Executive Engineering Leadership with John Szeder

Welcome to Executive Engineering Leadership Briefing with John Szeder.

John is a highly in-demand and seasoned executive engineering leader focused on high volume consumer and industry applications.  He is also an expert in helping people build and retain elite engineering teams and has agreed to help people in their journey!

This briefing is focused on helping executives who have recently risen to a senior executive role.  As John points out, when you rise from an individual contributor, or even a manager to a senior executive, your role changes significantly.  In this briefing, John provides concrete advice on how to succeed in this new role.

Here's the topics we covered:

* The Importance of recognizing you are in a completely new role and what you did to get here is NOT necessarily what you need to succeed in this role.
* Why your default tendencies that got you promoted, are the things they want you to stop doing in favor of new behaviors.  As an example, the traits you exhibit as an individual contributor may actually work against you as a leader.  And once you start reporting to the board, you'll have to rapidly develop new skills and a new approach.
* The Importance of obtaining a mentor to help you, and the one question you should ask him/her to help you.
* How to find that mentor.
* The number one question to ask the mentor.
* The one person you shouldn't ask to be your mentor.

How John can help you if you need it!  He is open to providing advice to help people on their journey!

Learn more about John and reach out to him here!