2022 Summer & Fall Programming - RSVP today to learn from these amazing product leaders! ??

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We’re excited to present the ? 2022 summer & fall programming ?from the Product Management Learning Series: live, interactive streaming events where industry thought leaders share their product management journeys and discuss trending topics in the product space to inspire aspiring and current PMs like you to level up your career! ??

Join us live to learn and be inspired, bring your questions, and share your experiences!?

All events will be recorded and available for on-demand playback afterwards. We will also be sharing event recaps through this newsletter. So make sure you subscribe to receive event updates and recaps.

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Product Strategy, Systems, and Frameworks with Sachin Rekhi [July 15, Friday @ 9-9:30am PT]

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Sachin Rekhi is the founder and CEO of Notejoy, a fast and focused notes app. Previously, he was the Head of Product at LinkedIn Sales Navigator, growing it from idea to $200M in sales in 1.5 years, and from 0 to 500 employees. Sachin developed the Mastering Product Management course at Reforge and has written 150+ essays on product management and leadership.?

Learn about Sachin’s career journey and how he defines compelling product strategy and gets buy-in. We’ll dive into how he creates systems and frameworks to continuously improve products, drive outcomes, and level up his Product career!

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[Audio] Building Better Data Products with Eric Weber [July 22, Friday @ 9-9:30am PT]?

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Eric Weber is currently the Senior Director of Data Science - Experimentation, Metrics & Inference at Stitch Fix. His focus is enabling high quality decision making across the company, supporting and critically evaluating product strategies and leading a team of talented engineers and data scientists. He also writes a weekly newsletter called From Data to Product focused on data product management and thinking about data science as a product.??

Join us live this July to learn about Eric’s career journey and how to make data-informed product decisions, build better data products, and empower strong collaboration between product managers and data scientists.

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Building Impactful Educational Products with Ope Bukola [July 29, Friday @ 9-9:30am PT]?

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Ope Bukola is passionate about building technology that improves access to knowledge and well-being. She is the CEO of Kibo School, a new online university providing affordable and high-quality STEM degrees to African students. Previously she led the Product team for Google Classroom, was a product manager at Amplify Education, and managed partnerships at CK-12 Foundation. She is a board member of Zeta, a network of high-performing, next-generation schools in the Bronx, NY. She is a founding member of Level, a multiracial network of women who take action for racial equity through investing in black women.?

Join us live this July to learn about Ope’s career journey, how she found her passion in education, the unique nature of building EdTech products, and how we can build impactful products for good.

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[Special Edition] Breaking into Product Management with Diego Granados [August 5, Friday @ 9-9:30am PT]

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Diego Granados is currently a Sr. Product Manager at LinkedIn. He is originally from Mexico and holds an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke. After his MBA he worked for 2 years at Cisco as a Product Manager on device tracking over wireless networks before joining Microsoft in 2019 as a Product Manager working on Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. Diego is currently a Sr. PM at LinkedIn and is pursuing an M.S. in C.S. at Georgia Tech. In his spare time, Diego mentors aspiring and new Product Managers and creates content on LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube for more than 70,000 followers combined.

Join us live this August for this special series to learn more about Diego’s journey into Product and how aspiring PMs can chart their paths to Product Management!

This is a special edition targeted to help aspiring product managers to find their paths into PM.

B2B Growth and Strategy with Elena Verna [August 12, Friday @ 9-9:30am PT]?

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Elena Verna is Head of Growth at Amplitude. She is also a Growth Advisor to many companies including Krisp, MongoDB, Builder.io, and Maze. She is a Board Member and Former Interim Head of Growth at Netlify. She was formerly CMO at Miro, SVP for Product & Growth at Malwarebytes, and SVP of Growth at SurveyMonkey. Her specialty is standing up product-led growth models for B2B companies.

Join us live this August to learn about Elena’s career journey going from an analyst at Safeway to leading growth at some of today’s most successful B2B companies, product growth best practices, and how to leverage data to build better products.

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Building High-Performing Teams & Transitioning to People Leadership with Liz Li [August 19, Friday @ 9-9:30am PT]?

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Liz Li was most recently Senior Director of Product at LinkedIn, leading the Content Experience (feed, creators, and content) team, helping members talk to people who matter to them about the things they care about in a professional context.

Liz worked at LinkedIn for 11 years across monetization, growth, and consumer. She launched LinkedIn’s first Sales Solutions product, led acquisition and retention for Premium subscriptions, and led the redesign of the consumer onboarding flows and success metrics to focus on long term engagement, shifting the company from purely focusing on top of the funnel growth. Before LinkedIn, Liz worked at Accenture Technology Labs and studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford.

Join us live this August to learn about Liz’s career journey and her tips on building high-performing product teams and how to transition from an Individual Contributor (IC) to People Leadership.

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Applying the Lean Product Process to Build Great Products with Dan Olsen [September 9, Friday @ 9-9:30am PT]

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Dan Olsen is a product management trainer, consultant, and author. His passion is helping others build successful products that customers love. Dan works closely with CEOs and product leaders to build strong product teams. Dan teaches in-depth, highly interactive private training workshops tailored for each client’s learning objectives. His clients include Google, Facebook, Uber, Amazon, Uber, Box, and Walmart.

Dan is the author of the bestseller The Lean Product Playbook, published by Wiley. Dan lives in Silicon Valley, where he founded the monthly Lean Product Meetup in 2014, which has over 11,000 members.

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[Special Edition] Breaking into AI Product Management with Marily Nika [September 23, Friday @ 9-9:30am PT]

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Dr. Marily Nika is an AI Product Leader with over 10 years of experience in AI Product Management. She has worked for Google & Meta as Product Lead and is an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School where she teaches Digital Product Management & Strategy. Marily is also a LinkedIn Learning instructor and has a PhD in Machine Learning from Imperial College London. Marily was a 3x TEDx Speaker and on the Forbes 40 under 40 list.

Join us live this September to hear Marily’s career journey and learn tips needed to pave your path to PM at your dream tech company & build AI products users will love.

This is a special edition targeted to help aspiring product managers to find their paths into PM.

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Continuous Product Discovery with Teresa Torres [September 30, Friday @ 9-9:30am PT]

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Teresa Torres is an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and coach. She teaches a structured and sustainable approach to continuous discovery that helps product teams infuse their daily product decisions with customer input. She’s coached hundreds of teams at companies of all sizes, from early-stage start-ups to global enterprises, in a variety of industries. She has taught over 8,500 product people discovery skills through the Product Talk Academy. She’s the author of the book Continuous Discovery Habits and blogs at ProductTalk.org.

Join us live this September to hear Teresa’s career journey, what inspired her to write the ‘Continuous Discovery Habits’ book, and tips on how to do better customer discovery and gain critical insights to drive product success.

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Use Behavioral Economics to Design Better Products with Kristen Berman [October 7, Friday @ 9-9:30am PT]?

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Kristen Berman is the co-founder of Irrational Labs, a behavioral economics product design company, with author and professor Dan Ariely. Irrational Labs has worked with hundreds of companies to increase the health, wealth, and happiness of users. Kristen also co-founded Common Cents Lab, a Duke University initiative dedicated to improving the financial well-being for low to middle Americans. Under Kristen’s leadership, Common Cents launched over 50 experiments with companies, positively impacting tens of thousands of people. She was on the founding team of the behavioral economics group at Google, a group that touched over 26 teams across Google, and she hosted one of the top behavioral change conferences globally, StartupOnomics.?

Join us live this October to hear Kristen’s career journey, how she found her passion in behavioral economics, and tips on how to use behavioral economics to design products that change behavior (for good).

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Building Subscription Products & Becoming a Thought Leader with Robbie Kellman Baxter [October 14, Friday @ 9-9:30am PT]

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Robbie Kellman Baxter is a consultant, instructor, author, and speaker. She wrote two bestselling books The Membership Economy and The Forever Transaction, hosts the podcast Subscription Stories, and has developed ten courses for LinkedIn Learning. Robbie has more than 20 years’ experience providing strategic business advice to major organizations, including Netflix, Microsoft and the Wall Street Journal. She has been focused on subscription and membership models for the past twenty years. She earned her MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and she graduated with honors from Harvard College. You can find more about Robbie on her website: https://robbiekellmanbaxter.com/?

Join us live this October to hear Robbie’s career journey on how she became a “subscription expert”, how PMs can build better subscription products and businesses, and how to become a thought leader.

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Content Creation & Product Community Building with Felix Watson [October 21, Friday @ 9-9:30am PT]

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Felix Watson Jr. is a product manager at Google with over 10 years of tech industry experience at companies ranging from startups to large enterprises. After 5 years as a software engineer and an MBA from UCLA Anderson, Felix launched his product management career at Microsoft. He initially struggled to gain career traction until he invested heavily in becoming a "problem manager" and finding peer mentors. After earning his first promotion, Felix began sharing content on LinkedIn to help other product managers learn from his mistakes.

Seeing the positive response to his content, Felix founded the Product Management Mastermind: a community for PMs to get advice, share advice, and build relationships.?

Join us live this October to hear Felix’s career journey into Product, his content creation journey, how he founded the Product Management Mastermind Community, and the importance of connecting with other PMs.

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