Product Management Coaching
Fractional CPO
Understand what's important
Focus your efforts
De-risk delivering value
Coaching
Product Vision, Strategy & OKRs
Prioritization, Planning & Roadmaps
Customer Empathy, Journey Mapping
Experimentation, Prototypes
Skill Assessment, Career Path & Development Plan
Product, Design & Engineering Collaboration
Agile Delivery, Risk Management
Transformation
Organizational Assessment
Career Ladders, Training & Development
Workshop Design & Facilitation
Change Mangement
Leadership Coaching
Team & Individual Coaching
Product Operations, Budgeting & Planning, Tools & Frameworks
Fractional Leader
Hands-on product leader on a part-time basis
Set product strategy with leadership team
Optimize the product portfolio
Build the product function
Scale or overhaul a product function
Recruit and screen full-time PM staff
Establish norms and culture across functions
Meet Steven
I'm an accomplished product leader with over 20 years in tech (15 in Product Management) who has recently led transformative change for global names like Electronic Arts in Silicon Valley and JPMorgan Chase.
Originally from Scotland, now living on the US East Coast I've set strategy and executed digital transformation covering teams over 500 people and budgets over $100m across a wide range of industries and cultures.
I've established product organizations from scratch and helped launch the careers of hundreds of people new to Product Management. I have some unique experiences applying product thinking in non-traditional settings (e.g. corporate functions like HR) as well as building successful, large-scale FinTech, MarTech, HRTech and Enterprise software products.
I'm currently working full time for an organization and unavailable for freelance consultations.
Do these challenges sound familiar?
Our strategy doesn't help teams make decisions
It's unclear what success looks like for our major goals and initiatives
Our roadmaps and delivery don't align to our company goals and strategic bets
It's hard to prioritze resources across the product portfolio and be sure we're getting the most value
Teams are siloed and don't collaborate well
I'm struggling to attract or retain high quality talent
I'm handed solutions to build and I don't know why
It's hard to prioritize a large list of options
I've got lots of tech debt / regulatory mandates and don't know how to also deliver new features
Customers are not using new features we deploy
I'm new to product management and don't know how to improve my skills
I know where I need to take my product but can't get people to buy-in
We want to work in a product operating model but don't know how to get there
We're trying to be more "customer-centric" but we don't have a traditional customer
It's hard to tell our story and show where we're adding value to the organization
Our success rate deploying new programs, initiatives or products could be higher
We're not using data to inform decisions