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A premium 6-week live online training program designed for emerging product leaders

Accelerating Into Product Leadership

Australia and New Zealand’s most empowering education program for emerging product leaders.

6 weeks · Weekly instructor-led Zoom sessions, 9am–1pm Sydney time

Course Overview

This program has been designed specifically with leaders in mind, as they take up the mantle of product leadership in their organisation.

Product Leaders have a significant capacity to influence and champion a product culture. A culture that sees product as central to supporting the strategic direction of the business and where Product Leaders choices, decisions, and actions are intrinsic to the achievement or failure of the business.

AIPL provides the spaces to learn in different ways, engage with other participants, learn from different organisational experiences, and open yourselves up to input from a variety of sources. Participants come into each of the sessions as learners, not experts and are open to having their ideas, values, and approaches questioned and challenged. This is a wonderful opportunity to step away from the busy-ness of our everyday roles and engage with others in learning about the practice of product leadership.

Benefits for your organisation

Many good, experienced product managers don’t develop into good product leaders. The skills they learnt to become good product managers — predominantly technical skills — aren’t enough. They also need softer, intuitive, adaptive skills, and generic management or leadership training doesn’t deal effectively with the unique challenges of product leadership.

Develop emerging leaders

Give your product leaders and emerging leaders a thorough understanding of best leadership practices in product-led organisations using the Product Adaptive Leadership Model (PALM).

Strengthen established leadership

A best fit for organisations who want to strengthen their established product leadership and develop emerging leaders to deliver on business outcomes.

Combine technical and adaptive skills

Your team will learn how to effectively combine technical and adaptive skills to build the mindsets, skills and capacity required to be a successful and inspirational product leader.

Who Should Attend?

Senior Product Managers

Transitioning from managers to leaders

Senior Product Managers who are transitioning from managers to leaders.

Current Product Leaders

Extending leadership capabilities

Current Product Leaders looking to extend their leadership capabilities.

Topics Covered

The course is delivered over 6 weeks with weekly instructor-led Zoom sessions from 9am–1pm Sydney time. During these sessions, participants are taken through our Product Adaptive Leadership Model (PALM), uniquely developed from Brainmates’ 19 years of consulting and coaching experience.

Week 1

Self-Awareness

  • Foundations of Leadership
  • Your Leadership Narrative
  • Self-Awareness

Week 2

Strategising and Planning

  • Product Vision
  • Product Strategy
  • Communication

Week 3

Resource and Staffing

  • Curating a Team
  • Hiring the Right People
  • Onboarding for Individual and Team Success

Week 4

Empower and Enable

  • Providing an Environment for Learning
  • Leader as Coach
  • Building a High Performing Team

Week 5

Impact and Sensing

  • Describing Product Impact
  • Sensing Market Changes
  • Telling (Selling) the Product Story

Week 6

Championing Culture

  • Reflecting on Product Culture
  • Looking After Self
  • Peer Consultation Process

Learning Outcomes

  • Set strategic priorities linked to business strategy
  • Create, coach and lead a productive, diverse product team
  • Navigate the complexities of leadership in a product environment
  • Communicate and influence key stakeholders
  • Create the right product structure and culture, and hire and onboard the right people
  • Successfully transition into an effective Product Leader
  • Develop the product culture at a team and organisational level

How It Works: Flexible Delivery Formats

Get your own dedicated trainer at a time that suits you and your team.

TEAM DELIVERY | CUSTOM FORMAT

Accelerating Into Product Leadership

Team Based

CUSTOM 6-WEEK DELIVERY

Bring the program in-house with a format tailored to your team. We consult with you beforehand to align content with your products, challenges and context — so your leaders walk away with tangible tools and shared ways of working.

Best for
Groups of up to 8 or more
Format
Virtual via Zoom or on-site (AU/NZ), custom dates
Sessions
Weekly instructor-led, 9am–1pm Sydney time
Price
Contact us for a quote

Over 40% of the ASX 100 trust Brainmates to build product capability across their organisations.

20+

Years of Product Training Excellence

1000s

of Product Professionals Trained

95%

Said the Course Was Directly Relevant to Their Role

93%

Said the Course Positively Impacted Their Product Career Path

80%

Left With a Strong Foundational Understanding of Product Management

Your path to success

Product & Technology, Castlepoint Systems

Leadership is a journey, not a title. In order to lead people, to inspire, motivate, and align people for effective product development, one has to work with complex and diverse people. Brainmates’ Accelerating Into Product Leadership (AIPL) focuses on exactly that. The AIPL course has been invaluable for me in growing my skills, and even as it was going I used the tools I learnt and felt the improvement. I would highly recommend this course to anyone who leads people in a capacity that contributes to building products, whether product, technology, or design.

Assaph Mehr

General Manager

Brainmates

Accelerating Into Product Leadership is the fastest way to become a respected product leader.

Adrienne Tan

CEO and Co-Founder