I teach, advise, and host product leadership talks & workshops worldwide. I live in San Francisco.

Click below to watch my new "Customer Obsession" talk at Nir Eyal's "Habit Summit."  (NPS of 69.)

What's New

• I did an interview on the NYSE floor -- the first time I was back since Chegg went public in 2013.  Here is the interview for "Cheddar."
• I am the co-host of "Product Decoded," a podcast produced by Spero Ventures and the Product Leader Summit. In this episode, I interview Michael Sippey, the VP Product at Medium.  Click here to listen.
• I published my latest article, "How Netflix's Customer Obsession Created a Customer Obsession" on Medium.  Click here to read the article.

Upcoming public talks & workshops

• Cleveland, Oct. 1-3: Industry, The Product Conference
• San Francisco, Oct. 9: Amplitude Product Conference
• Boston, Oct. 12: Unbox Conference
• Melbourne, Oct. 17: "Hacking Your Product Leader Career" 1-day Workshop.
• Melbourne, Oct. 18: Leading the Product Conference
• Sydney, Oct. 22: "Hacking Your Product Leader Career" 1-day Workshop
• Sydney, Oct. 23: Leading the Product Conference
• London, Nov. 1: Jam Conference
• London, Nov. 2: "Hacking Your Product Leader Career" 1-day Workshop
• Salt Lake City, Nov. 8: Front Conference: "How to Become a World Class Product Leader" Half-day workshop
• NYC, Nov. 10: New York Product Conference
• NYC, Nov. 12: Products That Count
• Redwood City, CA, Nov. 14: Product Leader Summit 1-day Workshop
• Redwood City, CA, Nov. 15: Product Leader Summit
• Mountain View, CA, Dec. 6: Lean Product & Lean UX Meetup

ABout Me

As the former VP of Product at Netflix, Chief Product Officer at Chegg, SVP Product at The Learning Company, and a Producer at Electronic Arts, I have lots of experience building world-class products, teams, and companies.

Today, I take on three day/week "Executive-In-Residence" product roles and I am an adviser to consumer tech product leaders in San Francisco, Boston, NYC, and Salt Lake City.  I also teach a graduate-level entrepreneurship course at Stanford.

Every six months I co-host an invite-only 120-person Product Leader Summit.  The next two are November 15, 2018 in Redwood City, CA and May 2019 in NYC. Click here to apply.

My wife, Kristen Hege, is a physician/scientist working to cure cancer, my daughter Kelsey, lives in Boston (and follows Mom's career path) while daughter Brit, a senior at Colby College, has career aspirations more like mine. (Read more about Brit here.)

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