You’re leading a high-stakes product initiative and while the work is promising, the friction from stakeholders is relentless. Customer-facing teams overcommit, resources feel scarce, and cross-functional alignment feels like a distant dream. You’re constantly adapting to external pressures and it’s exhausting. Your product can make a huge impact, but the pieces aren’t falling in place to achieve what you know is possible.

In this course, you’ll discover that the core of your challenges starts within. You can improve the situation more than you realize. Drawing from my experience as a CPO and CEO, as well as my coaching work with dozens of product executives, I’ll guide you through a series of proven strategies to transform friction into collaboration, while transforming yourself as a leader. Through practical frameworks and tactical approaches, you’ll learn how to:

• Reframe your relationships with your toughest stakeholders and get them working with you, not against you.

• Clarify and communicate your leadership style.

• Improve other teams’ perceptions that you have a clear plan, the right prioritization, and the skills and sense of urgency to make it happen.

• Make critical decisions under pressure with limited information quickly, and rally the team to support your calls.

• Maximize energizing interactions and strategically minimize those that drain your focus, ensuring you consistently operate at your best.

This course is designed to help you immediately apply what you learn. Over four interactive sessions, you will tackle real-world challenges head-on and collaborate with peers. Here’s what you can expect:

Live Case Study Discussions: Analyze real-life examples of stakeholder friction and see how proven frameworks and strategies have turned those situations around.

Peer Breakout Groups: Engage in small-group discussions to share your experiences, get feedback, and learn from other product leaders facing similar challenges.

Self-Reflection Exercises: Identify the internal behaviors and mindsets holding you back, and track your personal leadership transformation.

Tactical Frameworks: Learn practical, repeatable frameworks to help you manage stakeholder relationships, communicate more effectively, and allocate resources wisely.

Coaching: Receive direct coaching and feedback to address your specific challenges and unlock new strategies for building momentum and making the process more enjoyable.

Actionable Takeaways: After each session, you’ll receive tailored, actionable steps to implement in your day-to-day role immediately.

Templates and Tools: Gain access to resources like communication templates, trust-building tactics, and stakeholder alignment checklists to continue using long after the course ends.

By the end of this course, you’ll unlock new ways to build trust, deepen partnerships, and reinvigorate yourself with the excitement you had when you first stepped into your role. You will not only have a tool kit to navigate stakeholder relationships more effectively but also the skills and experience to level up your leadership and accelerate your career.