Make Your Value Proposition Clear So Employers Choose You

Hosted by Leslie Grandy

Tue, Mar 10, 2026

7:00 PM UTC (45 minutes)

Virtual (Zoom)

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What you'll learn

Recognize what a résumé through line is and does

Understand why hiring managers respond more quickly to coherent narratives than to bullet lists.

Identify and interpret patterns in your career history

Examine past roles, projects, and outcomes to find recurring themes and trends in your career journey.

Construct a through line that connects your work experiences

Synthesize patterns from your career into a concise narrative statement that connects the dots for hiring managers.

Apply story thinking to analyze your career experiences

Identify the recurring pattern of value you create across roles and translate that pattern into a clear through line.

Why this topic matters

Most résumés are technically correct and strategically weak. They list responsibilities, tools, and accomplishments, yet they do not make it obvious why a hiring manager should choose one candidate over another with similar credentials. In competitive hiring situations, the decision is rarely about who has done the job before. It is about who appears most likely to create value.

You'll learn from

Leslie Grandy

Author & global, first-to-market product exec; ex-Apple, ex-Amazon; ex-T-Mobile

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, where she hired technical, design, product, and program management teams that consistently exceed performance metrics.

Leslie advises startups and consults with large publicly traded companies through her company, The Product Guild.

She is the Lead Executive in Residence and Academic Director 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.

Previously at

Apple
T-Mobile
Warner Bros. Discovery
Best Buy
Amazon

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