The Project Success Podcast
The Conversation With Clint Padgett
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The key to business and team success finds its roots deep in conversation.
Clint Padgett serves as the President and CEO of Project Success. With more than 30 years in project management, he has developed his expertise by assisting Fortune 100 companies in improving their operations. To learn how to manage projects, teams, and results effectively, listen to Clint Padgett on the Conversation podcast, where he engages with business leaders, best-selling authors, and academics conducting innovative research that encourages professional and business growth.
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Did you realize the key to business and team success finds its roots deep in conversation? Join Clint Padgett, who’s built his career helping Fortune 100 companies optimize their businesses, as he interviews leaders who encourage employees to learn, challenge, and grow. If you want to effectively manage people and optimize results, this is the podcast for you. The Conversation with Clinton M. Padgett from Forbes Books.
In this episode, Clint sits down with Julie Newman, accomplished aerospace engineer and bestselling author of “Pull Don’t Push,” to discuss why decades of well-intentioned efforts to encourage more girls into STEM haven’t produced the results many hoped for. Julie argues that the problem isn’t a lack of encouragement, it’s the way we’re communicating about engineering. Together, they explore how engineering is often misunderstood, why creativity and communication are essential engineering skills, and how leaders, parents, and educators can inspire young people by focusing on possibility instead of obstacles. This is the first part of a two-part conversation.
Topics Covered:
- Why traditional STEM messaging often misses the mark
- The difference between “pushing” someone toward a career and “pulling” them toward a possibility
- How Julie’s career at SpaceX, NASA, Boeing, and Impulse Space shaped her perspective on leadership and engineering
- Why engineering is fundamentally about creativity, teamwork, communication, and solving problems
- The biggest misconceptions people have about engineers and engineering careers
- Why communication skills can be a competitive advantage for engineers
- How parents and educators can better introduce engineering to young people
- Why engineering deserves a bigger role in the STEM conversation
- What business leaders can learn about influence from the way we talk about careers
Links:
- Julie’s website – https://juliejnewman.com/
- Julie’s LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/julie-j-newman/
- Julie’s book, “Pull Don’t Push” – https://amzn.to/4q7vcxW
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