AGL 251: Engineering Leadership with Patrick Sweet

About Pat

Patrick Sweet, P.Eng., MBA, PMP, CSEP is a recognized expert in engineering management, productivity, and leadership. He is the president of The Engineering & Leadership Project, which specializes in leadership and management development, training, and consulting for engineers and engineering firms. He also hosts the popular Engineering & Leadership Podcast, a show dedicated to helping engineering leaders thrive.

Prior to launching The Engineering & Leadership Project, Pat spent 13 years in industry. His work focused predominantly on leading and managing engineers through complex systems integration projects in the rail and defence industries. He’s worked as a product manager, project manager, systems engineering manager, and as the head of configuration management at a large naval combat systems integrator.

Pat has a bachelor of engineering from Dalhousie University and an MBA from the Royal Military College of Canada. He’s also a professional engineer licensed in Nova Scotia, Canada, a Certified Systems Engineering Professional (INCOSE), and a certified Project Management Professional (PMI).

Today We Talked About

Pat’s background
promoting engineers to manager
Go Deep or Go Broad
Conferences
Memberships
Delegation
Letting Go
Clarity
Goals
One-on-Ones
Lead People
Manage Performance
What’s on your mind?
- And What else?
Productivity
- Efficiency
- Effectiveness
- Systems

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