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Innovative Product Leadership: The Emerging Chief Product Officer

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Develop strategic frameworks, customer empathy, and communication and leadership skills to help you move from product management to the C-suite.

Today’s chief product officers have more responsibilities, impact, and influence than ever before. With the product function growing in importance, product managers striving to reach the C-suite need to think and lead more strategically. Innovative Product Leadership: The Emerging Chief Product Officer helps prepare you for this highly demanding and desirable role.

This one-week, interdisciplinary program is designed for senior-level product managers with their sights set on becoming a more strategic CPO. Explore which approaches and frameworks will help your organization gain a competitive advantage. Discover how customer insights can inform product development. Learn how to communicate with purpose and exert influence without authority. And develop leadership skills that motivate cross-functional teams to drive product innovation.

 

 

 

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Key Benefits

Learn product management strategies, innovative approaches, and bold leadership required in the C-suite.

  • Learn product management strategies, innovative approaches, and bold leadership required in the C-suite.
  • Develop new tools to strengthen the product management process across larger portfolios.
  • Influence product decision-making with the customer at the center.
  • Enhance your internal and external communication skills.
  • Build leadership skills to manage and motivate cross-functional teams.
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Who Should Attend?

  • Experienced product managers and aspiring chief product officers who are motivated to lead and ignite change in their organizations — from any industry and country
  • Senior-level product managers with at least eight years of product management experience — from any size or stage company
  • Technically-minded product managers seeking business expertise to take on more senior-level strategic roles in their organization
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24 Aug 2025 – 29 Aug 2025

In-Person | Stanford, CA | US $16,000

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Deadline

01 Aug 2025

Application Requirements

Qualified candidates are admitted on a rolling, space-available basis. Early applications are encouraged.

Payment Information

The program fee includes tuition, private accommodations, all meals, and course materials.

Payment is due upon admission. Your space is secured upon receipt of full payment.

Awarded Upon completion

Certificate of completion
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Contact

Christine Coli | Associate Director, Programs, Executive Education
Christine Coli
Associate Director Executive Education
+1 (650) 723-3341
Program Overview

Program Overview

Hear faculty co-directors Baba Shiv and Jonathan Levav discuss how Innovative Product Leadership: The Emerging Chief Product Officer will help you develop the strategy, communication, and leadership skills needed to join the C-suite.

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Faculty Leadership

Jonathan Levav
Jonathan Levav
The King Philanthropies Professor of Marketing
Baba Shiv
Baba Shiv
The Sanwa Bank, Limited, Professor of Marketing
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