Why Your Stakeholders Always Win and How to Win With Them

Hosted by Brennan Collins

Tue, Apr 21, 2026

2:00 PM UTC (30 minutes)

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The Influential PM: Strategy, Stakeholders, Significance
Brennan Collins
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What you'll learn

Identify Three Hidden Stakeholder Archetypes

Spot whether your decision maker is a Risk Shield, Credit Catcher, or Tribal Guardian and change your pitch accordingly

Run a Pre-Meeting Diagnostic in 5 Minutes

Three questions that reveal what each stakeholder is actually optimizing for before you walk into the room.

Pressure-Test Your Read With an AI Prompt

Walk away with a ready-to-use AI prompt that stress-tests your stakeholder strategy before any high-stakes meeting.

Why this topic matters

You had the right answer. The data backed it up. Your stakeholder went with their pet idea anyway. Most meeting outcomes are decided before anyone sits down, based on career incentives, budget fears, and agendas that never appear on the slide deck. This session gives you a repeatable framework for reading those invisible motivations so you pitch to what people actually care about and win.

You'll learn from

Brennan Collins

Reached VP of Product before 30. Coached 500+ PMs. 36 promoted in 12 months.

Brennan Collins built his career solving a problem most PM training ignores: the gap between what product managers know how to do and what their organizations actually evaluate them on.

After reaching VP of Product before 30 and managing $50M+ revenue portfolios across B2B SaaS, healthcare technology, and enterprise platforms, product managers kept coming to him for coaching and teaching. In response, he designed and delivered PM Bootcamps inside large enterprises while running product portfolios as VP full-time, training hundreds of product managers over 5 years with a 4.9/5.0 satisfaction rating.

That part-time program became the foundation for Unabated Products. Brennan has now coached 500+ PMs through structured programs and direct mentorship. 36 of those PMs were promoted within twelve months of completing his training.

His teaching centers on four pillars: Strategy, Delivery, Customer Experience, and Growth. Most PMs score above 70% on Delivery and below 40% on Strategy. That imbalance is invisible to the PM but obvious to every hiring manager, skip-level, and promotion committee evaluating them. Brennan's frameworks close that gap with tools drawn from real product experience and coaching sessions, not theory.

Brennan is AIPMM-certified, was voted Most Engaging Speaker, and chairs product conferences. His Maven course, The Influential PM, has shifted dozens of PMs from stuck to strategic. His Lightning Lessons reach hundreds of product managers who use his frameworks to win rooms, get promoted, and build products that actually grow their companies.

He teaches because the PM industry trains people in one dimension when success requires four. He shares his expertise so students stop losing to invisible systems and start reading the room before they walk in.

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PwC UK
PayPal
Amazon
Capital One
Coda

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