See this page from your seat. Pick your role and the examples shift to fit.

Product coaching, advisory, and training, from the trenches

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Illustrative. We help you find your real number.

Our coaches have coached, led, and shipped inside these organizations

The Home Depot

HD Supply

State Farm

USAA

Carter's

Cox Communications

Ingage

eMusic

GLG

That experience spans formal Product Protégé coaching engagements and years spent as product leaders and coaches inside these organizations. Either way, the craft was proven in real rooms, on real roadmaps. Logos via apistemic and remain the property of their owners.

One set of offerings, built around you

De-risk the work

Empower the teams

Deliver more value

The real cost

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The proof

From a recent coaching cycle with a top US bank's product team. Same people, same roles, measurably stronger.

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levels gained on the competency scale, on average

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of the team reached Senior Product Manager or above, from zero before

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of engineering time recovered from rework and ambiguity

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out of 5 participant satisfaction across the cohort

"A true catalyst for my growth. Confidence, tools, and a more strategic mindset."Cohort participant, top US bank

Product Mindset Signals

Tick the ones that ring true. We will reflect back what they point to.

Two ways to see where you stand

Start with the 2-minute Snapshot. Go deep with the Diagnostic.

The Snapshot is the quick, self-guided taste you can take right now. The Product Thinking Diagnostic is the full evaluation we run with potential clients before an engagement. Same eight themes, very different depth.

Self-guided · right here

The 2-minute Product Mindset Snapshot

✓Ten quick scenarios, about two minutes
✓Instant score across the eight product themes
✓Your product archetype and top focus areas
✓No email needed to start

Take the Snapshot

Run with our team · for potential clients

The Product Thinking Diagnostic

✓Every Product Manager scored across all eight themes
✓Whole-cohort view of strengths and gaps
✓Discovery conversations on real work and artifacts
✓A findings readout and a tailored engagement plan

Book the Diagnostic

How we work with you

01

Snapshot

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Envision

03

Empower

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Elevate

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Sustain

Boutique where it counts. Fortune 50 scalable where you need it.

Product Protégé can partner alongside any organization to help you grow your product thinking. You get the tailored, senior attention of a specialist firm and the tooling, availability, and structure to run across a large organization. We build a package around your budget and your goals, whether you are one team finding its footing or forty teams moving together.

Boutique in the moments that matter

Senior coaches who know your context. Tailored packages, not a fixed menu. The Product Thinking Diagnostic helps us design a partnership shaped to your teams, your stage, and your budget.

Built to scale when you need it

Cohorts across business units, scalable training at your team's pace, and classes and workshops as you need them.

Why your seat cares

One goal, viewed from four chairs.

CEO and Board

See the return on your build

Technology is one of your largest investments. Know which work pays off, and redirect what does not, sooner.

◀ Your seat

Chief Product Officer

Lead with outcomes

Empowered teams, real discovery, and a roadmap of deliberate bets, running in practice across your org.

◀ Your seat

CTO and VP Engineering

Recover wasted capacity

Less rework, fewer late scope changes, and your most expensive team building what actually ships value.

◀ Your seat

HR and People

Grow Product Managers

A shared standard that ramps new Product Managers faster, lifts retention, and gives the career path real rungs.

◀ Your seat

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The Product Mindset Snapshot

See how your team really thinks about product.

Ten quick scenarios. No right-or-wrong gotchas, no email wall to begin. You get a clear read on how your product thinking scores across the eight themes that separate busy teams from outcome-driven ones, plus your product archetype and where to grow next.

About 2 minutes 8 themes scored Built on the E3 Product Mindset

The Snapshot is the quick, self-guided taste. The full Product Thinking Diagnostic, which we run with potential clients, scores every Product Manager and the whole cohort, adds discovery conversations, and feeds a tailored engagement plan.

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How we work

Built around your team, not a fixed package.

We start with a read, not a 200-hour plan. From there, most teams pick a few modules that work well together and grow from there. Everything stands on its own, and everything gets stronger alongside the rest. You move at your own pace, and you can scale up, ease off, or pause whenever it makes sense.

Look below to see what we offer and build your personalized engagement.

Flexible

You choose what fits

Some teams start with a single read. Others kick off with a few modules at once because they already know where they want to go. Either way, you only take on what makes sense for you.

Connected

The modules work better together

Training gives everyone a shared language. Coaching turns that language into habit. The Library keeps the right tools close by. On their own they help, and side by side they really start to add up.

Sized to you

Shaped around your budget

Whether you are one team finding your footing or forty teams moving together, we build the scope and the pace around you, rather than asking you to fit ours.

What a typical engagement looks like

Most engagements follow a familiar arc. We prove the gap is real, lift the team where it counts, and then make the change stick. You move through it at your own pace, and plenty of teams stop once they have what they came for.

Crawl

Assess

Prove the gap

This is the low-risk place to begin. You get a clear, science-backed read on where your team really stands, so whatever you choose to do next is aimed at something real rather than a hunch.

Where it starts: the Product Thinking Diagnostic

Walk

Align

Lift where it matters

Discovery turns that read into clear priorities. Live training gives the team a shared language. Coaching works that language into the day-to-day, so quality stops running through one or two people.

Often a mix of: Discovery, Live Training, and 1:1 Coaching

Run

Scale

Make it stick

Now it becomes the way the team works. The product mindset holds across the org, new hires pick up the baseline on day one, and the culture keeps building on itself instead of resetting every time someone moves on.

Usually: the Protégé Library, the Online Course, and Strategic Advising

The challenge we solve

Your Product Managers work hard. But are they building the right things?

Most product teams are not short on effort. They are short on clarity. Without a shared standard for how to envision, execute, and measure, even strong Product Managers end up as order takers instead of strategic owners. That is the gap every engagement is built to close.

Inconsistent backgrounds

Your team comes from tech, UX, and ops, with no shared standard for vision, strategy, or proving value.

Training that stays too high level

Agile and SAFe certifications teach the engine, not the direction. Teams pedal faster without knowing they are pointed the right way.

No proof of lift

"Data driven" without the data. Ideas ship without expected outcomes, a measurement plan, or a post launch read out.

Everything is priority one

Without weighted scoring, the loudest stakeholder wins and strategy quietly leaves the room.

Why our approach works

Two frameworks. One shared language.

This is the engine behind the results. The Product Empowerment Pyramid gives your team the what, a hierarchy from vision to user story. The E3 Product Mindset gives them the how, a repeatable path from idea to impact. Tactical struggles at the bottom are almost always symptoms of ambiguity at the top, so we fix the strategy before we fix the ticket. Every module above is built to teach, embed, or sustain this one operating model.

01 · Envision

The why

Zoom out and validate the problem is worth solving. Every idea earns a pitch with expected outcomes and a measurement plan before it touches a roadmap.

02 · Empower

The what

Equip the team to lead cross-functional co-creators. Epics become the single source of truth, and user stories use a format developers can build right the first time.

03 · Elevate

The so what

Launch is the starting line. Build KPI Trees that connect feature metrics to business outcomes, then run read outs that prove lift and feed the next iteration.

The transformation

From feature factory to value driver.

This is what changes once the E3 Product Mindset is running in practice across your team.

Without Product Protégé

×Ideas based on opinions and the loudest voice
×Product Managers from different backgrounds, no shared standard
×Requirements reinterpreted by dev, design, and QA
×Features ship without a measurement plan
×No post launch read outs, no proof of lift

With Product Protégé

✓Every idea backed by a pitch with expected outcomes
✓Shared E3 language and repeatable templates
✓Refinement-proof requirements developers can build from
✓Outcomes and KPIs defined from day one
✓Read outs confirm lift and drive the next phase

15+

Years in product, per coach

F50

Enterprise experience

150+

Product Managers mentored

4.9★

Book rating

The team behind it

Built from the trenches, not the classroom.

Product Protégé is led by founder Jason Abdo and delivered by a team of seasoned product leaders. Jason spent more than 15 years in product, from launching award-winning mobile apps that grew 60 times at a Fortune 50 company to building product excellence centers for enterprises and startups, and mentoring over 150 Product Managers. The coaches who partner with him have each launched many products of their own across a range of industries, and they share one thing: a real passion for helping Product Managers hone their craft. When you engage us, you get the framework Jason built and a practitioner matched to your context.

"This should be a mandatory course for anyone in product management, especially for those building an experience for external customers."

Product Manager · Fortune 50 company

Meet our Coaches

Everything we offer, your way

Have a look through what we do and pick whatever fits where your team is right now. Choose a single module or several, and we will shape the package and the price around what you have in mind. There really is no wrong combination, though most teams find the Snapshot is a natural place to begin.

Build your engagement

Pick anything that looks right. Each module does its job on its own, and they work even better together.

You have picked 1 module. We will price and sequence it around your team and budget.

Product Mindset Snapshot

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On its own, each one helps

A Snapshot, a day of training, or access to the Library each earns its keep by itself. You will feel the value of any single one.

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Together, they build on each other

Training gives the team a shared language, coaching turns it into habit, and the Library keeps the right tools close by. Each one helps the next one land.

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Over time, it sticks

The Online Course and Strategic Advising keep the mindset alive as people join and the team grows, so the culture keeps building instead of resetting.

Three common starting points

If building from scratch feels like a lot, here is where most teams land. Think of each one as a comfortable place to begin rather than a fixed plan. We are happy to adjust from here.

Start small

The Read

For a leader who wants proof before any spend.

+Product Mindset Snapshot
+One-hour findings conversation
+A clear picture of where to focus

Low cost, low risk, high signal. The natural first step.

Most chosen

The Lift

For a team ready to change how it works, not just what it knows.

+Snapshot and Discovery
+Live Training on the E3 Product Mindset
+Weekly 1:1 Coaching
+Protégé Library for the whole team

The combination behind a full-tier jump in a single coaching cycle.

Scale it

The Standard

For an org making the product mindset the way everyone works.

+Cohorts across business units
+Online Course for every new hire
+Library at unlimited seats
+Strategic Advising and a Fractional Advisor

Shared language and one standard across many teams.

Boutique where it counts. Fortune 50 scalable where you need it.

Product Protégé can partner alongside any organization to help you grow your product thinking. You get the tailored, senior attention of a specialist firm with the tooling, availability, and structure to run across a large organization, whether you are one team finding its footing or forty teams moving together.

Not sure where to start? Start with the read.

The Snapshot takes about two minutes and costs you nothing to try. It tells you where your team stands, so the next move aims at a proven gap. We will help you build the rest from there.

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Fractional Product Advisor

Confusion and misalignment, turned into measurable impact.

An expert product advisor who acts as a dedicated sounding board for your leadership and product teams, so every step aligns with the business and drives outcomes you can see.

Elevate your product strategy Start with a Snapshot

The problem

Misaligned vision. Inefficient execution. Missed opportunities.

Companies often struggle with products that drift from the business and fail to meet user expectations. Without strategic oversight, that leads to wasted resources and missed markets. Hiring an agency can work, but what assurance do you have that what they deliver actually produces value for your customer and your business?

How a product advisor helps

Clarity, strategic alignment, and resilient delivery.

01

Strategic oversight and alignment

A dedicated sounding board for leadership and product teams, so you make well-informed, value-driven decisions.

Why it helps: every step aligns with your business objectives, preventing costly missteps and keeping projects pointed at success.

02

Expert guidance on building the right things

We pressure-test that the work in flight is solving a real, validated customer problem in a way that measurably matters to the business, before the team spends a sprint on it.

Why it helps: effort goes to the opportunities that move the needle, and you have the data and the measurement plan to prove the impact rather than assert it.

03

Risk management and value optimization

Identify and mitigate risk early, adapt strategy as the market shifts, and keep improving through real feedback loops.

Why it helps: a resilient approach that keeps teams agile, stakeholders confident, and products performing at their best.

What the engagement looks like

Picture a typical month with your advisor.

A Fractional Product Advisor is a steady, senior partner who plugs into your rhythm without adding headcount. Here is how that tends to play out across a month.

Weekly

A standing strategy sounding board

A recurring working session with you and your product leads. We talk through the live decisions, where a roadmap item is wobbling, whether a bet is worth the capacity, how to frame a trade-off for the board.

In the room

Roadmap and prioritization reviews

We join your existing roadmap and planning reviews as an objective voice, checking that each item ties to a real problem and a measure, and helping cut scope to the highest-value slice on purpose.

As needed

Pre-board and stakeholder prep

Before the big meeting, we help you build the narrative and the numbers, so you walk in with a defensible story about what the product work moved and what comes next.

Always on

An on-call thinking partner

A confidential line for the calls that are hard alone. A new market signal, a reorg question, an AI bet, a tricky stakeholder. You get a seasoned read when you need it, not a week later.

"It is like having a former CPO on speed dial. The advisor caught two roadmap bets that would have cost us a quarter each, and helped us prove the lift on the one that mattered."

VP of Product · enterprise software

Ready to elevate your product strategy?

See how strategic advising can transform your product initiatives. Let's work together on high-impact solutions that deliver real value.

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Product Management Accelerator

Uplevel your Product Managers, at scale.

Tested and proven, the Product Management Accelerator takes Product Managers from overwhelmed to confident and visionary. Give your whole team one step-by-step framework, with downloadable templates, certification, and monthly office hours. What your people learn today, they apply tomorrow, in one shared language.

Enroll now See what's inside

Does this sound like your team?

Strong people, uneven craft. One shared framework changes that.

Your Product Managers reinvent the wheel on every initiative because there is no repeatable framework for product success.

Your teams struggle to tell a compelling story with data, so stakeholder buy-in depends on who is presenting rather than the strength of the case.

Your people are stretched thin, and onboarding each new Product Manager takes months because the craft lives in heads, not a method.

Your Product Managers operate like project managers, and leadership scrutinizes the roadmap every quarter without seeing outcomes.

How it works

Three steps to applying it tomorrow.

1

Enroll

Enroll your cohort

Your Product Managers get instant access to the full curriculum, templates, and office hours, with volume pricing and a single invoice for teams.

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Work through it

Eight hours, real use cases

Each person moves through activities and templates built on real scenarios, and brings questions to the monthly office hours.

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Apply

Apply it as one team

Your whole team starts working from the same language and the same standard, and leadership sees it in the quality of the next planning cycle.

What's inside

A full curriculum, built on the E3 Product Mindset.

Part 1

Foundations of product management

Principles and key themes: the fundamentals that guide effective product management.
Roles and responsibilities: how the role differs across companies.

Part 2

Core responsibilities and strategic planning

Product tasks: the daily, weekly, and monthly work of a Product Manager.
Vision, strategy, and roadmap: crafting compelling vision, strategy, and roadmaps that drive success.
Team hierarchy and culture: fostering a strong, collaborative product team.

Part 3

The E3 Product Mindset: Envision, Empower, Elevate

Envision: ideation, customer discovery, data, KPIs, risk, and stakeholder engagement, captured in a strong pitch.
Empower: agile methods, clear goals, epics and user stories, refined through cross-functional collaboration.
Elevate: Go/No-Go decisions, launch, feedback, optimization, A/B testing, and roadmap updates.
Quizzes, templates, and certification to reinforce learning and validate your skills.

$379 per seat

or $35 per month across 12 payments. Volume and enterprise pricing available for cohorts.

✓8 hours of video lessons

✓Quizzes and lesson summaries

✓Certification of completion

✓Downloadable templates

✓Advanced product techniques

✓E3 Product Mindset framework

✓12 months of access

✓Monthly open office hours

One-time payment Pay monthly

Is it a fit?

Built for teams like yours, though not for everyone.

A good fit if your organization

✓Has Product Managers in their first five years who need a solid, consistent foundation.
✓Wants one shared language and standard across teams that came from different backgrounds.
✓Needs new hires ramping faster, with a certified baseline you can point to.
✓Wants requirement quality to stop depending on which Product Manager wrote the ticket.

Not a fit if your organization

×Already runs a proven, shared framework that consistently wins buy-in.
×Has teams writing epics and user stories that already tell a compelling product story.
×Wants a certificate on the wall without putting in the work.
×Is looking for a shortcut rather than a craft.

From participants

"This course gave me a clear understanding of what a Product Manager does day to day."

Jamie

"Before this, I struggled to articulate what to build to my developers and designers. Now we are all on the same page."

Sam

"My whole team took this course, and now we are finally aligned and speaking the same language."

Lindsey

Common questions

Frequently asked

Can we enroll a whole team or organization?

Absolutely, and most clients do. Volume and enterprise pricing covers cohorts of any size, with a single invoice, seat management, and completion reporting for your L&D or People team. Use the Enroll now button above or reach out to sales@productprotege.com.

Who teaches the course?

Jason Abdo, founder of Product Protégé, with more than 15 years of product management experience across Fortune 50 companies and startups.

What does each Product Manager get?

Eight hours of video lessons, quizzes, downloadable templates, guides, real use cases, monthly open office hours, and a certification of completion your organization can treat as a shared standard.

How long is access, and how does billing work?

Each seat includes 12 months of access to all materials. Pay per seat once or monthly, or ask us for a single invoice covering your whole cohort.

Are there live sessions?

Yes. Every seat includes 12 months of monthly open office hours with experienced practitioners, and cohorts can add live, tailored workshops with a Product Protégé coach.

How does this fit alongside coaching?

The course sets the shared conceptual baseline, and coaching turns it into daily habit. Many organizations run the course for the whole team and pair it with 1:1 coaching for the people carrying the most complex work.

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The Product Protégé Guide

Your guide for digital product management.

A comprehensive set of frameworks, templates, and practical advice that helps Product Managers excel in every part of the role, from ideation to launch and beyond. Each chapter stands alone as a mini-guide, so it works as a reference you keep on your desk.

The Product Protégé Guide

The Art of Product Management for E-commerce and Beyond

By Jason Abdo

★★★★★ 4.9

A reference you'll actually keep reaching for.

The guide covers the full range of the craft, from defining what product management is to the complexities of prioritization, stakeholder management, and go-to-market. It balances theory with practice, with step-by-step frameworks and exercises you apply to real scenarios.

Get your copy See the course

The mindset inside

Built around the E3 Product Mindset.

Envision

Connect and frame

Connect with customers, understand their needs, and create a compelling vision worth building toward.

Empower

Equip the team

Give the team the right requirement documents and the right mindset to lead co-creators well.

Elevate

Improve and measure

Continuously raise the product's value so customers keep engaging and feeding the next iteration.

What you get

A rinse-and-repeat operating mindset.

Pitch deck templates

Present ideas clearly and win collaboration and buy-in from stakeholders.

User story and epic formats

Formats that anticipate questions from design, development, and QA, for smooth refinement.

Data-driven decisions

Site tagging, data flow, and analytics, turned into trends you can act on.

Roadmap and strategy alignment

Methods for roadmap reviews and prioritizing against customer feedback and business goals.

Managing up

Communicate with leadership, manage expectations, and give informed feedback on new ideas.

Continuous improvement

Retrospectives that turn what went well and what did not into the next improvement.

The reviews are in

"Loaded with product gems. Each chapter stands alone as a mini-guide, which makes it a great reference."

Verified reader

"Doesn't leave my desk. A treasure trove of insights, with frameworks you apply in real scenarios. Grab your highlighter."

Verified reader

"Easy to use and simple to understand. Tips, must-haves, and a solid foundation from a seasoned expert."

Verified reader

For breaking in or leveling up.

A clear path to success in the dynamic field of product management. Grab your copy and keep it close.

Purchase your copy Get the included cheat sheets

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Product coaching

Tactical, authentic coaching with lasting impact.

Every product team and company is unique. We design a coaching approach around yours, built to change how the team works, not just what it knows. Our coaches bring 15-plus years each across Fortune 50 companies, startups, B2B, B2C, and SaaS, onshore and offshore.

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How we coach

Workshops and 1:1s, always tailored.

Team workshops

Hands-on, tailored workshops centered on product management excellence. Before each session we collaborate to pinpoint your needs, so the time is aimed precisely at your goals and your team leaves with artifacts they use the next day.

1:1 coaching

Weekly working sessions built from each person's Diagnostic results and their live work. This is where concepts become habit, and where quality stops depending on any single person in the room.

Why our coaching

A proven track record, not just theory.

Proven track record

Built and shipped at scale

Our coaches have launched full-scale sites and award-winning products across retail, finance, healthcare, and SaaS, including work that grew 60 times at a Fortune 50 company. Different industries, one shared craft.

Comprehensive experience

Developed product mastery at scale

Together the team has mentored hundreds of Product Managers and stood up product excellence centers for Fortune 50 enterprises and startups alike.

Strategic insight

Predictable delivery, clear value

We instill the confidence that the work will get done, that it will be high quality, and that it will move the needle on the things that matter, with value measured in terms leadership trusts.

Let's build a plan around your team.

Coaching that blends deep industry knowledge, practical experience, and a commitment to excellence. Let's see how Product Protégé can help your team thrive.

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Included cheat sheets and companion guides

Tools to sharpen vision, strategy, and roadmap.

Step-by-step cheat sheets and companion guides you can put to work right away. Each one tackles a specific part of the craft, with the frameworks behind the E3 Product Mindset.

Cheat sheet & guide

Vision

Unlock the power of a clear product vision. A step-by-step guide to crafting a vision that inspires the team and guides strategic decisions.

It helps withAlignment and motivationStrategic decision makingCustomer-centric focus

Download now

Cheat sheet & guide

Strategy

Master product strategy with confidence. The essential tools and frameworks to build a strategy that holds up over the long run.

It helps withLack of strategic directionPrioritization challengesData-driven decisions

Download now

Cheat sheet & guide

Roadmap

Unlock effective product roadmapping. A guide to navigating roadmap creation and prioritization with far less friction.

It helps withNo clear directionPrioritizing and sequencingInflexible planning

Download now

Want the full picture?

The cheat sheets are a taste of the method. The Product Mindset Snapshot shows where your team stands across all eight themes.

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The people behind the practice

Meet our Coaches.

Every Product Protégé coach has launched real products, led real teams, and shares one passion: helping Product Managers hone their craft. When you engage us, you get the E3 framework and a practitioner matched to your context.

Founder & Head Coach

Jason Abdo

Jason built Product Protégé from more than 15 years in the product trenches. He launched award-winning mobile apps that grew 60 times at a Fortune 50 company, built product excellence centers for enterprises and startups, and designed A/B testing programs across billion-dollar sites. Along the way he mentored over 150 Product Managers and distilled what actually works into the E3 Product Mindset and the Product Empowerment Pyramid, the frameworks at the heart of every engagement.

He is the author of The Product Protégé Guide, the 4.9-star book many Product Managers keep on their desk, and a Penn State Engineering graduate. His coaching style is practical, tactical, and immediately applicable. What your team learns today, they use tomorrow.

Product Coach

Jeremiah Starr

A proud Georgia native, Jeremiah gets to enjoy life with his amazing wife and daughter. Professionally, he has been a product builder and coach in the airline industry, in B2B organizations focused on mobile apps, and in SaaS banking, where he led platform integrations.

For Jeremiah, nothing compares to the light bulb moment when someone gains the confidence to make great decisions. He has lived that passion for years coaching tennis and helping friends, family, and mentees navigate big life milestones. Driven by a genuine love of continuous growth, he is excited to help your people discover their capabilities, sharpen their skills, and truly thrive.

Product Coach

Josh Throop

Josh is a product leader and coach with 13-plus years of experience as a Product Marketer, Senior Product Manager, Principal Product Manager, and Group Product Manager within multiple Fortune 50 organizations, including The Home Depot and State Farm. His background spans retail, AdTech, MarTech, payments, CRM, and data platform products, and he has coached more than 50 Product Managers and leaders, along with dozens of product squads.

Josh enjoys helping product professionals at every stage of their journey, bringing a coaching style that is pragmatic, human-centered, and grounded in real-world experience building products, teams, and organizations where people genuinely enjoy doing their best work.

Product Coach

Robert Pudlik

Robert is a product leader with over 25 years of experience spanning enterprise retail, B2B, and consumer technologies. Most recently as Senior Manager of Product Management at The Home Depot, he led large-scale organizational transformation, helped build and scale a Product Center of Excellence supporting 600-plus Product Managers, and partnered with senior leadership to assess and elevate product talent.

Earlier in his career he held senior and principal product roles at The Home Depot, GLG, Ingage, and eMusic.

Work with a coach who has been in your seat.

Start with the 2-minute Snapshot, or book the Product Thinking Diagnostic and we will match your team with the right coach.

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