Your product and design leaders need specialized development, not generic leadership training
Product and design leadership directly impacts your organization's innovation capacity and market success. Yet these specialized leaders often lack the tailored development they need to excel, especially during critical transitions.
Leadership challenges you can't solve with generic programs
Your most pressing product and design leadership challenges require someone who's actually been where your leaders are—not just someone who's read about it.
Developing Leaders at Critical Moments
High-potential product and design managers need development that's tailored to their specific discipline and leadership challenges, not watered-down general leadership advice.
Retaining Your Best People
Experienced product and design leaders often outgrow their peers and need intellectual challenges and trusted feedback from someone who understands their domain.
What makes product and design leadership different
Generic leadership advice is everywhere. What your leaders need is coaching that understands the nuanced dynamics of product and design work—the kind that comes from someone who has navigated these exact challenges.
When your product leaders can't seem to influence without authority
Product leaders must coordinate across engineering, sales, marketing, and design without direct reports in each area. This requires a different kind of influence than traditional management—one that's built on domain expertise and strategic thinking.
When your design leaders struggle to evangelize design value
Design leaders often find themselves defending the value of design rather than driving strategic impact. They need coaching on how to translate design thinking into business language and build design processes that scale.
When promising ICs fail as first-time managers
The transition from doing the work to leading others who do the work is particularly challenging in product and design, where the work is highly creative and context-dependent. They need coaching on how to enable others without micromanaging.
Testimonials
Matte is an insightful, honest, and kind mentor. With each meeting, I learned more about myself and how to approach different challenges. I was consistently impressed with his ability to remember the details and ask the right questions at the right time. He always helped me quickly get past a mental blocker or find the right path forward.
He is open-minded, curious, asks great questions to get to the core of what matters and was a blast to work with.
[Matte helped] me get promoted to the VP level after feeling stuck for several years. When interviewing coaches for this engagement, one of my main goals was to find someone that would keep me on task, hold a hard line, and call me on my bullshit (logical fallacies, self-defeat, platitudes). Matte rose to the task, and was a great thought partner to me for nearly two years. You need his help to become a better product or design leader.
Ready to give your product and design leaders the development they actually need?
Let's talk about the leadership development gaps and organizational patterns that are driving the people challenges you're seeing. Most HR partners are surprised by what we uncover when we look at the system.
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