Every engineering firm wants managers that can effectively lead people. The problem is that most engineering professionals weren’t taught leadership in school...
At the Engineering Management Institute (EMI) we’ve always believed that engineers could develop people skills, but there weren’t programs out there that actually helped them do so.
Therefore, based on our founder’s engineering career experiences, we built a program that helps engineering professionals actually transfer these people leadership skills back to the job, and do so in a way that requires very little sacrifice of their billable time.
To learn more about our Engineering Leadership Accelerator™ – People Leadership Course (Levels I and II) simply read through our curriculum here or contact us through this form or by phone at 800.920.4007. PDHs are provided as well, as a bonus.
"The Engineering Leadership Accelerator™ has forced me to consider not only how I can purposefully spend my own time, but also how I can empower others to do their best work. Our group challenge has given me the opportunity to be a leader among my peers and to make an impact on our company beyond my usual realm of influence."
- Forrest Bratton, P.E., SECB, Big Red Dog Engineering | Consulting
You can enroll your professionals in our general sessions (we can provide the schedule), we can conduct a session for your company only, or we can even modify our curriculum and create a custom program for your firm.
Please get in touch with us today. If you utilize our program, your professionals will be able to better engage with stakeholders and lead their teams AND projects more effectively.
Failure to provide this support to your managers could lead to mismanaged projects AND people, and slow the growth of your firm in a big way.
Our Next Class Is On February 28th, 2024
Call 800-920-4007 or contact us here for enrollment information.
ELA Course Overview
This 5-week online course will teach, inspire, push, and connect your professionals to peers and coaches who will help them think like entrepreneurial engineering managers.
Most importantly, they will build confidence and realize that they have the abilities they need to create and present clear ideas that will drive positive change and growth for them personally, your firm, and your clients.
With live skill building sessions and coaching calls, simple on-the-job assignments (done during billable activities), and access to live instructors, the course takes 5 - 10 hours to complete, most of which can be done outside of normal business hours.
Level I is for new and aspiring managers.
Level II is for experienced managers.
See curriculum here for each level.
**Completion of the course earns a minimum of 4 PDHs accepted in most US States.
"The Engineering Leadership Accelerator™ skill building sessions were very well prepared but also allowed for personalized advice. There were plenty of opportunities to ask questions and receive thoughtful responses."
- Michelle S. Young, P.E., P.P., C.M.E., Maser Consulting, P.A.
More customized than a book, series of webinars, or a course...
Where the Engineering Leadership Accelerator™ - People Leadership Course is different is in the transfer assignments that can help participants transfer these important skills back to the job.
Our students have to show up. Period.
The Importance of Showing Up
In a busy project filled world, there are many ways for engineering professionals to hide. Your staff can stay as 'team engineers' or or 'average managers' forever and not take the steps to improve. They can avoid having to do presentations. They can live with the doubt that builds up in their minds around their abilities to lead. They can continue to do tasks instead of delegating them. However, hiding is not going to drive growth or change, in fact, it will do the opposite.
This course will force your managers and soon-to-be managers to think certain ways and to present their ideas to your company, and in the process will gain so much confidence, it will change their careers and your company forever.
A Proven Way to Learn
If you want your engineers to become more effective managers, leaders that lead projects that positively impact our world, you'll need to develop their confidence and their management skills. This remote live course doesn't require any prerequisites, only the desire to show up and do the work in service of making change happen.
Anthony Fasano, PE, lead instructor, has a lot of experience both as an effective engineering manager and a trained executive coach who has helped thousands of engineering professionals become leaders. In this course, your staff will learn how to build the confidence and skills they need to transform into leaders that can drive massive growth.
Our Next Class Is Starting Soon!
Call 800-920-4007 or contact us here for enrollment information.
"Participating in the Engineering Manager Accelerator Program, was highly valuable to me. Every day I review and utilize the tools and information that I received from Anthony's lectures to help me meet my goals of performing as an Engineering Manager. It was time well spent."
- John Dumas, IPS-Integrated Project Services, LLC
Curriculum
The curriculum for the Engineering Leadership Accelerator™ - People Leadership Course is based on feedback from thousands of engineers as well as input from learning and development professionals at some of the fastest growing engineering firms. It contains what we believe to be the most important skills that engineers need to succeed as managers, and all of our skill building sessions offer PDHs that are accepted in most US States (4 PDHs per course).
There are two levels of the course. Level I is built for soon-to-be and new managers in engineering while Level II provides topics for experienced managers in engineering.
Curriculum
Engineering Leadership Accelerator™ – People Leadership Course
Level I (4 PDHs) - For aspiring and new managers in engineering
You want to develop your managers as early as possible in their careers, but there are no programs built for soon-to-be or aspiring managers in consulting engineering, at least you thought there weren’t. Our proven Engineering Leadership Accelerator™ – People Leadership Level I Course will help your soon-to-be and new managers learn:
- How to communicate more effectively with both clients and team members (including a 2-step framework for listening better),
- Ways to improve their public speaking skills and build expertise for your firm,
- Routines that they can practice to drastically improve their time management and productivity skills (including a specific routine for setting up their days more effectively),
- Fundamental networking strategies so that they can build relationships that will help your firm grow (this includes both in-person and online strategies).
Simply fill out this form or contact us today at 800.920.4007, our next ELA I session begins soon, but we can also provide a company only session at your desired time.
Engineering Leadership Accelerator™ – People leadership Course
Level II (4 PDHs) – For experienced managers in engineering
You have experienced managers in your firm that need assistance with some higher-level leadership skills, but these skills are really hard to learn. Good news, our ELA Level II course provides frameworks for your leaders to tackle some of the toughest, and most impactful leadership skills. Our proven Engineering Leadership Accelerator™ – People Leadership Level II Course will help your experienced managers learn:
- How to make decisions utilizing 4 proven decision-making models (and when to use each),
- Ways to resolve conflict amongst team members, or with other stakeholders,
- How to delegate effectively, a critical skill in engineering (we have developed a framework that uses an acronym L-A-U-G-H to make it easy to delegate effectively),
- Routines that they can use to increase team productivity both in-person and remotely (including email management strategies),
- How to better engage their team members (we’ll give them a two-question framework that works every time).
Simply fill out this form or contact us today at 800.920.4007, our next ELA I session begins soon, but we can also provide a company only session at your desired time.
You can’t assume these experienced managers know it all, they don’t. Failure to invest in these experienced leaders, will prevent sustainable long-term growth.
Instructors
Anthony Fasano, P.E., executive coach and trainer, is our lead instructor and we also have several other coaches and facilitators that are involved in our sessions. A list of trainers for each session may be provided upon request.
Anthony Fasano, P.E.
Lead Instructor
Erica Lee Garcia, P.Eng.
Instructor -
Communications & Public Speaking
Dax Hoff, P.E.
Instructor -
Networking & Leadership
Pat Sweet, P. Eng.
Instructor -
Delegation
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Alumni Companies
Engineers from these companies have participated in The Engineering Leadership Accelerator™ People Leadership Course
Praise
"The Engineering Leadership Accelerator™ program was a great way to train a group of managers, from different disciplines and office locations, without incurring travel costs. They learned how to collaborate and solve business problems by utilizing technology, which can be a huge benefit in a multi-locational company. Our managers enjoyed the project challenge part of the training because “it was a real life issue that we had to solve” and will take the skills they developed in the workshops and “apply them to their everyday interactions."
– Jessica Viscuso, Director of Learning & Development at Pennoni
"Taking part in ELA was a very valuable experience to me. Initially I was skeptical about signing up for the program because of my busy schedule, but I’m glad I did! Finding a coach with a similar background, who has an understanding of where we (engineers) come from and has knowledge about the industry made the experience truly unique. ELA is well designed to initiate and accelerate management techniques such as team building, decision making, communication and networking skills. We may possess the technical knowledge to grow, but Anthony’s program and tips helps develop the much needed soft skills to become better engineering managers and leaders."
- Mukta Patil, P.E.
Langan Engineering and Environmental Services
"ELA has forced me to consider not only how I can purposefully spend my own time, but also how I can empower others to do their best work. Our group challenge has given me the opportunity to be a leader among my peers and to make an impact on our company beyond my usual realm of influence."
– Forrest Bratton, P.E., SECB
Big Red Dog Engineering | Consulting
"ELA skill building sessions were very well prepared but also allowed for personalized advice. There were plenty of opportunities to ask questions and receive thoughtful responses."
- Michelle S. Young, P.E., P.P., C.M.E., Maser Consulting P.A.
"Anthony continues to provide value to engineers looking to create a successful career for themselves. With the Engineering Leadership Accelerator™, he has taken his commitment to developing professional engineers one step further. This program uniquely engages and challenges every member to become a better engineering manager!"
- Charles Weber, P.E., Burk-Kleinpeter Inc. USA
"I have enjoyed the class thus far and have really enjoyed tackling my company's challenge in a small group setting. Your presentations have given me some new insight on how to assert myself as a leader, and have also confirmed different practices that I have heard others talk about."
- Megan Miller Tetro, P.E., Wantman Group Inc.
"Participating in the Engineering Leadership Accelerator™ Program, was highly valuable to me. Every day I review and utilize the tools and information that I received from Anthony's lectures to help me meet my goals of performing as an Engineering Manager. It was time well spent."
- John Dumas, MBA, PMP, IPS-Integrated Project Services
"One of my biggest challenges in learning to be an engineering manager has been balancing managing projects versus managing people. The Engineering Leadership Accelerator™ Course integrates these two subjects elegantly, effectively teaching both essential communication strategies and basic business acumen."
- Stephanie J. Kruep, S.E., P.E., SidePlate Systems, Inc.
"The ELA course helped me put 2 and 2 together. A good engineer on their own is a 2 but a good engineer with networking skills is a 4. "
- Nicholas DiMichele, P.E., Malick & Scherer, P.C.
“The Engineering Leadership Accelerator™ Course provides a framework for instilling better managerial habits that improve the efficiency and quality of work for managers and their teammates.”
- Sheryl Fishel, PLA, Rodgers Consulting
"The Engineering Leadership Accelerator™ provided me with the tools & guidance to facilitate & foster growth of not only myself, but also my team members & peers. ELA also provided me with the resources necessary on how to best apply those facets to not only my professional life, but to also my personal life."
- Chris Lazration, PE, Rodgers Consulting
"The ELA course taught me new skills and approaches to situations/topics that I did not have before. It helped me become more of an "expert" in certain fields and helped me develop more professionally."
- Bradye Turner, Jensen Design & Survey, Inc.
"When a company prioritizes and makes this course available, Anthony in turn provides a framework for the employee to pause, consider, and bolster their ability to focus on what matters most for productivity and effectiveness. This yields benefit within the company, for clients, and the individual employee's career development in present and future roles. The implementation and follow- through will ultimately be up to the employee and company, but additional tools to succeed are in-place as a result of intentional time with the EMI Team."
- Kevin Waldron, AICP, Jensen Design & Survey, Inc.
"Personally, I am gaining the most from the Project Challenge portion of the course. Presenting this project will help me make great steps in expanding my comfort zone and improving my ability to present effectively internally and externally."
- Elizabeth Kramer, P.E., SidePlate Systems
"The ELA course helps me to understand the importance of finding a balance between work & life. An employee who is focused & organized will work in a joyful environment, creating better relationships and projects."
- Claudia Reyes-Estrada, Malick & Scherer, P.C.
"I really liked how The Engineering Leadership Accelerator™ course invites participating companies to provide an issue that can be implemented into a team's project. It allows a young engineer like myself to make a difference within my company."
- Trevor Takamine, Bowers + Kubota Consulting
"The engagement of the instructor (Anthony) was definitely a positive. It's easy to tell that Anthony is interested in the people he is working with, and enthusiastic about encouraging development of positive interpersonal relationships in the engineering world."
- Noel Liner
Langan Engineering and Environmental Services
"The ELA course provided guidance in areas that are sometimes overlooked in the engineering profession."
- John Beringer, Malick & Scherer, P.C.
"The ELA course was a valuable program. It expanded my thought process to look at things in a different light. It reinforced the ideals of working together as a team, and had many great points on how to improve my professional network. I would recommend it to any young engineer seeking a management position, and current managers."
- Mark Aylward, Maser Consulting P.A.
"The course helped to enhance both, tangible and intangible skills of an effective manager, but more importantly, an active and productive leader."
- Kate Teruya, Bowers+Kubota Consulting
"Anthony is an engaging and effective speaker. I appreciated his honest, plain-speaking method as it keeps the atmosphere. Enrolling in this course was a game-changer. The comprehensive content and expert guidance was a good learning experience. It has enhanced my skills and equipped me with invaluable knowledge. Highly recommended."
- Greg Adams
"This course contains many useful lessons that are both interesting and easy to implement with my team. I'm looking forward to taking another class with ELA in the future."
- Sarah Paul
"The EMA Course has helped me refocus my energy towards my team members, by helping me build skills that help alleviate my internal stress towards the workload and instead seeing the workload as a challenge that my team can take on and conquer, using the toolbox of organizational and interpersonal skills that EMA has brought forward."
- Nadine El-Gazzar
"This course provides information on engineering leadership in the form of digestible frameworks in a way that is very manageable for busy professionals like myself."
- Ben Slater
"The ELA - People Skills Course provides a good foundation of skills and concepts that benefit new and experienced Engineering Leaders. Having been in a leadership role over dozens of engineers for the past decade, this course reinforced some of the key skills I have previously leveraged and brought to light some new concepts that I will surely take back and practice. I will be recommending this course to the emerging leaders in my business."
- Allen Steffler
