Egress Solutions

Roadmap Reset: How to Defend and Reallocate Under Pressure

Mike Smart

Founder, Egress Solutions

Shardul Mehta

Founder, Street Smart Product Manager

The failure is predictable. Survive executive scrutiny by mapping directly to the metrics they’re accountable for.

Why Your Roadmap Gets Relitigated

Convert roadmap items into defensible investible bets with outcome, cost, risk, and confidence.

How to Frame Features as Investible Bets

Package cut options in a way that clarify impact, risk, and displacement.

How to Force Explicit Tradeoff Decisions

Create durable decision criteria that map to growth, margin, and retention, to reduce escalations and emotional resets.

How to Install a Durable Decision Discipline

In 3 weeks, build a complete Personal Leadership OS: vision, leverage focus, flow routines, decision clarity and weekly rhythms that stick.

Entrepreneur, CEO Coach & Board Advisor

Harvard Business School

New York University

Techstars

Strategic Coach

Expo 2020 Dubai

Aman Merchant

Serial Entrepreneur, CEO Coach, Board Advisor, NYU Faculty, YPO & EO Leader

Cohort 3

Cohort 4

You’ve optimized your calendar. Delegated more. Read the books. And yet you still end some days wondering where your clarity went.The problem isn’t effort. It’s that most leaders are operating without a coherent system for how they think, decide, focus, and recover. Acceleration and AI didn’t create this gap. They exposed it.What worked at your last level of complexity no longer holds under today’s demands. Capable leaders feel reactive despite their competence, scattered despite their discipline, and drained not because they’re doing too much - but because their way of leading hasn’t evolved.This program is a reset.Over three weeks, you step out of execution mode and deliberately rebuild how you lead - aligning vision, strengths, decision-making, flow awareness, and habits into a personal operating rhythm you can actually sustain.This isn’t about hacks or productivity tricks. It’s about upgrading the way you operate so clarity, energy, and focus become the default - even when everything around you is moving faster.And just because this is so needed at the start of this new year in particular, I've set up early bird pricing ($200 off) until March 1st.

Stop operating on an outdated playbook. Reset how you lead in 3 weeks.

A Vivid Personal Vision you can act from

A Superpowers (Unique Ability) Statement

Flow awareness you can apply week to week

Distraction-proof habits and power routines

Clear decision guardrails

An integration plan you’ll actually implement

This course is for leaders with real-world responsibility who are ready to reflect, experiment, and apply the work to their own context.

Leadership experience and readiness for self-directed work

<h3>High-Output Leader</h3>You’re delivering results but the operating rhythm is brittle: clarity fades, focus fragments &amp; inconsistent recovery

<h3>Scaling Founder/CEO</h3>Complexity has outgrown your personal systems. You ARE the bottleneck for decisions, priorities, and momentum.

<h3>Strategic Operator</h3>You lead across functions or portfolios &amp; need a repeatable way to align vision, focus, decisions &amp; energy every week.

Stop executing others' roadmaps. Build strategy that gets funded, speak the language of business, and win stakeholder buy-in.

March 2026

VP Product. 350+ PMs Stuck to Strategic

Deloitte

PRGX Global

FinThrive

Healthmine

Brennan Collins

Product Executive & Educator. Helped 350+ PMs Move From Delivery to Strategy

Jan-Feb 2026

Spring 2026

You know how to ship. You don't know how to matter.You execute roadmaps you didn't create, manage requests you can't push back on, and watch less capable PMs get promoted because they learned to speak the language of business before you did.The gap isn't talent. It's altitude. You're solving problems at the feature level while decisions get made at the business level - and nobody taught you how to close that distance.This course does. In 4 weeks, you'll build the strategic toolkit that mid-career PMs are missing:<ul><li>Connect your features to business KPIs: Build a metrics ladder from what you ship → what executives fund</li><li>Defend your roadmap with logic, not opinion: Turn stakeholder demands into strategic wins (students call this "Product Judo")</li><li>Craft vision and strategy like a skill, not a gift: 9 frameworks that make the abstract concrete</li><li>Apply everything to YOUR product in real-time: Every session includes exercises on your actual work - not unrealistic case studies</li></ul>AI tools show up in the course where they save you time. But the strategic thinking that makes you promotable? That's human work. This course teaches both.

From Delivery Mode to Decision-Maker: The Strategic Product Leadership Course

Think like a business owner, not a delivery manager

Map customer needs to business metrics executives care about

Craft a vision and strategy using frameworks, not mystical talent

Transform stakeholder feature demands into defensible strategic moves

Speak the language of revenue, pricing, and business models 

Build your case for promotion with artifacts that prove you're ready

This is not an entry-level course.  These are advanced topics.  See my free content for PM foundations and breaking into product management

3 to 10 years experience in Product Management

No one-and-done projects here.  You need to have felt the joy and pain of good and bad decisions (yours or someone else's).

Experience shipping multiple iterations of the same product

This shouldn't be about your salary (but that comes with it).  You should be intrinsically motivated to grow your abilities and scope

A desire to lead products strategically, not just ship features 

Mid-career PMs stuck in delivery mode who want to think more strategically and earn a seat at the decision-making table.

Experienced product managers who want to speak the language of business and defend their roadmap with metrics that executives respect.

PMs preparing for promotion who need a portfolio of strategic artifacts - vision, roadmap, metrics, business model - to prove they're ready

Know whether a product bet will drive adoption before you commit roadmap, budget, or team to building it.

CPO| ex- Amazon|Intuit|PayPal| Advisor

Amazon

Intuit

PayPal

PropertyGuru

Viveck P Kumar

20 years in product. Ex-Amazon, PayPal, Intuit, PropertyGuru.

Cohort 1

Most teams don't lose because they build badly. They lose because they bet on the wrong value.You ship a feature your team believes in. Leadership approved it. Users asked for it. The demo looked great.Six weeks later: adoption is flat. Retention doesn't move. Pricing power doesn't improve. Nobody can explain why.The problem was never execution. It was the value proposition — chosen before anyone had the language to evaluate it properly.AI has made this worse. Teams now prototype in days and ship at unprecedented speed. But speed doesn't fix unclear value. It amplifies it. Products feel impressive in demos. They feel confusing or unnecessary in real use.POLE — the Customer Value Lifecycle Architecture — gives you the language to catch this before you commit. It treats acquisition value, liberation value, retention value, and persistent brand value as four distinct problems requiring four distinct decisions.The leaders who get this right become the people their organisations trust for the biggest product bets.

Why smart teams build the wrong thing — and how to stop

Diagnose any product's value proposition in under 15 minutes

Stop mixing acquisition and retention value — and design both

Design Liberation value that makes switching feel worth it

Anchor your roadmap to a Persistent VP that outlasts trends

Evaluate AI features by user value — not capability

Apply POLE Lite as a daily team reflex — not a quarterly exercise

This is advanced material for working practitioners. If you've just entered the industry, build foundational skills first — then return.

3+ years actively practising product

Senior PMs/Heads of Product You shape product direction. POLE gives you a structured language to pressure-test value bets before committment

Founders deciding what to build next POLE is a diagnostic, use it immediately on your current idea.

Design and engineering leaders You influence product decisions. POLE gives you the vocabulary to challenge weak value constructively.

Whether you're finding your footing, resetting in a new context, or ready to break out — learn the Leadership Operating System to stand out.

18+ yrs leading teams at P&G & LinkedIn

LinkedIn

Procter & Gamble

Co-Active Training Institute

Sudha Ranganathan

18+ yrs leading teams at P&G & LinkedIn | Trained Coach and Workshop facilitator

The Leadership Landscape has changed: Management layers are shrinking. The bar for team leaders is rising. And this is especially acute for leaders in new contexts (new role, new org, new leader) OR leaders who are ready to break out after years of stalling.What does it take to be indispensable? Leaders who are seen as indispensable in this landscape aren't just good at their craft. They've mastered the full Leadership Operating System — fluency across three critical types of acumen:<ul><li>Business acumen to understand what matters and adapt as priorities shift</li><li>Organizational acumen to build alignment, influence, and reputation with stakeholders that matter (including the most critical stakeholder — their manager)</li><li>Leadership acumen to activate their team and bring out the best in their people</li></ul>Most leaders piece this together through years of trial and error — or not at all.This course equips you with the complete Leadership OS in 4 sessions, with frameworks you can apply immediately, and depth on the moments that make or break your impact.You'll leave with clarity on what matters, who matters, and how to become the leader your company can't afford to lose.

The Three Types of Acumen That Separate Indispensable Leaders from Everyone Else

Build business acumen AND stay adaptive as context shifts around you

Prioritize: Set (or reset) your team's priorities to maximize business impact

Optimize stakeholder partnerships: Drive alignment, influence, and reputation

Manage your manager: Maximize value to and from your most critical stakeholder

Activate impact: Deploy yourself strategically to elevate outcomes that matter

Become a talent magnet: Build a reputation that attracts and retains top talent

This course is designed for people managers leading teams, not individual contributors without direct reports.

You manage a team with direct reports

Expect real work: Conversations with stakeholders and synthesizing insights into templates to apply concepts to your actual context

You're willing to do the work between sessions

This isn't for leaders already thriving at the top. It's for those who see room to level up—and are ready to do the work.

You believe you have room to grow, and WANT to

Finding Your Footing: 3-12 months in a new leadership role. Build credibility fast and become a leader they can't afford to lose.

Experienced Leader, New Context: New leaders, manager or org structures around you? Reset and prove impact in unfamiliar territory.

Ready to Break Out: Doing the work, getting decent feedback, still getting passed over. This course helps you change that.