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 172 - If No One Trusts You With Important Work, There’s a Reason
How do you know when you are starting to lose trust at work? Sometimes the signs are obvious. Sometimes they look like fewer assignments, meaningless work, weak feedback, or people simply avoiding you. In this episode, Steve and Jake break down...
Episode 171 - The Fastest-Growing Engineers Don’t Wait Until They’re Certain
Engineers are trained to analyze, validate, and reduce uncertainty. That becomes a problem when analysis turns into an excuse to delay action. In this episode, Steve and Jake break down two career-defining skills: urgency and agency. For early-...
Episode 170 - Every Excuse Is a Problem You Refused to Solve.
It is easy to explain why you are stuck. A teammate is late. Your team lacks a skill. Someone assembled the product wrong. A competitor has a better network. You never had the internship. In this episode, Steve and Jake break down how engineers...
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...
