Kate Blair is a Disruptive technology 🤝 Making useful things for people at work at IBM. Colleagues describe her as "Thoughtful and fast. Very few people are naturally both, but those two attributes stand out when I consider Kate’s work and contributions to the Product Management transformation we undertook at IBM. While simultaneously defining a new, modern PM practice, and recruiting and training new PMs in the hundreds, Kate was instrumental in making this talent program such a success. Versatile, with attention to detail, always pragmatic and never blocked, Kate created a day-to-day learning experience for our new hires, while simultaneously improving our PM practice and artifacts. Kate is a natural, modern product leader. She moves fast when there’s certainty while practicing experiment-and-learn when there are unknowns. Combine that with classic PM traits such as cross-functional leadership, strong analytical and communication skills, and you have an exceptional product person that I recommend highly."