Before the holidays this year, I was a speaker on a panel of design students interested in the tech world. I thought I'd post the questions and my answers below, in case they're helpful to anyone else! What does a day in your job look like? Problem solvingBacklog adminLots of writing and thinkingLots of meetings …
Mentorship and your career
On Tuesday evening, I had the distinct pleasure of being a panelist for the inaugural mentorWIT event, "Transform Your Career Through Mentorship." The other three panelists and I shared our thoughts and insight on mentorship for women in tech. Below are some of the questions we were asked (as well as a few we didn't …
mentorWIT virtual panel
I'll be speaking on a panel about mentorship on November 3! Mentorship has truly helped me get the job I want and learn a ton of new things. I have a lot to say about mentorship, whether it's formal or informal mentorship. I'm pretty thrilled to be in the company of these three other Albertan …
Talking to Leah Elzinga of ATB
Jerin Stewart introduced me to Leah Elzinga when I interviewed him earlier this year. She is a Product Owner at ATB Financial and Community Organizer. What a great introduction that turned out to be, as Leah is just a font of product management tips and information that I hadn’t heard before! Leah got into tech …
Talking to Steve Kirkham of Berbix
Steve and I met in Grade 1! I actually can’t remember anything about when we first met because we were six, but we’ve more-or-less been friends ever since. Steve is the CEO and co-founder of Berbix and has been a Product Lead at Airbnb and a Product Manager at Google. He’s a wealth of PM …
Talking to Jerin Stewart of ATB
Jerin Stewart is a senior product manager at ATB Financial, here in Edmonton. Jerin and I met at the Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG) "How to make products customers love" workshop in November 2019. As part of my quest to learn more about the craft of product management and how other Saas companies do things, …
Product management from a non-traditional background
This post originally appeared as an article on LinkedIn. I knew I wanted to become a product manager about three years before I became one. I had come a long way, and had a few careers since my art school days, but thought that my boss’s job — product management — seemed more interesting than …
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