Too often, product managers work as human middleware between their teams and tools, burning out great people with administrative friction instead of building energising high-performance cultures. Life is short—you need to get your time back.

In this episode, Ross Webb (who built product teams at Amazon serving 80,000+ IT professionals) explores how AI transforms team leadership by streamlining management processes, reducing PM stress, and enabling sustainable high performance.

What You'll Learn:

• Why top product leaders think like part-time recruiters and become "talent factories"
• How actively seeking to be wrong makes you a better, more effective leader
• The balance between decision-making authority and collaborative experimentation
• How to drive high performance whilst preventing team burnout and maintaining wellbeing
• How AI can automate performance tracking, workload balancing, and communication coordination

Featured Guests:

• Jordan Burton - Talent development expert on the "talent factory" mindset and ecosystem building
• Harrison Baker - Leadership specialist on curiosity, questioning, and situational reading
• Annika Schmid - Decision-making strategist on reversible vs irreversible choices and rapid experimentation
• Kris Jones - Performance management expert on sustainable high performance and burnout prevention

Key Takeaways:

• High-performance teams aren't about finding perfect people—they're about creating systems for excellence
• The shift from "smartest person in the room" to "surround myself with incredible talent" defines leadership
• Speed of learning often trumps perfection of planning in most product decisions
• AI can eliminate the administrative burden that burns out talented team members

Sponsored by FlowFocus AI - The agentic AI system that connects your entire product stack (Jira, Amplitude, PostHog, roadmapping tools, competitive intelligence) and saves product managers 5-10 hours per week. Because life is too short to be human middleware.

Too often, product managers work as human middleware between systems and stakeholders, drowning in administrative overhead instead of driving strategic change. Life is short—you need to get your time back.

In this episode, Ross Webb (who led product transformations at Amazon and Just Eat) explores how AI transforms leadership effectiveness by handling administrative burden, freeing leaders to focus on strategic thinking and meaningful change management.

What You'll Learn:

• Why compassion alone won't drive lasting transformation in established organisations
• How to standardise platform integrations to unlock 30% year-on-year growth
• The balance between rigorous planning and genuine agile principles (not "lean theatre")
• How to build crucial stakeholder alliances when you're the outsider coming in
• How AI can automate status updates, reporting, and process coordination

Featured Guests:

• David Behlich - Transformation specialist who's driven change in 70,000+ person organisations
• Dominic Le Garsmeur - Platform strategy expert who achieved 30% YoY growth through standardisation
• Kris Jones - Strategic planning advocate who balances preparation with agility
• Niko Korner - Organisational politics navigator and stakeholder alliance builder

Key Takeaways:

• Successful transformation requires both inspiration AND enforcement—some people need to be moved
• Focus on foundation before chasing growth; sometimes slow down to speed up
• Understanding organisational politics is essential for senior product leadership
• AI can eliminate the administrative friction that keeps leaders reactive instead of proactive

Sponsored by FlowFocus AI - The agentic AI system that connects your entire product stack (Jira, Amplitude, PostHog, roadmapping tools, competitive intelligence) and saves product managers 5-10 hours per week. Because life is too short to be human middleware.

Too often, product managers work as human middleware between tools, teams, and market intelligence. Life is short—you need to get your time back.

In this episode, Ross Webb (former Principal PM at Amazon and Just Eat, who took products from 0 to £50M+ revenue) explores how AI agents are transforming go-to-market success by automating research, competitive analysis, and cross-functional alignment workflows.

What You'll Learn:

• Why B2B2B environments require different GTM strategies and how to navigate complex stakeholder layers
• The "echo-back approach" that transforms customer problems into quantifiable business value
• How to build genuine harmony between sales and product teams (not just tolerance)
• Ecosystem design thinking: ensuring every piece needed for market success is aligned
• How AI agents can automate competitive intelligence and market validation workflows

Featured Guests:

• João Moreira - Product leadership expert on B2B2B complexity and cross-team collaboration
• Tzvika Shahaf - Strategic consultant on customer problem validation and business value translation
• David Moore - Sales-product alignment specialist and relationship building expert
• Alba Simon - Ecosystem design thinking pioneer and organisational strategy expert

Key Takeaways:

• Product-market fit requires orchestrating the entire ecosystem, not just building great products
• Direct customer engagement beats secondhand feedback from sales teams every time
• Understanding each team's KPIs and workflows creates win-win collaboration opportunities
• AI can automate the administrative burden of market research, freeing PMs for strategic thinking

Sponsored by FlowFocus AI - The agentic AI system that connects your entire product stack (Jira, Amplitude, PostHog, roadmapping tools, competitive intelligence) and saves product managers 5-10 hours per week. Because life is too short to be human middleware.