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  • Neil Thompson: How Engineers Get Heard by Decision-Makers

    Neil Thompson: How Engineers Get Heard by Decision-Makers
    Oct 12 2026
    Greg sits down with Neil Thompson, founder of Teach The Geek, to talk about why technical experts so often struggle to communicate with non-technical decision-makers. Neil shares how a canceled project early in his engineering career pushed him to fix his own presentations, and why it's easier to teach presentation skills to the people who hold the knowledge than to expect someone else to present it for them. Neil walks through the self-awareness gap and the three things technical people should prioritize when they present to management: clarity, relevance, and actionability. Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 3:08 Neil's first presentations to the C-suite 4:53 How Neil started Teach The Geek 6:58 The technical expert's biggest strength 8:42 The self-awareness gap 15:08 A six-step process for any presentation 20:00 Clarity, relevance, and actionability Connect with Neil Thompson: https://teachthegeek.com Do your technical experts know their stuff but struggle to get buy-in? Visit https://uniquedevelopment.com to talk with our team about your organization's leadership development needs.
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    23 Min.
  • Kirby Griffin: DRIVE Problem Solving Program

    Kirby Griffin: DRIVE Problem Solving Program
    Sep 28 2026
    Your plant has hundreds of improvement opportunities and a small continuous improvement or quality team to work through them. The same problems keep coming back, shift after shift. The people who know the most about those problems are standing right next to the process, but they’re not the ones solving them. Greg sits […]
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    42 Min.
  • Dr Pelè: Why Training Alone Doesn’t Create Results

    Dr Pelè: Why Training Alone Doesn’t Create Results
    Sep 14 2026
    In this special dual-podcast episode, Greg Schinkel (our President at Unique Training & Development) sits down with Dr. Pelè Ugboajah of ResultPal to tackle one of L&D’s oldest unsolved problems: how do you actually prove that training drives business results?
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    40 Min.
  • Mary Fehr: The Layoff We Didn’t Do

    Mary Fehr: The Layoff We Didn’t Do
    Aug 31 2026
    When tariffs hit and work dried up, Mary Fehr had a spreadsheet answer and a small-town answer. She took the small-town one. Choosing their workers over the spreadsheet. Mary is President of Unifab, a 200-person custom metal fabricator in Leamington, Ontario, founded by her father, Abe, 35 years ago. Before she joined in […]
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    28 Min.
  • An HR Director’s 3-Word Leadership Mantra | Seanna Pickard

    An HR Director’s 3-Word Leadership Mantra | Seanna Pickard
    Aug 17 2026
    Seanna Pickard, HR Director at the Federal Bridge Corporation, breaks down the 3-word mantra she uses to make every decision: fair, equitable, transparent.
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    32 Min.
  • Umesh Vendargon: Structure Gets You By. Culture Gets You Ahead.

    Umesh Vendargon: Structure Gets You By. Culture Gets You Ahead.
    Aug 3 2026
    Structure will get a team to its KPIs, but it doesn’t always get them past them. In this episode of Accelerating Operational Performance, host Greg Schinkel talks with Umesh Vendargon, COO of Core Linen Services, about the gap between management and leadership. Umesh traces his own path from the operations floor through a […]
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    32 Min.
  • BONUS: Greg on the Chemical Engineering Podcast — Career Paths & Leadership Skills for Engineers

    BONUS: Greg on the Chemical Engineering Podcast — Career Paths & Leadership Skills for Engineers
    Jul 28 2026
    On this bonus episode, we're sharing a conversation from the Chemical Engineering podcast. Senior editor Scott Jenkins speaks with Greg Schinkel, CEO here at Unique Training & Development and host of the Accelerating Operational Performance podcast. The conversation focuses on career paths open to engineers and offers thoughts on what engineers and companies can do to develop leadership skills for their teams. This episode originally aired on the Chemical Engineering podcast.
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    32 Min.
  • Mimi Brown: How to Build Confidence as a Leader

    Mimi Brown: How to Build Confidence as a Leader
    Jul 20 2026
    What does it actually take to build confidence as a leader? Communication expert and keynote speaker Mimi Brown joins Greg Schinkel to break down her “Own Your Swag” framework and her new book, Lead at Full Volume: The 10 Beats to Amplify Your Confidence, Influence and Presence. Mimi shares the moment a boss […]
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    29 Min.