Season 1 of Product Leader’s Journey is a wrap! These last three months have been a huge learning for me personally to roll up my sleeves with this. It’s early days still and I am learning a ton, and also having fun! Just so grateful to these amazing leaders 👇 for giving their time, sharing stories and wisdom, all with a lot of humility. Incredible conversations. Most importantly, thank you all for following along, listening and sharing your feedback! 🙏 A quick recap below. You can catch these episodes here and on YouTube, Apple, and Spotify.
👉Raj Yavatkar – CTO Juniper Networks
Raj discusses how he drives 0-1 innovation in large companies, drawing from his experiences at Intel Corporation, VMware, Google Cloud and Juniper Networks. He also talks about how he fosters a culture of curiosity within the engineering org.
👉 Inbal Shani – CPO GitHub
Inbal talks about the importance of systems thinking, and about AI and the future of software development. She also shares some interesting stories about the culture of customer centricity from her time at Amazon.
👉 Don Weinstein – xCPTO ADP
Don led ADP through several major technology shifts, not an easy thing to do. He talks about the three horizons of product management, and the journey from IC-PM > Product Leader > GM.
👉 Stuart McClure – CEO Qwiet AI, CEO Wethos AI
Stuart is a serial entrepreneur with successful exits. He shares lessons about what it takes to hire and build high performing teams, and actually codifies what it means to be on a high performing team.
👉 Natalia Baryshnikova – GM Atlassian
You’d be surprised to know what Natalia wrote in her cover letter when she got her first PM role! She gives very actionable tips on resumes, cover letters from her experience leading products at SmartRecruiters. We also discuss what Enterprise Agility actually means.
👉 Nadim Hossain – VP PM, Databricks
Nadim is a great example of how to be deliberate about career decisions. He sees these decisions akin to making financial investments. He shares stories about building ML products at Uber and Databricks.
👉 Rich Fernandez – CEO SIY Global
If you watched this episode, I hope you are now able to be more present in meetings. Rich talks about the popular Search Inside Yourself program that originated at Google and hard data on the ROI of Mindfulness Training for employees. He also shares the formula for leadership! T = (A*V*P) / (SO)
Look for Season 2 in a couple of weeks!
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