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Hilary has been leading product teams for over a decade and is interested in behavioural psychology. She has worked for companies across multiple industries including FinTech, PropTech, Retail, eCommerce and Media. At CBRE, she leads their global product management team for their global leasing business and marketing.

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What burnout taught me: Lessons from product managers

Sonia is a passionate product leader on a mission to bridge business strategy, product management, and people. For her, great product management isn’t just about building features—it’s about driving business success and delivering real impact to customers and industries. She began her career by co-founding an e-learning startup, scaling it and leading
it to a successful acquisition before transitioning into life sciences software, where she found her true calling. With deep expertise in B2B SaaS, Sonia thrives on solving complex market challenges, driving the full product lifecycle, and shaping go-to-market strategies that move
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For his leadership at Product Collective, Mike has been named one of the Top 40 influencers in the field of Product Management on several occasions. Mike also serves as a Faculty member of Case Western Reserve University in the department of Design and Innovation, and is Co-Host of one of the top startup podcasts online, Rocketship.FM. 

Prior to Product Collective, Mike spent over a decade in startup companies as an early employee, Co-Founder, and Executive. Mike's businesses and products have been featured in national media outlets such as the New York Times, The Atlantic, CNN, NPR, and elsewhere. Mike is also the Author of Startup Seed Funding for the Rest of us, one of the top startup books on Amazon.

Mike Belsito

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/
 
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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

After transitioning from digital marketing into product management and design, Johanna has delivered 10+ B2B and B2C apps from 0 to 1 and beyond in the past 6+ years and led teams of up to 15 members. With a total experience of almost a decade, her diverse background enables her to take different perspectives and lead cross-functional collaboration. She has previously taken on substantial responsibility in startup in upper management roles and is currently in a senior position for one of the leading conversational AI for enterprise startups.

Johanna regularly provides insights into product management and leadership and is also mentoring startups and product managers.

Johanna Feick

Building lean and asynchronous processes

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Sunday Rewind: Product owner vs product manager

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Ramya Kannan is an experienced software engineering leader with a track record of successfully leading high-performance technology teams. She is passionate about translating product vision into innovative solutions, empowering engineers, and fostering strong business partnerships. With a Master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University and over 15 years of experience in Software Engineering, Ramya has successfully launched and led cross-functional teams in some leading tech organizations like Wolfram Research, HERE, Enova, and Venmo. Ramya currently works as a Senior Engineering Manager at Venmo where she has led the successful launch of Venmo Teen Accounts, offering parents a robust spending tracking solution for their teenagers.

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Building and managing high performing teams

Robert Schlaff is Executive Director at JPMorgan Chase, transforming the company from the world’s greatest bank to the world’s greatest tech company. In his 2 decades as a Product Manager, he’s been the head of Banking Business Development at Amazon Web Services, Commercial Digital Product at AIG, and online treasury management at Citi. He started his career as a software engineer working on innovation projects that were far ahead of their time like speech enabled phone systems (via landline phones), mobile notifications (via Blackberry) and Artificial Intelligence (via Expert Systems). He blogs at schlaff.com.

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