Some rooms change the people in them.
I speak at the intersection of technology, leadership, and the human experience of change: AI strategy for the C-suite, reinvention for the people rewriting their next chapter. I have lived both. I'm still living both.
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The PM in the Age of AI
AI isn't another feature to ship. It changes what product managers do, what they can finally stop doing, and how to lead a team through a shift the playbooks haven't caught up with. I'm in it right now, guiding companies through the transition with ProductMind: a leading EdTech platform, a major entertainment payments company, and teams building digital product and measurement tools. This is the honest version: what's working, what's noise, and where product leaders should place their bets now.
For product summits, enterprise innovation events, CXO forums
Two tracks. One conviction: I believe people can.
Transformation, Innovation and Technology (AI) leadership
Leadership, community, and the human experience
Building When the Rules Are Being Rewritten
Every big shift opens a short window, and it belongs to the leaders willing to move before the map is finished. I've built through several of them. What it takes to set strategy, structure teams, and keep a culture steady when the ground moves faster than the playbooks.
The Intersection of People and Product
The best strategy on the planet dies without the people to carry it. How I build teams that stay clear under pressure, hold the line for the customer when the business pushes back, and lead with rigor and heart at the same time.
Build Your Own Table
High achievers are experts at earning a seat at someone else's table, and often the least sure it's one they'd have chosen. My signature personal talk, drawn from my own path and the leaders I've coached and mentored over the years: what it takes to build a life and career by design, choosing what belongs in it, who walks alongside you, and how to build a support system sturdy enough to hold all of you.
On Belonging in Rooms Not Built for You
What does it actually take to succeed in spaces where you were never the intended audience? Not the sanitized version, the real one. Drawn from my experience as a Black woman in executive technology leadership: what belonging costs, what it requires, and what becomes possible on the other side of it.
Navigating Change Without Losing Yourself
New title, new life stage, new version of yourself to become. Change at the executive level is rarely just professional. Leading through transition with intention: staying ambitious without burning out, building community instead of just networks, and designing a life that expands as your career grows.
"Engaging, thought provoking, and inspiring."
The right message for the moment!
What organizers can expect
“She was speaking to me... it was like a trusted friend who knows what you are struggling with, speaking directly to you. I felt inspired and encouraged to take the next steps that I'd been putting off.”
“Thanks for making Industry so special this year. It was so easy working with you. We got so many pictures of people leaned in and taking pictures of your slides, such a good sign. Thanks, and please come back.”
“Thank you again for talking to my team. They really enjoyed it, but more importantly you gave us the language to more efficiently communicate and understand how to get the best out of each other.”
What I bring to your stage
- Co-Founder and Principal, ProductMind
- Former Chief Product Officer, WP Engine
- Co-Author, Building Rocketships
- Host, ProductMind Podcast
- Founding Partner, Kernel Fund
- Founder, The Open Table and Nduzi Foundation
- 3 patents in web-to-mobile platform technology
- Silicon Valley's Top 25 Most Influential Product Leaders
- Featured in Lenny's Newsletter, Product-Led Summit, and more
- BSEE UT Arlington · MSEE Stanford · EMBA Columbia + UC Berkeley Haas
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Tell me about your event, your people, and what you want them to walk out carrying. I'll bring the rest.
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I write on Substack about product, AI, and building a life with intention. The essays live there; this is the front porch.
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