A private program for product and technology leadership teams leading their organizations through transformation in the age of AI.
Private cohort · Groups of 15+
The companies pulling ahead aren't just implementing AI tools — they're led by teams who've rethought how to set strategy, design organizations, and make decisions in a world where the landscape changes faster than planning cycles.
Six live sessions with Melissa Perri, content customized to your transformation, and your entire leadership team working through it together.
9 hours live with Melissa Perri — author of Escaping the Build Trap, Fortune 500 product advisor, and one of the most cited voices in product leadership worldwide. Every session, she's in the room.
Each session is framed around your company's specific transformation context. Real challenges your team is facing. Real decisions already on the table.
Every session, leaders apply the frameworks to the actual challenges they're facing. Leave each session with something directly applicable to the transformation already underway.
No strangers. The CPO, SVPs, and VPs of product — your entire leadership team in the same room, working through the transformation together. Alignment at this level multiplies impact all the way down the org.
Structured for leaders running large organizations. Sessions are spaced to allow application between them and scheduled around your team's calendar.
Leave the program with a leadership team genuinely aligned on strategy, priorities, and how to lead the transformation. When product leaders are aligned on direction and approach, it's a force multiplier for every product team beneath them. This is the asset that compounds long after the sessions end.
Eduardo B. Silva
Product Leader
"Melissa's workshop isn't about something you could either attend or learn by yourself by studying. It feels like she brings the experience of a hundred different people, and perfectly focused on the nitty-gritty work of a Product Leader."
Every session is your full product leadership team, working through the same transformation challenges together. No context switching, no competing agendas. One team, moving in the same direction.
Six live sessions that build the frameworks, systems, and alignment your leadership team needs to lead a product-led transformation in an AI-accelerated world — each one adapted to your organization's specific context.
Product leadership teams we've worked with to transform their organizations and the results they achieved.
Healthcare Technology
New company vision, product strategy, and product operations function deployed — with 350 product managers trained on a customized Product Institute curriculum.
Jonathan Porter CPO, athenahealth"Melissa and her team were instrumental in revitalizing and modernizing our product organization. They truly transformed us into a well aligned team."
Sales Tax Technology
TaxJar created a roadmap to triple their Serviceable Addressable Market and maintained 100%+ year-over-year growth.
Mark Faggiano CEO, TaxJar"Melissa and her team gave us clarity of direction and an actionable plan forward. They got us back on track thinking and acting fast to deliver customer value. It was amazing what they accomplished in 8 weeks."
Digital Asset Management
Bynder closed the year with record growth, cementing its position as the global leader in digital asset management.
Kevin Broom CPO, Bynder"Working with Melissa significantly expedited the time I needed to get to full speed in leading Bynder to its next stage of growth."
Healthcare Technology
CentralReach maintained transformation momentum and emerged with a clear, aligned product strategy.
Chris Sullens CEO, CentralReach"Melissa and her team provided the product leadership we needed to help us focus and accelerate our growth. We are confident and aligned around the direction our company is heading in."
Your Instructor
Melissa Perri is the founder and CEO of Product Institute, a product consultant to Fortune 500 companies, and one of the most cited voices in product leadership worldwide. She advises boards and executive teams on how to build product organizations that scale.
Melissa is the author of Escaping the Build Trap and co-author of Product Operations. She has taught Product Management at Harvard Business School and has trained leaders at Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Walmart, and Moderna.
We've written the books that helped shape modern product leadership.
Why product organizations default to output over outcomes — and what leadership has to do differently to break the pattern.
O'Reilly Media
The systems, data flows, and ways of working that let product teams make better decisions consistently.
The program is designed for product and technology leadership teams — typically the CPO and their direct reports — at mid-size to large organizations leading or preparing to lead a product-led transformation. Ideal participants include CPOs, SVPs of Product, VPs of Product, and senior Directors of Product. This is a team program: participants work through the curriculum together, not in a mixed public cohort.
The CPO Accelerator is an open cohort designed for individuals working toward or stepping into the CPO seat — focused on personal executive development. The Product Leadership Accelerator is a private program for the whole leadership team — the CPO and their direct reports — who are already in their roles and need to lead a transformation together. Content is shaped around your organization's specific context. The group works through shared challenges, not individual career development.
The Product Leadership Accelerator runs for groups of 15 or more. The ideal cohort is the CPO and their direct reports — but senior Directors are often included as well. There is no upper limit; we work with large leadership teams across complex organizations.
Before the program begins, we conduct a discovery session to understand your transformation context — where you are in the journey, the biggest obstacles your team is facing, and the decisions already on the table. The sessions are then framed around that context, so the frameworks land on real challenges your team is actually working through, not hypothetical scenarios.
Because this is a private cohort, scheduling is flexible and built around your leadership team's calendar. Sessions are typically spaced over several weeks to allow time for application between them. We work with your team to find timing that minimizes calendar conflicts across the group.
Pricing is based on the size of your leadership team and the scope of customization. Because this is a private program, we provide pricing on a per-engagement basis. Talk to our team and we'll walk through the program details and provide a proposal based on your specific context.
The program typically runs over 8–12 weeks, with six sessions spaced to allow application time between each one. The exact timeline is built around your leadership team's calendar and the pace that suits your transformation.
Yes. The program is designed for teams at both stages. If you're already mid-transformation, the sessions accelerate what's underway and close the alignment gaps that slow progress. If you're still preparing, the sessions give your leadership team the strategic foundation and shared approach to start well.
Talk to our team with a brief description of your team and your transformation context. We'll reach out to schedule an introductory call, walk through the program in detail, and discuss whether it's the right fit for your organization.
One strong product leader moves a team. A leadership tier that thinks and moves together multiplies that impact through every layer of the organization. Tell us where you're headed — we'll shape the program around your context.
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