The Happy Engineer helps engineering managers and directors reach the next level without burning out — because success without fulfillment is failure.
You'll learn how to redefine work/life balance, lead with purpose, and accelerate your next promotion. Bring a growth mindset, engineers. It's time for personal development before technical development, EQ before IQ, and coaching to crush your comfort zone.
If you're asking questions like these, this show is for you:
— How do I decide between a technical path and management? Can I ever go back?
— How do I reignite passion and purpose in my engineering career (or just stop dreading Monday)?
— Why do I keep getting passed over for Manager / Director / VP while my peers move up?
— How can I increase my salary and total compensation faster?
— What do I do if I want to change discipline, industry, or leave engineering altogether?
— What does it take to go from engineering to entrepreneurship?
— WHY AM I SO UNHAPPY???
Your host, Zach White, knows how frustrating building your engineering career can be. He's a former engineering leader at Whirlpool who has felt stuck, survived a bad boss, burned out from 80-hour weeks, and watched corporate reorgs blow up his career plan more than once.
Rock bottom taught him what no performance review ever did: the problem was never his work ethic. It was that nobody ever handed him a design for the life he actually wanted.
So he built one. Since 2019 he's coached 300+ engineering leaders at 200+ companies — big tech to rust belt, and everything in between — as CEO of Oasis of Courage and a Lifestyle Engineering Coach.
Each week you'll get real conversations with engineering leaders and experts from every corner of industry and life, plus solo coaching episodes that give you an action plan to level up your career while designing a life you love.
Ready to start? Grab your free Growth Audit at oasisofcourage.com.
Build your career.
Balance your life.
BE HAPPY!
