AGL 399: Dr. Angelique Adams

About Angelique

women-in-stemAngelique is an engineer and former corporate executive with 25 years of experience in the metals and mining sector. After managing multimillion-dollar innovation portfolios and leading teams of scientists and engineers worldwide, she discovered that her true passion lies in developing people rather than products.

In 2021, Angelique authored an Amazon best-selling career guide for women in STEM, which served as a springboard to transition into academia and entrepreneurship.

Today, Angelique runs her own leadership training and coaching company, is the Founding Director of the Leadership in Engineering and Entrepreneurship Program and serves as an Associate Professor of Practice at the Tickle College of Engineering at the University of Tennessee.

Angelique holds a Ph.D. in Energy and Mineral Engineering from Penn State and an MBA from MIT.  She resides in Knoxville, TN, with her husband and two teenagers.


Today We Talked About

  • Background
  • STEM
  • Leadership
  • Showing up as a Leader
  • Why PhD.’s need coaching
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Experts need coaching too
  • Design experiments to test behaviors
  • Testing and Feedback mindset – weekly reviews
  • Listening
  • Communication and professional empathy
  • Communicate technical items with the rest of the business
  • Presentations for Leaders
  • Find the information your audience cares about
  • Prep for Q and A

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