Leading a product team is difficult by itself, but it gets increasingly challenging when one also has to deal with uncertainties in economic turbulent times.
Our guest speakers - with their extensive experience in product management and leading product teams - will share with us the specific challenges they have faced and how they are navigating through this difficult time.
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What we covered:
The common leadership mistakes when dealing with uncertainties
The specific challenges of product teams in an economic downturn
Practical experiences and lessons learned
Meet our speakers
With more than 30 years of experience as product manager and leader, Bernhard helps organizations to establish a product thinking culture and to grow success and efficiency. He also helps organizations of other professions, like sales or HR teams, to understand how they can benefit from ‘product thinking’.
Bernhard Hecker
Soumeya Benghanem
Soumeya is a product management executive with two decades of experience in driving product strategy, creating award-winning software and building high-performing teams. Soumeya is passionate about mentoring product managers, especially those from underrepresented communities, and founders. She is an investor and advisor in a number of startups.
Marco is passionate about data science and software engineering, and he is glad to have turned them into his daily work as Head of Data Platform team at Flowe. Besides his work, he's part of the team organizing the Python Milano developers community.
Marco Santoni
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