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The slides, rubrics, and the coach itself stay in my kit bag. But there’s plenty I can give away, and this shelf is it!
I’ve rebuilt my bank of training materials for 2027 and beyond, and trained my own AI coach to sit alongside my cohorts while they wrestle their gnarliest real problems. Gone are the days of the long “talking head” slide deck. Product managers bring their actual product artefacts (or confess to the lack of them), and we bring every one up to scratch right there in the classroom, ready to demo to stakeholders the same week. We skip the google-able list of product musts and go where the real games are won: decision-making, commercial acumen, and the deep technical calls that shape products in your company. What’s here is a subset of the same useful tactics I use in my own product functions, now bottled for yours.
The AI Nomenclature For Product Leaders
My field guide to thirty-one AI terms, organised by where you will actually meet them: in discovery, in delivery, in the risk register, in the boardroom. Every entry ends with the question worth asking in your next meeting. Share it with your team.
Open the AI Nomenclature For Product Leaders
The Product Leadership Toolkit
Twenty-one evergreen PowerPoint templates for working product leaders, delivered to your verified email. Fill them in, print them, argue over them.
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Field notes
Working essays on product craft, ways of working, and AI in practice. Undated and unattributed on purpose, drawn from the inside of real buildings.
Read the field notes
The Product Organisation Health Check
Thirty statements about how your product organisation actually runs, as opposed to how the operating model slides say it runs. The disagreements are the findings.
Run the health check
The Product Strategy One-Pager
If your product strategy can't survive one page, it isn't a strategy yet. Fill it in, then run the five tests.
Write the one-pager
The Discovery Interview Kit
Everything needed to run customer interviews that change decisions instead of confirming them. Print it and take it into the room.
Open the kit
The Product Toolkit
Twenty-one evergreen PowerPoint templates for working product leaders, from the opportunity brief to the EBITDA lens.
Get the toolkitWorking templates
Print them, fill them, argue over them
The Opportunity Brief
One page before anyone writes a roadmap line. Nine boxes, and if they can't be filled honestly the opportunity isn't understood yet.
Open the briefThe Flow Health Check
Ten checks that reveal whether your board is telling the truth. Companion to the kanban field note. Fifteen minutes with the whole team.
Run the checkThe Stretch 1:1
A manager-as-coach conversation for capable people: they bring the problem, you bring questions, they leave taller.
Open the templateThe AI Feature Readiness Check
Nine questions from the product chair before an AI feature ships: wrong-answer cost, the moment after, kill criteria.
Run the questionsIf the tools help, we will probably work well together. Here is how that works.