Upcoming and Past Events

Life Transitions: Moving from IC to People Manager

Just got promoted or planning to move into managing a PM team? Congratulations! This is an exciting journey but is far from being easy or straightforward.
Join me at the Product Management Festival virtual experience to hear a presentation built off the personal experience that aims to empower experienced product managers to proactively consider and prepare for the transition into people management. We will cover this career path independently of the IC track, and explore common mistakes and challenges, trust-building and coaching techniques, performance assessment, team goals, and empowerment. While there are many available resources that can help new people managers become better, there are some nuances that are specific to product management.

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From Individual Contibutor to People Manager

Navigating the Product Management career is as ambiguous as hiking without a map on the new mountain. Understanding our journey and proactively managing it is a topic I’ve been thinking for some time… In fact, this is what brought me to PM career coaching – seeing so many of us stuck in the same roles for a long time. One of the most challenging moves, in my opinion, is a transition from IC to a Product/People Leader.

Having gone through one myself a year ago at 15Five, in this webinar I am sharing what I learned about different career tracks, how we can “begin with an end in mind” and start preparing for a transition today. Let’s open the pandora box and finally get on with our hero’s journey!

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Product Manager Job Search Strategy Bootcamp

SOLD OUT. This is a one-week online Bootcamp combined with group coaching that offers a roadmap to achieving the PM job search goals. The course includes engaging course material, hands-on homework, and industry insider’s perspective with much sought-after advice and tools. In a series of three one-hour live video sessions, we’ll equip you with techniques, frameworks, and confidence you need to stand out and land a PM job.

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Productized Podcast: #GirlsWhoProduct

The breadth of our conversation spanned across my career growth as a Product Manager, to what it was like growing up in the Soviet Union, to imposter syndrome and women in tech. Thought-provoking and sharp Katsiaryna Drozhzha led me through an insightful conversation about all-things product and life.

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NomadWolf Podcast: How To Design Sprint Your Way Out Of A Cubicle

Glenn and I cover a lot during this episode… from my favorite coffee place to how you can implement design sprints in your life, business and client strategy. But what we also went over was the tough problems when it comes to being remote and also what future questions we have to think about after the nomad dream is done.

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Productized 2019: Sneaking Design Sprints into Enterprise

Join Stephen Paras and I for the interactive workshop in sunny Portugal at the Productized Conference. We’ll bust the myth and show, not just tell, that the Design Sprint can and should be introduced in the enterprise workflow (not without challenges of course!) and that Product Managers are perfect champions for doing this. During this session, we’ll sneak in a few design sprint exercises to show the potential behind the framework while sharing our insights, methods for building product team empathy and ownership, real-life stories, the challenges and ways of overcoming them.

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Product School: Making Better Product Decisions

Join me for this interactive webinar organized by the Product School where I’ll be talking about useful frameworks and mental models that can help us, Product Leaders, make better product decisions. You’ll walk out with a list of actionable takeaways that you can start applying immediately in your day-to-day product life.

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Wandering Workers Podcast: The Design Thinker

In this episode of the Wandering Workers podcast, we’ve covered the hows of using design thinking to design your best life, what questions you should ask yourself to get started, and how to overcome the potential fear associated with a big life change.
We also talk about how you don’t have to know all the answers to get started. The important thing is to follow your own curiosities. If you do that, you will learn new skills along the way that will help you better understand the opportunities available to you and eventually play a part in whatever you decide to do.

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ProductSense Conference: Design Thinking Workshop for Product Managers

In this interactive and fun workshop, we’ll skip theory and dive right into practice. Participants will be solving big (and fun!) problems and experiencing first hand the fundamental principles of the methodology that helps companies like Google, Slack, AirBnB, BMW and others innovate, stay ahead of the curve and build meaningful products that solve users’ problems.

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