PM Cooperative Facilitators
All groups will be facilitated by senior product leaders from the Women In Product community.
Maira Malik
VP, Digital Payment Products, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Maira Malik is a SF Bay Area Product Executive with 10+ years of experience leading digital products from 0-1 and 1-n at Tesla, Affirm, and now JPMC. She is passionate about giving back through mentorship and supporting other members of the Women In Product community to thrive. She is currently Vice President of Digital Payment Products at JP Morgan Chase.
Vickie Ansay
Group Product Manager, Cisco
Vickie is a passionate product leader with 13 years in product management. She drives a collaborative mindset, leads by example, coaches and mentors early-in-career to director-level product managers, builds strong relationships, distills complicated requirements into targeted action, and uses influence to gain alignment.
She focuses on creating a safe and supportive environment to unlock people’s best selves. She will do whatever it takes to wade through conflicting directions to find the facts and focus on rational approaches and thoughtful solutions. She is a hardworking advocate for customers and the company to ensure success in a fast-paced environment.
Vickie Ansay
Group Product Manager, Cisco
Vickie is a passionate product leader with 13 years in product management. She drives a collaborative mindset, leads by example, coaches and mentors early-in-career to director-level product managers, builds strong relationships, distills complicated requirements into targeted action, and uses influence to gain alignment.
She focuses on creating a safe and supportive environment to unlock people’s best selves. She will do whatever it takes to wade through conflicting directions to find the facts and focus on rational approaches and thoughtful solutions. She is a hardworking advocate for customers and the company to ensure success in a fast-paced environment.
Dipti Patel, Managing Director
Founder, Career and Leadership Coach
Dipti is a seasoned product executive leader, with 15+ years of experience in the FinTech space. She built B2B products for banking, and organizations dealing with risk intelligence. Dipti started her career in data analytics and evolved into product management. She has had the opportunity to serve in many leadership roles and managed different teams across the organization. In her most recent role, she was Head of Product before she left to transition into being a full-time leadership coach.
Dipti leads with empathy and focuses on empowering individuals on achieving their success. She holds space for individuals to fully show up as themselves and challenges them to take those next steps that lead them to that next right step for achieving their goals. Dipti believes in creating a process that adjusts to different individuals’ pace of learning, and making room for the quiet ones as well.
Nic Amos
Product Manager Leader, Consumer Privacy, Kohl’s
Nic Amos is a VP of Product, but her professional journey has been very nontraditional. Her career began as a call center agent – then one day she Googled how to make 6 Figures without a degree and discovered the world of tech and eventually product management.
Nic hangs out in B2B land, where she’s worked in Cybersecurity, Retail, and Fintech and still considers herself non-technical. Despite not having a CS background, her ability to adapt and learn quickly has allowed her to thrive in these fast-paced and ever-evolving sectors.
In her role as your facilitator, Nic brings an inclusive and non-judgmental approach to the table as you grow your career. Her primary focus is on helping you achieve tangible results. She’s here to help you accomplish your goals without burnout and stop crying Sunday nights because you dread Mondays.
“I’m here to give you the direction and encouragement you need to make real progress and tackle difficult tasks. Let’s collaborate to make an actual difference.”
Gabriella Angiolillo
Director of Product Management, Kong Inc.
Gabriella is excited to be a facilitator for Women In Product’s newest program to “give back” and pay it forward to other women in product as they navigate their careers. She joined a group like this when she started out in her product career and it helped her navigate and excel through a myriad of challenges and opportunities. Now a Director of Product Management at Kong, Gabriella loves mentoring other women in product on topics such as: directing your own career, managing up, diffusing difficult situations, building confidence and credibility, setting boundaries, setting a product direction and vision, and how to propose new product initiatives that take your company to the next level.
Gabriella’s approach is Problem-Solving Facilitation — a facilitation style focused on guiding groups through the process of identifying and resolving specific issues or challenges. She helps the group identify and articulate the problem, brainstorm solutions, and evaluate options.
Jennifer Feng
Director of Product Management, Blue Note Therapeutics
Jennifer Feng brings over a decade of product management experience across both B2B and B2C in a variety of industries with responsibilities covering both product portfolio strategy and execution. She is passionate about solving customer problems and delivering creative solutions, while building compelling businesses. Product experience includes consumer apps, enterprise apps, HW+SW combo, ML products, with specialization in building solutions ground up (0-1).
Her coaching style is situation-based. It ranges from a non-directive approach by guiding through a series of questions to a more directive solution-focused style, based on coachees’ different scenarios.
ebony shears
Formerly EVP of Product, North America, Sportradar
Ebony has led product teams and product organizations managing complex portfolios at companies such as Forbes and Sportradar. She successfully transitioned into product management after a 20-year career in the media industry, across several platforms and disciplines, by leveraging her extensive knowledge of the business and its users/consumers.
Her coaching style is centered on encouraging product professionals to ask themselves the right questions for establishing clarity about their goals and empowering them to authentically navigate their environments and careers to move toward those goals with confidence.
Ebony also enjoys coaching managers to get the best out of their teams and to lead with empathy and “radical candor.” She’s a self-directed student of human behavior and motivation who takes pride in her ability to offer insight by gently seeing into others’ blindspots and inspiring them to approach their circumstances by balancing both self-examination and strategy to be effective leaders at work and in life!
Ayesha Farhat
Director Product, Telenor Linx
Ayesha has over 15+ years experience working in the tech industry. She is currently heading a product development team, and works with a B2B digital billing product.
Ayesha is a coach and mentor with HerTech, a Norwegian incubator for female and non-binary led startups. She is also a mentor with Sammen om en Jobb – a mentorship program for skilled workers in Norway. Through mentorship and coaching, Ayesha would like to help women find clarity and move forward in their careers with greater confidence.
Jori Bell
Product Leader & Coach
Jori Bell is a product coach, advisor and educator. Currently, Jori empowers product managers with 1:1 coaching and graduate students at Cornell Tech, coaching their builder course — Product Studio.
Jori has extensive experience launching B2C products, leading cross-functional product teams, and driving efficiency at various sized product organizations, including Audible, Spotify, SoundCloud, AOL Inc., and Wenner Media (Rolling Stone).
Jori writes about product management and speaks about non-technical product management. Jori champions women in tech, having led and participated in various employee resource groups throughout her career.
Jori feels most energized when she’s driving teams to create meaningful outcomes for customers and when she’s empowering product leaders to unlock their full potential.
Jori Bell
Product Leader & Coach
Jori Bell is a product coach, advisor and educator. Currently, Jori empowers product managers with 1:1 coaching and graduate students at Cornell Tech, coaching their builder course — Product Studio.
Jori has extensive experience launching B2C products, leading cross-functional product teams, and driving efficiency at various sized product organizations, including Audible, Spotify, SoundCloud, AOL Inc., and Wenner Media (Rolling Stone).
Jori writes about product management and speaks about non-technical product management. Jori champions women in tech, having led and participated in various employee resource groups throughout her career.
Jori feels most energized when she’s driving teams to create meaningful outcomes for customers and when she’s empowering product leaders to unlock their full potential.
Joni Hoadley
Product Manager Coach
Joni is passionate about propelling product management careers forward. With over two decades immersed in product discovery and leadership, she’s seen firsthand the transformative power of customer-centric growth.
At Sonos, she played a pivotal role in building products now used by millions of music lovers worldwide. As the first SW PM hired, she helped the company scale from an early-stage startup to a publicly traded, multi-billion dollar business.
Earlier in her career, she led product management for two startups acquired by Fortune 500 companies. Joni has channeled her expertise into coaching for the last four years, particularly aiding mid-career professionals.
Joni uses a variety of coaching techniques, including the GROW coaching framework, to help her clients achieve their career goals.
Wendy-Lynn McClean
Product Leadership Advisor, Coach & Creator
Wendy-Lynn McClean began her product career in a tech-enabled startup. She went on to have experiences at some of the big players in tech, including Google, Yelp, and Amazon.
She has been coaching product managers for 3 years, both individually and one on one. She describes her style as direct and empathetic, blending self-discovery tools with sharing insights from more than 20 years in product.
She is a mom of two and lives outside of Philadelphia.
Wendy-Lynn McClean
Product Leadership Advisor, Coach & Creator
She has been coaching product managers for 3 years, both individually and one on one. She describes her style as direct and empathetic, blending self-discovery tools with sharing insights from more than 20 years in product.
She is a mom of two and lives outside of Philadelphia.
She is a mom of two and lives outside of Philadelphia.
Chrissy Fleming
Product Management Consulting & Coaching
Chrissy Fleming has spent 15 years building products for customers in a wide-variety of industries — B2B Saas, B2C Saas, media, dating, advertising, and Ecommerce. She is passionate about mentorship and helping the next generation of Tech leaders develop the skills of listening to customers and anticipating their needs.
She recently launched her own business so she could coach and guide more product managers and product teams to success. She believes in combining vision with practicality and collaborating across an organization to build all the small details that add up to an amazing product and team.
Chrissy Fleming
Product Management Consulting & Coaching
She recently launched her own business so she could coach and guide more product managers and product teams to success. She believes in combining vision with practicality and collaborating across an organization to build all the small details that add up to an amazing product and team.
Bosky Mukherjee
Founder, PMDojo
Bosky Mukherjee is a product leader, a product coach, a working mother, and the founder of PMDojo. She has been in product roles both as an IC, a hiring manager, and a product executive for over 20 years in both startups and unicorns like Atlassian.
Bosky coaches Product Managers and Product Leaders at all levels from companies such as Meta, LinkedIn, Visa, Amazon, Nike, and others to advance in their careers while navigating their lives.
She is especially good at helping you get clarity about your next “career season”, get promoted faster, and uplevel your public speaking, storytelling, and networking.
Bosky Mukherjee
Founder, PMDojo
Bosky coaches Product Managers and Product Leaders at all levels from companies such as Meta, LinkedIn, Visa, Amazon, Nike, and others to advance in their careers while navigating their lives.
She is especially good at helping you get clarity about your next “career season”, get promoted faster, and uplevel your public speaking, storytelling, and networking.
Kristin Kobey
Founder, Product & Leadership Coach
For 20+ years Kristin Kobey has been doing what she loves…leading customer-focused tech products & product teams at startups, entertainment brands, and enterprise companies like Autodesk, StarMaker Interactive, and Nickelodeon. She’s enjoyed creating sticky products, including a virtual assistant, educational games, karaoke apps & contest platforms. Never done alone, a big part has been building and leading strong, connected product managers and teams that align toward shared purpose and product success.
Kristin is also a certified Leadership & Performance Coach and coaches individuals & teams to see and be their best. As a facilitator with Women In Product, her focus is to empower career growth and help product managers productize themselves to move their careers forward. Additionally, she coaches at the UC Berkeley’s Product Management Studio and Products That Count. When not working, she’s likely hiking a Bay Area trail with friends, reading, making art, and hanging with her husband and two teens
Kristin Kobey
Founder, Product & Leadership Coach
Kristin is also a certified Leadership & Performance Coach and coaches individuals & teams to see and be their best. As a facilitator with Women In Product, her focus is to empower career growth and help product managers productize themselves to move their careers forward. Additionally, she coaches at the UC Berkeley’s Product Management Studio and Products That Count. When not working, she’s likely hiking a Bay Area trail with friends, reading, making art, and hanging with her husband and two teens
Heather Sit
Executive Interview Coach
Heather Sit is a visionary executive with 15+ years of strategic leadership, product, and operations expertise. Her track record includes founding and scaling multiple organizations while maintaining operational excellence and customer satisfaction. As a Head of Product and Chief Operations Officer, she directed teams of 50+, driving multimillion-dollar revenues.
Heather’s coaching philosophy emphasizes empowerment, innovation, and inclusion. Her coaching unlocks leadership potential, cultivates innovative strategies, and nurtures collaborative teams. With an extensive background in strategic planning, team leadership, and change management, she empowers individuals to thrive in dynamic business landscapes.
Heather’s commitment to gender parity and diverse leadership is evident through her work with women and POC in technology, business, and law. She currently advises the Women in Leadership program for UC Riverside. She was the founding executive sponsor of United Talent Agency’s Women in IT group.
