High-Growth CPO Forum
Work with peers, solve tough challenges, share best practices, and become a better leader
Tailored Specifically for Product Leaders of Growth Companies
Product leadership is the hardest job in business. Your team must make every other team as effective as they can be in reaching your company’s ambitions. And it often seems like you have to be an expert at everything. Many in your position lack a safe environment for sharing or fresh eyes for perspective. Time is short for building a support network or getting feedback on decisions before committing to a course of action. The High-Growth CPO Forum is here to help.
Forum members meet quarterly for a full day with peers from similar-stage, non-competing companies. Working in complete confidentiality, Forum members collaborate to address timely, member-specific issues by using the most relevant, proven growth frameworks and tools.
How It Works
Each quarter, CPO Forum members meet to:
Present and learn about best practices
Get frank, confidential input from high-caliber peers on your most pressing challenges
Discuss topics like market trends, product management tools, customer engagement, sales enablement, and team building
Create action plans and milestones to build accountability and improve performance
Report on actions, experiments, and results in follow-up sessions to get ongoing support in reaching outcomes
Invite guests to join meetings to enrich areas of importance to members
Jason Moens, CPO at Squire and longtime member of CPO Forum
High-Growth CPO Forum: The Meetings
In a hand-picked group of 5-8 peers, delve into product themes and individual presentations.
The Product Organization
How to…
Define and communicate product management’s value in the organization
Collaborate with other business executives to maximize value through products and beyond
Introduce and establish effective product management processes
Build a world-class product management team
Effectively manage internal and external communications
Define core competency and develop roadmaps
Product Management Strategies
How to…
Create successful product strategies aligned with business growth
Define the right organization structure to support effective execution
Transition from single- to multiple-product portfolio management
Evaluate and execute go-to-market strategies
Build a great culture to encourage innovation, collaboration, teamwork and accountability
Product Roadmaps
How to…
Articulate an inspiring vision and goals for the product
Define the product roadmap
Agile vs. waterfall development (and everything in between)
Protect against pursuing seemingly good ideas without evaluation and prioritization
Ensure alignment with stakeholders
Is High-Growth CPO Forum Membership Right for You?
Are you a product leader in an investor-backed, private or public, high-growth technology company?
Would you value sharing your challenges and learning with other product leaders in similar profile companies?
Do you want to continue to develop your career and improve your effectiveness?
Are you a visionary yet practical leader focused on achieving aggressive results?
Do you have the desire to lead product management in your organization through all stages of growth?
Do you believe in continuous reinvention through innovation, collaboration, and customer focus?
Do you believe product management teams should take a leading role in delivering business results?
Become a High-Growth CPO Forum Member
Because the Forum is based on frank, open, yet highly confidential discussions between similar-stage product leaders, membership is a highly selective process. If you are interested in applying, we look forward to speaking with you.
Bruce McCarthy, Product Culture Founder
Bruce is a serial entrepreneur, prolific writer, organizer, and sought-after speaker at product management, agile, UX, and innovation events around the world. He helps companies like Vistaprint, Localytics, Huawei, Nuance, and Zipcar achieve their product visions through workshops, mentoring, and team coaching.
Bruce founded Product Culture to help communicate the key principles underlying consistently successful product-focused organizations. He is President Emeritus of the Boston Product Management Association and a head judge at the annual Harvard Business School New Venture Competition. Bruce's new best seller, Product Roadmapping Relaunched: How to Set Direction While Embracing Uncertainty is now available from O’Reilly.
Frank Qiu, Partner
Frank is Partner of Product Culture and Co-Founder of High-Growth CPO Forum. During his 15+ year career, Frank has held leadership roles driving product development, partnership management, customer engagement and go-to-market for organizations ranging from small businesses to market leaders such as Iron Mountain, Intel and Forward Advantage. He built product portfolio evaluation processes and new product introduction processes that led to new revenue opportunities and faster time-to-market.
Frank has worked with organizations ranging from 30 employees to the Fortune 100 in business strategy, product strategy, agile process development, team development and collaboration. He has served as a mentor for the Boston Product Management Association since 2013. Frank received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University and MBA from Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Frank is a native of Nanjing, China, and speaks fluent Mandarin.
Partners
The CPO Forum is proud to partner with organizations that are helping to propel high growth technology companies: