Purposeful Product Transformation & Setting Leaders Up For Success (with Stephanie Leue, CPO @ MindEx & Product Leadership Coach)

An interview with Stephanie Leue. Stephanie is a product leadership coach, and became CPO of MindEx since our interview. Previously she worked in a variety of roles after starting out at PayPal after being coached by Marty Cagan.

We talk about a lot, including:

Her leadership coaching, being an invisible companion and sparring partner
How she tries to set people up to not need her services, rather than continuously coaching them forever
Her passion for hypergrowth startups, and the difference between a startup and an unsuccessful small company
How a workshop with Marty Cagan left her realising that she had been a product manager all along
How PayPal was a launchpad for her career, and some surprising information about their waterfall practices when she joined
The challenges in transforming companies from waterfall to an agile product organisation
How product managers might not be able to change the entire organisation but that their mindset is still key to drive transformation
Whether lack of product thinking is the preserve of big companies alone, or if small startups can show the same behaviours
The importance of making conscious decisions about the type of company you are - marketing-led, sales-led or product-led
How she's not always been a good boss, thought she used to be terrible, and how she's using that to teach others to be better
The impact of holding back too long and not making timely decisions

And much more!

Contact Stephanie

You can reach out to Stephanie on LinkedIn or Twitter.