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🎯 Is your Product Team putting Impact First in the New Year? Join us for a special December meetup with Matt LeMay.

As we close out the year, it’s the perfect moment to reflect on the impact our product teams create — and how we can enter 2026 with sharper focus, stronger alignment, and clearer value.

We are excited to host an online session with Matt LeMay for an insightful session where he’ll share ideas from his book IMPACT-FIRST PRODUCT TEAMS. Matt will dive into practical stories and real-world examples of how product teams can consistently drive measurable business outcomes without losing touch with their users. 💡 Is my product team a good investment for the business? 💡 Are we communicating value clearly enough that our CFO could advocate for us? 💡 How do we build a culture where outcomes truly guide our decisions?

Matt visited us in Amsterdam in October, but many of you were unable to join us. This is your chance to learn from Matt directly, ask your questions, and maybe even win a copy of IMPACT-FIRST PRODUCT TEAMS!

📅 December 15, 2025 📍 Online via Zoom

Let’s step into the new year with clarity, purpose, and a fresh perspective on what it means to build impact-first product teams.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Topic: Product thinking, turned inward. Building product careers, teams and organizations for impact. Speakers: Matt LeMay and James Gunaca Language: English Where & when: In-person @ LeLaptop, 30th October 2025 from 7pm

For this edition of ProductTank Paris we’re excited to welcome not one, but two, London-based product experts: Matt LeMay and James Gunaca. Matt and James have more than 35 years combined experience working with big names in global product teams. Join us for an evening of collective introspection (over a friendly drink, of course), and leave with some fresh ideas for how to apply smart product thinking to your careers, teams and orgs (and if you’re lucky, a brand new book!)

Matt LeMay Matt has spent the last 15 years working with companies ranging from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 enterprises and tech companies like Google, Spotify, and Mailchimp. He'll be discussing the work he's done across industries and geographies to help product managers, teams, and organizations put business impact first without losing sight of customer needs. He'll also be giving away signed copies of his new book, IMPACT-FIRST PRODUCT TEAMS, which includes powerful questions and conversation starters to help every product team focus on the work that matters most to their particular business.

James Gunaca Product Managers are experts at creating roadmaps and strategic plans for their products - but rarely apply these same powerful skills to their own careers. In this interactive talk, you'll get to assess your PM skills and see how they can inform your career roadmap. James Gunaca has a 20+ year career in Product Management and Digital Marketing, working as a Product Leader at companies like Amazon and ExpressVPN across the United States and Europe. He’s built and led multiple Product teams who have delivered global 0-to-1 products like Amazon Echo with the Alexa AI assistant, AppleCare+ as a Subscription, and more. James now coaches Product Managers, on a mission to make better products for the world by helping professionals build and grow their careers in Product Management. He’s also an organiser for ProductTank London and founder of Product Sphere.

Practical info: LeLaptop, 7 rue Geoffroy l’Angevin, 75004 Paris (nearest metros : Rambuteau, Châtelet, Hôtel de Ville) Doors open @ 19h Talks start @ 19h30 Drinks, snacks and chats @ 20h30

⭐️ Matt LeMay will dive into how to lead grown-up product teams and share his extensive experience as a Product Leader, Consultant, and Author. How do you lead effective product teams? For starters, by treating them like grown-ups. In this talk, product leader, author, and consultant Matt LeMay walks through steps that product professionals at all levels can take to build a team that stays grounded in reality and makes difficult decisions together.

⏰ Schedule (CET) 17:00 - 17:05 Intros 17:05 - 18:00 Presentation and Q&A

✨ About the Organizers We're on a mission to help companies discover and deliver great products faster. We do this by empowering our community to share knowledge generously. Through our consulting engagements, we do all the hands-on and unglamorous work of a Product Manager on an Interim basis (3-12 months). We onboard fast, align teams, and deliver outcomes. 😉

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Join us for our live stream event with Matt LeMay, Product Leader and Author on Feb 13th!

Details: How do you lead effective product teams? For starters, by treating them like grown-ups. In this talk, product leader, author, and consultant Matt LeMay walks through steps that product professionals at all levels can take to build a team that stays grounded in reality and makes difficult decisions together.

About our Speaker: Matt LeMay is a product leader, consultant, and author. He empowers product teams teams to maximize their impact on business-critical revenue and growth goals by streamlining processes, simplifying strategies, and focusing on the work that matters most. Matt’s decade-plus career in product has included acquisitions by Google and Intuit, strategic advising to Spotify, and building out product teams for early-stage startups now valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars. His books Agile for Everybody (O’Reilly Media, 2018) and Product Management in Practice (Second Edition O'Reilly Media, 2022) have been translated into over 6 languages, and provide actionable guidance to individuals and teams across countries, functions, and industries.

Connect with our speaker: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattlemay/

⏰ Schedule (CET) 17:00 - 17:05 Intros 17:05 - 18:00 Presentation and Q&A ✨ About the Organizers We are on a mission to help companies discover and deliver great products faster. We do this by empowering our community to share knowledge generously. And through our consulting engagements, we do all the hands-on and unglamorous work of a Product Manager on an Interim basis (3-12 months). We onboard fast, align teams and deliver outcomes. 😉

👋 Join the conversation at https://t.me/getproductpeople 📲 Connect on https://www.linkedin.com/company/getproductpeople/ ❤️ Contribute here → https://www.patreon.com/productpeople 📺 Watch https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9312527382 🤩 Step Up Want to speak at our next events? Email [email protected]