Leland+ Content Library

PM Coffee Chats: How to Network Like a Pro

Networking is one of the most powerful ways to break into product management, but most people approach coffee chats without a clear strategy. This session is for aspiring PMs who want to build meaningful connections, stand out in conversations, and turn networking into real opportunities. You’ll learn how to reach out effectively, ask thoughtful questions, and make lasting impressions that can open doors in the PM world.

Product Case Interview Prep: Fav Product

After this session, you will know how to structure a compelling "favorite product" response that demonstrates product thinking, not just feature knowledge. We will cover how to choose the right product to talk about, how to articulate a clear problem and user insight, and how to walk through your reasoning in a way that signals PM maturity to interviewers.

Developing Product Sense

Everyone tells you product sense matters. Almost no one tells you how to actually build it. In this workshop, part of PM Week, we're breaking down product sense into something you can actually practice, not just a vague trait some candidates seem to have and others don't. You'll learn the frameworks experienced PMs use to evaluate products, how to spot the gap between a good answer and a great one in a product sense interview, and the daily habits that build real intuition over time. This isn't a list of tips. It's a working session on the skill that decides whether you get the offer.

Standing Out in PM Recruiting: AI Side Projects

AI side projects are everywhere. Most of them will not help you stand out in a competitive PM hiring process. In this session, you’ll learn how to build an AI side project that demonstrates real product thinking, not just technical curiosity. We’ll break down how to choose the right problem, scope a project around the PM skills hiring managers care about, and avoid creating an overbuilt demo with no clear user or purpose. You’ll also learn how to turn the project into a compelling story across your resume, LinkedIn, portfolio, and interviews. We’ll cover what separates projects that signal strong product judgment, customer insight, prioritization, experimentation, and execution from projects that recruiters and hiring managers quickly skip. You’ll leave with a practical framework for deciding: What to build and what not to build Which PM competencies your project should demonstrate How to scope the project so you can actually finish it How to position the work so its value is immediately clear Whether you already have a project underway or are starting from scratch, this session will help you create something that strengthens your product manager profile.

Back-of-the-Envelope Math: A System Design Cheat Sheet

The System Design estimation numbers that are worth memorizing. Current latency numbers, cloud costs, LLM inference speeds, QPS and storage shortcuts, and availability math, plus a five-step method and worked examples. Built for system design interviews and useful long after them.

Big-O Complexity: A Coding Interview Cheat Sheet

All the major Big-O complexity prep you need for a coding interview, on two pages. The growth ladder, what n fits in one second, data structures and sorting costs, graph algorithms, and a chart showing how the curves diverge. It ends with a five-step method for analyzing your solution out loud, with worked examples.

Failure Math: A Software Reliability Cheat Sheet

A useful guide to how often hardware, clouds, and deploys actually fail, with real fleet data. Annual failure rates, GPU failure math from the Llama 3 training run, availability tables, and the composition rules that set your uptime ceiling. For system design interviews and for on-call reality.

Back-of-the-Envelope Math: A System Design Cheat Sheet Guide Video

A guided tour of the Back-of-the-Envelope Math cheat sheet. We price a photo-sharing startup from scratch: traffic, bandwidth, storage, and the monthly bill, using the sheet one row at a time. Watch it once, then run your own estimate with the sheet beside you.

The Path to Your First Booking

New to Leland and wanting to level up? Learn 5 strategies to build your business on the platform and walk away with a 30 day calendar to get you going.

Real MBB Case Series: Live McKinsey Case Walkthrough

Are you gearing up for a management consulting interview and want to ace the case interview? Join me, Thabang, for a live McKinsey case walkthrough as part of our Real MBB Case Series. This session is designed to enhance your skills in case math, exhibit interpretation, frameworks, and overall case interview prep based off a Real McKinsey Case! With my background as an ex-McKinsey Consultant and having conducted over 1,000 coaching sessions, I have a proven track record of helping candidates secure their dream consulting roles. I was recognized as the Top Coach across Europe, Middle East & Africa in 2023 by McKinsey, so I know exactly what it takes to succeed in MBB interviews.

Real MBB Case Series: Live Bain Case Walkthrough

Are you gearing up for a management consulting interview and want to ace the case interview? Join me, Thabang, for a live Bain case walkthrough as part of our Real MBB Case Series. This session is designed to enhance your skills in case math, exhibit interpretation, frameworks, and overall case interview prep based off a Real Bain Case! With my background as an ex-MBB Consultant and having conducted over 1,000 coaching sessions, I have a proven track record of helping candidates secure their dream consulting roles. I was recognized as the Top Coach across Europe, Middle East & Africa in 2023 by an MBB, so I know exactly what it takes to succeed in MBB interviews.

Real MBB Case Series: Live BCG Case Walkthrough

Are you gearing up for a management consulting interview and want to ace the case interview? Join me, Thabang, for a live BCG case walkthrough as part of our Real MBB Case Series. This session is designed to enhance your skills in case math, exhibit interpretation, frameworks, and overall case interview prep based off a Real BCG Case! With my background as an ex-MBB Consultant and having conducted over 1,000 coaching sessions, I have a proven track record of helping candidates secure their dream consulting roles. I was recognized as the Top Coach across Europe, Middle East & Africa in 2023 by an MBB, so I know exactly what it takes to succeed in MBB interviews.

Build a Personal AI That Schedules Your Life

SESSION GUIDE: https://www.lelandcourses.com/ai-builder/personal-ai-scheduler/ You text "dentist tomorrow 3 to 4pm, bring x-rays" and it's on your calendar before you put your phone down. ​Join Luca Tomasino, AI Automation Expert and n8n specialist who has coached over 100 professionals on building real AI workflows, for an exclusive AI Builder session where you'll create a Telegram bot that reads your messages, checks your Google Calendar for conflicts, and books your events automatically over text. ​You'll build the entire thing inside n8n from scratch, live, in under an hour. By the end of the session, you'll text your own bot and watch the event land on your calendar in real time, not in a demo, on your actual phone. ​This isn't a tutorial you'll finish later. Luca will walk you through every node, every connection, and every decision as you build, teaching you the core n8n concepts that unlock every other automation you'll ever want to build: triggers, AI agents with structured output, conditional logic, and multiple API integrations, all in one flow.

Cracking College Admission Week: Kickoff

The students who stand out in college admissions usually aren’t the ones doing everything, they’re the ones who know how to tell the right story. This kickoff session is designed to help you approach the application process with more clarity, strategy, and confidence from the very beginning. You’ll learn how to think about essays, extracurriculars, and overall positioning, along with the common patterns admissions professionals see across successful applicants.

Nailing the Activities Section of Your College App

The activities section is one of the most overlooked parts of the college application, yet it can strongly influence how admissions readers understand your impact and priorities. This session is for students who want to present their extracurricular experiences in a more strategic and compelling way. You’ll learn how to describe your involvement with clarity, prioritize activities effectively, and highlight leadership and initiative without sounding generic.

Vibe Coding 101: Build a Real Product with Just an Idea and AI

Have an idea for a product but no clear roadmap for turning it into something real? This session is designed for founders, builders, and curious creators who want to understand how AI can help take a concept from rough idea to working product faster than traditional workflows allow. You’ll learn how to turn ideas into actionable prompts, structure an AI-assisted building process, and avoid common mistakes that slow projects down or create messy outputs.

Co-Thinking with AI: Prompts Companion Guide

This companion guide contains the five co-thinking prompts from the Co-Thinking with AI: Beyond the Hype, Into Your Edge session, each one built around a situation you are probably already in. These are not generic prompts pulled from a list. Each one is engineered to force a diagnostic conversation before AI produces any recommendation, which means what you get back reflects your specific situation, your actual experience, and your real context. The five prompts cover: navigating a career crossroads with competing professional identities, responding to job application questions in a way that is authentically yours, running a structured root cause analysis on a recurring business problem, analyzing your own presentation or meeting performance using a transcript, and building a brand voice document that makes everything you create with AI sound like you wrote it. Use one at a time. Give each prompt the context it asks for. Push back on the outputs. That is where the value lives, not in the prompt itself, but in the conversation it opens.

Build an Investor-Level Pitch Deck with Claude, Excel & PowerPoint [5/29/2026] (Recording)

Build Anything Series · Event 03 · Free · Live Investor decks are a specific genre. They aren't "presentations." They're a tight argument backed by a defensible model, told in 12 slides. This event walks through how to build one with Claude, Excel, and PowerPoint working together — the way real founders actually do it now. What we'll build live: - The financial model — TAM/SAM/SOM, unit economics, P&L forecast, sensitivities, all in Excel/Sheets with Claude generating and reviewing the formulas - The story — problem, market, solution, traction, team, ask. Each slide does one job. We'll write them tight. - The slides — clean figures, charts that read in 3 seconds, narrative continuity. Polished and ready to send. Who it's for: - Founders fundraising (or about to) - Operators building internal pitches for new initiatives - Anyone who's stared at a blank deck for two weeks waiting for inspiration Not a fit if: - You don't have a real business or initiative to pitch - You want me to make a deck for you — this is a workshop, you build alongside We'll be honest about what investors actually look at (versus what advisors say they look at), and where AI helps versus where it gets in the way. Bring your data — even rough — and we'll build live.

Acing the PM Interview: Every Interview Type and How to Prepare for Them [5/29/2026] (Recording)

PM interviews test a wide range of skills, and many candidates struggle to know how to prepare across different formats. This session is for aspiring product managers who want a clear, structured approach to every major interview type. You’ll learn how to tackle product sense, execution, and behavioral questions, how to adapt your approach for each format, and what strong answers consistently demonstrate to interviewers. Join live to ask questions about your own preparation and get guidance on where to focus your effort. The speaker is a senior product manager who regularly coaches candidates through PM interviews. They’ll share the patterns they see across successful applicants and the kinds of feedback typically given in 1:1 interview prep sessions.

How to Succeed as a Joint MBA-MPP Applicant

Are you considering applying for a joint MBA-MPP program and wondering how to stand out in the competitive admissions process? Join me for an insightful session on how to succeed as a joint MBA-MPP applicant. With firsthand experience as an admit to both Harvard Kennedy School and MIT Sloan, I understand the unique challenges and opportunities of these programs. Throughout my career, I've helped applicants craft compelling narratives that connect their experiences to a clear direction, focusing on school and networking strategy, essays, resumes, and interviews. In this session, we'll cover the common storytelling mishaps of joint degree candidates, and exactly what admissions committees are looking for. We'll also do a live exercise so you can walk away with a better sense of your own application story.