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Leverage timeless skills to drive your career and achieve your ambitions!

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Learn and Grow

Ambitious Engineer’s Blog Provides Free Advice for Growing Your Career and Business

Here, you can learn strategies and tactics for improving career outcomes. These recommendations have been tested in various roles in engineering firms. Each post leverages traditional communication, leadership, management, and psychological principles to supercharge your technical experience.

These techniques have helped grow engineering careers from CAD department drafter to Global Engineering Executive. Use these lessons to grow your own career!

the academy

Learn the art of influence, communication and strategy to transform you career.

The Ambitious Engineer’s Academy is launching soon and looking for its first cohort of students. This first cohort will be provided with the Ambitious Engineer experience for FREE.

Use the button below to sign up for cohort. Space is limited, so register soon!

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  • No-BS Leadership Lessons from a 4-Star General, a Billionaire, and a PE Exec

    No-BS Leadership Lessons from a 4-Star General, a Billionaire, and a PE Exec

    May 22, 2025
  • How to Move Forward after a Career Setback (Updated for Today’s Challenges)

    How to Move Forward after a Career Setback (Updated for Today’s Challenges)

    May 15, 2025
  • From Chaos to Checklist and Leading a Team to Do More with Less

    From Chaos to Checklist and Leading a Team to Do More with Less

    May 14, 2025
  • The Hidden Costs of Ambition: What I Almost Gave Up for a Big Promotion (and What I Learned)

    The Hidden Costs of Ambition: What I Almost Gave Up for a Big Promotion (and What I Learned)

    May 14, 2025
  • The Talent Crisis Isn’t a Pipeline Problem—It’s a Leadership Problem

    The Talent Crisis Isn’t a Pipeline Problem—It’s a Leadership Problem

    Apr 24, 2025
  • Leadership Under Pressure: Why Poise Is a Secret Weapon

    Leadership Under Pressure: Why Poise Is a Secret Weapon

    Apr 17, 2025

Time to take your career to the next level?

Let’s connect to explore the best options for your needs. Reach out to schedule a free consultation about your career!

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Want to see what’s possible? Connect with me here:

James Hanley, PE
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