The right product leadership speakers don't just inspire a room—they reshape how you think about building products, leading teams, and driving outcomes. I've pulled together the speakers who bring real depth: practitioners and visionaries who've navigated the hard tradeoffs you face daily.
Whether you're planning a company event, conference, leadership session, or team offsite, this list will help you discover product leaders worth considering for your next speaker lineup.
Top 30 Product Leadership Speakers
Below are the profiles of the top product leadership speakers, covering who they are and the impact they’ve made in this space.
Marty Cagan
Product Leadership Author, Advisor & Partner at Silicon Valley Product Group
United States
Focus area:
#Product leadership#Product operating model#Empowered teams#Product strategy
Marty Cagan founded Silicon Valley Product Group after product leadership roles at HP, Netscape, and eBay. He writes, speaks, advises, and coaches leaders on building successful products.
Through books including Inspired, …
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Martin Eriksson
Product Leadership Author & Advisor
London, United Kingdom
Focus area:
#Product leadership#Product strategy#Strategic alignment#Product communities
Martin Eriksson is a product leader, advisor, author, and speaker who founded ProductTank, co-founded Mind the Product, and co-authored Product Leadership after more than three decades in tech.
Eriksson has helped define…
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Melissa Perri
Product Management Expert, Advisor & Founder and Lead Instructor at Product Institute
United States
Focus area:
#Product leadership#Product strategy#Product-led organizations#Product operations
Melissa Perri is CEO and founder of Produx Labs, a product strategy advisor, and author of Escaping the Build Trap. She also founded Product Institute and has taught at Harvard Business…
Teresa Torres
Author, Speaker, Product Discovery Coach at Product Talk
Bend, United States
Focus area:
#Continuous discovery#Customer interviews#Product decision-making#Product coaching
Teresa Torres is a product discovery coach, author, speaker, and founder of Product Talk. She has coached product teams for years and wrote Continuous Discovery Habits, a guide to discovery.
Torres…
Christian Idiodi
Partner at Silicon Valley Product Group
United States
Focus area:
#Product leadership#Product operating model#Product transformation#Product coaching
Christian Idiodi is a product partner at Silicon Valley Product Group and a longtime product leader who has built teams and products at CareerBuilder, Snagajob, and Merrill Corporation.
Idiodi helps organizations strengthen…
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Petra Wille
Product Leadership Coach, Author & Founder and Curator at Product at Heart
Hamburg, Germany
Focus area:
#Product leadership#Product culture#Leadership development#Empowered teams
Petra Wille is an independent product leadership coach and author. She helped companies strengthen product culture and leaders since 2013, after years in hands-on product leadership roles.
Her book Strong Product People…
Dan Olsen
Product Management & AI Trainer, Consultant & Speaker
United States
Focus area:
#Product-market fit#Lean product#Product strategy#Customer discovery
Dan Olsen is a product management consultant, trainer, author, and speaker. He works with CEOs and product leaders through Olsen Solutions and wrote The Lean Product Playbook on product-market fit.
Olsen’s Lean…
Rich Mironov
Product Executive Coach, Consultant & CEO/Interim Product Management Executive at Mironov Consulting
United States
Focus area:
#Product leadership#Product strategy#Product economics#CPO coaching
Rich Mironov is a product executive coach, consultant, and longtime product leader behind Product Bytes. He advises CPOs and organizations on strategy, leadership, and product economics.
Mironov brings a business lens to…
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Vrushali Paunikar
Chief Product Officer at Carta
San Francisco, United States
Focus area:
#Product leadership#Fintech#Platform products#Venture capital technology
Vrushali Paunikar is Chief Product Officer at Carta, where she leads development of new and existing solutions after earlier product leadership work across valuation and venture capital businesses.
Paunikar has helped build…
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Itamar Gilad
Product Strategy Coach & Author
Barcelona, Spain
Focus area:
#Product strategy#Evidence-guided management#Product discovery#GIST
Itamar Gilad is a product management coach, author, and speaker with more than two decades in senior product and engineering roles at Google, Microsoft, and startups, including Gmail and YouTube.
Gilad created…
Gibson Biddle
Product Strategy Advisor & Teacher
Bend, United States
Focus area:
#Product strategy#Product leadership#Product culture#Organizational design
Gibson Biddle is a product advisor, speaker, teacher, and former VP of Product at Netflix and CPO of Chegg. He now works with product leaders on strategy, culture, and organizational design.
Biddle…
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Jeetu Patel
President & Chief Product Officer at Cisco
United States
Focus area:
#Product strategy#AI#Enterprise technology#Product innovation
Jeetu Patel is President and Chief Product Officer at Cisco, leading global product vision and strategy across networking, security, collaboration, Splunk, computing, and other major categories.
Patel brings product strategy, design, development,…
Simone Paul Tamussin
Senior Vice President Product Management at Amadeus
Focus area:
#Payments#Digital commerce#Payment gateways#Global product management
Simone Paul Tamussin is a Mastercard product executive focused on global payment gateway services, with leadership responsibility spanning product management, development, and digital commerce.
Tamussin’s work sits where product leadership meets the…
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John Cutler
Product Director at West Monroe
Focus area:
#Product strategy#Systems thinking#Product analytics#Team effectiveness
John Cutler is a product thinker, writer, coach, and former Product Evangelist at Amplitude. His work explores healthy product teams, strategy, systems thinking, analytics, and decision-making.
Cutler is known for unpacking the…
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Mamuna Oladipo
Founder & CEO at Theme Health
New York, United States
Focus area:
#Product leadership#Digital health#Data products#Consumer products
Mamuna Oladipo is founder and CEO of Theme Health and a product leader who has built products across complex consumer and data-driven businesses and now applies that experience to chronic care.
Oladipo…
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Rob Seaman
EVP & General Manager at Slack
Focus area:
#AI products#Workplace collaboration#Product innovation#Agentic software
Rob Seaman is EVP and General Manager at Slack, where he leads work on the platform as AI agents reshape workplace collaboration. His product leadership includes Slackbot’s reinvention as an AI agent.
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Tim Holley
Chief Product Officer at MyFitnessPal
Focus area:
#Consumer products#Product operating model#Growth#Health technology
Tim Holley is Chief Product Officer at MyFitnessPal, leading product management, design, product marketing, and research after a long product leadership career at Etsy, where he grew its marketplace.
Holley is leading…
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Leah Tharin
Growth and Product Mom at Fyxer AI
Switzerland
Focus area:
#Product-led growth#B2B SaaS#Monetization#Retention
Leah Tharin is a product and growth leader, advisor, and writer. His work spans product-led growth, B2B SaaS, retention, and monetization. She serves as Chief Product & Growth Officer at Fyxer AI.
…
Ant Murphy
Product Coach & Founder of Product Pathways
Australia
Focus area:
#Product coaching#Product operating model#Product leadership#Product discovery
Ant Murphy is a product coach and founder who works with CPOs, founders, product leaders, and teams on stronger product practices, leadership, and transitions to the product operating model.
Murphy combines one-to-one…
Elena Verna
Head of Growth at Lovable
United States
Focus area:
#Product-led growth#B2B SaaS#Monetization#Growth strategy
Elena Verna is Head of Growth at Lovable and a longtime B2B SaaS growth operator. Her career includes leadership work at SurveyMonkey, Miro, Amplitude, Dropbox, and Netlify across self-serve growth.
Verna works…
Aparna Sinha
SVP of Product & EnterpriseAlignedAI Podcast Host
Palo Alto, United States
Focus area:
#AI products#Developer platforms#Cloud infrastructure#Product leadership
Aparna Sinha is SVP of Product and host of EnterpriseAlignedAI podcast. Her work spans enterprise AI and ML at Capital One and a decade at Google, including Google Cloud.
Sinha combines deep…
Noa Ganot
Founder & CEO at Infinify
Israel
Focus area:
#Product leadership#Product strategy#Product-market fit#Executive mentoring
Noa Ganot is founder and CEO of Infinify, a product leadership academy, and a veteran product executive who has led products and teams at eBay Israel, Twiggle, and Imperva across B2B and…
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Dave Bottoms
Chief Product Officer at PlayOn Sports
United States
Focus area:
#Product strategy#Marketplaces#Consumer products#Product-led growth
Dave Bottoms is Chief Product Officer at PlayOn Sports, leading product strategy and development across GoFan, MaxPreps, and the NFHS Network after senior roles at Upwork, Meta, Dropbox, and Yahoo.
Bottoms brings…
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Elena Leonova
Co-Founder / CEO & CPO at OneRank.io
Focus area:
#Product strategy#Executive decision-making#B2B products#Platform products
Elena Leonova is a former Chief Product Officer, executive product strategy advisor, speaker, and founder of OneRank, with experience scaling B2B and platform products across global markets.
Leonova works with senior product…
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John Manganaro
Chief Product Officer at Bonterra
Austin, United States
Focus area:
#Product leadership#SaaS#Data products#Social-impact technology
John Manganaro is Chief Product Officer at Bonterra, where he leads product management, user experience and design, and data science for software serving nonprofit and social-impact organizations.
Manganaro’s career spans SaaS, analytics,…
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Matt LeMay
Product Author & Consultant
London, United Kingdom
Focus area:
#Product leadership#Business impact#Product strategy#Team effectiveness
Matt LeMay is a product leader, consultant, and author whose books include Impact-first Product Teams and Product Management in Practice. His career includes product roles at Songza and Bitly.
LeMay pushes…
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Randy Silver
Product & Leadership Coach
United Kingdom
Focus area:
#Product leadership#Product strategy#CPO coaching#Product communities
Randy Silver is a product and leadership coach, consultant, community builder, and former Head of Product at HSBC and Sainsbury’s. He also co-hosts The Product Experience podcast and runs CPO Circles.
Silver…
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Tim Herbig
Product Management Coach, Author & Speaker
Germany
Focus area:
#Product strategy#Product OKRs#Product discovery#Outcome-driven teams
Tim Herbig is a product management coach, consultant, author, and speaker. He helps teams connect product strategy, goals, OKRs, and discovery to make clearer, evidence-based decisions.
Herbig’s work challenges teams to measure…
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Aakash Gupta
Product & Growth Educator
United States
Focus area:
#AI product management#Growth strategy#Product careers#Product leadership
Aakash Gupta is a product and growth writer, educator, and podcast host with operating experience at thredUP, Affirm, and Apollo.io. He publishes Product Growth and AI by Aakash for product leaders.
Gupta…
Radhika Dutt
Product Author & Strategy Advisor
United States
Focus area:
#Product strategy#Product vision#Innovation#Radical Product Thinking
Radhika Dutt is an entrepreneur, product leader, and author of Radical Product Thinking. She advises organizations on product thinking and teaches entrepreneurship and innovation at Northeastern.
Dutt developed Radical Product Thinking…
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Selection Methodology
I selected the leaders on this list based on their relevance, demonstrated expertise and impact, professional credibility, and ongoing contributions to the field.
I look for evidence such as leading meaningful initiatives or delivering notable results within their organizations, developing influential ideas or practices, publishing research or educational resources, speaking or teaching, and other contributions that demonstrate impact within their work or the broader field.
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