Re:Engineered

About Re:Engineered

Re:Engineered is a podcast for engineers and technical professionals who've realized that being great at the technical work isn't enough anymore. Hosted by Chris Stasiuk, an engineer turned coach who spent 25 years growing from project engineer to shareholder at an engineering consulting firm, and now coaches technical professionals on the leadership skills no one taught them. The show treats communication, leadership, and influence as systems. Not personality traits. Not corporate theater. Skills you can learn and apply without pretending to be someone you're not. Episodes include solo takes, newsletter riffs, and conversations with engineers and experts in areas technical professionals often overlook. No theory. Real frameworks from real engineering environments, with direct guidance on managing up, leading without authority, and navigating difficult conversations. No buzzwords. No corporate platitudes. No advice from consultants who've never built anything. If you're the one who actually solves the problems but keep getting passed over for people who talk more than they contribute, this podcast was built for you. Because being a great engineer isn't enough anymore.

Publisher

Chris Stasiuk

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Jan 2026

Latest episode

21 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

41 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   21 Oct 2026

   Your Work Depended on It. So You Assumed It Was Done.

   Some of the most expensive work on a project belongs to nobody. It sits between two scopes, and every team that depends on it assumes it’s done, because their own plan only works if it is. That assumption feels like a fact, so nobody checks it, and the people who do wonder stay quiet because the question sounds like an accusation or lands them with the work. This episode traces two commissioning scrambles back to that gap, and lays out how to make the ownership question routine before startup...

2. 

   7 Oct 2026

   You Won the Argument. You Lost the Next Report.

   When someone tells an engineer they’re wrong, the trained response is to verify the claim. Run that verification out loud, in front of the person who just took a risk to raise it, and it lands as a cross-examination. You might win the point. You also raise the price of the next piece of feedback, and eventually nobody pays it. This episode separates acknowledging feedback from diagnosing it, using the same logic an operator applies to an alarm on an HMI. What You Will Take Away Verifying a c...

3. 

   23 Sept 2026

   It Never Felt Like a Decision. That’s Why I Never Reviewed It.

   Some of the most expensive leadership calls never feel like calls at all. You don’t decide against someone. You just don’t put their name forward, and because nothing trips an alarm, nothing gets reviewed. Chris Stasiuk tells the story of an engineer he left off a project she was perfect for, and why the answer he gave turned out not to be the problem. Engineers write an incident report when a pump trips. This episode applies the same discipline to leadership decisions, with a four-line revie...