About the Engineering & Leadership Project
Our Mission is to Develop Incredible Engineering Leaders
Engineers play a pivotal role in addressing the world’s most pressing challenges. While brilliant individual skill is crucial, it’s not enough. The complexity and uncertainty that characterize the world today drives the need for excellence at the team level, and excellent engineering teams start with excellent engineering leaders.
Despite engineers being some of the best and brightest people around, it can be incredibly tough for many engineers to make the transition to leadership. Most of us enter into leadership roles without any kind of preparation. The result? Stress and burnout on the part of the leader, and poor performance and frustration on the part of the team.
We started The Engineering & Leadership Project to fix all that.
Our goal is to help engineers build the skills they need to transition seemlessly into leadership and management roles, and to support their development once they’re established. We offer a podcast, articles, courses, training, coaching, and consulting to help individuals and organizations level up their technical leadership and management skills.
About Our Founder
Pat Sweet, P.Eng., MBA, CSEP, PMP
President, The Engineering & Leadership Project
Patrick Sweet, P.Eng., MBA, PMP, CSEP is a recognized expert in engineering management, productivity, and leadership. He is the president of The Engineering & Leadership Project, which specializes in leadership and management development, training, and consulting for engineers and engineering firms. He also hosts the popular Engineering & Leadership Podcast, a show dedicated to helping engineering leaders thrive.
Prior to launching The Engineering & Leadership Project, Pat spent 13 years in industry. His work focused predominantly on leading and managing engineers through complex systems integration projects in the rail and defence industries. He's worked as a product manager, project manager, systems engineering manager, and as the head of configuration management at a large naval combat systems integrator.
Pat has a bachelor of engineering from Dalhousie University and an MBA from the Royal Military College of Canada. He's also a professional engineer licensed in Nova Scotia, Canada, a Certified Systems Engineering Professional (INCOSE), and a certified Project Management Professional (PMI).
Listen to the Podcast
Listen to the Engineering & Leadership Podcast for actionable advice, expert interviews, and great stories for engineering leaders.
Read the Blog
The Engineering Management Blog is a great free resource for information on project management, people management, and productivity.