What holds most Product people back?  Hint: it's not ability. For this week's Product Experience Podcast, Randy Silver and Lily Smith from Mind the Product talked with Martina Hodges-Schell and Teresa Leighty about how to make changes in your company's environment that actually work, for you, and your teams.

How can we, as leaders of a diverse and multi-disciplinary workforce, find ways to inspire and engage our teams, and focus organizations on higher performance? How do we pivot from slow-moving, top-down, “command-and-control” approaches and embrace leadership styles that are effective and human? How do we invite collaboration, autonomy and self-management to create resilience and drive business outcomes?

If the last year has taught us anything, it’s that the way we think about, well… everything has to change, including the way we think about work and leadership.

Join us at Product Camp Europe for a closer look at how your organisation’s operating model is supporting or challenging, your product teams’ success.

If the last year has taught us anything, it’s that the way we think about, well… everything has to change, including the way we think about work and leadership.

In this masterclass and workshop we share principles for stakeholder management and hands-on practice in applying these principles to common real-life challenges.

For many design leaders, the shift from craft to team is fraught with mistakes and challenges. Learn from Martina's experience growing a design practice from the first hire in Europe to leading a global design practice of over 100.

How do we understand ourselves better to define our own path? Using a series of self-reflection and profiling tools, Martina and Jason help you better understand and articulate what you have to offer, what your organisation needs and where you can invest in your own self-development over the coming years.

In this talk for Axel Springer Martina shares the success principles she derived from her experience in helping organisations establish a more customer centric digital innovation practice.

Join us for a closer look at how your organisation’s operating model is supporting or challenging, your product teams’ success.

In this practical session, you will learn how to put together a framework that captures the insights and opportunities you have gleaned from collaborating with your customers and help guide your product development process with clear user goals and design principles. This approach brings together user-centred, lean and agile principles and integrates UX into agile development teams.

As fast, user-centered development gains acceptance, many startups have successfully adopted a Lean Startup philosophy. But, why is it that many agencies and their clients still struggle to apply this methodology to larger-scale projects? What can – and should – consulting firms learn and embrace from startups? Expect war stories and hear personal anecdotes about what has or hasn't worked, and judge for yourself.

At Interaction 13 Conference Martina Hodges-Schell and Johanna Kollmann share their learnings from bringing lean startup principles and practices into a design consulting context.

As fast, user-centered development gains acceptance, many startups have successfully adopted a Lean Startup philosophy. But, why is it that many agencies and their clients still struggle to apply this methodology to larger-scale projects? What can – and should – consulting firms learn and embrace from startups? Expect war stories and hear personal anecdotes about what has or hasn't worked, and judge for yourself.