A new kind of Leadership
Global trends and complexity have changed what leadership requires. Learn why traditional approaches fall short — and what modern leadership in digital product organizations actually demands.
Leadership Accelerator
Leadership Deep Dive
A focused 8-week leadership intensive for product people who are experienced in product management and want to become stronger in influence, stakeholder conversations, decision-making, and leading through pressure.
Why this Deep Dive?
Built for experienced product people who don't need another foundation — they need to sharpen what senior roles actually demand: leading with clarity under pressure, on real situations from their own work.
For Experienced Product People
Not an entry point. Not a CPL-1® replacement. Built for those who've mastered the craft and want to sharpen what senior roles actually demand: influence, stance, and decisions that stick.
Pure Leadership Focus
Eight weeks on the competencies that move the needle in senior roles — nothing else competing for your attention.
Influence that lands
For formal and lateral leaders alike. Lead, align, and decide — whether or not the org chart backs you up.
Clarity under Pressure
Stay effective in complex, ambiguous situations. Real cases from your work, not textbooks.
Guided by Professional Coaches
Professional coaching and mentoring along your journey is an essential part of this program for your vertical growth.
Stance & Self-Leadership
Effective leadership starts with you. Reflection, biases, emotional intelligence, and a solid self-leadership frame.
Vertical, not horizontal
Not more skills. A different way of making sense of complexity.
Learning outcomes
Leading with clarity under pressure
The Leadership Deep Dive sharpens the capabilities that define senior product leadership. After successful completion of this program, you will be able to:
- Lead with clarity and stance, even under pressure and ambiguity
- Apply self-awareness and emotional intelligence in daily leadership
- Shift conversations to solution-focused outcomes
- Work consciously with your power-style and its impact on others
- Recognize and navigate different stages of leadership development
- Identify next steps towards becoming a Catalyst Leader
- Influence and align stakeholders without relying on formal authority
- Shape team dynamics and organizational culture deliberately
Beyond the Product Craft
You leave the program with the ability to lead where product expertise alone is no longer enough. When decisions must be made under pressure — with or without formal authority — you understand how to lead through clarity, stance, and a strong sense of self.
Stand Out
What sets senior leaders apart is vertical development — the capacity to make sense of complexity, hold stance under pressure, and lead through ambiguity. Vertical growth takes guided practice, reflection, and time. This program is built for exactly that — and prepares you for the next level of responsibility and influence.
What you'll learn
The Leadership Deep Dive sharpens the capabilities to grow towards senior product leadership. The focus is on the leadership competencies and vertical growth, designed for experienced product people with well developed skills on the product related segments of the compass.
Self-Leadership
Rediscover the leader within. How do mindsets, behaviors, and self-awareness shape your leadership? How does your power-style impact others? Learn to lead yourself first.
Advanced Communication Skills
The power of listening, powerful questions, clean language, non-violent and solution-focused communication. Learn how these techniques transform your conversations — and your own thinking — and how to apply them every day.
Self-Leadership Frameworks
Practical frameworks for emotional intelligence, working with your power-style, and developing the self-awareness that makes leadership effective in real situations.
Leadership Development Stages
Understand how leaders' inner capabilities and mindsets evolve through developmental stages — and how this shapes the way they see the world, behave, and communicate.
Leadership Agility
Discover the key levels of Leadership Agility: Expert, Achiever, Catalyst. Learn why Catalyst Leaders make the real difference for product teams — and how this becomes a lever for the entire organization.
High Performing Teams
What's really behind the myth of high-performing teams? Why do some teams make the difference — and what can you do as a Product Leader to help yours evolve in that direction?
Organizational Culture
The connection between culture and leadership: how culture shapes effectiveness, what factors influence it, and how leaders can actively shape or change it.
Bonus content & Benefits
- Leadership Essentials Course
- Advanced Communication Skills Course
- Case Studies
- Individual Coaching included
Upcoming classes
Jun 26 - Aug 21, 2026
Planned
8-Week Bootcamp
- Live Online (via Zoom)
- German
- Fridays, 1pm - 3pm (9x)
Sep 14 - Nov 9, 2026
Planned
8-Week Bootcamp
- Live Online (via Zoom)
- German
- Mondays, 10am - 12pm (9x)
Schedule
Select a cohort to see specific schedules.
All times are in CEST (UTC+02:00) at event start.Cohort weekly schedule
Friday
1:00 - 3:00pm
Cohort Kickoff
Only first weekWelcome & Introduction: get together and team building. Details about the program, schedules, learning materials and organizational topics. Introducing goals and learning objectives for the first week; Questions and answers.
Friday
3:00pm
Weekly Learning Objective
Via EmailYou receive this week's learning objectives via email and a video message in the learning portal. We introduce you to the learning material and content. You'll get case studies and workbook exercises.
Friday
1:00 - 3:00pm
Group Mentoring & Coaching
A live facilitated peer group coaching and mentoring to deepen the learning objectives, reflect and share insights.
Thursday
5:30 - 6:00pm
Office hour | Ask me anything
OptionalMondays to Thursdays, hosted by a professional coach and Product Leadership trainer. Come with any question you have and receive help reaching your current learning objective. RSVP required.
Scheduled individually
Individual Coaching (1:1)
2x in totalJoin your very personal coaching session with a professional leadership coach to leverage your vertical growth and discuss any topic related to your Leadership development.
Friday
1:00 - 3:00pm
Capstone Event
Only last weekLast review. Closing the cohort with joint reflection and showcasing results. Certification and celebration event.
Calendar Overview
Start/Kick-Off (CW 26)
- Fri, Jun 26, 2026 1:00 - 3:00pm - LAC | Cohort Kick-Off
- Fri, Jun 26, 2026 3:00pm - Weekly learning objective via email
Week 1 (CW 27)
- Fri, Jul 3, 2026 1:00 - 3:00pm - LAC | Group Mentoring & Coaching
- Fri, Jul 3, 2026 3:00pm - Weekly learning objective via email
Week 2 (CW 28)
- Fri, Jul 10, 2026 1:00 - 3:00pm - LAC | Group Mentoring & Coaching
- Fri, Jul 10, 2026 3:00pm - Weekly learning objective via email
Week 3 (CW 29)
- Fri, Jul 17, 2026 1:00 - 3:00pm - LAC | Group Mentoring & Coaching
- Fri, Jul 17, 2026 3:00pm - Weekly learning objective via email
Week 4 (CW 30)
- Fri, Jul 24, 2026 1:00 - 3:00pm - LAC | Group Mentoring & Coaching
- Fri, Jul 24, 2026 3:00pm - Weekly learning objective via email
Week 5 (CW 31)
- Fri, Jul 31, 2026 1:00 - 3:00pm - LAC | Group Mentoring & Coaching
- Fri, Jul 31, 2026 3:00pm - Weekly learning objective via email
Week 6 (CW 32)
- Fri, Aug 7, 2026 1:00 - 3:00pm - LAC | Group Mentoring & Coaching
- Fri, Aug 7, 2026 3:00pm - Weekly learning objective via email
Week 7 (CW 33)
- Fri, Aug 14, 2026 1:00 - 3:00pm - LAC | Group Mentoring & Coaching
- Fri, Aug 14, 2026 3:00pm - Weekly learning objective via email
Week 8 (CW 34)
- Fri, Aug 21, 2026 1:00 - 3:00pm - LAC | Capstone, Mentoring & Coaching
Take the next step.
Eight weeks of focused leadership work, designed for experienced product people ready to grow vertically.
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