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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

While strategy, vision, and execution are critical, there’s a powerful leadership principle that’s frequently overlooked: gratitude. Incorporating Gratitude Into Daily Leadership Incorporating gratitude into your leadership doesn’t require grand gestures. Simple, consistent actions can have a profound impact.

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From Bias to Better Leadership: Harpal Singh on Self-Awareness and Team Growth

The Product Guy

In this episode, Harpal Singh reflects on the tough leadership lessons he’s learned, from navigating hiring bias to managing across cultures and growth stages. Each episode features award-winning product leaders sharing their real-world experiences, lessons learned, and the strategies that have driven their success.

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How to Lead with a Strategy-Based Roadmap

The Product Guy

In this episode of How I PM, Joni Hoadley, product management coach and consultant, shares how to turn your roadmap into a strategic leadership tool. Joni’s Three Keys to a Strategy-Based Roadmap: Focus on Strategic Bets A good roadmap highlights your product’s biggest strategic bets and how they connect to broader goals.

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How to Sell Your Roadmap to Your Leadership Team

Speaker: Brett Truka, CEO, Devetry

A product roadmap needs to both capture your product’s strategy and outline your execution plan. In this webinar, Brett Truka, CEO of Devetry, shares his experiences and advice on how to successfully sell your roadmap to your leadership team. In other words, you need to speak your executive suite’s language.

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PM Branding: Building Your Personal Brand as a Product Manager

The Product Guy

Why Your PM Brand Matters Your personal brand as a product manager is essentially how others perceive your skills, expertise, and leadership. Open doors to new opportunities, such as speaking engagements, leadership roles, or consulting work. How are you perceived by your leadership team and colleagues? Stay tuned!

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Overcoming Challenges in Stakeholder Management: Strategies for Navigating High-Stakes Decisions

The Product Guy

However, product managers often face even greater challenges when navigating high-stakes situations with senior leadership or dealing with conflicting priorities across departments. By aligning on shared business objectives, you can guide teams toward decisions that benefit the broader product strategy.

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How To Set Up Innovation So That It Aligns With And Enables Corporate Strategy

Speaker: Paul Heller

Most innovation work proceeds independently from company strategy. This challenge is particularly significant in organizations with transformation-oriented strategies, where innovation must directly support growth, scalability, and strategic pivots.

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From Whims to Wins: How a Customer-Centric Portfolio Transforms Product Strategy

Speaker: John Mansour - President, Product Management University

You’ve come up with a winning product strategy, everyone’s on board and energized, and you’re halfway down the path to execution only to have it submarined by something someone convinced your leadership was more strategic!

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Five Ways to Use Product Management Best Practices

As you move into the new year you can help your product team prepare for success by exercising those product leadership muscles and implementing product management best practices. Here are our top tips for how you can lay the right foundations and get your product strategy off to a flying start.

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Actionable Insights for Your Product Team

Our free assessment tool reveals where your team excels and uncovers opportunities for growth across six key dimensions: Context, Investigate, Define, Create, Deliver, and Leadership. Step 2: Get Immediate Insights Receive a detailed report of insights and strategies to enhance team performance. Do more than manage.

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How to Navigate Revenue and Expense Management: Competitive Insights for Financial Success

Speaker: Hilary Akhaabi, PhD - Founder, Chief Financial & Operations Officer at Go Africa Global

Whether you're aiming to refine your financial strategies or seeking innovative solutions to drive performance, this new session is for you! Effective Cash Flow Management 🔑 Learn strategies to manage your cash flow efficiently, ensuring liquidity and financial stability. Register now to secure your spot!

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Encouraging Innovation in an Established Product Culture

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

Innovation and Leadership go hand in hand. Join Richard Cardran, Chief Creative Officer and VP Strategy, HIA Technologies, as we assess some case studies to see how to lead with a clear strategy well-defined tactics, and an unbiased understanding of the fundamental question: "why are you innovating?".

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Beyond the Findings: The Case for UX Research in Digital Transformation

Speaker: Marina Foglietta-Tereo, Head of UX Research, AXA Insurance

Business leaders, product teams, and technology organizations (or those in the process of becoming technology organizations) can help their strategies and teams succeed by maximizing their UX Research. As a product manager, designer, or UX researcher - convince your leadership of the need to invest in this competency.

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The Six Principles of Persuasion

Speaker: Michael Carducci, CTO, Mago:Tech

Strategies to build consensus within your teams. In this webinar, you will learn: 6 principles to make an optimal case and dramatically increase the odds that the other person will say “Yes” to your requests and suggestions.