Re:Engineered is a podcast for engineers and technical professionals who’ve realized that technical excellence alone isn’t enough anymore, and who refuse to play corporate theater to close the gap.
Leadership isn’t charisma. It’s a system. And systems can be learned.
Engineers and technical professionals stepping into leadership who want clarity, credibility, and impact without becoming someone they’re not.
Each episode delivers value on its own. The full arc is where the system clicks.
Summary A canceled Saturday morning meeting with a carpenter becomes the anchor for a mechanism most people get backwards: an apology for missing a
Summary Episode 031 ended on a question. What signal survives a new contract landing on your laptop? The answer is none. The scaffolding was built
Summary Chris built his exit trigger around one event: the day his contract ended, he would tear down the scaffolding and go all in on
Summary Chris set a revenue target that would let him stop taking industrial engineering work and move to coaching full time. Three years later the
Summary A junior engineer looked right on paper and, once he was pressure tested in a lead role, revealed a values gap that no hire
Summary A senior engineer’s complaints about his previous employer sounded like a values match. Chris hired him. Fifteen months later, the same standard operating procedures
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