Solutions Engineering Unleashed - Americas Engineering Leadership Podcast

DevOps for Systems Engineers is critical, but still often misunderstood and confusing. How do I get started? Are my customers really seeing the need to incorporate these skills? We will do our best to demystify things in this session.

Episode 1 - DevOps for Infrastructure: Making it Real with Mike Younkers

Managing is easy, but leading is hard, and motivating and inspiring teams is no small task nor for the faint of heart. You don't want to miss this episode with Eric Knipp, VP of Americas Engineering at Cisco. He shares his thoughts on how a People-First focus, passion for what we do, hard work, determination, taking risks, having a vision, earning a seat at the table, grit, intellectual and intense curiosity come together to fire up and motivate his team at Cisco

Episode 2 - Fire Up Your Leadership with Eric Knipp!

Florent Dalencourt shares how superpowers are not reserved for just our favorite Superheroes (Batman, Harley Quinn, and Green Lantern). As a leader, you too can become a superhero by discovering and then putting your own superpowers into practice. Today, we will talk to an exceptional guest about grit and empathy. Grit gives those who possess it extraordinary endurance, tenacity, and focus. Grit is not just simple elbow-grease term for rugged persistence. It is an often invisible display of endurance that lets you stay in an uncomfortable place, work hard to improve upon a given interest, and do it again and again.” - Sarah Lewis
 
According to Brene’ Brown, Empathy creates connection. It is feeling with people. She goes on to say, “Empathy has no script. There is no right way or wrong way to do it. It’s simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of ‘You’re not alone.’

Episode 3 - Grit and Empathy: Unleashing these superpowers to power your leadership!

There is something daily which can stall or stop progress, but, if you have true purpose, you’ve found the “It Factor” to successful leadership. We've all worked for or with a person who seems to always move forward despite how tough circumstances are? What is it about these people that keep them moving? Today, Sharon Martin is going to take us on her journey in doing just that. You do not want to miss this one!

“Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater.” — Viktor Frankl.

Episode 4 - Purpose: The "It Factor" of Successful Leaders

Welcome, to episode #5 of our Systems Engineering Unleashed Podcast! We will take an insightful, thought-provoking, and fun peek inside the minds and hearts of our elite engineers. Our guests, Cisco Distinguished Architects Errol Roberts and Craig Hill & our newest 5x CCIE, Lidiya Krunic, will take us on their unique journeys, but you will undoubtedly see a lot in common.

I hope you find that spark to get started on the hard path to being one of the best of the best. Reaching the top in your career journey is the same as summiting that seemingly impossible peak. It starts with the belief you can do it and years of training and hard knocks to make it real. Anything truly worth having is worth the struggle to get it.

A few great books referenced in this episode - Range -David Epstein, Think Again - Adam Grant and Endure - Cameron Hanes

Episode 5 - The Making Of An Elite Engineer

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