Product Management Coaches, Events, and Resources

Growth-oriented product leader with over 14 years of experience building, launching, and scaling successful D2C and B2B products globally across high-growth startups, Big Tech, and Fortune 500 companies. Successfully coached and mentored 15+ aspiring + current PMs to the next level. Whether you are pivoting into Product or want to level up your skills, I'm here to help.

I take a highly supportive approach to coaching and aim to create an environment in which my clients can be completely open about their worries so I can be the best possible coach for them. That said, you can expect me to be constructively candid – because coaching is about challenging you and accelerating your growth, not making you feel good so I can collect a check. I was an interviewer at both Google and Facebook and have spent many hours "on the other side of the table." I can give you a strong sense for how you might be perceived by hiring managers and recruiters.

Experienced Product Leader with 12+ years across tech product management, consulting/professional services and finance at Remitly, Amazon, and PwC. Led cross-functional teams of 30+ across engineering, data science, design, and marketing, Finance, legal and compliance to build and launch scalable consumer products and enterprise platforms spanning fintech, marketing tech, and consume products, and AI automation. Set product vision and drove execution across organizations, delivering successful launches and data-driven solutions that improved the customer experience, go-to-market performance, and operational efficiency.

Avinash Mahalingam brings 14+ years of strategic product management , product coaching and business development experience across diverse global industries in USA, Canada and India, led AI platform innovation at RBC and earlier led several 0 to 1 Products at Amazon. He's passionate about empowering product professionals with practical insights gained from building and scaling successful products. He currently is the Co-Founder and CEO for an AI-powered Holistic Wellness Platform and leads a Product Management Course on Maven. Key Experiences & Expertise: 1- He led AI platform product development for an internal developer platform at a major Canadian bank, offering first-hand exposure to the intricacies of building and scaling AI-powered products. 2- At Amazon Freight, Avinash spearheaded the product strategy and launch of 4 0-to-1 products in billing and payments, demonstrating a proven ability to navigate the complete product lifecycle from inception to market. 3- A highly-rated mentor (4.9/5) who has guided 50+ product professionals 1:1 on career growth and skill enhancement, bringing a wealth of experience in nurturing product careers. 4- He Co-led product management courses for 60+ individuals in live cohorts.

My clients land interviews and offers at ~10x the market rate. Average application-to-offer rate = 17.6% vs 0.1-2% nationwide rate, while the application-to-interview rate = 32.7% vs 3% nationwide rate. As a tenured product leader with 8 years of experience at a hypergrowth D2C startup, I've owned 5 different verticals across a highly successful bootstrapped brand, served on 10+ hiring committees, and mentored several aspiring PMs. I'm excited to work with you on leveraging strengths, while quickly leveling up in growth areas. My favourite areas to coach are: PM career development, optimizing team processes to allow PMs to focus on strategy, visioning, resume critique, and interview training. I've had several candidates tell me I'm the hardest interviewer they've ever had, so if you can impress me, you can impress the company of your dreams!

After a few years of consulting at Accenture, I went all in on resources and learning about product, to then pivot to PM at Capital One. There are a lot of parallels between consulting and product management - stakeholder management, business analysis, and problem-solving. I want to help you break into product management and prepare you for the different types of interviews: product skills, product design, business analysis cases, and behavioral fit. I'm helped clients land offers at companies such as Asana and Capital One. Whether you're early or mid-career, technical or non-technical, I'd be happy to chat through how your experiences translate over to the product space and what additional skills are needed.

Hey I’m Ollie! and I’ve been exactly where you are. I’ve navigated countless applications, refined my resume dozens of times, and pushed through burnout and self-doubt while trying to break into (or level up in) Product Management. My journey started as a product manager — leading product at an edtech startup, then working on technical product initiatives at Amazon — before landing my current role at Asana, where I build GenAI products. After hundreds of interviews and the rollercoaster of rejections and breakthroughs, I developed a practical framework to help you play to your strengths, tell your story with confidence, and land the role that truly fits you. My coaching goes beyond templates. I’ll help you clarify & customize your story, amplify your advantages, and stand out authentically in the competitive world of PM. I’m passionate about helping aspiring and transitioning product managers navigate their career paths, from resume building and interview prep to mindset rebuilding and strategic positioning. Let’s connect and create a personalized plan to help you stand out and succeed in the competitive world of product management.

I'm the founder of Kind But Tough, an executive and product coaching practice built on a simple conviction: true leadership isn't a choice between empathy and accountability, it's the radical integration of both. Before coaching, I spent over twenty years in product, building and scaling enterprise B2B/B2B2C/B2C SaaS at Amazon, including Seller Central, Prime Video and Alexa, and at Box, Iterable, Apollo, and Marketo. I've built products from the ground up, hired and grown the teams and culture around them, and led the launch of Journey Assist, a first-to-market gen-AI journey builder. Across my career I've owned the strategy behind more than $200M in active ARR growth, navigated the politics that come with leadership, made the hard calls under real pressure, and sat on the hiring side deciding who got the offer. I know this work from the inside, the wins, the failures, and the inflection points where the skills that got you here stop being the ones that carry you forward. I coach product builders and leaders the way I led: kind enough to tell you the truth, tough enough to walk through it with you. As a Gallup CliftonStrengths and UC Berkeley certified executive coach, I ground your growth in your real strengths rather than a generic playbook. Whether you're sharpening strategy, stepping into people leadership, weighing an AI-first bet, or preparing to land your next role, you get a thinking partner who has actually been in the seat, sees the patterns you can't, and is in it with you.

James is a professional product management coach who has helped clients receive offers from top-tier companies, including OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Capital One, and Adobe. He has deep expertise in navigating advanced applicant tracking systems (ATS) and helps aspiring product managers consistently secure interviews at competitive companies. James specializes in end-to-end interview preparation and resume optimization, covering product design, product sense, estimation techniques, and behavioral interviews. His hands-on, highly practical approach ensures clients are fully prepared to tackle any question with confidence.

I help product managers advance to senior PM, director, or VP roles without exhausting themselves trying to prove they're 'strategic enough.' With 17+ years in product leadership (Product Manager at Google/DoubleClick, VP of Product at DialogTech directing a $40M B2B SaaS platform), I know what separates senior ICs from product leaders. It's not more execution. It's learning when to ask strategic questions instead of just delivering. My clients are stuck doing strategic work but not getting credit for it, or they're in leadership roles but still operating like they need to prove they belong. I help PMs communicate strategy, build executive presence, and lead products and teams at scale.