Christian Mccarrick:

[0:03 ] Christian Patrick welcome to the show.

Patrick Pena:

[0:06 ] Thank you for having me, I really excited to be here.

Christian Mccarrick:

[0:08 ] The absolutely and as we were talking just before you’ve actually been listening to a podcast for a little while to is that correct.

Patrick Pena:

[0:15 ] I haven’t I’ve been really enjoying.

Christian Mccarrick:

[0:17 ] Awesome I have to repeat the what is a long time listener first-time caller joke read have to put it in there.

Patrick Pena:

[0:21 ] Absolutely.

Christian Mccarrick:

[0:24 ] ISO and where are you actually calling from today Patrick.

Patrick Pena:

[0:28 ] So I’m calling in from New York City I work at a startup here New York in healthcare and.

Christian Mccarrick:

[0:36 ] Excellent I should have connected with you I was in New York about 2 weeks ago so next time I’m back in the area I will give you a I’ll send you a stock or something the movie connect.

Patrick Pena:

[0:45 ] Yeah I would be great I would love it.

Christian Mccarrick:

[0:47 ] All right so awesome Patrick as I do with all my guests if you could just go into a very high-level background of what you think the important pieces are of how you got to be where you are today.

Patrick Pena:

[0:57 ] Absolutely so like most people I started out as an engineer I remember having a lot of conversations with my family with my wife around like we are goals,

most of those tended to end up with me saying I’m just going to be a more senior engineer that’s what I want to do,

but in my previous role I was at hospital system in Philadelphia and my manager introduced me to this training at the hospital gave two people that were trying to make their way up in the organization,

and it was around the training and really the goal with change agent training was to,

teach you how to be a facilitator how to help groups problem solved and how they like to help people get a consensus and make change happen in an organization,

and that was my first test first teased,

set of skills that I had really focused on previously. Kind of open my eyes to this craft that I wanted to develop,

I use that not going to help me towards my next step of being a lead engineer and then,

add a new training opportunities come around for lean process Improvement training being trained to be What’s called the lean leader.

[2:12 ] And that help me grow in focus in terms of and see things in terms of,

value in the value that something was generating and if it wasn’t generating value then we considered it wasteful.

[2:27 ] Janet help me with like problem solving solving helping others problem solve,

really that I towards value and trying to set a foundation for a management style for myself and then from there,

I had transitioned into a manager role.

[2:45 ] Was building and growing a team was really excited about it was also in this kind of like new round that wasn’t famili