Speaking Topics

Becoming an Intentional Engineer - Creating a Purpose-Driven Life and Career
Building a meaningful engineering career is about more than just landing a job and climbing the ladder. It’s about being intentional about what you want to learn, how you want to grow, and who you want to become. And with the many potential paths for engineers, charting our path can be confusing and difficult.

How to Intentionally Deepen and Expand Your Professional Network for Career Success
Few things will transform your career more than a strong professional network, and yet networking is one of the most neglected activities I see over and over again.
Often this is because we misunderstand what networking is all about and how to do it effectively. When done right, it can be fuel, support, and a launching pad for massive career and personal growth.

Growing and Expanding Your Professional Network With Intention
The importance of building mentor relationships cannot be overstated. Mentors can help us see opportunities, break through barriers, and overcome obstacles that we wouldn’t be able to do alone.

But how do we find the right mentors and build those relationships in the first place? Once we find a mentor, how do we cultivate that relationship in a meaningful way?

This session will break down the value of mentor relationships and give you actionable tactics to find mentors that can help you transform and accelerate your career!

Mentorship: Benefits on Both Sides of the Equation
Most of us know that finding mentors is a good idea to help us learn and grow.
But what’s in it for the mentors?

Perhaps more than you think. The benefits go beyond just “paying it forward” which is great, but can also help improve leadership, influence, and satisfaction in your life and career.

Mentoring is about impact - what impact do you want to make?

Daring to Learn: How Mentorship Can Fast-Track Your Engineering Career
The importance of building mentor relationships cannot be overstated. Mentors can help us see opportunities, break through barriers, and overcome obstacles that we wouldn’t be able to do alone.

But how do we find the right mentors and build those relationships in the first place? Once we find a mentor, how do we cultivate that relationship in a meaningful way?

This session will break down the value of mentor relationships and give you actionable tactics to find mentors that can help you transform and accelerate your career!

How to Use Negotiation Principles to Succeed in Common Career Situations
To negotiate is a fact of life. We cannot avoid it. Whether we are negotiating compensation for a new job, the price of something we are trying to buy, a large corporate agreement, or even what to eat for dinner, we are constantly negotiating. Improving your negotiating skills as an engineer can transform your career for the better.

Engineering Career Masterclass – Landing a Job You Love
Whether you are unemployed, underemployed, or just uninspired in your current role, there are times where it just makes sense to search for a new job. Yet this process is not for the faint of heart – it takes grit, determination, and the right approach to maximize success.

In this session we’ll cover the 5 Forces of Career Acceleration – a unique combination of mindset, goal setting, and job landing strategies that will help you rise above the competition and take your career to the next level

Maximizing LinkedIn for Engineering Career Success
LinkedIn is the best social media platform for professionals. It can be used for career advancement, networking, personal branding, and so much more.

In this session we'll cover the many ways you can utilize LinkedIn as a pillar of your personal brand, grow your network, and find new career opportunities to reach your big goals!

How to "Future Proof" Your Engineering Career
There will always be uncertainty, unknowns, and challenges you face in building a meaningful career and life. So how to you move forward through such an unknown future?

In this session, we'll identify tools and strategies to strengthen you to weather the storms that come and break through the roadblocks that get in your way. Putting these practices into your career can truly make you more "Future Proof."

4 Keys to Intentional Engineering Career Transitions
If you are feeling underwhelmed, underpaid, underappreciated, or otherwise stuck and frustrated in your engineering/technical career, there is no reason for that to remain true. But how do you move through the career transition process and into a new opportunity that is the RIGHT fit for you?

In this session, we'll cover the Next-Level Engineering Career Formula, a framework that will help you move through your next career transition with intention. You'll come away with specific strategies you can use to reach your goals fast!

Solidify Your Mindset as the Foundation of Your Professional Development
Few things can be more impactful in developing personally and professionally as cultivating positive mindsets. This session will cover what mindsets are, why they are important to our development, and give useful tips and resources for developing yours in a more positive way.

Successful Salary Negotiations for Engineers
The last thing you want to do is get a job offer and leave a bunch of money on the table! Learn how to negotiate like a pro so you can make the most of your opportunities!

Resume Writing for Top-Notch Engineers
Your resume says a lot about you. Can you share your career highlights effectively so you can get the job you want?

Unleashing Engagement, Productivity, Innovation, and Collaboration Through Connection With Intention
With the growth of AI and tech innovation, the things that are uniquely human are becoming more and more important. People still are the heart of the organization, but if they feel disconnected from their own work, their team, or the organization at large, there will be problems with engagement, retention, innovation, and productivity.

This interactive workshop is designed for engineering leaders and their teams who want to create transformational cultures and spike innovation. Through a personalized connection assessment and engaging exercises, you will gain a deeper understanding of your strengths, weaknesses, and areas of improvement to unlock the power of connection for all.

Building Your Mindset as an Essential Foundation for Technical Leaders
This interactive workshop is designed for engineering leaders who are ready to take their leadership skills to the next level. Through a personalized mindset assessment and engaging exercises, you will gain a deeper understanding of your strengths, weaknesses, and leadership style. You will also explore the connection between mindset and culture, and learn how to create a positive and productive environment for your team.

Successfully Transition from Engineer to Engineering Manager
Making the move from individual contributor to leader and manager is one of the most difficult moves for an engineering professional to make.

The session will make clear the opportunities, challenges, and steps you need to take to be successful (and make sure this is the direction you want to take your career).

Additionally, we’ll break down the key mindsets and models of effective leadership, and give you specific strategies you can use to accelerate your leadership skill development. You’ll come away with a 90 Day Guide to make the move and evaluate your progress!

Let Go and Build Your Technical Team
One of the most difficult challenges for technical leaders to overcome is letting go, but it's also one of the most important things to do when it comes to building trust, building skills, and creating engagement in a great team.

Certainly this means effective delegation, but there is more to it. We'll identify the personal roadblocks that keep us from doing this well, point to the amazing benefits, and give you specific strategies that you can take action on immediately.

Does Your Culture Match Your Strategy and Structure?
"Culture eats strategy for breakfast." Many people believe this to be true, but they also think this means that they should only work on the corporate culture and the strategy will take care of itself. Conversely, some corporations simply define a strategy and hope that culture will follow.

Both of these approaches can be detrimental, as culture and strategy (and organizational structure) must be aligned in order to promote success. This workshop delivers approaches to take stock of culture, scope out desired traits and behaviors, and chart a path to creating a culture that will deliver strategic results.

Conflict - Go Beyond Resolution to Transformation
All too often we focus on conflict resolution. We simply want to solve the problem at hand and move forward. Even more impactful, however, is moving beyond resolution to transformation.

This must happen from an open, selfless mindset in order to see how we personally contribute to the problems rather than pointing blame at others. This session explores how cycles of conflict begin, enhance, and can be stopped in order to end destructive patterns in professional and personal situations.

Performance Conversations that Work
Often leaders go into performance evaluations and conversations as opportunities to suggest improvements for those they lead. That’s all fine, but what if these conversations could be more effective and useful for both parties?

Too often employees lack the courage to tell the truth to their superiors. The only way for this to change is for leaders to model and set the example for the level of vulnerability needed to give and receive feedback in a meaningful way. This session sets the foundations, gives examples, and provides frameworks to practice having meaningful performance conversations.

1st Step to Problem Solving - Getting to the Root Cause
In order to address a problem relationship, process, or structure, it is critical to do a thorough root cause analysis. This session takes participants through their own challenges and uses models and tools to help them get to the root cause of real issues.

Armed with these tools, they can craft a meaningful problem statement that makes it clear what they are trying to solve and helps guide the process.

Accelerate Your Leadership: Transitioning from All-Star Engineer to New Team Leader
Stepping into a leadership role can be both exciting and challenging. This webinar is designed for mid-career mechanical engineers ready to make the transition from technical expert to effective team leader. In this session, we’ll explore strategies to leverage your engineering strengths, build essential leadership skills, and implement a 90-day plan to set a solid foundation for your new role. Learn how to drive team success while making a meaningful impact on projects and people alike