Product training and speaking that inspires product teams to think differently
Navigating the messy reality of building products
Product leadership is a continuous journey of growing your craft and developing your team:
Setting a clear product direction sounds simple but delivering towards it is much harder
Your people might be:
Struggling to adopt and adapt modern, value-driven product practices to your organisational context
Unsure how to use data to uncover problems and explore opportunities with reduced risk
Feeling overwhelmed and concerned about how to be effective without burning out
There is a better way to navigate this messy reality
I can guide you.
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How I can help you
It doesn’t matter where you are starting from or your team’s level of product maturity. What matters is your collective desire to learn, grow and evolve. Training and speaking is tailored to your outcomes. With your commitment and my external perspective, we’ll set you up for success. Based on experience and with a critical eye, I build the competence and confidence of product teams in three ways:
Product training
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Workshops and sprints
Teams always want to build new product skills, sharpen existing muscles or tackle live problems and opportunities. I facilitate engaging, interactive, and practical workshops. These are designed to motivate your team and deliver results. I also facilitate focused sprints to craft your product vision or strategy and accelerate your discovery efforts.
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Product Training
Pragmatic, relevant and interactive training designed to start or accelerate your team’s journey towards more effective product ways of working.
Length: 6 x 3 hour training modules delivered every 2 weeks, supported by bi-weekly 1- hour coaching
Designed for: Product Leaders, Product Managers, Product Owners, Business Analysts, Designers, Engineers
Max participants: 10 (1-2 multidisciplinary teams)
Team Outcomes:
- Aligned to your context with pre-training assessment
- Applied understanding of ‘Product Mindset’
- Learn the topologies, practices, and anti-patterns to adopt product ways of working
- Learn practical techniques to build empathy with users or customers
- Recognise the necessity to create user and business value
- Think in problems and opportunities, generating ideas expansively
- Act like a scientist – uncovering assumptions and testing hypotheses
- Reduce risk and increase ‘time to money’ with prototyping
- Balance product discovery and product delivery
Outline:
- Product Mindset: what and why it is valuable
- How Product teams create value
- Building better understanding of your users/customers
- Balancing user problems with business realities
- Growing collaboration: building shared understanding and context
- Product ways of working cadence
- Problems and opportunities: ‘The Opportunity Solution Tree’ (OST)
- Making ‘assumptions’ part of daily conversations
- Gathering evidence to build confidence: creating and testing hypotheses
- Product discovery and delivery cycles
Speaking
Highly engaging and interactive talks designed for team meetings, away days, and conferences. Blending lived experience with practical ‘real world’ strategies to inspire and create conversation.
Team Outcomes:
- Learn how AI can accelerate discovery, prototyping and decision-making
- Develop practical strategies to balance automation with empathy for stronger team collaboration
- Discover how to free up time for creativity and meaningful product work
- Leave equipped to build a team that’s not just faster and smarter—but more human and impactful
Length: 1 hour
Designed for: Product Managers, Engineers, Designers, UX Researchers, business stakeholders
Max participants: Unlimited
Team Outcomes:
- Understand the fundamentals of product discovery
- Recognise the impact and contribution of multiple perspectives
- Be equipped to mitigate common anti-patterns (e.g.perceived lack of time)
- Find the fun and joy in collaborative discovery
- Feel inspired to do discovery better
Length: 1 hour
Designed for: Product Leaders, Product Managers, Product Owners, Business Analysts, Designers, Engineers
Max participants: Unlimited
Team Outcomes:
- Understand the importance of balancing technical and human skills
- Better understand themselves and others
- Recognise the human skills they possess and want to improve, and the human skills they want to learn
- Gain insight into the strategies and practices that can develop their human skills
- Better understand how to communicate and collaborate with each other
Workshops and sprints
Fun, energising and practical workshops or sprints designed to increase the momentum, motivation, and results of you and your team.
Length: 6 x 3 hour training modules delivered every 2 weeks, supported by bi-weekly 1- hour coaching
Designed for: Product Leaders, Product Managers, Designers, Engineers
Max participants: 8
Team Outcomes:
- Individuals recognise they aren’t alone in wanting to develop their storytelling skills
- Feel inspired by the power of stories to create impact
- Take away useful and practical techniques they can implement the next day
- Feel 1% more confident telling stories
- Better understand and connect with each other
Outline:
- Introductions and icebreakers
- What is storytelling?
- Why it matters in product
- Ingredients for impactful product stories
- Group discussion and Q&A
- Resources and commitments
Length: 2 hours
Designed for: Product Leaders, Product Managers, Designers, Engineers, Business Stakeholders
Max participants: 8
Team Outcomes:
- Leaders are clear on what is expected of them
- Leaders are clear what they expect from their teams
- Individuals on teams are clear on what they need to perform at their best
- Teams are clear on what each individual needs to perform at their best
Outline:
- Introductions and icebreakers
- Unpacking psychological safety and trust
- Why safe and trusting teams solve problems better
- How teams can build safety and trust
- Individual and group activities with discussion/Q&A
- Resources and commitments
Length: Variable depending on goals and team dynamics
Designed for: Product Managers Product Designers, Engineers, business stakeholders
Max participants: 8
Team Outcomes:
- Aligned to your context with pre-sprint assessment
- Increased confidence in discovery principles and practices
- Learn applicable techniques suitable for the team and business context
- Develop insight and evidence on problems / opportunities / solutions
- Develop a more consistent and sustainable discovery rhythm
Outline:
- Understand the user/customer
- Understand and select the problem/opportunity space
- Ideate potential solutions
- Prioritise most ‘valuable’ solutions
- Define assumptions
- Prototype and run experiments to test assumptions
- Evaluate assumption tests to shape next steps
- Frequent retrospectives and check-ins
Length: Variable depending on goals and team dynamics
Designed for: Product Leaders (including Engineering and Design Leaders), senior business stakeholders
Max participants: 8
Team Outcomes:
- Aligned to your context with pre-sprint assessment
- Leaders aligned on product direction and contribution to business outcomes
- Leaders have compelling and inspiring vision in a form they can communicate often
- Leaders make the difficult choices to set a clear product strategy
- Leaders clear and aligned on product outcomes and measures of success
Outline:
- Understand the business context (strategy and goals)
- Map product contribution to business success
- Describe and visualise future product state to support business success
- Understand product and market context (insight gathering)
- Mapping impactful opportunities and problems to solve
- Assess capabilities to win
- Set goals and frame riskiest assumptions
- Craft clear strategy story and narrative
- Socialise and seek feedback
- Iterating strategy
Get in touch if you have specific topics or problems in mind, or to discuss extended sessions for greater impact.
How I work
We begin with a discovery call to assess if we’re a good fit. I want you and your teams to achieve your outcomes, so you need the right facilitator or speaker. If that’s not me, I have many trusted product coaches in my network.
In the discovery call we’ll get to know each other, understand your organisational context and get clear on what success looks like.
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Testimonials
“Most people I meet in the product space chose a product career because they love working with technology and with other talented professionals to help improve the lives of their customers. So it bothers me greatly when I meet product leaders or product managers that tell me they’re unhappy at work. Fortunately, in many cases, coaching can make a real difference.
What I appreciate most about Nick is that he genuinely cares about helping product people work and live better, and he has coached many product leaders and product people towards greater personal and professional success and happiness.”
“Experiencing Nick’s coaching magic to grow my product leadership has been a blast! Our thought-provoking conversations helped me empower my teams with more agency, strengthening their focus on outcomes that deliver real value.
His innovative thinking and deep product experience were highly inspiring during one of the transformation workshops he facilitated for us on setting strategic context and direction.
If you need product coaching or a sounding board to help guide your transformation, Nick is your next product coach.”
“Having worked with Nick before, I knew he was the perfect mentor for my new team of product managers. I wanted to invest in the team’s growth by working with a coach who could bring an external perspective.
While technical skills are essential, what sets PMs apart is their ability to influence and collaborate across a business. Nick’s storytelling and influencing workshop gave the team fresh approaches, new ways of thinking about problems, and a burst of energy and motivation.
I can’t wait to work with Nick again to bring that extra pixie dust to our team!”
“Nick supported my team for 4 months and exceeded expectations in every way.
He guided our product strategy and coached us on continuous product discovery, bringing fresh energy to the team. His ability to quickly adapt to a new domain and connect with engineers was remarkable.
If you’re looking for a Product Coach who truly partners with your team, Nick is the one.”
“Driven. Thorough. Thought-provoking. These are just a few qualities that stand out when working with Nick.
When Nick speaks, he captivates the room, inspiring with a constant stream of innovative ideas. His energy for advancing products and customer experience is matched by his commitment to empowering the teams he partners with.
Nick’s dedication and passion make him an inspirational role model, highly regarded across the industry”
“Nick is an outstanding Product Coach. While at 101 Ways, I engaged Nick to advise and coach several of my technology clients. With 10+ years of product experience as an Individual Contributor and Product Leader, Nick’s pragmatic, human-first coaching approach delivers meaningful outcomes for people and teams.
Nick ran many workshops for our clients, proving himself an expert facilitator. He quickly builds trust, bringing every voice into the conversation – a skill he makes look effortless, using his experience as a Human Skills and Wellbeing trainer.
I couldn’t recommend Nick more highly.”
“During my time with FourthRev, we partnered with Nick to contribute to the King’s College London Product Management Career Accelerator. Nick shared his deep expertise and experience through engaging video content.
On set, Nick was calm, clear, and collected, delivering practical insights and case studies that added immense value to learners—not just in product management, but also in essential human skills and emotional intelligence.
Working with Nick was a pleasure. He was flexible, collaborative, and a true partner throughout the process. I’d love to work with him again!”
“Nick has been an exceptional Product Coach to me over the past few months. His deep knowledge and extensive experience in product management shine through in his coaching approach.
Nick has a unique ability to understand the daily challenges Product Managers face in complex organizations and offers practical, easy-to-implement solutions. His insights and guidance have been instrumental in my growth as a Senior Product Manager.”
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