Reimagining Product Leadership in the AI Age: A Collective Summit

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Cohort-based Course

A Lift Up Collective Cohort™: Lead with clarity when AI is rewriting the rules of product leadership

Course overview

AI is changing how we build products and what leadership looks like

If you are feeling like the ground has shifted under your feet, you are not alone.


• Companies are pushing AI “must-haves” it is not possible to deliver overnight

• Teams are stretched thin and expected to do more with less after layoffs

• Influence and visibility are harder to achieve as roles flatten

• The old playbooks no longer work


Too many events still follow the guru model with one person declaring they have “the” answers. But the truth is: no one has all the answers in the AI world.


That’s why this summit brings together a collective of powerhouse product leaders, each with different perspectives, scars, and successes, to help you think more critically and lead more effectively in the age of AI.


What makes this Summit different:


• Collective wisdom, not a single voice. AI is too complex for one viewpoint. You’ll hear from leaders who have built billion-dollar products and led teams through uncertainty.

Real talk over hype. You will get nuanced perspectives, tradeoffs, and ethical considerations alongside practical tactics.

 Every speaker is paid for their expertise. We value the expertise of our speakers as much as we value yours.

• Hosted by Lift Up Connections. Our mission is to share the wisdom of women leaders in business and tech and invite everyone into the conversation.


What you’ll experience:

This is a highly-interactive, single-day summit with five sessions, Q&A, and optional post-event networking. You’ll leave with frameworks, scripts, and tactics you can apply immediately, plus the network to help you put them into practice.


You will learn how to:

• Talk to executives about AI without losing your roadmap

• Lead product teams for the next era of software

• Build strategic visibility and influence in the AI era

• Use AI ethically when the tools you need come from companies you don’t trust

• Set a bold product vision and prioritize the AI investments that matter most


Who will benefit most from this summit:

• Mid-to-senior product & UX leaders

• Professionals rethinking leadership after layoffs, burnout, or transformation

• Anyone wondering: “What does powerful, values-driven leadership look like now?”


👉 You won’t leave with a single right answer. You’ll leave with sharper tactics, a stronger network, and a renewed sense of clarity to lead with influence and resilience in the AI era.

Who is this course for

01

Senior Product ICs, Managers, and Directors who want to set a vision, influence executives, and guide through AI-driven transformation

02

Cross-Functional Innovators designers, engineers, data scientists, and strategists who want to cut through the AI hype

03

UX Leaders who want to integrate AI considerations into their work and partner effectively with product leadership

What you will get out of this course

How to Talk to Executives About AI (Melissa Appel)

Learn to navigate executive AI pressure without losing control of your roadmap. Melissa Appel shares frameworks to align AI ideas with goals, manage “urgent” requests, and keep your product strategy credible, stable, and focused on real value.

Fighting AI Giants with Their Own Tools (Christina Wodtke)

Christina Wodtke explores the messy reality of using AI tools built by companies you distrust. Learn how to engage with AI ethically, navigate moral gray zones, and make deliberate choices when every option feels compromised.

Leadership Scripts vs. Messy Reality: How You Win High-Stakes Conversations (Bosky Mukherjee)

At senior levels, scripts collapse under power dynamics and politics. Bosky Mukherjee shows how to navigate high-stakes conversations with strategy, presence, and influence to turn them into opportunities for growth.

Leading Product Teams for the Next Era of Software (Colleen Miller)

Colleen Miller shares how to lead product teams through AI transformation. Discover how to shift from systems of record to systems of action, reduce low-leverage work, and identify automation opportunities for maximum impact.

Experience Visioning in the AI Era (Christine Perfetti)

AI is accelerating change across every industry, but product leaders can’t rely on static roadmaps to navigate it. Christine Perfetti will share how to use Futures Thinking and Experience Visioning to anticipate possible futures, craft a north star, and align your teams.

Networking and Virtual Reception with Speakers and Attendees

Wrap up the day with a virtual reception. Join breakout groups to meet peers, share stories, and spark new connections over candid conversations about real-world leadership challenges and AI.

What’s included

Live sessions

Learn directly from your instructors in a real-time, interactive format.

Lifetime access

Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.

Community of peers

Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.

Certificate of completion

Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.

Maven Guarantee

This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Sep 30

    Session Descriptions - Reimagining Product Leadership in the Age of AI

    1 item • Free preview

    Sep

    30

    One-Day Virtual Event: Main Program

    Tue 9/303:00 PM—9:00 PM (UTC)

    Sep

    30

    Optional: Virtual Closing Reception and Breakout Sessions

    Tue 9/309:00 PM—9:45 PM (UTC)
    Optional

Meet Your Summit Speakers

Christina Wodtke

Christina Wodtke

Core Lecturer, Product Management, Stanford University

Christina Wodtke is a curious human with a serious resume. She is the founder of four start-ups, and has led redesigns and initial product offerings for such companies as LinkedIn, Zynga, Yahoo!, and the New York Times. She teaches at Stanford, and consults and speaks all over the world. Her bestselling book, Radical Focus, remains a classic in the OKR genre. Find out more at cwodtke.com.

Colleen Miller

Colleen Miller

VP Product, Kennebunk Product Ventures, Ex-Toast

Colleen Miller is a product leader and advisor with 20+ years of experience building and scaling B2B and B2C commerce platforms. Over seven years at Toast, she helped grow ARR from $15M to $1.3B, scaling the business more than 85x. She hired and led a team of 50+ across product and design, expanded into new segments and markets, and helped build one of the most successful vertical SaaS platforms in hospitality.


Today, Colleen advises investment firms and hospitality tech companies on product strategy and platform transformation. She brings deep operator experience, a track record of driving growth, and a practical, hands-on leadership style.

Bosky Mukherjee

Bosky Mukherjee

Founder & CEO SheTrailblazes, Ex-Atlassian

Bosky Mukherjee started her career at the bottom as a tech support associate. Overqualified, underpaid, and underestimated, she refused to stay stuck. She rose to the C-suite as a company president, then built two profitable businesses without a dollar of VC funding.


Today, she coaches thousands of women to step into senior leadership or grow profitable businesses when corporate no longer fits. Her approach blends behavioral psychology with real C-suite experience in hiring, promotion, and power decisions.


She’s the founder of SheTrailblazes, with two flagship programs: Leadership Edge for women who want to get promoted faster without overworking and Founders Edge for women who want to grow their business when they've outgrown corporate.

Summit Hosts: Christine Perfetti, Melissa Appel

Summit Hosts: Christine Perfetti, Melissa Appel

Product and UX Advisor (Ex-GoFundMe, Penn Medicine]; Executive Product Coach

Christine Perfetti is Founding Principal of Lift Up Connections, a product and UX strategy consultancy bringing together a collective of powerhouse leaders in tech.


Christine built the 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.


Melissa Appel is co-author of the newly released book, "Aligned: Stakeholder Management for Product Leaders." Melissa has 20 years of Product Management experience at companies in various industries, stages, and sizes. She helps product leaders create aligned strategies by getting the right people in the room and asking the right questions. Melissa's executive coaching focuses on process improvement, team development, and stakeholder management.

Featured Talks Schedule

One day

  • September 30, 2025

    11:00 - 5:00 Eastern

    11:00 Welcome


    11:15 – 12:15pm How to Talk to Execs About AI


    12:15 – 1:15pm Fighting AI Giants with Their Own Tools


    1:30 – 2:30pm Leadership Scripts vs. Messy Reality


    2:30 – 3:30pm Leading Teams for the New Software Era


    3:45 – 4:30pm Futures Thinking and Visioning

$199

USD

1 Day