University of Michigan, GO BLUE! He has over 40 years of domestic and international industry experience in the aerospace and automotive fields as an engineering management professional, including Boeing and the Ford Motor Company.

If you love to learn, and you want to succeed as an engineering leader, then you’ll love Bob’s rigorous organizational framework to operate from.

He delivers guidance using a dual approach of academic insight and decades of hands-on professional experience.

So press play and let’s chat… it’s amazing how fast you can go when you navigate with the right compass!

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