About One2One Leaders
Leadership & Engineering expertise
Chris DeWitt started One2One Leaders to help share his experiences in leadership with a broad audience. Chris has a mechanical engineering degree and an MBA. He learned effective and ineffective leadership during six years in the United States Air Force/Air National Guard, thirteen+ years as an elected official in his Town of Fairfield Connecticut, and thirty+ years executing Engineering, Business Development & Sales roles in the aerospace and defense fields.
Chris’ lifetime experiences range from being a volunteer fireman, performing in an Irish band, running for political office to being a serial mentor. Ironically, it was watching his daughter’s softball teams where Chris learned real leadership skills.
When not speaking, you’ll find Chris in his woodworking shop in Fairfield, CT.
Chris’ expertise includes:
– Engaging keynote, breakout and individual speaker
– Engaging Emcee
– Tailoring leadership messages to organization’s unique events
Watch Chris Discussing Mentoring at an On-Line Event
Our Mission at One2One Leaders is to provide engineers uplifting and insightful personal growth messages on Leadership through sharing & support.
Along the way, striving to help all individuals become better Leaders.
Specifically, as an engineer, I understand the issues with entering a leadership role. I want to help give new engineers the tools to help them become leaders and help current engineers become better leaders.
I believe many people want desperately to become leaders and don’t know how to proceed. Through the sharing of my leadership experiences and techniques I strive to help those soon-to-be leaders.
About One2One Leaders
My mission
About One2One Leaders
my faVorite engineer
My Dad Franklin DeWitt is my favorite engineer. He taught me to use countless machining and woodworking tools and was the most intuitive engineering mind I ever met! No engineering degree, no college degree at all. He was a machinist by trade and a hobbyist / inventor his whole life.
Dad worked as a machinist for 45+ years for the same company in Ansonia, CT. The only interruption in that service was to serve his country as a United States Navy Seabee during World War II.
Through Dad I learned my earliest leadership lessons, based on doing the right thing and being fair to others.
Though no longer with us, Dad still inspires me with his lessons and knowledge every day.
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
John Quincy Adams