Get 1:1 coaching for the next 10 months with one of the accomplished product executives - solve for your unique challenges on the job, get feedback on your deliverables, grow your influence and, ultimately, improve your impact on the job.
1) Get coached by one of the five handpicked Product Executives with an impressive track record of building, leading and coaching product teams at well known product organizations.
2) You will have 10 months to work closely with your coach 1:1, allowing time to build relationship and context necessary to get impactful highly personalized coaching and feedback.
3) Typical hourly rate for this caliber of coaches ranges between $250 and $600. As a non-profit TPMA has negotiated significantly lower than market rates to give TPMA community exclusive access to this coaching program.
4) Coaching will help you identify your blindspots, spot skill gaps, reinforce your strengths and figure out a path toward new and improved version of YOU.
5) This is an extremely unique offering at incredible value, so we expect the program will be very popular. Coaches have limited capacity - there are only 12 spots available. Don’t miss your chance to work with one of the remarkable coaches.
A seasoned product and technology executive with comprehensive experience in both B2C and B2B sectors, excels at driving innovation, cultivating high-performance cross-functional teams, and optimizing product development life cycle processes (PDLC). His expertise lies in steering organizations through periods of uncertainty, rapid growth, and scaling geographically distributed teams.
Stephanie is a seasoned product leader with over 20 years of people management experience in Fintech and financial services. Stephanie has experience working in both large organizations and early stage startups including her most recent role as the Chief Product Officer at Moves. She is passionate about coaching and mentoring product managers, especially aspiring leaders who are working on broadening their organizational influence and strategy skills.
Dennis is an experienced product executive who has built and scaled product teams and practices in companies across SaaS, payments, fintech, retail, and wireless telecom. Dennis is especially passionate about coaching and mentoring product managers and has been doing for years. He has founded and is currently building Lodestone - a product management platform designed to help product teams and founders move faster, get more things done, and make better product decisions.
Kim led product at five B2B startups and helped them grow from MVP to Product Market Fit and beyond, and at Loblaw Digital for three B2C e-commerce businesses with yearly revenues of $2.5 billion. Kim loves mentoring product managers and is a huge believer in growing the product community. She helped launch APM program in Toronto and continues to support its success.
Walid is a product leader with experience in B2B, FinTech, and AI. He has successfully built and grown B2B SaaS products in various industries including e-commerce, marketing, and finance for SMBs and Enterprises alike. He has contributed to two successful startup exits, with one startup reaching unicorn status. In his last two startups, Clearco and Plooto, Walid held product leadership roles where he successfully transformed product teams from building features to delivering business outcomes. Currently, he is leading the product and design functions at Alexi, an AI-powered platform that automates critical tasks for litigators and law professionals.
Application Deadline: September 15th, 2024 end of day
Cost: $2,250 CAD for the entire 10-month program (10 hours of coaching)
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Work with an accomplished product leader as your coach to:
The program is 10 months long - from September 2024 to June 2025. Your coach will be able to dedicate 60 minutes per month to you for 1:1 coaching. Exact timing / days, frequency (e.g. one 60-min meeting vs. two 30-min meetings per month) and format (virtual vs. in-person) is going to be up to you and your coach.
Each coach may adapt their approach based on your needs, but as a general principle, each meeting will have an agenda revolving around the following questions:
You will likely have a shared Google Doc with your coach, so you can pre-fill answers to the first two questions and can together collaborate on the last two questions. As part of this collaboration your coach may ask probing questions to help you both gain a better perspective on the situation, share stories of how they have approached similar situations in the past, describe a framework that may help you find a path forward or suggest specific tactics.
As a general principle, your coach is not there to tell you exactly what to do, but rather help you build a skillset to frame problems and find solutions on your own.
Each session is meant to build upon the previous one, so you have continuity and feedback loop. Your coach will hold you accountable to the actions you committed to and will be curious about the results those actions produced.
The program does not require coaches to be available outside of your pre-scheduled time. That said, it will be up to the coaches to offer this. Most coaches are likely to agree to off-hours email, slack message or a text, if you need feedback urgently.
This program is designed for product managers with titles such as Product Manager, Senior Product Manager, Product Lead, Group Product Manager, Direct of Product or Head of Product. You likely already have 1-2 years of product management experience or more, so you have a base understanding of the function and are looking to accelerate your growth in either product craft or product leadership.
Product Managers currently looking for a new role or those who are currently not in Product Management. The purpose of this program is to help Product Managers level up in their craft and product leadership - this is where our coaches excel.
All coaches are experienced Product Leaders that were hand picked for their track record, impact, reputation in the Toronto Product community and who have built, led and coached product teams for many years.
The coaches are:
When you apply you will specify your 1st, 2nd and 3rd choice. You are guaranteed to work with one of the top 3 coaches you picked. If we are unable to match you with the top 3 because they are already at capacity, we will refund you.
You need to meet the following requirements:
If you are looking to hire a Product coach of this caliber, the typical cost is between $250 - $600 CAD per hour (we checked).
To make sure we can attract accomplished Product Leaders and have them commit to 10 months, we are compensating them for each hour they spend with you. However, since TPMA is a large community of people passionate about the Product craft, we were able to negotiate a substantially lower than market rate.
If you are experiencing any issues with the program, please reach out to us and we will do our best to address the issues including switching you to a different coach if required.
You can request a pro-rated refund by December 1st, 2024. After December 1st, 2024 unfortunately no refunds will be issued.
There are several key differences between the two programs:
Choice of Coaches/Mentors
Coach/Mentor Experience
Coachees/Mentees
Open to Job Seekers
Cost
It’s a great idea! We highly encourage you to find ways for your employer to cover the cost either partially or fully. To assist you with a conversation with your manager, we can share a 1-pager explaining the benefits of the program and how it’s different from similar offerings in the market. Contact us to request assistance at coachinghelp@tpma.ca
If you have questions about the program or are experiencing an issue and need our support, please contact us at coachinghelp@tpma.ca