About Tandem Consulting Co.

Our Mission is to Develop Incredible Engineering Leaders

Engineers play a pivotal role in addressing the world’s most pressing challenges. While brilliant individual skill is crucial, it’s not enough. The complexity and uncertainty that characterize the world today drives the need for excellence at the team level, and excellent engineering teams start with excellent engineering leaders.

Despite engineers being some of the best and brightest people around, it can be incredibly tough for many engineers to make the transition to leadership. Most of us enter into leadership roles without any kind of preparation. The result? Stress and burnout on the part of the leader, and poor performance and frustration on the part of the team.

We started Tandem Consulting to fix all that.

Our goal is to help engineers build the skills they need to transition seemlessly into leadership and management roles, and to support their development once they’re established. We offer courses, training, coaching, and consulting to help individuals and organizations level up their technical leadership and management skills.

What We Believe

You need more than just a course to really learn something. In order to learn something well enough to be able to put it into practice, you need more than a lecture. That’s why we stack our course material together with individual work, coaching, and collaboration with fellow students over longer programs. An individual course may plant the seed, but that seed needs to be nurtured over time in order to actually bear fruit. 

Engineers have incredible potential to be leaders. Engineers are intelligent, hard-working, analytical, and curious. This serves as an incredible foundation for the development of leadership and management skills. 

The world needs engineers right now. Solving the world’s most pressing problems requires engineers and technology. The better we can equip engineers to succeed through high-performance teams, the better a place the world will be. 

About the Founder

Pat Sweet, P.Eng., MBA, CSEP, PMP

Pat Sweet, P.Eng., MBA, CSEP, PMP

President, Tandem Consulting Co.

Patrick Sweet, P.Eng., MBA, PMP, CSEP is a recognized expert in engineering management, productivity, and leadership. He is the president of Tandem Consulting, which specializes in leadership and management development, training, and consulting for engineers and engineering firms. He also hosts the popular Engineering & Leadership Podcast, a show dedicated to helping engineering leaders thrive.

Prior to launching Tandem Consulting, Pat spent 13 years in industry. His work focused predominantly on leading and managing engineers through complex systems integration projects in the rail and defence industries. He's worked as a product manager, project manager, systems engineering manager, and as the head of configuration management at a large naval combat systems integrator.

Pat has a bachelor of engineering from Dalhousie University and an MBA from the Royal Military College of Canada. He's also a professional engineer licensed in Nova Scotia, Canada, a Certified Systems Engineering Professional (INCOSE), and a certified Project Management Professional (PMI).

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