Make the Leap from IC to Manager & Leader for PMs and UXers

Christine Perfetti is Founding Principal of Perfetti Media, a product strategy and research consulting firm. Christine built the research programs at GoFundMe, Carbonite, Acquia, and TuneIn, and has led product visioning workshops for Harvard Business School, WeSpire, HubSpot, Curriculum Associates, and Penn Medicine, among others. Before becoming a 2x founder, Christine Perfetti was the Head of User Experience at Carbonite and Acquia, two highly successful Scaleups in Boston, Massachusetts.

Melissa Appel is co-author of the newly released book, "Aligned: Stakeholder Management for Product Leaders." Melissa has 20 years of Product Management experience at companies in various industries, stages, and sizes. She helps product leaders create aligned strategies by getting the right people in the room and asking the right questions. Melissa's executive coaching focuses on process improvement, team development, and stakeholder management.

Diana DeMarco Brown is an experienced designer and leader with experience in both building out teams at startups and guiding teams to deliver exceptional experiences at an enterprise scale. Her management strategy has a heavy focus on leveraging process and design principles to support product designers in producing their best work in service of the business and the customer experience.

Jen McGinn is an Experience Design (XD) leader in the areas of cloud services, enterprise applications, security, and developer tools. She has a proven track record of creating highly-functional teams that have the room to innovate while consistently delivering in a fast-paced development environment. Jen routinely presents at local, regional, and international UX conferences on topics such as UX strategy, journey mapping, Agile user research, and ethics in user research and design.