By Ashley Reyes
The SEMA Future Leaders Network (FLN) has named Daniel Roethle, mechanical engineer at The Coats Company, as the network's newest spotlight member.
Get to know Roethle in his interview with SEMA News below.
SEMA News: What is the best advice you have ever received?
Daniel Roethle: The best advice I received is that doing nothing or not making a decision is a choice just as much as doing something. And by not acting so you don't make a mistake, the problem will not go away and you're still responsible for making a choice.
SN: What keeps you in the industry?
DR: I see a lot of opportunities to learn new things and keep growing my skillset as a designer and an engineer.
SN: Where can you be found on a Saturday?
DR: I'll often be found competing or helping run events in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu or hiking outdoors.
SN: How do you prepare for an important meeting?
DR: For planned meetings, I generally have a fallback of bullet points or focused questions to make sure I stay on track if I forget something in the pressure of the meeting.
SN: If you could go to lunch with one industry leader, living or dead, who would it be?
DR: Honestly, I would have loved to meet Nikola Tesla and tell him he has a car company named after him, what his impact has been, and just hear all of his ideas for the future and write them down.
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