Sorry for the necro reply, been away for a but. It was a great icebreaker, actually. Still a little nerve-wracking given it was my first presentation outside of my directorate, but it was clear that this was a no-bullshit zone.

If you've seen NASA-related movies like The Martian, Apollo 13, or Hidden Figures the portrayal of the enthusiast/no-bs engineers and managers is actually true. There's no tiptoeing around or "whistling through the graveyard" - you see a problem, you talk it out. And it can get animated. But I can only think of a handful of cases where things ended in an impasse because we had the (math/science) resources to make sure things were right. Obviously that doesn't mean failures don't happen, but it really fine tuned the way I approach engineering problems to eliminate as many failure modes as was practical.