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521: Leadership Crossroads–What Every Product Manager Must Know Before Their Next Move – with Kimberly Bloomston, CPO

Product Innovation Educators

The product manager’s journey from Individual Contributor to Chief Product Officer Watch on YouTube TLDR Kimberly Bloomston’s journey from individual contributor to Chief Product Officer at LiveRamp demonstrates the key transitions and skills needed at each level of product management leadership.

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Gratitude as a Leadership Principle in Product Management

The Product Guy

a time for reflection, community, and gratitude—values that resonate deeply with the dynamics of product management. While strategy, vision, and execution are critical, there’s a powerful leadership principle that’s frequently overlooked: gratitude. It is Thanksgiving season here in the U.S.,

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511: Product insights from employee #1 after a $2.3 billion exit – with Chris Elmore

Product Innovation Educators

Chris brings years of experience in product innovation and management, and he’s here to share his thoughts on driving innovation and keeping businesses growing for the long haul. Chris shares his experience of keeping a strong culture, and even improving it, as his company grew.

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How to prioritise your work for impact – Nacho Bassino (Product Leadership Coach)

Mind the Product

In this conversation on The Product Experience podcast, Nacho Bassino shares his extensive experience in product management and coaching, discussing the evolution of the field, the importance of understanding business impact, and practical tools like KPI trees.

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Data-Driven Performance Feedback Helps Teams Improve Customer Outcomes

Speaker: Mickey Mantle, Founder and CEO at Wanderful Interactive Storybooks | Ron Lichty, Consultant: Interim VP Engineering, Author, Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc.

Teams and their leadership need to leverage data to achieve better customer outcomes. They also give employees actionable data to work from, and empower individuals and teams to exceed their personal and team goals while also improving customer outcomes. How data-driven performance reviews do that.

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519: Product verification, most important of the 19 activities of product management – with Nishant Parikh

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can adapt core responsibilities across different organizations and contexts Watch on YouTube TLDR Through his research and practical experience at MasterCard, Nishant Parikh identified 19 key activities that define the role of software product managers. Why study the 19 key activities of software product managers?

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Here’s What You Missed at TPG Live: Beyond IC & Introducing Product

The Product Guy

Product leaders know that career growth isn’t always linear—stepping into leadership or establishing a product management function can be as complex as it is rewarding. Moving Beyond the Individual Contributor: Elevating Your Impact as a Product Leader Transitioning from an IC role to product leadership is a defining moment in your PM career.

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Roadmap Personas: The Best Way to Set Expectations for Teams, Clients, and Leadership

Speaker: Johanna Rothman - Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

When was the last time you trusted a roadmap to show you where the product could go and how the teams might get there? Can your customers rely on your roadmaps to find out when new features will be released? Because most roadmaps are at least five years long, teams are frequently unable to see the next set of essential features.

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The Employee Factor - Perfecting Your CX From Within

Speaker: Dennis Snow, President, Snow & Associates

Too often, organizations and their CX experts only look at the company's relationship with the customer to look for improvement. While it's essential to creating the perfect customer journey, it's only one aspect. It's time to look within: at your employees' relationships with each other, and with the company.

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Encouraging Innovation in an Established Product Culture

Speaker: Richard Cardran, Chief Creative Officer and VP Strategy, HIA Technologies

We'll examine the importance of UX and user-centric feature analysis, the adaptation of Agile Methodologies to the creative process, as well as a way to drive successful culture change for setting expectations and winning approvals with cross-functional stakeholders. Innovation and Leadership go hand in hand.