LevelUp! Leadership

22-03-2024

3 months

per person /
CHF

starting at CHF 2'490

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LevelUp! Leadership 2024

LevelUp! Leadership 2024

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Tanja Lau

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Leadership

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Would you like to apply for a leadership position in product soon and gain confidence and credibility for this next step in your career? Or have you recently been promoted to Head of Product and would like to set yourself up for success? Perfect! You've come to the right place. Our mentoring program is a unique opportunity to speed up your learning curve and avoid all the rookie mistakes.Learn from the best at Google, Booking.com, Airbnb or Amazon in a family-like atmosphere. Two offsites in the Swiss mountains combined with an online workshop day as well as 1:1 mentoring and coaching will prepare you to be a better product leader and increase your chances to get promoted. We are accepting applications for our Spring Edition 2024 - apply fast, especially if you are interested in one of our partial scholarships! Only two spots left... APPLY NOW!  

For Whom?

This program is for you if...
  • you are a (senior) product manager with about 3+ years of experience
  • you would like to become Head of Product / lead a group of product managers in the near future
  • you have recently been promoted to a leadership position and would like to feel more confident in this role
 

Trainer Crew

Our trainers, mentors and coaches are experienced product leaders who practice the art of product management at companies like Google, Trivago, Booking.com, Airbnb and more. Please check the trainer section on this page to see the complete line-up.  

What's included?

  • two weekend offsites in the mountains (1h from Berne) including accomodation and food
  • an online workshop day
  • two individual coaching sessions
  • four individual mentoring sessions
  • a buddy to team up with in class
  • preparation material for each workshop (including articles, videos and exercises)
 

Curriculum

You are in for a total of 9 interactive workshop sessions filled with the latest practices in lean product management, including topics like:
  • Product Strategy
  • Hiring & Coaching Product People
  • Economics & Finance Brush-Up
  • Entrepreneurship in Product
  • Product Ops
  • Structuring & Scaling Your Product Org
  • Building Learning Organizations
  • Self-Care for Product Leaders
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Dates

  • Offsite 1: March 22-24, 2024
  • Remote Workshop Day: May 7, 2024
  • Offsite 2: June 28-30, 2024
Please note that the prep work will start about 4-6 weeks before the first offsite.  

Application

Applications for our Spring Edition 2024 are open - and we only have two spots left. Apply fast for a chance to join this fabulous group! APPLY NOW! WAITLIST FOR FUTURE EDITIONS    

Price

CHF 2'490 - (excl. VAT) special scholarship rate We are on a mission to foster diversity in product and offer partial scholarships to support especially women and start-ups. With one of our limited partial scholarship you are saving over CHF 2'400 on the regular corporate price. Please note that scholarship holders may be asked to share a large room with another participant of the same sex (depending on the final number of applications).
    CHF 3'400 - Supporter Rate (excl. VAT) If somebody from your company is supporting the program as trainer, mentor or coach, you are entitled to a reduced corporate rate of CHF 3’400 excl. VAT. CHF 4'900 - regular corporate price (excl. VAT) With this rate we guarantee a single room with private bathroom.
   
This is the unique learning experience included in the price (excl. your individual travel costs and alcoholic beverages):
  • two weekend offsites in the mountains (1h from Berne) including accomodation and food
  • an online workshop day
  • two individual coaching sessions
  • four individual mentoring sessions
  • a buddy to team up with in class
  • preparation material for each workshop (including articles, videos and exercises)
 

Requirements & Application

All our trainers and coaches are dedicating a lot of passion and time to this program. Therefore, we expect our participants to make the most out of this great opportunity. The learning experience highly depends on your preparation and active participation in class. Here is how you apply and what we ask in return:

  • Be able to attend both offsites in person.
  • Complete all reading and homework assignments prior to the course (expected workload about 8 to 12 hours per month). We take this very seriously and certain parts of the workshop days might only be available to students who sent in their assignments in time.
  • Coordinate and attend your coaching and mentoring sessions by yourself (remotely or in person, depending on your coach and mentor)
  • Active participation in class.
The application process includes filling out an online form and answering several reflection questions in written form or via video.
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Our Main Teachers

Tanja Lau

Founder of Product Academy
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At Product Academy, Tanja is combining her passion for continuous learning with her professional background as product leader. As founding partner of start-ups in Munich, Madrid and Zurich, she has gained valuable entrepreneurial experience which she passes on in her classes and as public speaker on various occasions. She was listed among the top 50 […]

Kristina brings 11 years of digital experience to her current role as CEO at Nuri, an online bank based in Berlin. At the beginning of her career, Kristina worked as Mobile Consultant and Account Manager for Aperto Move and icon mobile, building up mobile strategies and creating innovative mobile solutions for major clients in the […]

Chiedza Muguti

Head of Product at Penta
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Chiedza is a committed and motivated servant leader of high performing product teams that continuously deliver successful outcomes based on collaborative ways of working and creative solution driven thinking. She is an assiduous Product Leader adept at growing and coaching teams in established corporates and scaling organisations, developing and implementing end to end organisational processes; […]

Albert Dias

Product Manager at Google
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Albert began his career by building award-winning digital products for companies like Adidas, Emirates and Mercedes. In 2008, he co-founded a $100mn travel e-commerce company, where he served as its Chief Product & Technology Officer. In 2020, he joined Google to manage ML products for the world’s largest video sharing platform – YouTube.

Dominique Jost

Head of Product at Doist
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Prior to his current position as Head of Product at Doist, Dominique has been with Scout24 Switzerland for 14 years, leading the product organization consisting of multiple cross functional, agile and international teams. With a background in software engineering, he started out writing code for Immoscout24.ch, and gradually transitioned into different leadership roles in engineering […]

Jack Berglund

ex-CPO of Doodle
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Jack loves building great products that improve people’s lives and enjoys solving problems and overcoming difficult challenges. As a product leader, he believes that: great products don’t happen by accident, you can never be too customer focused and that purpose is ultimately what drives teams to achieve greatness. In the past, he served as CPO […]

Yves Studer

COO at CASASOFT / Swiss Marketplace Group
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Yves worked as a Senior Consultant for Namics/Merkle during his studies in Business Administration and Computer Science, where he was advising clients in the Financial Services area around digital services/products and all things agile. After consulting, he co-founded a circular economy startup in Germany and then joined homegate.ch as Sr. Product Manager. Here, he set […]

Sascha Kropf

Head of Product Management at EAO
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Sascha studied mechanical engineering and has worked in various roles in product development, including Head of R&D and Head of Product Management. With more than 20 years of experience in the B2B and MedTech sector with teams in Switzerland, Germany, USA and China, he has developed a wide range of tools. In addition to team […]

Vanaja Sriskandarajah

VP of Product at Billie
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Vanaja is a fin-tech enthusiast, with over 10 years of banking and financial services experience. She currently leads the product team at Billie, which is aiming to revolutionize the B2B financing space. Prior to that, she was shaping the premium cards and insurance offering at N26 and helping it scale from a start-up to a […]

Tobias Quelle

Head of Product at Digitec Galaxus
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Tobias Quelle is an experienced e-commerce expert with a proven track record in several leading positions in the retail and ecommerce industry. He is a passionate product leader with a strong background in building high performance product teams, executing a customer driven product strategy and delivering products customers love. Tobias serves as the Head of […]

Saurabh Dagia

Principal Product Manager at Amazon
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Dagia has 15 years experience solving for customer problems working in fast paced environments across the world. He has worked with companies of varying sizes from startups to industry leaders such as Amazon and Procter & Gamble. At Amazon, Dagia has led product teams across different problem spaces such as Seller tools, Alexa Shopping, and […]

Regula Marti

Head of News Product Management at Tamedia
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Regula is a product manager in the media industry, passionate about being in the intersection of technology, journalism and engaged users. She currently leads the product team for the news sites of Tamedia, including Tages-Anzeiger, Berner Zeitung and Tribune de Genève. She has been with the company for over 5 years, working in various product […]

Noam Ben-Haim

Senior Director Booking.com
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Ben Haim currently serves as Senior Director Marketplace at Booking.com in Amsterdam. Prior to that, he has been with Google between 2007 and 2019, in Zurich since 2008. His last position at Google involved leading the Flights and Packages product teams. Before, Ben Haim worked on Google Maps, leading all the directions related product, including […]

A product management leader with a background in business strategy and international relations, Nina is currently working as CPO at Sherpany, a global software company helping enterprises solve the meeting madness. In her previous roles at Appway she was in charge of go-to-market and before that built and institutionalized product management during the company’s growth […]

Iulia Nastasa Jacobsson

Head of Product at Beekeeper
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Iulia brings experience from internships at Google and product manager jobs at ricardo and FIFa to her current position as Head of Product at the fast-growing startup Beekeeper.

Hélène Mory-Levert

Head of Product at Zenjob
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Hélène recently joined Zenjob as Product Leader for Machine Learning and Customer Journey. Prior to that, she has been driving product at Delivery Hero and in Zalando’s Sizing team, discovering and launching innovative machine learning based size guidance that helps customers find the right size online. She has been an advocate of machine learning based […]

Cosima doesn’t just talk the talk, she walks the walk. She develops great technological products, which are both desired and bought by customers. She ensures the success of the product and new product features as well as sustains the success by talking regularly to the users. With a dual background in Business Intelligence and Quantitative […]

Diogo Coutinho is a Product leader with extensive experience in consumer and B2B products, having worked for large and medium-sized companies, as well as startups. Past companies include Telefonica, Shell, Three UK, the JUST EAT Group and Adevinta. He’s currently the CPO of CloudCall, leading the Product and Technology functions, setting the vision, strategy and […]

Alexandru Bleau

ex Head of Alternative Monetization at Trivago
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Alex is a seasoned product manager with over 8 years experience. He has worked on or built advertising products, online services, mobile apps and games and physical, educational and travel products. He’s also had the chance to experience working at companies with 2, 20, 200 and over 1000 employees, trying out various ways of working, […]

Andrew Martinez-Fonts

Group PM at Contentful
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Andrew is a veteran product manager and product leader with experience at Bay Area companies like Yelp, eBay, Prosper, and Silver Spring Networks. He has a degree in Product Design from Stanford University, and spent the first five years of his career as a digital product designer at various agencies. In 2016, Andrew moved from […]

Aude Morandi-Tinguely

Director of Product at Swisscom
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After starting her career in management and marketing, Aude moved into digital product management 10 years ago. After several years as Director of Product for the classified marketplace anibis.ch at Swiss Marketplace Group (formerly Scout24), she is currently Director of Product Management at Swisscom, responsible for the discovery and development of conversational and generative AI […]

Alexandra Lung

VP of Product at Signaturit
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Alexandra is a product leader and a digital transformation expert who’s been in the game for more than 10 years.Originally from Romania where she worked as a consultant in new business launch. Previously held positions in marketing, communication, product strategy and development and consulting in digital transformation. She’s been building products for years touching various […]

Diogo Coutinho is a Product leader with extensive experience in consumer and B2B products, having worked for large and medium-sized companies, as well as startups. Past companies include Telefonica, Shell, Three UK, the JUST EAT Group and Adevinta. He’s currently the CPO of CloudCall, leading the Product and Technology functions, setting the vision, strategy and […]

Diogo Coutinho is a Product leader with extensive experience in consumer and B2B products, having worked for large and medium-sized companies, as well as startups. Past companies include Telefonica, Shell, Three UK, the JUST EAT Group and Adevinta. He’s currently the CPO of CloudCall, leading the Product and Technology functions, setting the vision, strategy and […]

Jack Berglund

ex-CPO of Doodle
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Jack loves building great products that improve people’s lives and enjoys solving problems and overcoming difficult challenges. As a product leader, he believes that: great products don’t happen by accident, you can never be too customer focused and that purpose is ultimately what drives teams to achieve greatness. In the past, he served as CPO […]

Jack Berglund

ex-CPO of Doodle
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Jack loves building great products that improve people’s lives and enjoys solving problems and overcoming difficult challenges. As a product leader, he believes that: great products don’t happen by accident, you can never be too customer focused and that purpose is ultimately what drives teams to achieve greatness. In the past, he served as CPO […]

Nesrine Changuel

Senior Product Manager at Google
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Nesrine is a passionate and experienced Product Manager. She has managed highly visible consumer products for the past nine years focusing on strategic initiatives that distil deeply ingrained aspects of media experience into simple, fun, and useful features. Currently, she is working as Senior Product Manager at Google, where she is focusing on increasing productivity […]

Nesrine Changuel

Senior Product Manager at Google
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Nesrine is a passionate and experienced Product Manager. She has managed highly visible consumer products for the past nine years focusing on strategic initiatives that distil deeply ingrained aspects of media experience into simple, fun, and useful features. Currently, she is working as Senior Product Manager at Google, where she is focusing on increasing productivity […]

Dominique Jost

Head of Product at Doist
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Prior to his current position as Head of Product at Doist, Dominique has been with Scout24 Switzerland for 14 years, leading the product organization consisting of multiple cross functional, agile and international teams. With a background in software engineering, he started out writing code for Immoscout24.ch, and gradually transitioned into different leadership roles in engineering […]

Dominique Jost

Head of Product at Doist
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Prior to his current position as Head of Product at Doist, Dominique has been with Scout24 Switzerland for 14 years, leading the product organization consisting of multiple cross functional, agile and international teams. With a background in software engineering, he started out writing code for Immoscout24.ch, and gradually transitioned into different leadership roles in engineering […]

Sandra Juras

Senior PM at Personio
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As a self-taught Product Manager, Sandra knows how it is to learn on the job while going through and driving an agile transformation in a company. She strongly believes that Product Thinking shouldn’t stop with building a product but is a mindset on how to solve problems that deliver business value that needs to span […]

Sandra Juras

Senior PM at Personio
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As a self-taught Product Manager, Sandra knows how it is to learn on the job while going through and driving an agile transformation in a company. She strongly believes that Product Thinking shouldn’t stop with building a product but is a mindset on how to solve problems that deliver business value that needs to span […]

Chiedza Muguti

Head of Product at Penta
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Chiedza is a committed and motivated servant leader of high performing product teams that continuously deliver successful outcomes based on collaborative ways of working and creative solution driven thinking. She is an assiduous Product Leader adept at growing and coaching teams in established corporates and scaling organisations, developing and implementing end to end organisational processes; […]

Chiedza Muguti

Head of Product at Penta
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Chiedza is a committed and motivated servant leader of high performing product teams that continuously deliver successful outcomes based on collaborative ways of working and creative solution driven thinking. She is an assiduous Product Leader adept at growing and coaching teams in established corporates and scaling organisations, developing and implementing end to end organisational processes; […]

Tilke Judd

Senior Product Manager at Google
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Tilke Judd is a Product Manager working on the Google assistant. During her 7 years at Google she was a product manager on Google Alerts, Google Search and the Google Assistant. Prior to Google she completed her BS in Math, and MS and PhD in Computer Graphics from MIT while dabbling in digital video making […]

Tilke Judd

Senior Product Manager at Google
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Tilke Judd is a Product Manager working on the Google assistant. During her 7 years at Google she was a product manager on Google Alerts, Google Search and the Google Assistant. Prior to Google she completed her BS in Math, and MS and PhD in Computer Graphics from MIT while dabbling in digital video making […]

Julia Bastian

VP Product bei Alasco
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Julia ist aktuell VP Product bei Alasco, einem schnell skalierenden Proptech aus München. Ihre Leidenschaft liegt hierbei insbesondere in der Product Discovery. In ihrem vorherigen Job als Innovationsberaterin hat sie viele verschiedene Unternehmen (in der Finanz- Automobil- oder Tourismusbranche) dabei unterstützt, neue Produkte & Services kundenzentriert zu entwickeln, zu testen und umzusetzen. Dadurch greift sie […]

Julia Bastian

VP Product bei Alasco
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Julia ist aktuell VP Product bei Alasco, einem schnell skalierenden Proptech aus München. Ihre Leidenschaft liegt hierbei insbesondere in der Product Discovery. In ihrem vorherigen Job als Innovationsberaterin hat sie viele verschiedene Unternehmen (in der Finanz- Automobil- oder Tourismusbranche) dabei unterstützt, neue Produkte & Services kundenzentriert zu entwickeln, zu testen und umzusetzen. Dadurch greift sie […]

Sophia Höfling

Head of Product and Co-Founder at Saiga
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Sophia hat eine grosse Leidenschaft für menschliche Technologie und liebt es, Probleme durch discovery und Experimente zu lösen. Im Jahr 2021 kam Sophia als Co-Founder und Head of Product zu Saiga – einem KI-Startup, das einen digitalen, persönlichen Assistenten für die Verwaltung des Privatlebens entwickelt. Vor Saiga war Sophia Head of Product beim Sprachlern-Scale-up Babbel […]

Sophia Höfling

Head of Product & Co-Founder at Saiga
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Sophia is a product person with a passion for humanizing technology who enjoys solving problems through discovery and rapid experimentation. In 2021, Sophia joined Saiga – an AI start-up developing a digital, personal assistant for private life admin – as a late co-founder and Head of Product. Before Saiga, Sophia was a product leader at […]

Daniel Käser

CPO bei Migros Online
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Daniel führt sein Produktteam mit dem klaren Ziel, dessen Impact zu maximieren – durch eine moderne und produktzentrierte Entwicklungsabteilung, die basierend auf Best Practices arbeitet und Produkte kreiert, die User lieben. Derzeit ist er als CPO von Migros Online tätig, wo er den Aufbau einer neuen Produktabteilung vom Start weg begleitet hat mit einer Vision […]

Daniel Käser

CPO at Migros Online
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Daniel is a product leader with clear goal to maximize the team’s impact, by creating a best-practices, modern and product-centric product development organization that builds products that users love. He’s currently the CPO of Migros Online, where they have built a new product organization from scratch with a new vision of a digital supermarket that […]

David is a versatile product leader with over 15 years of experience in building and scaling digital products and business models. After graduating from University of St. Gallen, David started his career in technology consulting and then moved on to become a co-founder of the tech startup Localina. Having exited the startup to local.ch (Swisscom) […]

Laurène Racine

VP Product at Femtec Health
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Laurène is a product leader in health tech with a special focus on women’s health. She currently is VP Product at Femtec Health and formerly led Product at Ava Science, thereby leveraging technology to transform healthcare. She is trained in law (University of Zurich), business (University of St. Gallen) and Design Thinking (Stanford University).

Laurène Racine

VP Product at Femtec Health
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Laurène is a product leader in health tech with a special focus on women’s health. She currently is VP Product at Femtec Health and formerly led Product at Ava Science, thereby leveraging technology to transform healthcare. She is trained in law (University of Zurich), business (University of St. Gallen) and Design Thinking (Stanford University).

Benedict Marzahn

Head of Product at Alasco
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Benedict is a product manager with many years of leadership and strategy experience. After more than 10 years in the digital industry and positions at large companies such as the German media group STRÖER and the international comparison portal CHECK24, Benedict is now Head of Product at PropTech start-up Alasco and responsible for the development […]

Floriane Gramlich

former CPO at Zalando (Payments)
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Floriane is a senior product & commercial tech savvy leader with broad international experience in product management, strategy, growth, business development & analytics (17+ yrs work experience). Floriane is currently starting her own freelance and consultancy practice to support people and companies in getting better in doing product management. Before, she served as CPO/Director of […]

Robert Schenkenfelder

Head of Digital Product Experience at epitome
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Robert Schenkenfelder has entered the product scene from an engineering side of life, having been both Android and iOS developer previously before becoming a Product Owner and making his way up to several Product Leadership positions. He loves the combination of well-crafted software and a product with great user experience, but even more so helping […]

Alessandro Petri

Chief Product Manager at QuantPI
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Alessandro is a seasoned B2B product leader with 19 years professional experience across different roles in different industries, always at the intersection of people, business and technology. His background includes roles in software engineering, technology adoption and change management, customer success and more recently product leadership as VP Product at Celonis, Signavio and SAP. His […]

Tania Forshtadt

Group Product Manager at Booking.com
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Tania is a Group Product Manager at Booking.com where she has built from 0 the Consumer Fraud Product department which consists of six teams, over the past nine years. She manages four direct reports, whose experience ranges from juniors to principals including people managers. In addition to launching multiple ML products and teams from scratch, […]

Mario Schwarz

Product Lead at Europace AG
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Mario is originally from the South of Germany where “Schaffa schaffa, Häusle baua” (meaning work, work, work and build houses) is the people’s slogan and deeply rooted into its’ culture. This has shaped his strong work ethic and high resilience while staying humble from a young age on. He is a Product Enthusiast and Leader […]

Antonia Landi

Product Operations Consultant & Coach
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Antonia is a Product Operations Consultant & Coach, and one of the top voices in European Product Operations. She’s a firm believer in enabling product organisations to achieve Product Excellence with the power of Product Ops – whether as an independent function or a shared responsibility. A leader in her field, she’s on a constant […]

Katarina Lechner

Head of Product at Archlet
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Kat has over 10 years of experience in bringing successful products to life and leading product and BI teams in fintech, proptech and procuretech (365.bank, Crowdhouse, Archlet). She enjoys spending time with the customers, understanding their feelings and turning complex problems into powerful and simple data products. She loves the learning process and as her […]

Dorra Mlouhi

Senior Technical Product Manager
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Dorra is an experienced senior technical product manager with more than 7 years of experience. She is currently working as a senior technical product manager at Amazon. From engineering school to public speaking and leadership studies at SMU Dallas to product management, Dorra gained a wealth of experience that she is now using to build […]

Vipul Agarwal

Head of App Product at Trivago
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Vipul has been working in B2C product roles for the past 10 years. He brings in expertise in growing mobile App products in diverse sectors, notably travel tech products such as Booking.com and currently, Trivago, where he is leading the App product. He has a wide breadth of experience spanning both sides of the marketplace across organizations […]

Price : starting at CHF 2'490 CHF

Max Availability : 4

Difficulty : Intermediate

Location : online & mountain offsite 1h from Berne

Typology : English

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