About - Background - Definitions - Teaching - Clients
Steven Cerri holds the following degrees:
Bachelor of Science, Aeronautical EngineeringMaster of Science, Geophysics
Master of Business Administration
Master of Neuro-Linguistic Programming
Steven Cerri believes you can be a great engineer AND a great engineering manager. In fact, the best engineering managers are excellent engineers, they can cross into both worlds. It just takes training in the soft-skills of interpersonal people skills.
Steven Cerri is a top trainer, facilitator, and coach who has helped thousands of engineers enhance their communication and management skills and make the transition from engineer to leader. A sought after speaker, he offers keynotes, workshops, training and consulting to corporations, associations, and individuals. His clients include, Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation, University of California, Solutions-II Inc., Maersk Logistics, ViewSonic Corp., GeoGraphix Inc., as well as executives, and entrepreneurs.
What makes Steven unique? He has been through all the things that he is training and coaching his clients through. Steven began his career as an aeronautical engineer employed at Rockwell International Corporation working on Skylab, Shuttle, Shuttle Tug, and meteorological satellite programs. He then acquired an M.S. in geophysics and worked as a programmer and researcher for the United States Geological Survey before returning to the flight performance group of Rockwell International. This time at Rockwell, Steven met four engineers and together they started a software development and systems engineering company focused on Department of Defense programs. Steven received an MBA and progressed from program manager to director, to vice president of engineering, chief operations officer and general manager. He then left to join a printer start-up as product manager and director of corporate training, helping the company grow from half a million to over a quarter of a billion dollars in six years.
Throughout his career, it became clear that Steven had a knack for training and coaching his direct reports to achieve extraordinary capabilities. He ultimately left the corporate world to start his own company dedicated to coaching and training engineers, scientists and technical professionals in the soft skills, the interpersonal people skills and management skills necessary to make the transition from engineer to leader and from engineering manager to engineering leader.
Steven is successful at transforming engineers to leaders because he has done it himself.
“Imagine engineers and technical managers who are as effective with people as they are with technology.”