The Engineering & Leadership Podcast
About the Engineering & Leadership Podcast
The Engineering and Leadership Podcast is all about leadership, management, business and productivity in an engineering context. It’s like an audio business school for engineers. The goal is to help you learn about the softer side of engineering and to build your business accumen, but more importantly, to help you go out and apply what you learn. My mission with the show is to help you become a stronger engineer, a stronger leader, go from good to great, and get things done. If you’re an engineer who wants to step things up in your career, make a move into leadership role, or want to improve your business and management skills, this is absolutely the place for you.
You can listen to the show using the player below. You can also scroll down for additional guidance and show notes.
Engineering & Leadership Podcast Shownotes
With each episode, we share links, resources, and notes that may be of interest to listeners. We also share an automatically-generated transcript to make it easy to search for content, and to make the podcast more accessible.
EL039 – How to become a better leader by letting go
One of the struggles many engineering leaders have is knowing how and when to let go and allow their teams to move forward with their daily work. It can be incredibly difficult to know how to transition from working in the team to working on the team. This leads to micromanagement, impaired performance, and a dearth of leadership and direction.
Luckily, Peter Docker addresses this exact problem in his new book, Leading from the Jumpseat: How to create extraordinary opportunities by handing over control. In today’s episode, I speak with Peter about his new book, the importance of letting go, and what it takes to be a fantastic engineering leader.
EL038 – How to find (or become) an engineering mentor
Mentorship in the world of engineering is an incredible tool. It helps those being mentored improve job performance, satisfaction, and achievement of long-term goals. For the mentor, it helps connect with earlier stage professionals, organize their thoughts and frameworks around their work, and gives them a chance to give back. Finding or becoming and engineering mentor is a brilliant move at any point in your engineering career.
EL037 – Demystifying Sales and Selling for Engineers
Sales and business development are key skills for engineers who want to grow in their careers. For many senior engineers and engineering managers, helping to grow their company through new business is an absolute necessity. In this episode, you’ll learn what sales is really all about, why it’s important for your growth, and why you already have a lot of the skills needed to be great at helping to grow your engineering firm.
EL036 – Culture of excellence: How to build brilliant engineering teams through incredible culture
Culture is the glue that holds an organization together. It’s the unwritten, ethereal rules of engagement – the collection of “how things work around here”. Today, I speak with Mark Kinsella, VP of Engineering at Opendoor about organizational culture: what it is, why it’s important to engineering organizations, and how to drive excellence through excellent engineering culture.
EL035 – Women In Engineering: Combating Bias and Redefining Success for a Better Future
In today’s interview, I speak with Stephanie Slocum, author of She Engineers and founder of Engineers rising about supporting women in engineering through addressing unconscious bias, redefining success and creating a better, more inclusive future.
EL034 – Leading Engineers to Success in Hybrid Workplaces
In this episode of the Engineering & Leadership podcast, I interview psychologist Dr. Robin Rosenberg about the risks posed by hybrid workplaces, how to overcome them, and the future of hybrid work.
EL033 – The Engineer’s Guide to Public Speaking (Without Getting Awkwardly Sweaty)
Neil Thompson of Teach The Geek shares his advice for engineers everywhere on why public speaking is so important for engineers and how to improve as a public speaker.
EL032 – Tired Tires and the Circular Economy: How Wastefront is Saving the World One Tire at a Time
Today, I speak with Wastefront’s CTO, Henrik Selstam, about his company and their mission to address one of the world’s most pressing environmental challenges: dealing with end-of-life tires.
EL031 – Leadership is Language: David Marquet on The Power Behind What You Say (And What You Don’t)
Today, I speak with David Marquet on the importance of the language we use as leaders, what’s wrong with the old way of engaging with our teams, and how to drive performance through what we say.
EL030 – Leading Yourself: How to Take Control Of Your Career and Do What You Love
In this episode of the Engineering & Leadership podcast, I speak with Dr. Ben Ritter about the importance of leading yourself and how to start if you’ve never tried.
Need a Little Help?
If you’re new to the world of podcasts, not to worry. We have a complete guide on how to enjoy the podcast here:
Listen to the Show on Other Platforms
You can listen to the top leadership and management podcast for engineers on all your favourite platforms:
Read the Blog
The Engineering Management Blog is a great free resource for information on project management, people management, and productivity.