How to Achieve Influence & Team Alignment: Methods All PM and UXers Should Know

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Cohort-based Course

Learn actionable techniques designed to inspire, boost collaboration, create clarity, and achieve buy-in throughout the product process

Course overview

Master methods to achieve stakeholder alignment throughout the product process


Bringing diverse teams together to deliver a successful product isn't easy. But with the right techniques, it’s possible to boost collaboration, achieve buy-in, and build a shared vision across your organization.


In this 3-hour workshop, you’ll learn the methods Christine Perfetti refined over a decade working with organizations including GoFundMe, Penn Medicine, TuneIn, Udemy, and Harvard Business School.


We’ll cover four actionable techniques designed to create clarity and alignment at key stages of the product lifecycle. You’ll leave with the confidence and tools to implement these approaches in your own organization—and finally get everyone pulling in the same direction.

Who is this course for

01

Product leaders looking to align your teams and drive a product strategy with practical techniques for collaboration and prioritization.

02

Senior PMs needing structured methods to unite cross-functional teams and turn insights into actionable roadmaps everyone rallies behind.

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UXers seeking proven facilitation techniques to elevate customer insights and ensure user needs are at the forefront of product decisions.

What you will get out of this course

Team-centric product discovery

Learn how to immerse your team in customer insights through team-based research and regular Insights Days.

Collaborative product visioning

See how to facilitate a one-day workshop to align on a long-term vision for your product that resonates across teams.

Opportunity prioritization

Use a consensus building prioritization exercise with up to 40 stakeholders to quickly evaluate opportunities and decide what to pursue. This technique will get your C level stakeholders and teams asking for this exercise on a consistent basis.

Roadmap weighting exercise

Create a roadmap that balances priorities and earns team-wide support.

This course includes

1 interactive live session

Lifetime access to course materials

In-depth lessons

Direct access to instructor

Projects to apply learnings

Guided feedback & reflection

Private community of peers

Course certificate upon completion

Maven Satisfaction Guarantee

This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Dec 20

    Dec

    20

    How to Achieve Influence and Team Alignment: Instructor-Driven Lesson and Interactive Exercises

    Fri 12/205:00 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)

What product leaders are saying

        Christine Perfetti built an incredible workshop format to generate ideas and align teams towards a breakthrough strategy and vision. I would highly encourage anyone looking to improve the fit and differentiation of their products and services to attend and learn her techniques.”
Peter Guagenti

Peter Guagenti

President, Tabnine
        Christine Perfetti is fantastic. She immediately gained our trust and respect through her approach to understanding our audience and product visioning. Christine brought with her real expertise in research methods, design thinking, and lean experimentation. This rigor brought much-needed structure and delivered measurable results to HBR."
Erik Hellweg

Erik Hellweg

Ex-Managing Director, Harvard Business Review
        “Christine is a gifted facilitator. She led several collaborative sessions with large groups of stakeholders at Acquia, arriving at succinct, prioritized lists of actionable items. We achieved more in an afternoon workshop than any multi-day offsite session I’ve ever attended."
Ezra Gildesgame

Ezra Gildesgame

Product Director, Hinge (Ex-HubSpot, Kayak, Acquia)
        “Christine Perfetti coached our team to establish a customer research competency across GoFundMe. Christine’s insights were instrumental in guiding our product strategy and roadmap priorities. A customer-centric approach to product planning is now core to our business.”
Daniel Cox

Daniel Cox

VP and Head of Product Management, GoFundMe

Meet your instructor

Christine Perfetti

Christine Perfetti

Product and UX Advisor (Ex-GoFundMe, Penn Medicine, Carbonite, Acquia, TuneIn]

Christine Perfetti is Founding Principal of Perfetti Media, a product and UX strategy consultancy in Washington, D.C.


Christine built the team-centric, organization-wide product discovery programs at GoFundMe, Carbonite, Acquia, and TuneIn, and has led collaborative product visioning workshops for Harvard Business School, WeSpire, HubSpot, Curriculum Associates, and Penn Medicine, among others.


Before becoming a 2x founder, Christine Perfetti was the Head of User Experience at Carbonite and Acquia, two highly successful startups and scaleups. She received her Master of Science degree in Social Psychology from Brown University.

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