Soon after I was hired as the Head of Product for a German enterprise applications company which had recently acquired other companies, I realized that our company needed to be transformed from customer-specific project-led solutions to standard market-led products. The focus of my team had previously only been technical product management with little or no focus on either product strategy or sales enablement.

Based on these needs, I explored options for training that would be pragmatic, high quality and could scale up my team fast.

I had taken product management training as a student many times, and one trainer far outperformed the others: Steve Johnson. I reached out to Steve who, together with Grant Hunter, offers hands-on, simple and applied training at Product Growth Leaders.

Steve and Grant have a wealth of experience. They helped my team understand their techniques with practical examples. They also gave us guidance on how to overcome objections from internal company stakeholders who were focused on short-term results rather than long-term financial sustainability.

Since English is a second language for our team members, we appreciated being able to watch self-paced videos followed by weekly coach-led peer review sessions.

As a result of the training from Product Growth Leaders, my team is more effective and has higher quality standards for our work in managing our company’s products.

We plan to stay connected to Product Growth Leaders and will reach out to them in the future for deep dives on specific topics. We enthusiastically recommend Product Growth Leaders’ training to other companies who also want to transform their companies to be more strategic, market-focused, and financially successful over the long-term.