Use Gen AI to Bulletproof Your Path to Achieve Your Goals

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Use Gen AI to Bulletproof Your Path to Achieve Your Goals

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Wed, Aug 6, 2025

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Deliver Breakthrough Product Ideas Using Structured Frameworks With GenAI

Leslie Grandy

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Wed, Aug 6, 2025

12:00 AM UTC (45 minutes)

Virtual (Zoom)

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Deliver Breakthrough Product Ideas Using Structured Frameworks With GenAI

Leslie Grandy

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What you'll learn

Employ a repeatable framework for pre-mortem thinking

By imagining failure as already having happened, it is easier to surface concerns and identify risks.

Apply 3 contradictory thinking techniques to fortify plans

Uncover potential blind spots and obstacles on the path to launch by thinking expansively with the help of Gen AI.

Flip your assumptions and goals to protect against adversity

Exploit Gen AI pattern recognition to explore "what would guarantee failure" to prevent costly mistakes.

Bust expert and consensus biases that can torpedo success

Partner with Gen AI in a "premeditation of evils" exercise to strengthen your plans to achieve your goals.

Why this topic matters

This hands-on lesson gives PMs practical tools to stress-test product plans before costly mistakes are made. If you fail to plan, you should plan to fail. By mastering this approach, product managers develop strategic discipline, and can demonstrate they’re not only imaginative but prepared. You’ll walk away with a method you can reuse across products, launches, and pivots.

You'll learn from

Leslie Grandy

Award-winning Author, Lead Executive in Residence, Global Product Executive

Leslie Grandy is a global, first-to-market product executive, startup advisor, and award-winning author with over 25 years of experience innovating and delivering game-changing products in publicly traded Fortune 500 companies, including T-Mobile, Apple, Best Buy, and Amazon.

Leslie advises startups and consults with large publicly traded companies through her company, The Product Guild. She is the Lead Executive in Residence for the Product Management Leadership Accelerator, a program she co-created with the University of Washington Foster School of Business Executive Education team. Her book, Creative Velocity: Propelling Breakthrough Ideas in the Age of Generative AI, released by Wiley in May 2025.

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