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Empowering Product Leadership: Cultivating Self-Leadership to Innovate and Influence (Part 2)

Key areas covered during this session include: 

1. Welcome and Introduction

2. Influencing Without Authority -  Leveraging Personal Mission to Strengthen Your Approach
3. Leading from Within: Cultivating Innovation and Team Autonomy 
4. Call to Action and Q&A 

Speaker Biography:

Speaker 1: Vallerie (Val) Skelly brings over 25 years of leadership experience from automotive management and a deep expertise in executive leadership training and coaching, enhanced through studies at Cambridge University, U.K., where she studied Executive Leadership, continuing  on to a Master’s in Organizational and Business Psychology. She founded Skelly Performance Coaching to empower business professionals with leadership and self-leadership programs that teach strategies for continuous improvement and organizational performance.

An avid ice hockey player, Val led 39 of her girlfriends to set a world record in a ten-day hockey game, captured in the award-winning documentary Lace Bite. She’s also a bestselling author, contributing to Winning Mindset: Elite Strategies for Peak Performers, where she writes about a Possibilities Mindset – “When the future is unknown anything is possible.”

Val firmly believes in the transformative power of a learner’s mindset. This approach emphasizes curiosity, adaptability, and continuous growth, which Val sees as essential for unlocking personal and professional potential. By embracing challenges and learning from every experience, she inspires others to break through limitations, expand their perspectives, and lead with confidence in an ever-changing business landscape.

Speaker Linkedin Profile: www.linkedin.com/in/vallerieskelly

Brief description of what the Speaker will be talking about: 

Empowering Product Leadership: Cultivating Self-Leadership to Innovate and Influence (Part 2)

Join us for this two-sessions webinar,  a transformative program designed to unlock your leadership potential. 
Learn to align your values and actions to turn challenges into growth opportunities, amplify your influence, and inspire your teams. Through interactive discussions and real-world examples, you will gain practical strategies for leading effectively and creating the impact you envision.

Part 3: Influencing Without Authority: Leveraging Personal Mission to Strengthen Your Approach
Learn practical techniques and strategies for effectively guiding and persuading stakeholders—even when you lack formal authority. Through insights on persuasion, coalition-building, and negotiation skills, you’ll discover how to build credibility, secure buy-in, and drive meaningful outcomes in your product leadership role.

Part 4: Leading from Within: Cultivating Innovation and Team Autonomy
Discover how creating a culture of experimentation, learning from mistakes, and supporting team autonomy can drive real innovation. This session explores the personal leadership shifts needed to move from fear-driven (external validation) to purpose-driven (inside-out) leadership, enabling you to challenge the status quo and unlock greater ingenuity. Through an interactive Innovation Challenge and group discussions, you’ll learn practical strategies to lead proactively, inspire creativity, and pave the way for breakthrough product solutions.

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