Develop Leaders Who Build High-Performing Product Teams and Organizations
Your product teams are struggling with constant change and market uncertainty. Your organization needs leaders who can navigate complexity while keeping teams focused on delivering value. That’s exactly what our leadership development program delivers.
We help product leaders build practical skills that translate directly into better team performance, faster innovation cycles, and sustainable organizational results. No theory-heavy workshops or abstract concepts. Just proven methods you can implement immediately.
Our Integrated Leadership Development System for Product Organizations
Our leadership development system delivers two of the four critical capabilities your product organization needs to compete effectively: empowered teams that execute without bottlenecks and adaptive organizations that respond faster than competitors.
Our leadership development program addresses:
- Team Dynamics: Transform how your product teams collaborate, communicate, and deliver value
- Leadership Capabilities: Evolve managers from tactical execution to strategic vision and direction
- Organizational Systems: Create structures and processes that enable innovation and agility at scale
We address these domains through comprehensive workshops, flexible implementation options, and personalized assessment and coaching. These components can be combined for maximum impact or used individually based on your specific challenges.
Leadership Development Workshops
Build Critical Leadership Skills For Your Product Organization
Each workshop delivers specific, actionable leadership capabilities. While each workshop delivers standalone value and can be taken in any order, many product organizations achieve the best results by following our recommended sequence:
- Start by building strong product teams via the Building High-Performing Teams Workshop
- Continue with the Develop Future Leaders Workshop to help product leaders focus on strategy, stakeholder management, and organizational influence
- Finish with the Building High-Performing Organizations workshop to scale what’s working, remove institutional barriers to product innovation, and create an environment where agility and customer focus can thrive organization-wide.
Building High-Performing Teams Workshop
Build your product teams into high-performing teams that consistently deliver value while responding to changing customer needs. This workshop is built around a powerful visual framework using the High Performing Teams Canvas and team performance models like Tuckman and Drexler/Sibbet.
Product leaders learn techniques to improve cross-functional team communication, minimize conflict between product, design, and engineering, and guide teams to overcome weaknesses while leveraging strengths to continuously deliver value that delights customers.
Developing Future Leaders Workshop
Turn your high-potential product and engineering managers into strategic leaders who drive business outcomes. This workshop helps participants evolve from tactical to strategic to visionary product leaders through the expert-achiever-catalyst progression from the Leadership Agility model. Leaders understand the difference in skills, behaviors, mindset, and awareness of various leadership styles and the shifts needed in both thinking and practice in order to become leaders who are more strategic, collaborative, innovative, proactive, and adaptive.
Building High-Performing Organizations Workshop
Transform your product development organization into a resilient, high-performing system that stays ahead of the competition. This workshop helps participants develop skills to accelerate change across the product organization, increase overall business agility, and build organizational systems where product innovation thrives.
Product leaders learn to assess their organization’s environment, culture, structure, governance, processes, people, capabilities, and capacity for change using proven frameworks designed for complex product environments.
Leadership Retreat Workshops for Product Organizations
Focused Product Leadership Development That Fits Your Schedule
Need targeted product leadership development but don’t have time for multi-day programs? Our focused workshops integrate into your quarterly or annual leadership retreats. Dive deep into specific product leadership topics in shorter timeframes that fit busy leadership team schedules.
View our flexible formats that fit your team’s availability and learning objectives:
2.5-Hour Product Leadership Focus Sessions
Intensive sessions focused on one critical product leadership competency with immediate takeaways for your leadership team.
Popular Topics:
- The Product Model: Leading the transition from project management to product management in your organization
- Building Trust in Product Teams: Practical techniques to create psychological safety across product, design, and engineering
- Strategic Product Thinking: Shift from feature-driven to outcome-driven product leadership
Half-Day Product Leadership Workshops
Comprehensive exploration of product leadership challenges with hands-on practice.
Featured Options:
- Product Conflict Resolution: Advanced techniques for resolving tensions between product, design, and engineering functions
- Stakeholder Alignment for Product Leaders: Align diverse stakeholders around product vision and roadmaps
- Product Leadership Communication: Communicate product strategy effectively, provide feedback, and influence without authority
Full-Day Product Leadership Intensives
Deep-dive workshops combining multiple related competencies for comprehensive product leadership skill development.Signature Programs:
- From Product Manager to Product Leader: Complete transition program covering strategic product thinking, team development, and organizational awareness
- Leading High-Performance Product Teams: Comprehensive product team leadership covering dynamics assessment, cross-functional collaboration, and performance optimization
- Product Organization Transformation: Six critical shifts for business agility in product organizations
All retreat workshops include interactive exercises, practical frameworks applied to product contexts, take-home resources, and optional follow-up coaching for continued development.
Leadership Agility 360 Assessment and Coaching
Data-Driven Insights for Product Leadership Development
The Leadership Agility 360 Assessment provides qualitative and quantitative data on a product leader’s ability to lead organizational change, build high-performing product teams, and navigate pivotal conversations with stakeholders.
Based on research from Leadership Agility by Bill Joiner and Stephen Josephs, this assessment evaluates how product leaders scope product initiatives, set clear direction for teams, engage stakeholders across functions, resolve differences in product priorities, analyze complex product problems, and co-create solutions with cross-functional teams.
Find out more about the Leadership Agility 360 assessment process
The Assessment Process
The assessment produces a detailed report highlighting strengths and areas for improvement in leadership capabilities. This data then informs a personalized coaching roadmap to improve skills tied to your existing product initiatives.
1. Orientation Session Identify current product initiatives and select feedback providers across your product organization including product teams, stakeholders, and leadership.
2. Self-Assessment Establish your baseline perceptions of your leadership capabilities and challenges.
3. Feedback Collection Gather structured input from your manager, peers across product/design/engineering, stakeholders, and direct reports on your leadership effectiveness.
4. Debrief Session Review comprehensive data comparing your self-perception with how others experience your leadership. Identify high-impact development areas.
5. Leadership Development Action Plan Create a targeted plan with specific implementation targets tied to your current product initiatives and organizational challenges.
6. Follow-Up Coaching Sessions Regular coaching provides reflection, mentoring, and accountability for improved leadership practices in real situations.
How Product Leaders Use the Assessment
Standalone Development Understand your product leadership strengths and blind spots with an actionable improvement plan focused on your specific context.
Combined with Workshops Target workshop learning to your specific development areas for maximum impact on your product leadership effectiveness.
Product Leadership Team Development Assess your entire product leadership team to build shared understanding of each other’s styles and collective capability.
Available in packages with 3, 6, or 12 one-on-one coaching sessions to match your product leadership development goals and timeline.
Leadership Coaching Services
Individual One on One Leadership and Executive Coaching
Individual coaching provides personalized support to help product leaders develop specific capabilities and address real organizational challenges in product development contexts. Coaching typically begins with the Leadership Agility 360 Assessment to establish a data-driven baseline, followed by creation of a leadership development action plan tied to your current product initiatives.
Regular coaching sessions provide structured reflection on your leadership challenges, experienced mentoring from someone who understands product organizations, and direct feedback on your evolving practices. Product leaders see measurable improvements in team performance, stakeholder relationships, product decisions, and personal effectiveness.
Leadership Team or Executive Team Coaching
Leadership team coaching extends individual coaching to entire product leadership teams working toward shared organizational goals. The process includes individual Leadership Agility 360 Assessments for each product leader plus group coaching sessions to develop collective leadership capability.
Team coaching sessions address collective product leadership challenges and create shared practices while individual coaching focuses on each leader’s specific development areas. This dual approach accelerates both individual and leadership team performance in product organizations.
Free Coaching Sessions
Do you have a questions about minimizing team conflict, or improving team engagement and participation, taking on a new change initiative, managing up, or improving phycological safety? We offer free 20-minute coaching sessions to help you work through specific leadership challenges.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently Asked Questions About Our Leadership Development Program
How are these workshops different from typical leadership training?
Unlike general leadership programs, our workshops are specifically designed for product organizations. We focus on the unique challenges of leading cross-functional product teams, aligning stakeholders around product vision, and creating environments where innovation thrives. The High Performing Teams Canvas and other frameworks we use are tailored to product development contexts.
Do I need to complete all three workshops?
No. While following our recommended pathway (Teams → Leaders → Organizations) provides the most comprehensive development, each workshop delivers standalone value. Many clients start with the most pressing challenge they face and add other components later.
How quickly will we see results from the workshops?
Most participants implement new techniques immediately following the workshops and report improvements in team dynamics within 3 months. More significant organizational changes typically show measurable results within 6-12 months, with the full impact of strategic leadership development emerging over 12-24 months.
How many people from my organization should attend?
For maximum impact, we recommend sending intact teams or leadership groups. This creates a shared language and framework that accelerates implementation. However, individual leaders also benefit significantly from the workshops by bringing new approaches back to their teams.
Do you offer virtual options?
Yes. All workshops and coaching sessions are available in both in-person and virtual formats. Our virtual workshops maintain the same interactive, hands-on approach using collaborative digital tools and breakout sessions.
What industries do you work with?
While our leadership development programs benefit organizations across sectors, we have particular expertise in technology, SaaS, financial services, hospitality, as well as non-profit and government agencies with complex product development environments. Our approaches are especially valuable for organizations navigating rapid change or digital transformation.
Leadership Development Training and Coaching Program
Ready to Develop Your Product Leaders?
Whether you’re developing one product team or transforming an entire product organization, we’ll help you choose the right combination of training and coaching that delivers measurable results.
Next step: Schedule a conversation to discuss which options fit your specific product leadership development needs and timeline.