Training & Workshops That Spark New Perspectives & Change
Workshops for teams, leaders and companies ready to level up in OKR, product management, leadership and AI
The OKR Methodology In Product Management
The OKR Methodology In Product Management
Making OKRs Work For Your Team And Company, Not The Other Way Around
The OKR goal system should empower teams and organisations to align, focus on and make meaningful progress towards relevant outcomes. It should not be just another framework to drain time and energy.
I can help you and your teams to achieve the former through one of the following workshops:
Start Using The OKR Goal System
In these workshops you will learn how to define OKRs, what core principles to consider, what are and how to use lead and lag indicators, blending OKRs with existing planning ceremonies and what pitfalls to avoid.
Define Better OKRs As A Product Team
Dive into advanced topics realted to OKR definition and execution such as top down vs. bottom up OKRs, OKR trigger questions, shared and cross team OKRs, making OKRs a habit and more.
Fixing & Adjusting Existing OKR Systems
In this workshop we dive into the current state of your OKR process, understand what pain points exist and why it’s not working as intended or as you would want it to and then define changes, iterations and steps to mitigate issues and improve the value and usefulness of the system for you and your teams.
OKR Goal System Onboarding, Setup And Rollout
Initial audit, plan preparation, workshops, training and support for a full OKR goal system rollout in your organisation. We will cover what outcome you want to achieve with this change, pilot groups, the particular rollout configuration, communication and training plan, session moderation where needed and other activities depending on your team and company’s specific needs.
Scaling OKRs Across Your Organisation
Support, consulting and workshops on how to take your existing OKR process and scale it to other teams or your entire organisation.
OKR Feedback & OKR Definition Moderation
Straightforward workshops where I provide context and actionable feedback and suggestions to your defined OKRs in relation to your product and company strategies and other existing priorities or relevant context OR where I join in as moderator for the session to guide everyone and provide input so that you and the team can focus on what OKRs you want to set and achieve in the next cycle.
Leading As A Product Manager
Leading As A Product Manager
Mastering Leadership From The Middle – Influence, Empower, Deliver HORRIBLE
Leadership as a product manager is unique – you are responsible for the product’s success without having any formal authority over most of the people needed to make it happen.
True product leadership emerges from the trust you build, how you make decisions, communicate and empower others to own and achieve outcomes with you.
Through these workshops, I help product managers grow their leadership skills, inspire teams and deliver positive impact to users and company:
Leading As A Product Manager
A comprehensive workshop series covering topics like building trust, leadership styles, leading through outcomes, communication, meetings and time management and more. The series offers a development journey for product managers who want to lead confidently.
Communication Skills For Product Managers
Clear, empathetic and timely communication is a key pillar of effective product management. In this workshop we will explore and cover communication models, listening skills, written vs. verbal communications, difficult conversations, 1on1s and more. REVIEW
Coaching Mindset For Product Leaders
Help your team grow by leading with questions, not just answers. Questions are a powerful way to help your team grow. It creates space for learning, reflection, trust and relationship building. In this workshop we explore, understand and practice what coaching is, the power of presence and active listening, unlocking perspectives and long lasting development. REVIEW
How To Not Waste Your Team's Time
Your team’s time is one of your most valuable resources – and one that’s often squandered with scattered priorities, unclear asks and of course the classical flood of unproductive meetings. In this workshop, I cover how to recognize and remove time-wasters, make rituals more effective, run meetings with purpose and achieve team clarity and alignment on priorities. REVIEW
Driving Decisions As A Product Manager
As product managers, we influence, drive or make hundreds if not thousands of decisions with our teams and stakeholders every week. Each of these decisions influence the product, its direction and the team’s focus towards achieving their chosen goals and outcomes.
In this workshop we cover methods and models to propose and help drive decisions, framing and how this helps decision, zooming in and out, decision velocity, moderation and ownership.
Thinking In And Working With Outcomes
Thinking In And Working With Outcomes
Helping You And Your Teams Think Beyond Outputs And Deliver Meaningful Impact
Too often, teams fall into the trap of focusing on delivering features, projects or outputs rather than driving real, measurable change. Thinking in outcomes is about shifting mindsets, aligning efforts to impact, and making progress tangible for both your users and your business.
I can help you and your teams develop an outcome-oriented thinking and get to better outcomes faster through one of the following workshops:
Thinking In Outcomes
In this beginner-friendly workshop, we explore what it really means to think in outcomes versus output. We’ll cover different types of outcomes, importance of leading indicators, getting from output to outcomes and how to change your language and mindset to drive outcome-based work.
Working With Outcomes
In this practical and interactive workshop we use various perspectives, methods and approaches to include outcomes and outcome thinking in our way of working and reframe all of our goals, roadmaps and targets from an outcome perspective through outcome based roadmaps, opportunity solution trees and more.
Augmenting Teams
Augmenting Teams With Generative AI
Helping You And Your Teams Think Beyond Outputs And Deliver Meaningful Impact
Generative AI is transforming how we work, but it can feel overwhelming, vague or risky to adopt. Whether you’re in product, sales, strategy, or leadership, it’s essential to build practical skills, hands-on confidence and awareness of both the possibilities and the limitations of Gen AI.
I help teams explore, understand, and start using Gen AI in a way that’s aligned with their goals and values through one of the following workshops:
Gen AI In Practice: Foundations And Hands-On Use
This beginner-friendly, hands-on workshop gives individuals and teams a clear, grounded understanding of what Gen AI is and how to use it effectively in daily work. You’ll learn prompt basics, security, safety and ethical considerations and discover and practice real use cases tailored to your role or function.
Gen AI Discovery Workshops
These structured discovery workshops help teams identify how Gen AI can add value to their real challenges. Through collaborative and interactive exercises, we audit and explore existing internal pain points and challenges, explore relevant use cases, identify potential tools, solutions or approaches and walk away with a prioritised starting point.
AI Literacy Workshops For Teams And Leadership
These sessions are focused on building responsible, relevant and actionable AI literacy within teams and organisations within the context and compliance needs of the new EU AI Act. All sessions will be tailored to each team where needed and will cover the needed AI knowledge and concepts and ethical and regulatory requirements and points that need to be factored in.
Gen AI For Product Managers: Thinking, Planning & Building With AI
This workshop helps product managers and product teams learn how to integrate Gen AI into their workflows, from discovery and ideation to analysis, feature and task creation and more. Includes use case and prompt examples, tool recommendations and guidance on ethical, unbiased and secure use.
AI For Sales Teams: Boosting Understanding, Pitches & Conversions
This Tailored workshop focuses on upskilling and educating sales teams that sell AI products on AI and Gen AI topics and how to better perform when interacting and discussing with potential customers about AI.
Values & Principles
Values & Principles We Apply In Our Workshops
Teaching From Eperience
Each of the workshops we design and deliver, we do from knowledge and experience gained through practice and application. This ensures that the knowledge and practices we impart are relevant, actionable and effective.
Tailored Service
We take time at the start with each client to understand what is it that they want to achieve, what does success look like to them and how should it ideally blend with the company and teams’ culture and way of working.
Theory & Practice
We want our clients to go through a deep learning experience that lasts well beyond the initial workshop days. We do this by designing learning experiences that enable participants to also put in practice what they learn.
Real Cases & Examples
Since we “practice what we preach”, we bring in real examples from our own past experiences, both do deepen understanding or as part of the practical exercises and activities uring our workshops and other programs.
Companies I Have Worked With
Companies I Have Worked With
I have worked with product managers and teams, leaders, executives or early founders in a coaching, training or workshop delivery capacity from these companies.
TESTIMONIALS
What Others Say:
I have worked with product managers, leaders, executives and early founders from trivago, Innogy, E.ON, Metro Markets, EarlyNode, Thyssenkrupp Materials Services, Caru AG, Swisscom, Zalando, HOW.FM.
OKRs are an increasingly common way to set goals for companies and teams. Alex's Masterclass is not only suitable as a preparation for OKR beginners, but also very good for people who have already made first experiences with OKRs and want to improve.
Super training and definitely recommended!
Sebastian Oremek
Head of Acceleration Services, d lab_ bei E.ON Digital Technology
Even though I had worked with OKRs before, Alex's training was really eye-opening for me and I took a lot from his one day training at our company. Especially his knowledgeable feedback in the practical sessions of the workshop were very helpful. He has definitely a profound knowledge on the topic and knows how to make it easily understandable. I can highly recommend him for anyone who wants to get a deeper understanding of how to work with OKRs.
Julian Wonner
Head of Content, troodi GmbH
Alex’s extensive knowledge of the OKR framework is built on a solid foundation of experience implementing and utilising OKRs in real world product development. This experience is invaluable to help empower teams to translate the theory behind OKRs into real business success.
Francesco Lenahan
Head of Monetization & Marketing, trivago N.V.
We introduced OKRs in our teams and Alex accompanied us extensively. This includes his e-learnings, but also his workshops, coaching and close support for the Teams. Especially his experience and his questions lead us to rethink and to the successful implementation and usage of the OKRs in our Squads. I would highly recommend working with Alex when it comes to outcome and OKR definition.
Tanja Nigbur
Agile Coach, Thyssenkrupp Materials
We enjoyed having Alex facilitate a two-day in-person OKR Summit to plan our OKRs for the trimester. Alex was a pleasure to work with and we received much positive feedback from our team! He pushed us and held us accountable while providing valuable input to individuals, teams and the whole organisation. Alex also put effort into ensuring that we had a shared understanding of OKRs to work from. We look forward to continuing to work with Alex in the future!
Amanda Graham
Head of People Operations, how.fm
About Alex Bleau
Alex is a seasoned product leader with a passion for both building gread products and great teams, but also teaching and sharing his knowledge through workshops, courses and coaching. Read more about Alex Bleau, his experience and background.