TEI 199: A panel discussion with women product VPs and Directors – moderated by

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About the Episode: 

There are several thousand product managers on LinkedIn and many of them are women. However, I noticed that few product VPs are women.

About the same time, I attended a “Women in Product Management” panel at Rocky Mountain Product Camp, moderated by Shaughnessy Speirs. Afterward we discussed how few product VPs are women and how it would be valuable to have a panel discussion focused on women in senior product roles.

Shaughnessy ran with the idea and organized another panel a few months later for a conference called Denver Startup Week and I had it recorded to share with you. Four leaders joined the panel.

• Shawna Barnhart, Product Management Leader and Former VP of Product at Artifact Uprising
• Holly Vezina, Director of Product at APR Consulting
• Jenn Dearth, Product at Stedi
• Ann Koerner, Adjunct Professor of Product Management at DU and Former VP of Product at GutCheck

Our moderator, Shaughnessy Speirs, has been a product manager in several software organizations with depth in agile software development and business analysis.

This is a longer discussion. The panel responds to Shaughnessy’s questions for the first 30 minutes and the remaining time they respond to audience questions.