Leadership Development Training and Coaching
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.
What You Get
Our integrated leadership development system addresses the three critical domains of product leadership:
- 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.
Building High-Performing Teams Workshop
Transform 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. Participants learn techniques to improve team communication and collaboration, minimize conflict, and guide teams to overcome their weaknesses while leveraging their strengths to build and sustain high-performing teams that continuously deliver value and delight their customers.
The canvas is an intuitive tool that helps you see and address all seven critical elements of extraordinary team performance:
- Goals & Alignment: Create alignment through shared purpose and clear objectives that unite your team
- Focus & Boundaries: Establish limits to sharpen focus and drive productivity and innovation
- Skills & Diversity: Build teams with complementary skills, diverse perspectives, and mutual accountability
- Stability & Trust: Foster psychological safety, effective communication, and sustainable team relationships
- Empowerment & Accountability: Clarify decision rights and expand team autonomy for faster execution
- Foundation & Support: Ensure teams have the information, infrastructure, education, environment, and rewards needed for peak performance
- Growth & Evolution: Implement ongoing improvement processes for sustained team development and growth
Perfect for: Product managers and product owners leading cross-functional teams, or anyone responsible for product team outcomes.
Developing Future Leaders Workshop
Transform your high-potential product managers into strategic leaders. This workshop helps participants evolve from tactical to strategic to visionary 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. Participants learn to:
- Enhance situational awareness using Situational Leadership frameworks
- Adapt leadership approaches based on team experience and context
- Apply Servant Leadership principles to cultivate innovation
- Balance short-term initiatives with long-term goals
- Develop skills for engaging stakeholders and resolving differences effectively
Perfect for: Product managers ready for broader leadership, new product directors struggling with the transition, or experienced leaders who want to expand their strategic influence.
Building High Performing Organizations Workshop
Transform your product development organization into a resilient, high-performing system. This workshop helps participants develop the skills and competencies to accelerate change across the organization, increase overall business agility, and build high-performing organizations that stay ahead of the competition. Participants learn how to assess their organization’s environment, culture, structure, governance, processes, people, capabilities, and capacity for change. They learn:
- Competing Values Framework for mapping organizational culture
- Value Stream Mapping for revealing hidden inefficiencies
- Cynefin Framework for navigating complexity
- Kotter’s 8-Step Process for leading change
- Satir Change Model for understanding response to transformation
Participants learn to assess organizational readiness, identify alignment gaps, build effective coalitions, and overcome the resistance that causes most transformation initiatives to fail.
Perfect for: Product VPs and Directors leading major initiatives, change agents responsible for product transformation, or senior leaders navigating organizational shifts.
Leadership Agility 360 Assessment and Coaching
The Leadership Agility 360 Assessment instrument provides qualitative and quantitative data on a leader’s ability to lead organizational change, build high-performing teams, and have engaging pivotal conversations. The assessment produces a detailed report highlighting strengths and areas for improvement in the leader’s ability to scope initiatives, set clear direction, engage stakeholders, resolve differences, analyze problems, and co-create solutions. This data is then used to develop a leadership coaching roadmap to target improving skills tied to existing initiatives.
The process includes:
- Orientation session to identify feedback providers and current initiatives
- Self-assessment to establish baseline perceptions
- Feedback collection from manager, stakeholders, and direct reports
- Debrief session to review data and identify improvement areas
- Leadership development action plan with specific implementation targets
- Follow-up coaching sessions for reflection and growth
Leadership Retreat Workshops for Product Organizations
Need focused product leadership development but don’t have time for multi-day programs? Our focused workshops can be included as part of your quarterly or annual leadership retreats. This lets you dive deep into specific product leadership topics in shorter timeframes that fit your busy schedule.
Choose from flexible formats based on your team’s availability and learning objectives:
2.5-Hour Product Leadership Focus Sessions
Perfect for busy product teams who need targeted skill development. These intensive sessions focus on one critical product leadership competency with immediate takeaways.
Popular topics:
- The Product Model: Leading a transition from project management to product management.
- Building Trust in Product Teams: Learn practical techniques to create psychological safety across functions
- Strategic Product Thinking: Develop skills to shift from feature-driven to outcome-driven leadership
Half-Day Product Leadership Workshops
More 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
- Stakeholder Alignment for Product Leaders: Learn to align diverse stakeholders around product vision and roadmaps
- Product Leadership Communication: Develop your ability to communicate product strategy, provide feedback, and influence without authority
Full-Day Product Leadership Intensives
Deep-dive workshops that combine 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: 6 critical shifts for business agility in product organizations
All retreat workshops include: Interactive exercises, practical frameworks, take-home resources, and follow-up coaching.
The Optimal Leadership Development Journey
While each workshop delivers standalone value and can be taken in any order, many organizations achieve the best results by following our recommended sequence:
1. Start with Building High-Performing Teams
Begin by strengthening the foundation of your product organization. This workshop creates immediate impact by improving how your teams collaborate, communicate, and deliver value. The High Performing Teams Canvas gives you a framework to diagnose team challenges and implement targeted improvements.
2. Continue with Developing Future Leaders
Once your teams are functioning effectively, focus on enhancing the capabilities of those who lead them. This workshop helps your managers evolve from tactical executors to strategic visionaries who can anticipate market changes and guide their teams accordingly.
3. Complete with Building High-Performing Organizations
With strong teams and capable leaders in place, address the broader organizational systems and structures. This workshop helps you scale what’s working, remove institutional barriers, and create an environment where innovation and agility can thrive organization-wide.
This step-by-step approach builds capabilities in the right sequence, creating strong teams first, further developing the leaders who guide them next, and finally optimizing the organizational environment where they operate.
While our workshops address team, leadership, and organizational capabilities, effective transformation often begins with understanding individual leadership strengths and growth areas. Before embarking on your development journey, gaining insight into your current leadership effectiveness via the Leadership Agility 360 assessment can help determine which areas to prioritize.
For Busy Leadership Teams: If your schedule doesn’t permit full 2-day workshops, our Leadership Retreat options offer a condensed alternative. Begin with focused sessions on team dynamics, then progress to leadership development, and finally address organizational transformation, following the same logical progression in shorter time blocks.
Not sure where to begin? Schedule a free assessment call and we’ll help you identify the right starting point for your specific situation.
Flexible Delivery Options
Our programs adapt to your product organization’s needs:
In-Person or Virtual Delivery: Choose the format that works best for your distributed product teams
Complete Leadership System: Experience all components for comprehensive product leadership development
Targeted Workshops: Select specific workshops addressing your most pressing product leadership challenges
Individual or Team Focus: Develop a single product leader or build capabilities across your product leadership team
Frequently Asked Questions About Product Leadership Development
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 Info
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.