Speaking · workshops · panels
Better leadership beats faster execution.
I help rooms full of product leaders think more clearly about AI, decision-making under pressure, and the work of building teams that stay relevant.
The human advantage in the age of AI.
Product teams have more tools, data, and AI support than ever. Yet many still struggle to make good decisions and build the right products. The real constraint is no longer execution. It's what happens when leaders are under pressure, lack clear answers, and feel they need to appear confident and in control. In this talk I share what I see as the human advantage: leaders who are open about uncertainty, invite challenge, and surround themselves with trusted peers make better decisions earlier, surface problems sooner, and build teams where ownership is real. AI raises the baseline of delivery. When speed becomes a given, leadership behaviour is the differentiator.
What you'll leave with
- Why decision quality drops when leaders operate in isolation or feel they need to have all the answers.
- How better conversations, earlier, translate into better product outcomes.
- Concrete leadership behaviours that surface problems sooner, build stronger ownership, and raise team performance.
What I'm happy to dig into.
AI in product development
Strategy, adoption, and the operating model shifts that turn AI from threat into structural advantage.
Decision-making under pressure
How great product leaders stay clear-headed when answers are unclear and stakeholders want certainty.
Building communities at scale
Lessons from running Product Circle in 16+ countries. Why intimacy outperforms reach.
The future of product leadership
What changes, and what doesn't, when delivery is no longer the bottleneck.
From engineer to product
The systems mindset, applied to building software, teams, and the organisations around them.
Innovation in established companies
How to fund, structure, and protect new bets without breaking the core business.
Planning something for your team or community?
Get in touch →30–45 minutes. Conferences, all-hands, internal product days.
Half-day or full-day. Hands-on with leadership teams or product orgs.
Moderated conversation, host or guest. Honest, specific, no slides.
Rooms I've been in.
- OutSystems
- Feedzai
- SIBS
- NOVA SBE
- Técnico Lisboa
- ISCTE Executive Education
- Productized Conference
- Builders Camp
- Founders Institute
Listen first.
Planning something for your team or community?
Tell me about the audience and the format.
Keynote, workshop, panel, podcast. Share what you have in mind and I'll tell you honestly whether I'm a fit. Reply usually within a day.
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