Masterclass 6: The Future-Ready Product Leader

Morning Topic:

Shaping a Product Roadmap That Wins

A practical guide to combining corporate strategy and user preferences into product reality 

Many product managers struggle to translate high-level corporate strategy into meaningful product decisions. The gap between what the company wants and what users actually need often becomes a fog of features, assumptions, and competing priorities. Roadmaps drift into maintenance and compromises. Teams lose focus. And products fail to move the needle.

This masterclass gives you the tools, mindset, and structure to bridge that gap.

We begin by showing how to turn strategic intent into a clear, value-driven roadmap, one grounded in real user impact rather than internal noise or legacy plans. You’ll learn how to assess the strength of your roadmap, how to judge what truly belongs on it, and how to draw inspiration from world-class products far beyond your own industry.

We then dive into how to make that roadmap work inside your organisation: how to protect it from shifting opinions, politics, and corporate processes, how to communicate it with conviction, and how to make tough prioritization calls with confidence and clarity.

You’ll walk away with:

• A clear method and framework for translating corporate strategy into product decisions that users actually want
• A checklist of what your product strategy must be able to answer, and what you need to know before creating your roadmap
  
• A model for prioritizing competing initiatives based on their value and impact
• Techniques to break vertical tunnel vision through cross-industry product inspiration

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Afternoon Topic:

Clarity of Direction: Finding the Lost Art of Product Vision and Strategy

How to guide human teams in an era of machine intelligence

Everyone talks about vision and strategy. Few can actually name their own.

In this story-driven, hands-on masterclass, the Hey Clarity team helps you rediscover the lost art of giving product teams true clarity of direction – through strong, living product visions and strategies that truly guide decisions.

While “vision” and “strategy” have become buzzwords, clear examples remain rare. That’s why we’ll open up the “Amber Room” of product management: real, well-crafted strategy examples that show what good actually looks like.

Through a mix of short talks, collaborative exercises, and candid discussion, you’ll learn how to craft vision and strategy as judgement calls rather than templates – and why this skill has become mission-critical in an era shaped by AI, where direction matters more than speed.

Key Learnings:

• Understand the interplay between vision (aspiration) and strategy (choice)
• Experience why both are judgement calls that require courage, not templates
• Learn practical methods to co-create and stress-test visions and strategies in teams
• See - finally - what a good product strategy actually looks like and how it guides real decisions
• Recognize why in the AI era, clarity of direction becomes a core leadership skill.

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