Here's a broad sampling of topics that I've helped founders and CEOs successfully  navigate:

Product Strategy

• Define a clear product strategy that aligns with your company’s overall strategy and vision

• Develop pricing & packaging

• Implement a product-led growth (PLG) go to market motion

• Adopt portfolio management and product investment frameworks

• Leverage AI and data in your product strategy

People & Culture

• Hire your first Product Manager / VP Product / CPO. 

• Define the PM hiring process, requirements, and job descriptions

• Establish PM career development ladder & performance management framework

• Scale a product organization, including people management and driving accountability

• Transition to be a product-led company

• Define organizational structures (team charters, clarity of ownership, ratios between product/engineering/design/data, setting KPIs, etc)

• Establish a platform / shared-service teams

• Develop async/remote/hybrid best practices

Product Processes

• Establish effective product development processes and partnership with engineering

• Implement a customer-first problem and solution validation process

• Establish and use a prioritization framework

• Leverage OKRs to communicate executive priorities to teams

• Improve internal and external communication strategy 

• Adopt an experimentation framework and mindset

• Develop annual plans and QBRs

• Level up to Enterprise (compliance, security, audits)

• Respond to RFPs

Leadership & Communications

• Effectively communicate priorities and progress with stakeholders

• Improve executive presence and big stage presentations

• Prepare for and present at board meetings

• Negotiate priorities with stakeholders

• Host successful offsites / strategic planning sessions

Customers

• Define customer personas and user journeys

• Develop a user research practice

• Set up and nurture a customer advisory board

• Quantify customer satisfaction with NPS, CSAT

• Manage requirements from lighthouse customers

• Expand your customer segments (enterprise, verticals, international)

Leading Through Change

• Transitioning from a services company to a product company

• Fundraise, prep pitch decks, and present to investors

• Support your company through an exit acquisition

• Lead product & technology due diligence for M&A

• IPO readiness for a Product organization

• Manage teams in the age of AI

Developer Experience

• Create a world class developer experience (APIs, docs, SDKs)

• Develop a compelling developer go-to-market motion

• Build a developer community via developer evangelism

Social Impact

• Effectively combine purpose + capitalism;  engage employees in social impact

• Become a B-Corp, public benefit corporation, and the 1% Pledge

• Effectively manage public-private partnerships

• Design accessible, inclusive products