Drew Barontini

Building Better Products: Improve Delivery & Productivity

Chief Product Officer at Differential

Implement the Shape Up methodology to ensure consistent on-time product delivery.

Mastering On-Time Product Delivery

Increase productivity and collaboration by optimizing for uninterrupted work time.

Boosting Team Productivity and Collaboration

Improve stakeholder alignment and satisfaction through clear development processes.

Aligning Stakeholders and Meeting Goals

A two-week sprint to rebuild your Personal OS, master the "Learning to Learn" loop, and turn your core expertise into a 5x force multiplier.

Product Leader and Super IC at Google

Google

Disney+ Hotstar

Zynga

Anshumani Ruddra

Cohort I

Cohort 2

You're stuck in the coordination trap. Meetings, approvals, stakeholder alignment consume your weeks - but actual product work feels distant. Meanwhile, AI-empowered teams are shipping faster.This isn't your fault - the model itself is collapsing.Flattened orgs, smaller teams, and AI-driven workflows have created a new reality:The most valuable product leaders are not managers, they are high-output individuals who can take a problem from insight and strategy → functioning prototype → live productThe market is shifting toward the product Super IC - someone who can build momentum without waiting for permission, resources, or headcount.This course is not a tool tutorial. You can find those on YouTube. This is a system rebuild. Over two weeks, you will:Build a Personal Agentic OS 🤖<ul><li>⚙️ Automate meeting synthesis, PRDs, research, and stakeholder updates.</li><li>🤖 Deploy personal agents that triage signal, surface decisions, and keep your product narrative live.</li><li>🧠 Free up 10+ hours a week for real thinking.</li></ul>Master the Velocity Loop 🎯 (Learning to Learn)<ul><li>⚡ Adopt any new AI prototyping tool in hours, not weeks.</li><li>👁️ Spot signal vs hype early and act.</li><li>🚀 Move from static specs to functional prototypes.</li></ul>

Stop Trading Your Craft for Coordination. Start Multiplying Impact.

Rebuild Your Personal OS 

Master the "Velocity Loop" (Learning to Learn)

This course is not for new PMs who are still building their product muscle - strategy all the way to execution.

Your product management foundational skills are in place

This is not for people looking for a passive learning experience. This is intense and requires you to actually build things.

You are eager to learn actively

Product Leaders (VPs/ Directors) who are tired of being a "Coordinator" and want to return to building.

Founders &amp; Solopreneurs who need to act as a 10-person product team with zero headcount. You need speed and independence.

Staff Engineers &amp; Designers who want to move upstream into product strategy and ownership without leaving your technical edge.

Gain Strategic Engineering Advantage in the age of AI

Product Leader with 15+ years experience

Mihaela Draghici

Engineering Leader 20 years experience

Daniel Ghilea

Engineering Leader 20+ years experience

PublicisSapient Cohort

June Cohort

A half-day workshop, designed for senior engineers who want move from the "how" of engineering to the "why" of business impact and get a competitive advantage in a time when AI is making pure execution less differentiated. ----At senior level, the ceiling is rarely technical. You’re a strong engineer. You're already great at execution.You write solid code and review code at a high standard.You solve hard technical problems.You design scalable systems. You ship complex features.ButYou may struggle to:<ul><li>Connect architecture decisions to revenue or risk.</li><li>Challenge roadmap choices using business language.</li><li>Influence prioritisation without positional authority.</li><li>Translate technical language into strategic urgency.</li><li>Participate meaningfully in discovery discussions.</li></ul>The result?That limits your influence, your growth, and your impact as a strategic contributor.Because no one trained you in product thinking from an engineering lens. To move into strategic alignment, you need to stop treating product sense as a "PM skill" and start considering it as a technical optimisation for business impact.This workshop is designed to bridge the gap between code and commercial reality.

Learn how to connect technical decisions to business impact, speak clearly in strategy talks, and influence what gets built, not just how.

Understand what product sense really means

Understand the hierarchy of decision layers: Strategy To Roadmap To Backlog

How to choose and implement the right metrics

Speak the language of product and business confidently

Senior Engineers &amp; Tech Leads already making architecture decisions who want more influence over product and roadmap decisions.

Aspiring Staff / Principal Engineers who need to move from execution to shaping technical and product strategy.

Engineers stepping into leadership who are expected to contribute to business and roadmap discussions, but were never taught how.

You will leave this program with the confidence and capability to create 10x more impact than you thought you could.

300+ Projects/ Mastercard, Oracle & more

Mastercard

Oracle

Reuters

Stanley Black & Decker

Saurabh Gupta

Design Leader. 20 years of experience. Led 300+ transformations.

Cohort 1

Articulation, Big Picture Thinking, Clarity, and Disruption. These aren't soft skills.. these are the skills that decide your impact as a product leader. Most programs teach you what to think. This one changes how you think. Across four weeks, every live session is packed with frameworks you can apply immediately, exercises that force the concepts into muscle memory, and enough lightbulb moments that you'll leave wondering why no one taught you this sooner. Leaders who go through this ship faster, build more defensible products, win harder rooms, and make breakthroughs repeatable, not accidental.

You will leave this program creating 10x more impact than you thought you could

Articulation

Big Picture Thinking

Clarity

Disruption

Founders and Co-founders Every delay, missed target, and failed launch starts with a decision made poorly upstream. This program fixes that

Product Leaders and Senior PMs Better decisions upstream mean higher success rates, stronger revenue, and increased market leadership.

Design Leaders Getting stakeholders aligned, selling the vision upward, and making sure the right problem gets solved before anyone starts

Make high-stakes product calls with clarity to earn a bigger scope and influence

Product & Design Leader at Owtcome

Owtcome

Krasi Bozhinkova

Product & Design Leader, turning product success into repeatable growth

July 2026

The gap between mid-level and senior is not knowledge. It is judgment. The ability to make the call earlier, with less certainty, and explain why it matters in terms the business cares about.You may already have strong instincts, but instincts alone don’t earn trust. What gets your work second-guessed is not always that someone else is right. It is that they can connect the decision to adoption, retention, revenue, or strategic advantage more clearly than you can.This course is about closing that judgment gap. You will learn how to identify the real decision inside a messy debate, name the trade-off others avoid, and defend your logic before perfect data arrives. It blends product, design, and business thinking because role boundaries are disappearing and the expectation to make an impact has never been higher.The goal is to become the person leadership brings in earlier, trusts with harder problems, and gives a bigger scope.

Make high-stakes product decisions with clearer logic, stronger conviction, and language that leadership can trust.

Frame the real decision behind a messy debate

Build for critical user needs without waiting for perfect data

Know when to improve, pivot, or rethink your roadmap

Connect every product and design decision to a growth loop

PMs, designers, and cross-functional leaders with 3-5 years of experience, working through ambiguity, trade-offs, and business outcomes.

Level of experience

Bring one live product, feature, or strategic decision to apply the course directly to your own context.

What to prepare

This course is designed for practitioners who want to make better product decisions in AI-shaped markets, not to teach a specific AI tool.

No technical AI background required

Mid to Senior level PMs stuck in execution mode who want to become the senior person leadership trusts to make the harder decisions

Designers who are strategic but can't articulate it and lose the argument when they don’t connect the decision to business impact.

Developers stepping up to own a product area, who need a repeatable way to make hard decisions with incomplete information.

Agentic AI

Coding with AI

AI Workflows

Claude Code

OpenClaw

Vibe Coding

AI Evals

AI Transformation

RAG & Search

AI for PMs

AI for Engineers

AI for Designers

AI for Marketers

AI for Founders

Product Sense

Product Discovery

User Research

Prototyping

Growth

Analytics

Tech Foundations

Strategy

Influence

Leadership

Career Growth

Machine Learning

LLM Ops

Context Eng

Security

System Design

Figma

Design Systems

Visual Design

Design Strategy

Automation

Content Marketing

Demand Gen

Go-to-Market

Product Marketing

Positioning

Social Media

Brand

B2B Marketing

SEO & AEO

AI for Leaders

AI Governance

Communication

Management

People Operations

Exec Presence

Storytelling

Goal-setting

Personal Brand

Fundraising

Everyone

Operators

Data Scientists

Business Analysts

User Researchers

Customer Success

Project Managers

HR Professionals

Sales People

Lawyers

Finance

Investors

Real Estate

Educators

Creators

Product managers who drive strategy, development, and launch of products.

Identifying opportunities and validating what to build through customer research, experimentation, and prioritization.

Building Better Products: Improve Delivery & Productivity

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Drew Barontini