How I help

Stronger product practices. Built into the work.

For CPOs, VPs, CTOs, and Heads of Product at established organizations, wherever product sits in the company. I work alongside your organization to improve decisions, customer learning, collaboration, and practical AI use.

Typically, these are established companies with 100–5,000 employees and product managers or product leaders already in place. Product may report through product, operations, marketing, technology, data, digital, analytics, or AI. The important fit is a leader with the authority to change how the work happens.

Explore the Product Team Effectiveness Sprint

Start small. Continue where it helps.

The Sprint identifies where to focus. You can act on the priorities internally, work with Dave to improve them, or come back for advice later. Each next step is a separate decision.

  1. 01 / Diagnose

    Product Team Effectiveness Sprint

    2–3 weeks · Starting at $7,500 for one product team

    Find where one product team is losing effectiveness. Leave with an Effectiveness Map and clear priorities.

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  2. 02 / Improve

    Product Team Accelerator

    Approximately 90 days

    Dave joins your team’s real work, focusing on the two or three practices that deserve the most attention.

    See the Accelerator

  3. 03 / Sustain

    Product Leadership Advisor

    Ongoing support, as needed

    Keep an experienced product partner available for leadership questions, important decisions, and periodic reviews.

    Explore advisory support

Improve / Approximately 90 days

Product Team Accelerator

Work on the two or three areas the Sprint identifies as most important. We use current priorities, decisions, and workflows to build better practices while the team keeps working.

The focus might be discovery and customer learning, decision quality and prioritization, or collaboration and AI workflows. Product strategy, the product operating model, decision memory, and leadership coaching can also be part of the work. Every engagement has a defined focus.

What working together looks like

  • Agree on the practices to change and how we will tell whether they are helping.
  • Work with product leaders, PMs, and relevant engineering, design, and business partners inside real work.
  • Coach the people doing the work and build or test workflows where useful.
  • Review what changed, what the team should keep, and who will own it next.

You leave with the practices, reasoning, and tools developed together. Scope, access, and the team's participation are agreed before work begins.

Discuss your team's priorities

AI inside the engagement

From individual experiments to useful team workflows.

An AI Workflow Map helps us choose a task worth changing, identify the information it needs, and decide where human review belongs. That could mean research synthesis, decision retrieval, or reducing repetitive coordination. I can prototype agents, internal tools, and workflows alongside your team.

We work within approved tools and data boundaries, name an internal owner, and test with representative work. A prototype is an experiment. Anything moving into real use needs an agreed review. Access and approval affect what we can implement and when.

Sustain / Ongoing advisory

Product Leadership Advisor

For leaders who want continued access to Dave after the initial work. Keep an experienced partner available as new decisions, organizational questions, and workflow opportunities arise.

Support shaped around what you need

  • Leadership working sessions and major product decision reviews
  • Product organization and AI workflow guidance
  • Periodic effectiveness reviews
  • Limited async support, with availability and boundaries agreed together

We agree on the scope and cadence. The goal is to support your judgment and keep useful practices working.

Discuss advisory support

Also available in select situations

Select Fractional and Interim Product Leadership Engagements

When a senior product leadership seat needs to be filled, I can step into a fractional CPO or interim role. This can include product direction, prioritization, developing existing staff, and preparing for a permanent leader.

The engagement is designed to leave the reasoning behind, not just the decisions: a working rhythm, explicit context, and a handoff the next leader can use.

Discuss a leadership gap

A specific problem or a room full of product people?

Focused decision work, investment validation, analytics translation, and internal tools can support the same goal: a more effective product organization. Speaking and workshops are also available. Tell me about the situation.

Let's talk about what your team needs next.

Bring a real product-team problem. In a 25-minute conversation, we'll discuss what's getting in the way and whether there's a useful next step. If Beyond the Data isn't the right fit, I'll say so.

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