The Impactful Engineer - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring Engineers
Spreading awareness, success, and accessibility to the world of engineering to aspiring and early career engineers.
The Impactful Engineer - Mentorship, Career Growth, and Personal & Professional Excellence for Aspiring Engineers
Latest Episodes
Episode 169 - You Don’t Need to Agree. You Need to Execute.
You will not agree with every decision your boss, client, or business makes. That does not mean every disagreement deserves a fight. In this episode, Steve and Jake break down why strong engineers know when to make the recommendation, accept th...
Episode 168 - You Can’t Hold People Accountable for Expectations You Never Set
Accountability does not start when someone misses a deadline. It starts when the work begins. In this episode, Steve and Jake break down how strong engineers and leaders set clear expectations, document them, follow up before problems become em...
Episode 167 - You Don’t Have to Like the Change. You Have to Lead Through It.
Leadership changes. Your boss changes. The way your team operates changes. You can waste energy fighting it, or you can learn how to lead through it.In this episode, Steve and Jake break down how engineers should respond when new leaders...
Episode 166 - Your Work Is Invisible Because You Never Learned to Explain Its Value, with Vanessa Errecarte
Strong technical work does not automatically make you visible, memorable, or promotable. In this episode, Steve and Jake sit down with Vanessa Errecarte, author of Valuable and Visible and an instructor in digital marketing, corporate branding,...
Episode 165 - You Know the Answer, So Start Sounding Like It
You can know your project, understand the data, and have the right answer, yet still make leadership doubt you. In this episode, Steve and Jake break down how passive language, hedging, weak tone, and overexplaining destroy credibility. They sh...
