Welcome again to another episode of Engineer Your Success! Today, we are joined by Alvina Nadeem. Over the last 10 years, Alvina has participated in several large-scale construction projects and has held varying roles such as Team Leader, Project Manager, Planning Engineer, Field Engineer, Commissioning/Turnover Coordinator, and Proposal Manager. Her engineering and project management experience allowed her to travel and exposed her to different people, companies, and cultures—from the beautiful islands of Capo Verde in Africa to the quaint towns of Newfoundland in Canada.

As a PROSCI certified change management practitioner, certified coach, and professional engineer, Alvina brings a unique mix of technical industry experience and her passion for personal and organizational transformation. By combining these worlds, Alvina offers clients her curiosity, creativity, and accessibility, as well as her cartesian, results-driven engineering experience to help clients build a vision, create well-thought-out action plans, and achieve measurable results.

Let’s dive in!

[00:01 – 12:05] Being a Woman in the Construction Industry

• Learning how to navigate the construction site as a woman and how it helped her career.
• Leaning into yourself and finding success

[12:06 – 23:47]  From Being Curios to Building Change Management

• Impact of structuring a business with change management.
• Helping other companies transition and transform.
  • Organizational transformation
  • Space management.
  • Technical Transformation

[23:47 – 32:50] Pieces of Advice When Going through a Transformation Journey

• Sharing your journey from the beginning in order to win people over.
• Being authentic and leaning into your strengths is the key to being successful during a transformation.
• Having a goal and plan for change.
• If you know something don’t pretend to know it.
• Confidence is not about knowing everything

[37:32 – 40:15] Closing Segment

• Using ADKAR Principle,
  • Awareness
  • Desire
  • Knowledge
  • Ability
  • Reinforcement
• Final announcements.

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 Tweetable Quotes:

“ When you can lean into yourself and be who you are, then success follows.” – Dr. James Bryant,  

“It’s finding that balance between where it’s actually helping and where it could deter, but it’s learning to navigate through that and learning how to leverage the good side” – Alvina Nadeem

“When you’re going through a transformation it’s so important to win people over from the beginning. Not later” – Alvina Nadeem