Throughout most of my career, I've operated at the intersection of product management and innovation management, driving the adoption of evidence-based practices rooted in Lean methodologies. With nearly 15 years of experience, I've held senior roles in product management, product marketing, and growth with technology companies in New York City, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley.I've also planned and facilitated hundreds of product and innovation-focused training programs, workshops, and consulting engagements across the U.S., Europe, and Asia—helping thousands of product leaders, startup founders, and corporate innovators validate and launch new products faster. This includes engagements with companies like SanDisk, Lowe's, Unilever, Panera Bread, Northwestern Mutual, Epson, Disney, LG, Fujitsu, and CBRE; plus many collaborations with consultancies like Mind the Product, Philosophie (InfoBeans), Foundry415, and Kromatic.Prior to founding LEANSTUDIO, I was on the leadership team at several high-growth startups, including Lean Startup Machine, Advisor, and CoreStream. I also teach semester-length courses on Design Thinking, Lean Startup, Prototyping, and other subjects at UC Berkeley and Omnes Education Group (France).KNOWN FOR:• Fostering a culture of validated learning in which all product, design, and marketing hypotheses are rigorously tested.• Cross-functional utility: the ability to listen deeply and communicate fluently with engineers, product managers, designers, researchers, sales, vendors, etc.• Ability to gain insight into the R.O.I. of product, design, and marketing efforts through actionable OKRs and outcome-oriented business goals.• Fostering strategic thinking in product leaders, deepening their understanding of business models and associated risks.SPECIALTIES:• Lean Startup, Systems Thinking, Design Thinking• Lean UX, User-Centered Design, User Research, User Testing, MVP Design, Experiment Design, Prototyping, Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch• Product Management, Product Strategy, Product Metrics, Product Leadership• Corporate Innovation, Innovation Management, Innovation Stakeholder Mapping, Innovation Ecosystem Design, Innovation Metrics, Innovation Governance, Innovation Culture• Web Analytics, Conversion Funnels, Behavioral Targeting, A/B Testing, Metrics Dashboards, CRM Reporting & Segmentation, Amplitude, Pendo, MixPanel• Agile, Scrum, Kanban, User Story Mapping, OKR Planning, Jira, Tracker• Event Planning & Production, Event Facilitation, Pitch Events, Design Sprint Facilitation, In-Person & Virtual Workshops