A project of MFHK Consulting

Transform yourself from a good engineer into a great one.

"Through my experience in 15 years of developing products, I have seen first hand the hidden skills every engineer needs to know to be successful. I distilled those skills into The Engineer Accelerator mentorship program. Welcome!"
Malcolm Knapp

Boost your engineering productivity and save months of stress and frustration. Only the Engineer Accelerator gives you the skills to respond with clarity and confidence to challenging questions from coworkers and bosses. Each session includes specific methods that you can immediately apply to your work.

The Engineer Accelerator goes beyond technical skills to teach you the essential non-technical and process skills for being a productive engineer. From meeting deadlines and managing conflicts to navigating ambiguity and driving successful projects, you will get the tools and techniques to excel in every aspect of your engineering career

Mentorship Series

The Engineer Accelerator provides mentorship programs to engineers, including team programs, one-on-one coaching, onboarding training, and candidate assessment.

Professional Practice Series

This series provides the foundation for professional work for engineers. Ideal for engineers in the first years of professional work. In this series you will learn:

  • How to get your work done on time

  • How to manage task priorities with limited bandwidth

  • How to minimize and mitigate errors

  • How to have an effective working relationships with colleagues or managers

  • How to resolve conflicts

  • How to write an email that does not waste people's time

Advanced Professional Practice Series

This advanced professional practice series is for Senior Engineers and covers skills to manage uncertainty and complexity, work with multiple stakeholders and drive project forward. In this series you will learn:

  • How to get good work from engineers you delegate to

  • How to find hidden project requirements and constraints

  • How manage ambiguous and shifting project scope

  • How to unblock decision making and make concrete progress on deliverables

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Testimonials

Wayne Richter - Director, Etch Engineering Lam Research

In today's environment engineers are being pushed to deliver solutions with shorten timelines, lack of complete requirements, and/or scope creep. Malcolm's class gave our engineers the tools to have those constructive conversations and techniques to guide them throughout a project. The results have been lower stress levels, more productivity, and a focus on the right tasks to get projects completed faster.

Oran Collins - Founder StarMex

I owe my business success to Malcolm's coaching. Highly recommended. He is the highest-level thinker I've ever met. I've always been impressed with how he finds the cleanest way to break down a seemingly intractable problem into its simplest possible parts. It's kinda magical.Malcolm is like a CEO but for engineering, providing high-level vision and direction with the right questions.

Max, Notos Co-Founder

When I came to the course, I needed help understanding how to better manage hardware engineers. The Engineer Accelerator helped me understand the dynamics and processes used to achieve my goal. Now I am running a hardware startup managing hardware engineers successfully.

Carissa, Mechanical Engineer

The class gives you a language and framework for talking/thinking about the "soft skills" aspects of working. Having a language for talking about these things makes it easier to navigate tricky "soft skill" situations, which helps you do your job better.