Engineer Your Success Podcast

About the Show

Engineer Your Success is a leadership podcast for engineers and professionals who want to Win at Work AND Win at Home. Host Dr. James Bryant, Ph.D., P.E., is a Master Certified Professional Coach with more than 20 years as a professional engineer in transportation infrastructure, and the show focuses on the leadership skills and presence that technical training alone does not provide. Every Tuesday, James talks with leaders and experts about delegation, communication and influence, conflict, team culture, burnout, and building an organization where everything no longer depends on you. If you've been told the answer is work-life balance, this show makes a different case: stop balancing and start winning.

Recent Episodes

Build the Runway So You Can Leave on Your Own Terms

Episode 252 | Guest: Sam Stidwell IV | Host: Dr. James Bryant Sam Stidwell IV spent five years building 3D printing technology for the Army Corps of E...

From the Inbox to the Mic: A Subscriber’s Perspective on Work-Life Balance

Episode Description This is the first episode in a new recurring series, From the Inbox to the Mic — where a subscriber’s own words take center stage....

It Doesn’t Matter When You Do It, You Just Need to Start

Episode 250 | Guest: Matthew Evington | Host: Dr. James Bryant Most people picture a straight line into engineering. Matt Evington’s path ran through ...

Aggies Do! From Student to the First Woman to Lead NC A&T’s College of Engineering

Episode 249 | Guest: Dr. Stephanie Luster-Teasley Pass | Host: Dr. James Bryant What does it take to become the first person in your own story to walk...

The Hidden Power of Ignorance: How Not Knowing Can Fuel Your Success

Episode 248 | Guest: Matt Granados | Host Dr. James Bryant Episode Description Ignorance gets a bad rap. But this week’s guest, Matt Granados, calls i...

The Neuroscience Secret Engineers Can Use to De-Escalate Conflict Fast

Guest: Douglas E. Noll, JD, MA | Host: Dr. James Bryant, P.E. A 22-year trial lawyer who walked away from a seven-figure career to become a peacemaker...

How Having a Coach in Her Corner Changed Her Career and Life

Guest: Hitisha “Tish” Sharma, P.E. | Host: Dr. James Bryant, P.E. | Episode 246 What does it look like when a podcast becomes a coaching relationship ...

From Building Designs to Building a Tech Community: One Architect’s Unexpected Journey

Guest: Nick Serfass | Host: Dr. James Bryant Episode Description What happens when the skills you built in one profession turn out to be exactly what ...

Unconscious Avoidance Is Not a Winning Strategy

How to stop avoiding the meeting you know you need to have and close the gap between what you intend and what you do. Episode Description There’s a di...

Beyond the Numbers | Leading with Love as a KPI with Utibe Bassey

Beyond the numbers on your dashboard lies a metric you can’t easily graph but can’t afford to ignore: love. In this episode of the Engineer Your Succe...