Engineers operate on a transmission model. You send, therefore you’ve communicated. But communication with people who have to act on the information isn’t a transmission. It’s a confirmed receipt. Chris breaks down a sixteen-month project that ended in a small-talk-to-firestorm phone call because critical scope and budget changes had been technically delivered, but never confirmed. The fix is mechanical: a three-step protocol that turns email into the record and the call into the actual communication.

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Re:Engineered is a podcast for engineers and technical professionals navigating the shift from technical excellence to leadership responsibility.

Hosted by Chris Stasiuk, a professional engineer with over 25 years in engineering consulting and leadership roles, the show treats leadership, communication, and decision-making as systems to understand — not personality traits to fake. No buzzwords. No corporate theater. Just clear thinking about how technical people actually lead.

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