Much like one of my former guests, Andrew Kelley, Patrick Sweet is an engineer with business savvy. A bachelor’s in electrical engineering and a MBA are proof of that. I came across Patrick via another former guest, Thomas Anderson. Thomas put me on to Patrick’s website, engineeringandleadership.com, whose goals is to help engineers become the leaders they want to be.…

As a professional coach, Kanika Tolver gets her greatest joy from helping people realize who they are and where they wish to be. She does her work as CEO of Career Rehab, LLC. She’s also a speaker, whose topics include how to make a career change into tech, how to make 6 figures in tech, and A Game-Plan for African…

While I wasn’t able to attend his presentation, Andrew Kelley was a presenter at the inaugural Blacks in Technology conference. He was speaking on raising capital, a topic of interest to many entrepreneurs trying to grow their businesses. While he has an MBA, his bachelor’s and master’s degrees are Mechanical Engineering. How does Mechanical Engineering and raising capital come together?…

Dr. Nehemiah Mabry is smart. He has a PhD in Structural engineering from NC State. Dr. Nehemiah Mabry is a worker. He works as a bridge design engineer. But did you know he got bars, too? He’s a STEM poet, weaving his love of STEM and poetry into distinct masterpieces. He’s also the founder of STEMedia, whose goal is to…

A software engineer, April Wensel worked at various companies in Silicon Valley. She noticed that programmers, herself included, can be jerks to each other from time to time, and figured that the jerkiness interfered with companies’ productivity and bottom line. She now teaches emotional intelligence to other software engineers through her company, Compassionate Coding. Takeaways from our conversation: April noticed…

 Stephanie is the founder of MathSP, a test prep service for math and science subjects. She’s also an author. Her book, STEM Gems, has a mission to inspire girls to consider STEM careers. The book features 44 women working in diverse STEM fields and tips on how girls can pursue these fields. Takeaways from our conversation: You can’t be…