Louron serves as the Editor at Mind the Product, bringing 11+ years of experience in editorial roles across business and technology publications. For any editorial inquiries, you can connect with him on LinkedIn or email him at louron.pratt@pendo.io 

Louron Pratt

Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML)

Product Leadership

A year with ChatGPT and product innovation: Navigating the AI landscape

Eira is an editor for Mind the Product. She's been a business journalist, editor, and copywriter for longer than she cares to think about.

Eira Hayward

Building Product Teams

San Francisco

Mastering perspective – zoom in, zoom out as a product leader by Navya Rehani Gupta

Product Management Conference

Video

Modern-day leadership by Janice Fraser

Master the art of leading through influence by Shyvee Shi

With a career founded in writing, I pivoted to Product, enjoying the challenges offered by managing diverse products while bringing clarity of communication to my work. I&#39;m passionate about seeing how fast the space is evolving, and always interested to be part of the conversation, whether as a contributor, or writer.

Jon Horvath

Is your innovation project on track? by Tendayi Viki

The evolution and future of the CPTO role

Dave is the founder of Confidence In, author of the Amazon bestseller The Product Momentum Gap, and creator of the CALM Leadership method, built specifically for product and engineering leaders who think differently. He's worked with leaders at GitLab, Adobe, Snyk, and over a hundred tech companies from Series A to enterprise, helping leaders earn strategic influence without burning out or pretending to be someone they're not.

His work is evidence-based, practically ruthless, and built for the real world, not the leadership textbook version of the world where everyone's aligned, puts the company first, is well-intentioned, and pays attention.

Dave Martin

What you push back on is usually the thing worth listening to

Why product leaders are losing influence

Chanade Hemming is a product and transformation leader currently heading up Data & AI Products at IAG Loyalty, where she leads full-stack product and platform teams. She’s spent over a decade building teams and products across start-ups and large enterprises, from zero-to-one through to scale. Chanade writes regularly on the crossover between product, data, and technology, and has spoken at events such as Big Data London, DevOps Enterprise Summit and ProductTank. She cares deeply about helping teams move faster and build things that genuinely matter.

Chanade Hemming

Leadership

How to reset a product team without losing momentum

With a deep background in cloud computing, observability, and product management, Rishab Jolly drives innovation as a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft. He leads strategy and execution for Azure Application Insights, helping businesses around the world monitor and optimize their digital experiences. A product thinker at heart, Rishab is passionate about building solutions that balance customer needs with business growth. Beyond the world of tech, he’s a podcaster, dog dad, and travel enthusiast. Whether he’s designing better monitoring tools or sharing leadership insights with his 20K+ LinkedIn community, Rishab blends curiosity, creativity, and customer obsession into everything he does.

Rishab Jolly

Community Post

Product Management

How to turn mistakes into team growth as a product leader

Eight lessons from eight years as a cloud product manager

Cait O'Riordan on how to hire, structure, and develop product teams (VP Product, Google)

Leading with fear, vision, and taste: Our lessons from the Mind the Product Leadership Forum

Sunday Rewind: Lessons learned from leading products by Natalia Williams

Product professionals lack representation board level: Survey findings

Mike Belsito is Head of Product Evangelism for Pendo and Mind the Product and is seen as one of product management’s most notable connectors. 

Mike spent over a decade leading two of the most recognized communities in product management – first as co-founder of Product Collective, home to INDUSTRY: The Product Conference – and then at Mind the Product, after Pendo brought the two together in September 2024. Through both, he's built spaces where product people connect, grow, and take their craft seriously.

Before his community-building chapter, Mike was a startup founder and operator, serving as a co-founder, executive, and early employee in several technology startup companies. He is currently under contract with Wiley to write The Future-Proof Product Manager – a book that explores the timeless characteristics helping product people stay valuable through any period of massive change. It is due out in February 2027. His work has been featured in the New York Times, The Atlantic, CNN, NPR, and PBS.


Mike Belsito

Stakeholder Management

Deep dive: Mastering stakeholder management for product leaders

Diana is a Silicon Valley native and annual skateboarder with 15+ years of international product leadership experience running diverse global digital teams. She can be found at https://dianastepner.substack.com/
 
Diana's background includes leading teams in startups (E.piphany, Cheapflights - bought by Kayak, and SimplePractice), enterprise organizations (Salesforce, Monster, Pearson), digital agencies (Razorfish, part of Publicis) and software consulting (Epsilon, E.piphany).

Diana focuses on putting people first in the people-product-process triad, accelerating digital innovation, being a dot-connector, and coaching individuals through their product leadership journey. She has a MIMS from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Boston University.

Diana Stepner

5 strategies to master product leadership in 2025

Youssef Hounat on succeeding as DataSnipper's first product hire

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