Product Leaders Lab Session
Target audience: Mid to senior-level product people
Product Leaders sit at the intersection of engineering, design, leadership, and business expectations. As teams scale, the pressure often increases: unclear priorities, difficult conversations, and growing responsibility for outcomes.
In this interactive Leaders Lab session, we’ll explore the real leadership challenges product managers face in fast-moving teams and learn practical ways to navigate tension, reset expectations, and create healthier collaboration.
Rather than a traditional talk, this will be a facilitated reflection space where participants can surface real challenges and learn from each other.
Agenda
18:30 Arrival & informal networking
19:00 Welcome + framing
Why leadership tension is inevitable in scaling product teams.19:15 Leadership reflection exercise
Participants reflect on current challenges they are navigating.19:35 Small group discussions
Real scenarios from product leadership.20:10 Frameworks for navigating tension
Practical tools for difficult conversations and expectation alignment.20:30 Open dialogue
Questions, shared insights, and peer learning.21:00 Informal networking
⚡Join us⚡
Product managers are often expected to lead without formal authority while balancing multiple stakeholder expectations.
In this session, you’ll have the chance to explore real situations you are navigating in your work together with peers facing similar challenges.
You might bring topics such as:
Navigating conflicting priorities between leadership and the product team
Feeling stuck between engineering capacity, product vision, and stakeholder pressure
Giving difficult feedback to a team member or peer
Creating clarity around ownership or decision-making
Managing tension between the speed of delivery and product quality
Leading without formal authority across teams
You don’t need to arrive with a perfectly defined problem. Many of the most valuable conversations start with situations that are still evolving or difficult to articulate.
Think of this as bringing a leadership puzzle you’re currently thinking about, rather than presenting a polished case.
✨ Featuring ✨
Rakesh Kasturi Leadership & Organizational Development Advisor
Rakesh works at the intersection of leadership, organizational development, and team alignment.
Over the past decade, he has supported founders and leadership teams in navigating moments of organizational tension - from unclear decision ownership to leadership misalignment and scaling challenges.
His work focuses on helping leaders as well as teams translate strategy into practical leadership systems and healthier collaboration patterns.
Khalid Yassin - Founder & Head Trainer at InHouseTrainers
Passionate about all things facilitation and personal development. Sometimes all we need is the space and another angle for great results.
His background is in business process and project management. He worked in both sales and marketing functions. Now he’s taking the lead to bring the right qualities that make successful businesses to the individual.
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