Product leaders: How to influence the CEO / Board
Join us for our next Roundtable event titled ‘Product leaders: How to influence the CEO / Board’, with 3 product management industry experts
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- 1 hour
Join us for our next Roundtable event titled ‘Product Leaders: How to influence the CEO / Board’, where 3 product management industry experts will share valuable insights, strategies, and best practices.
Section 1: Understanding CEO / Board dynamics.
Understand the overarching priorities of CEO / Boards, the different dynamics that commonly present themselves and how decisions are made. Understand how a product leader should change their approach to different types of CEO’s, including those with product experience and those without.
Section 2: From a product leader perspective: How to ensure strategic alignment between product, CEO and Board.
Discover how to define your vision, strategy and roadmap against the business objectives. Learn techniques to secure alignment with the Board, and how to ensure collaboration and transparency without handing over the product decision making. Learn about the risks of strategy misalignment across the business.
Section 3: Effective communication and influencing techniques.
Discover communication techniques to gain traction and buy-in, including how to tailor messages to individual stakeholders and structure presentations to drive action from the Board. Understand what types of information and metrics are important to present, and what other insights are helpful to influence the CEO / Board. Learn how to overcome resistance and common problems experienced by product leaders.
Our guests
Our speakers include:
· Lucy Stonehill. Lucy is the Executive Chairman at BridgeU. BridgeU was founded to help young people around the world realise their potential, through empowering schools to provide smart, modern university and careers guidance. Lucy was selected to the Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2016, celebrating innovators operating within the technology sector.
· Yeulin Li. Yeulin is the Vice President of Product and Strategy at Entrust, formerly Chief Product Officer at Onfido. She is also an Angel Investor with Ventures Together, a community of 150+ of Europe’s leading tech entrepreneurs and operators who come together to angel invest. Yeulin is part of the Women in Product UK community group.
· Kevin Lindemann. Kevin is the Director, Product – AI, Commercial and Consumer Growth at Klarna, previously VP Product at Ometria and Rota. He is a high-growth startup product leader with 20 years’ experience, delivering high impact, market-leading solutions in FinTech, RetailTech, HealthTech and HRTech.
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Frequently asked questions
This Roundtable is suitable for product people at all levels, but specifically those who have team management responsibilities. Attending today are job titles including Chief Product Officer, VP Product, Product Director, Head of Product, Senior Product Manager and Product Manager.
Yes, this event is free to attend.
This Roundtable is the fourth in series by Intelligent People. Watch other episodes in this series on Intelligent People’s website here: https://www.intelligentpeople.co.uk/news/di-in-product-management-roundtable/ https://www.intelligentpeople.co.uk/news/how-to-build-a-high-performance-product-tea
The event is recorded live and will be available to watch on Intelligent People’s website from 4th July 2024.
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