User-Centric Product-Led Growth: Build Your Roadmap from Quick Wins to Big Bets

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3 Weeks

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Cohort-based Course

Combine behavioral science and Growth strategies to create a diverse roadmap that will drive impact and delight.

Helped companies and clients from:

Miro
Manychat
Grammarly
Intercom
Loom

Course overview

Create your Product-led growth roadmap — from quick wins to big bets.

👉 What is good for USER is good for BUSINESS.


Growth leaders and teams are expected to bring impactful results at high speed. However, in that high-paced environment, it's easy to get into a trap of constant local optimization.


The biggest changes that drove product Growth for companies like Miro, Notion, Figma didn't happen due to local changes. These products combined both components: high-quality user experience and ethical PLG strategies.


📌 Growth teams face many challenges in achieving that, like:


— How do we build an understanding of Growth as a holistic system?

— How do we uncover new growth opportunities to impact Activation, Habit-forming, and Upgrades?

— What behavioral principles can help create the most user-friendly and ethical solutions?

— How to prioritize these opportunities in a diverse roadmap?

— Finally, how do we receive a buy-in to implement meaningful product changes and drive PLG?


I've been facing these challenges myself and collecting knowledge for years to address them.


📌 What prepared me to share this knowledge with you:


1. For 6+ years at Miro, I covered all parts of the Growth funnel holistically (Activation, Engagement, Monetisation, Community-led Growth).


2. As a part of Growth Leadership at Miro, scaled from 1 Growth team (5 people) to a stream of 15 teams (170+ people).


3. As a founder of Growthmates, collected knowledge directly from 20+ leaders from Notion, Canva, Dropbox, and


4. As a Growth advisor, helped 10+ B2B and B2C companies in SaaS, Collaboration, Education, AI, and other sectors.


📌 What to expect on this course:


✦ Organize your "Growth as a holistic system"

✦ Take an end-to-end look at 3 key Growth flows: Activation, Habit-forming, Upgrades

✦ Uncover product changes to impact Activation and Habit-forming

✦ Improve your triggers to Upgrade through a user-centric approach

✦ Apply Behavioural psychology principles and frameworks for ethical Product Growth


🎯 As a result — You will create a diverse roadmap of Quick Wins, Meaningful shifts, and Big bets to articulate the value of Product-led Growth and get buy-in.


🎁 Resources that you'll get as a part of the course:

— 30+ Holistic Growth Flow examples from Notion, Canva, Dropbox, and more

— 25 Interactive examples of Growth best practices (Miro Board)

— AI Features adoption pack

— User Research Pack for Growth initiatives (Survey templates, Interview guides)

— Q&A time with Kate Syuma on live sessions to address your questions


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❗️ This course is NOT about abstract growth strategies.


It's about real product examples, behavioral science knowledge, and PRACTICE that you can combine with your real work project.


— Products that use only Sales-led model (course is about Product-led Growth) 

— Too early-stage products in the development phase (course is about your flows to analyse and improve).  

— If you want t learn deep Data analytics (course is more about Qualitative user-centric approach)



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* [TBA] Session with a special guest expert from one of the leading SaaS companies.

Who is this course for

01

PMs and Product Designers in Growth and Product teams who want to create high-quality solutions for growth holistically

02

"Growth team of one" — Founders and Product Leaders who drive several parts of growth simultaneously (Activation, Habit-forming, Upgrades)

03

Growth Marketers, User Researchers, and other Product members who want to deepen their knowledge of PLG practices and Behavioural psychology

What you’ll get out of this course

Create a diverse roadmap to get buy-in

You will create a draft of the roadmap and will apply the "3 types of initiatives" framework to articulate the value of Product-led Growth and get stakeholders' buy-in. Ultimately, we will practice getting team alignment and building a growth team culture.

Get direct feedback on Growth flows improvements

You will get feedback from peers on your work, and from me directly on Q&A sessions.

Practice key Behavioral psychology principles

User-centricity requires understanding how people behave and make decisions. You'll get access to 30 main behavioral principles and dark patterns.

Understand your "Growth as a holistic system"

You will zoom out to look at Growth Loops as a holistic system, and will apply that perspective on your product.

Take an end-to-end look at your key Growth flows

You'll practice with my 5-step Growth Framework to take a helicopter view at your end-to-end product growth flows like Activation, Habit-forming, and paths to Upgrade.

Uncover new changes to impact Activation and Habit-forming

By combining PLG frameworks (like Growth loops) and Behavioural psychology, you will uncover improvements in your flows. You'll get access to my base of 30+ growth flows to get inspiration from products like Notion, Canva, Miro, Loom, and more.

Improve your triggers to Upgrade through a user-centric approach

For your Project work, you will apply this knowledge on 3-5 critical steps of the flow and learn how to be user-centric with User Research frameworks.

This course includes

4 interactive live sessions

Lifetime access to course materials

29 in-depth lessons

Direct access to instructor

5 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

Mar 17—Mar 23

    Mar

    18

    Session 1: Growth as a Holistic system and Identifying Growth Opportunities

    Tue 3/184:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)

    Start here: Course Introduction

    2 items

    Understanding Product-led Growth as a Holistic System

    6 items

    Growth Challenges and Identifying Opportunitites

    3 items

    🎁 Bonus: Survey Insights from 100+ teams

    0 items

Week 2

Mar 24—Mar 30

    Mar

    25

    Session 2: Uncovering improvements for Activation, Habit-forming, and Upgrades

    Tue 3/254:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)

    Holistic Activation and User Onboarding

    6 items

    Habit-forming: Applying Behavioural science

    5 items

    Upgrades: User-centric approach to Ethical Triggers

    6 items

    🎁 Bonus: 30+ Growth Flows collection

    0 items

    🎁 Bonus: User Research Pack for Growth

    0 items

Week 3

Mar 31—Apr 4

    Apr

    1

    Session 3: (Optional) Guest with a case study

    Tue 4/13:00 PM—4:00 PM (UTC)

    Apr

    3

    Session 4: Implement diverse Growth roadmap + big Q&A with Kate Syuma

    Thu 4/33:00 PM—4:30 PM (UTC)

    Creating a Diverse and Holistic Growth Roadmap

    3 items

    Building Growth culture and Getting buy-in

    3 items

Post-course

Bonus

    🎁 10 Templates pack for Growth (Research, Flows, more )

    0 items

What people are saying

        Kate Syuma embarked on a remarkable journey when she joined Miro in 2017. Starting as a foundational member of the Growth team, she played an essential role in transitioning Miro from a startup phase to becoming a successful unicorn SaaS company. Her commitment to understanding and empathizing with users has been a cornerstone of her approach.
Vlad Zely

Vlad Zely

Design executive & advisor | ex-Miro, ZOE
        Kate gave me valuable advice in speaking more to the business and the detailed experimentation process really hardened what I was able to interview with. Kate equipped me with mature and thoughtful questions that I had ready in any scenario during the interview process. I felt prepared for my first 30 days when I received an offer at Loom.
Ben Pham

Ben Pham

Senior Product Designer @Loom
        Grammarly team was enthusiastic about the sessions with Kate and left feeling empowered to try new tactics to drive growth at Grammarly. I was extremely pleased with our collaboration and the outcome of each session. You're the best Kate!
Shane Fontane

Shane Fontane

Sr. Manager, Growth Design @ Grammarly 
        “I feel that our collaboration was a real success to assess the existing and the ideas we had identified. Tha most valuable part was the reminder to always start from the core product experience for activation. I liked the most the fact that we discuss concrete solutions / experiences and get useful feedback on it.”
Michel Ferry

Michel Ferry

Head of Product @Zeffy

Meet your instructor

Kate Syuma

Kate Syuma

Founder @Growthmates • Ex-Miro Head of Growth Design

  • Over 6+ years at Miro, Kate built a team of 10+ people and strategized Miro's growth across Activation, Retention, Monetisation, and Community Platforms.
  • As a founder at Growthmates, she is advising B2B and B2C companies who want to bring PLG and excel in User Experience simultaneously.
  • Growthmates Podcast and Newsletter captured growth stories from 30+ leaders from Notion, Canva, Loom, Amplitude, Dropbox, and more.


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User-Centric Product-Led Growth: Build Your Roadmap from Quick Wins to Big Bets

Cohort 1

$890

Dates

Mar 17—Apr 4, 2025

Payment Deadline

Mar 16, 2025
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Course schedule

4-6 hours per week

  • 📅 Join on Tuesdays for Live sessions

    9:00am EST / 5:00 pm CET


  • ✏️ Work on your work-related projects during the week

    2 hours / week

    Bring your real growth challenge with Activation, Habit-forming, or Upgrades, and work on it by applying the frameworks shared in the course.

  • 🙌 Get feedback on your work

    Get feedback directly from me on Q&A parts of live sessions, as well as from a small group of peers who are solving similar challenges — let's learn from each other!

Free resource

The Holistic Growth Playbook 

  • Insights from 20+ In-Depth Interviews, featuring leaders from Dropbox, Canva, Coda, Amplitude, and more
  • Emerging challenges for Growth teams and research insights form 100+ companies


  • Frameworks for delivering high-quality experience and scaling Growth processes

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Active hands-on learning

This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects

Interactive and project-based

You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams

Learn with a cohort of peers

Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you

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Join an upcoming cohort

User-Centric Product-Led Growth: Build Your Roadmap from Quick Wins to Big Bets

Cohort 1

$890

Dates

Mar 17—Apr 4, 2025

Payment Deadline

Mar 16, 2025
Get reimbursed

$890

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