Leading through Change and Uncertainty
SMALL (UNDER 250) AND MEDIUM (251-1000) ORGANIZATIONS
Senior Level (DIRECTOR, SR. DIRECTOR, HEAD OF PRODUCT)
Sessions begin May 28
Meets weekly on Wednesdays (see exceptions below)
12pm ET / 9am PT
Price: $1500/participant
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This circle is for Senior women in product with 10+ years of experience in product, with titles of Director and above (or equivalent), led by seasoned product leader and coach, Sara Zalowitz. Participants can expect to meet other women in similar situations as them and learn from each other on how they adapt their product leadership in times of uncertainty.
- Wartime Product Management: How to adapt your strategy, team, and decision-making during a time of uncertainty
- ROI-Focused Product Management: evaluating the return on product to help drive towards outcomes and decision making
- Leading teams through uncertainty: supporting your team and creating psychological safety while navigating ambiguity
- Cross functional alignment: keeping prod-dev and stakeholders aligned when pressure rises
- Product discovery during market shifts: how to use customer insights to guide decisions when things are shifting quickly
The first session will be an interactive discussion to get to know each other and set the topics for future sessions. Sessions 2-8 will focus in on topics that were identified as top priorities for the group. You can expect to walk away with actional insights to apply directly to your work.
Meeting dates
Weekly on Wednesdays: 5/28 , 6/3 (Tues), 6/11, 6/18 , 6/25, 6/30 (Mon), 7/9, 7/16
12pm ET / 9am PT
Note – includes a complimentary 1:1 executive coaching session with Sara for use at any time during the program.
“Sara was a fabulous listener and very responsive to her audience. She led the circle with a design-thinking approach. I would take her class again any day!”
– Past WIP Leadership Coaching Circle participant
“Sara’s coaching has been a game-changer for me at The Rounds. She has guided me to create, sharpen, and enroll the company in an exciting product vision, and to navigate complex strategy challenges. More than just product leadership, Sara guided me as I took on bigger responsibilities in Engineering and Digital Marketing. Her support was pivotal in building a high performing team and broadening my leadership skills. Prodify’s resources also helped me establish career ladders for all four functions under me. They have truly set a new standard for what I expect from coaching.”
– Dan Storms, Chief Product Officer
Sara’s Coaching Style
Sara balances her time in sessions as both a facilitator to keep the conversation on track, and a coach who utilizes her 20+ years of product executive experience to share her experiences to provide guidance to her circle members. The sessions are group-coaching, which also means the individuals in the circle are sharing their experiences in order for the participants to learn from each other.
Sara’s first session will focus on everyone getting to know each other, while aligning on the topics to discuss. Once the topics are identified, Sara will reach out to the circle members to see who is interested in volunteering to share a current scenario or challenge that is relevant to the topic that they can use support on. Sara will work with volunteers to prepare for the sessions (only light-weight prep is needed from the circle members), plus identify thought-provoking questions or resources to allow the conversation to go deeper.
You can expect sessions with Sara to be engaging for all attendees, and for all to walk away with takeaways that they can apply to their work.
more about Sara
Sara Bial Zalowitz is currently a Senior Product Advisor/Coach at Prodify. Sara’s two decades in product leadership include being Rent the Runway’s first Chief Product Officer (where she was proud to be one of many female executives), the VP of Product for WeddingWire, and the VP of Digital Innovation at Marriott. One of Sara’s passion points throughout her career has been in mentorship, which led her to transition her career to focus on coaching and advising. At Prodify, she helps product executives and teams make the transition to becoming a product-driven organization in order to accelerate customer and shareholder value. Sara focuses with her clients on a variety of topics that range from vision and strategic planning, customer and business outcomes/KPIs, customer research, roadmap execution, stakeholder management, team development, and product operations. Sara is passionate about being a female leader and is thrilled to be a part of Women in Product to help amplify the voices of women in leadership!