Finance PM @ Google | Career Coach

Alex Harlan

Finance PM @ Google | 1,400+ Clients Coached | Founder @ SummitResume.com

How to Master the Art of Finance Program Management

Learn the phases every finance project moves through, from idea to post-launch monitoring

Understand the End-to-End Project Lifecycle

Get familiar with BRDs, PRDs, RTMs, Gantt charts, RACI charts, and impact matrices, and when to use each

Master Core PM Tools of the Trade

Learn how to drive alignment across controllership, engineering, & leadership when no one on the project reports to you

Influence Without Authority

See how PMs use AI and agents to draft updates, synthesize documents, and free up time for higher-priority work

Apply AI to Real PM Workflows

Build the project management skills that actually drive outcomes. Plan work, lead teams, align stakeholders, & execute without winging it.

 AI Project Leader, led 40+ AI rollouts

Microsoft

Pinterest

Deloitte

Justin Bateh, PhD

 AI Project Leader | PhD & PMP | Led 40+ AI Rollouts | Top 100 Maven Instructor

Cohort 4

Cohort 5

NOTE: This cohort is self-paced and fully asynchronous — no live calls. You get full course access on day one, with new content unlocking every Monday. Work through it at whatever pace fits your life.---Scope shifts and nobody tells you. Stakeholders go quiet until the worst possible moment. You're leading people who don't report to you, with zero authority to force anything.Over 20 years and 80+ projects, I found the people who actually deliver have mastered 3 power skills: <ol><li>aligning stakeholders before things derail, </li><li>leading teams without authority, </li><li>and making decisions without perfect information.</li></ol>This course installs all 3.You graduate with a system you can run:<ul><li>The 7-step Project Execution Framework™</li><li>A Project Alignment Snapshot</li><li>A Project Leadership Operating System</li><li>A Stakeholder Influence Playbook</li><li>250+ plug-and-play templates</li><li>70 stakeholder scenario scripts</li><li>Decision frameworks for moving fast </li><li>Interactive practice activities </li></ul>Built for anyone accountable for getting work done: aspiring PMs, accidental PMs handed projects without the title, and current PMs who want a system they actually trust.

You're accountable for delivery,  but you're winging it on every project.

How To Build a Project Foundation That Doesn't Fall Apart

How To Make Real Decisions Without Waiting for Perfect Info

How To Lead Teams Without a Title or Org Chart Power

How To Influence Stakeholders Without Begging or Chasing

 This is not PMP or CAPM prep. We teach how to actually deliver projects, lead teams, and get work done in the real world.

You want to execute projects, not pass an exam

Built for anyone accountable for getting work done, with or without formal PM experience. No prior project management training required.


You run projects, lead teams, or own deliverables.

Most PM courses teach theory in isolation. We teach the leadership and execution skills that actually move projects forward.

You want power skills, not just frameworks and theory

Accidental Project Managers You deliver projects without the title and no system to lean on.

Professionals Transitioning Into Project Management You've managed work but never had formal PM training.

Leaders Accountable for Delivery You need your team to execute without you watching every step.

You will learn how to make and recommend strategic decisions grounded in business reality -  not feature logic.

Cohort 3

ex-Product Exec @Spryker, Commerce, eBay

Spryker Systems

BigCommerce

eBay Inc.

PayPal

Elena Leonova

Founder & CPO, OneRank.io,  ex-CPO @ Spryker, VP of Product @ BigCommerce

Cohort 2

You're a strong PM - discovery, roadmaps, teams. But you've hit the ceiling - expected to think like an executive, unsure how.You stall when finance asks for margin. Your strategy gets “politely ignored.” Asked “What’s the ROI?”, the number comes from thin air.The cost isn't a bad meeting- it's a career ceiling: headcount and decisions move to people who connect product to money.In 6 weeks, you'll operate like the executive in the room- with numbers to prove it: read any business by sourcing the CAC, margin, and payback finance won't hand you; turn a roadmap into a capital-allocation case with a defensible ROI; decide where AI belongs- funded, deferred, or killed - and defend a board-grade pack under pressure.Not a frameworks library, but a working environment that trains judgment under constraint. You bring a real business and rebuild your thinking on it live each week, leaving with a diagnostic, investment model, and board-grade pack, critiqued by Elena and peers.Taught by Elena Leonova - former CPO at Spryker and VP Product at BigCommerce - who's defended strategy to boards and coached hundreds into VP and CPO roles.

Act like a Product Executive. Turn Product Decisions into Business Impact.

Diagnose the business behind your product

Translate a roadmap into a capital-allocation case

Construct a strategy as a portfolio of bets, not a list of priorities 

Decide where AI belongs as a capital bet

 Defend a decision under constraint 

Present a executive-grade strategy

You already operate as a Senior or Principal PM or Product Lead. You don’t need help shipping, running discovery, or managing teams

Strong Product Execution Fundamentals

You’re used to making calls with partial information, competing metrics, and real tradeoffs. You understand the importance of judgment

Comfort Making Decisions with Imperfect Data

Your judgment is - or soon will be - evaluated by executives, boards, or clients. You’re responsible for explaining why a decision is right

Accountability for Strategic Decisions

Senior &amp; Principal PMs who already deliver at a high level and want to be trusted with larger, riskier decisions - not just execution

Group PMs, Directors, and above who own strategy, make real tradeoffs, and defend decisions under executive scrutiny

Product consultants, coaches, and advisors who want to bring executive-level judgment to their client work and recommendations

You'll lead projects and programmes with more confidence, use AI as a genuine edge, and leave with a clear 90-day plan for what comes next.

25 yrs running projects. 13k PMs taught.

Matt Corroboy

25 years running real programmes. AI practitioner. 13k PMs already taught.

Cohort 1 is the founding cohort with extra bonus content

Cohort 1 - The Founders

Most Project Managers are busy. Very few are actually getting better.This isn't about Gantt charts, frameworks, or the basics you already know. It's about what actually separates the PMs who get results from the ones who just manage the process.Over 6 weeks, you'll join a small group of peers doing the same work you are and spend real time on the questions most PM development ignores: what it actually takes to deliver consistently under pressure, how to lead when the plan falls apart, and how AI is changing what great project management looks like right now.You'll leave with a clear view of where you stand, what's holding you back, and what you're going to do differently. For the next project and for your career.This isn't a course you watch. It's a session you show up to. Small group. Real reflection. Real outcomes.Founding members get the lowest price this programme will ever run at. Cohort 2 will be priced higher. And if Session 1 isn't right for you, full refund, no questions asked.

Most PM training teaches you the methodology. This teaches you the edge.

A clear picture of where you are now and what direction you need to move

Three clear career paths mapped out — so you stop drifting and start deciding.

Know what to push, what to delegate, and what to let go — across a live project.

The mindset shifts that separate good PMs from the ones who get promoted.

AI as a daily edge in your PM work — practical, repeatable, immediately useful.

A concrete 90-day plan — next moves sequenced, committed, ready to execute.

Early-career PMs or anyone handed a project without the title. You want the right foundations from day one, not learned five years in.

Experienced PMs who know their craft and are ready to move up. You want the clarity and edge to lead at the next level.

Programme managers running multiple parallel projects who want practical tools to manage and lead better, not just busier.

Learn how to become an entrepreneur by acquiring a small business & achieve financial independence.

PM → CEO. Bought a 45-year-old business.

The Home Depot

U.S. Army

Cadence

Unilever

Stanford University

Rocky Sharma

Bought a 45-year-old business. Ran $1.3Bn P&L at Home Depot. CEO at 3 companies.

Oct 2026

Most PMs are taught one job: ship what the customer asked for. Owning a business asks for three.Deal fit: the business has real customers, real margins, and a seller ready to walk. Capital fit: the structure works for your savings, your risk tolerance, your timeline. Operator fit: you can run it after close without burning out.Most searchers solve one fit and discover the other two on the hard side of close.Rocky bought NECI, a 45-year-old business with no personal savings, ran a $1.3B Product P&amp;L at Home Depot, and has been CEO at three companies. He teaches all three fits because he's lived all three. The capstone is a bankable deal memo on a real business (yours, not a case study) ready to take to a banker the week the cohort ends.You've already done the cheap homework: the books, the podcasts, the Reddit threads. The gap is structured practice with someone who has actually closed a deal: a 4-week sprint walking you from sourcing to a bankable deal memo.$2,500 buys access to the playbook and to Rocky during the cohort. For context: that's roughly 1% of the smallest deal you'll close, and less than the legal fees on the LOI you walk away from.

The 15-hour playbook for PMs who want to own the cash flow, not run the roadmap.

Find and close a real deal in 8 weeks without quitting your day job (ACQUIRE)

Run the business leaner than the previous owner ever did (OPTIMIZE)

Open the growth levers the previous owner ignored (GROW)

Build the moat using the product judgment you already have (INNOVATE)

Walk out with a bankable deal memo on a business you actually want (CAPSTONE)

Owners who adapt fast win. $50K–$250K in savings · 6–18 month window · Intent to operate · US/Canada residency · P&L experience

You're willing to sit across from a 60-year-old seller and listen for 90 minutes

This course moves fast. A business background means you'll apply frameworks immediately instead of learning basic concepts from scratch.

You can read a P&L well enough to spot a margin trend.

Small business ownership requires influence and accountability. If you've done this at work, you're already ahead of most first-time buyers.

You have 6+ months of runway to spend on sourcing without panicking.

Ambitious PM. You can run the business. You want the equity, not another title.

Quiet earner. Side-income while you keep the W-2. A weekend asset, paid for in cash flow.

Layoff-tired operator. You will not bet the next decade on a manager mood. You are buying durable cash flow.

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Everyone

Operators

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Business Analysts

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Customer Success

Project Managers

HR Professionals

Sales People

Lawyers

Finance

Investors

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Educators

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Finance professionals handling planning, analysis, reporting, and financial operations.

Project managers who organize and oversee execution of initiatives, timelines, and cross-functional delivery.

Applying AI tools and techniques to professional workflows — assign alongside more specific AI topics.

Executive communication — presenting to boards, writing memos, running all-hands, and high-stakes messaging.

Persuading stakeholders, presenting ideas, and getting buy-in across an organization without formal authority.

Automating professional workflows with AI tools — productivity, operations, and task automation.

How to Master the Art of Finance Program Management

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