The course is designed specifically for busy product leaders. You'll automatically receive pacing emails that guide you through the content, defaulting to one module per weekday (the "accelerated" path). But you can switch to weekly pacing anytime – and honestly, if I were taking this course myself, I'd switch to weekly immediately.

At the weekly pace, you're looking at around 30 minutes per week on average. Each module is intentionally dense with practical content, so you get maximum value for the time you invest. The structure is designed to help you absorb and retain the information rather than just consume it quickly.

My advice? Don't rush through this. The concepts need time to sink in, and you'll want to try applying them between modules. Think of it as investing 30 minutes a week to save yourself hours of firefighting, difficult conversations, and team dysfunction down the road.

Plus, since you get the content in multiple formats (video, eBook, and podcast), you can fit learning into whatever works for your schedule – listening during commutes, reading during lunch, or watching when you have focused time.

The goal isn't to add more to your plate – it's to give you the skills that make everything on your plate more manageable.

It depends on your situation and interests. If you're not currently leading and have no interest in developing those skills, this course probably isn't for you. People who aren't engaged with leadership concepts – like developing vision, creating strategy, or guiding teams through complex decisions – tend to struggle with this material because they don't see the relevance.

But here's the thing: you don't need direct reports or a management title to be a leader. Many of the most effective leaders I know don't formally manage anyone. Instead, they're the people who step into the gap when decisions need to be made, who take ownership of ambiguous situations, and who others naturally turn to for guidance and direction.

If you find yourself in that position – if teammates look to you for answers, if you're making decisions that affect others' work, if you're the one translating between stakeholders and your team – then you're already leading, whether you have the title or not.

Taking this course doesn't mean you have to become a people manager or stop being an individual contributor. Many ICs are exceptional leaders who influence outcomes and guide teams without formal authority. This course will help you develop those informal leadership skills more systematically and confidently.

The question isn't whether you have a leadership title – it's whether you want to get better at the leadership work you're already doing.

I designed this course to respect your time and learning preferences, so I started by writing detailed scripts and then recorded myself presenting that content on video with supporting slides.

The eBook is essentially the complete script I read during the videos, so you're getting virtually all the course content in text form. There are maybe 1-2 brief unscripted moments where I speak directly to the camera, but these are minor asides and the same concepts are covered elsewhere in the course. If you only read the eBook, you're still getting the complete learning experience.

The 750+ slides serve primarily as visual relief – so you're not just staring at me talking the entire time. Most are simple text or diagrams, and only about 29 of them made it into the eBook as figures.

The podcast version includes all the audio from the video lectures, but obviously without the visual elements. If you prefer listening, I recommend keeping the eBook handy for the occasional diagram or framework illustration. You can easily search the text for "fig." to locate and view any visuals you might want to reference.

All three formats are included with your purchase – you'll find links to the eBook and podcast feed in the introductory module of the main course. This way, you can switch between formats based on your schedule, location, or learning preference.

Same content, different ways to absorb it.

Based on my experience working with teams who apply these concepts, you can typically expect to see initial improvements within 6 months and significant gains within 12 months. I've consistently observed teams achieving 2-3x increases in throughput after their first year of implementing these approaches systematically.

That said, your timeline will depend on several factors: how quickly you work through the material, how consistently you apply what you learn, and your specific team dynamics and challenges. If it takes you a full year just to complete the course content, that will naturally extend your results timeline.

I want to be completely transparent here – as outlined in my terms and conditions, I can't and don't guarantee specific results. Your outcomes depend entirely on your engagement with the material and your commitment to applying these concepts in real situations.

What I can commit to is providing you with the proven frameworks, practical guidance, and ongoing support needed to develop these skills effectively. I'll do everything I can to help you succeed, including access to the community forum, weekly insights, and additional resources as they become available.

The teams that see the most dramatic improvements are those that engage deeply with the content and consistently practice applying these concepts with their real challenges. If that describes your approach, the results tend to speak for themselves.

While I've framed this course around "leading product teams," the reality is that these leadership principles apply across virtually any industry, company size, or team structure. The fundamental challenges of leading people – navigating conflicts, aligning stakeholders, making strategic decisions, building productive teams – are remarkably consistent regardless of context.

I've worked with teams across an incredibly diverse range of environments: healthcare systems, health insurance companies, bicycle manufacturing, investment finance, national governments, military organizations, game development studios, higher education institutions, journalism outlets, marketing agencies, and many others. The same core leadership principles consistently apply because, ultimately, people are people everywhere.

Whether you're leading a 3-person startup team or a 30-person enterprise division, whether you're in B2B SaaS or physical manufacturing, whether you're in a highly regulated industry or a fast-moving consumer space – the human dynamics remain the same. Team members still need clear direction, stakeholders still have competing priorities, conflicts still need resolution, and strategic decisions still require systematic thinking.

The specific examples and case studies in the course draw from product and technology contexts because that's my background, but the frameworks for difficult conversations, the approaches to measuring value, and the systems for building team alignment work universally.

If you're leading people toward shared outcomes, this course will be relevant to your situation.

Most leadership courses fall into one of two frustrating categories. They're either uselessly philosophical – full of misinterpreted theories with no practical guidance that actually works in real situations – or they're framework-heavy with endless charts, matrices, and spreadsheets that try to outsource the human work of leadership to tools and processes.

Leading Product Teams takes a completely different approach: roughly 20% foundational theory and 80% practical guidance that you can actually apply. You'll get both the hard skills (like measurement systems and strategic frameworks) and the soft skills (like conflict resolution and difficult conversations) that effective leaders need, grounded in real-world scenarios you'll recognize from your own experience.

This isn't about making you feel good with platitudes, overwhelming you with academic concepts, or pretending that the right spreadsheet can do your leading for you. It's about giving you the systematic skills and judgment needed to help you and your team actually succeed.

The other key difference is that this isn't just an isolated course. Through Fieldway, you have access to ongoing support – the community forum, weekly newsletter, deep-dive podcast episodes, and my research notes. Plus, if you want more personalized guidance, you can add asynchronous coaching through Fieldway Studio as part of a comprehensive leadership development package.

You're not just buying a course – you're joining a team dedicated to supporting your ongoing growth as a leader.

Unfortunately, no. As outlined in the terms and conditions, I can't guarantee salary increases, promotions, or any specific career outcomes, nor can I be held liable if those don't occur. Too many factors beyond the course content affect compensation decisions – company budgets, organizational changes, market conditions, and individual circumstances.

However, I can share my personal experience: when I began developing this course, I specifically focused on the skills and knowledge that I credit with increasing my own salary by approximately $40,000 in one year. These weren't abstract leadership concepts – they were the practical capabilities that made me more valuable to organizations and more confident in negotiations.

The skills you'll develop – like systematically improving team productivity, confidently navigating stakeholder conflicts, and creating measurable improvements in team performance – are exactly the competencies that organizations reward with increased compensation and advancement opportunities.

While I can't control your company's promotion timeline or budget constraints, I can help you develop the leadership capabilities that consistently lead to career growth. When you become someone who makes teams more productive, reduces organizational friction, and delivers reliable results, opportunities tend to follow.

The question isn't whether this course guarantees a raise – it's whether developing these leadership skills positions you for the career growth you're seeking.

You keep lifetime access to the core course content – all 50 modules in video, eBook, and podcast formats – plus any new content I add to the course itself, even years down the road.

What changes after your first year is access to the ongoing support elements: the community forum, the weekly deep-dive podcast (which is separate new content, not the podcast version of the course), the leadership newsletter, and my research notes site. These are the "extras" that provide ongoing value beyond the core curriculum.

About a month before your one-year anniversary, I'll send you a few friendly reminders with the option to renew your membership to these ongoing resources. There's no automatic renewal – if you don't actively choose to continue, your access to these extras will simply lapse. No surprise charges, no hassle.

If you decide later that you want to rejoin the community or get back into the newsletter and podcast, you can always renew your membership at that time.

Important note: these ongoing support resources are only available through this course purchase. You can't buy access to the community, newsletter, or research site separately – they're designed specifically to support people who are working through this leadership development journey.

The core course content, though? That's yours forever.

Your ongoing support includes several valuable resources designed to extend your learning beyond the core course content.

During your first year, you get access to the private community forum where you can ask questions and connect with other product leaders, weekly deep-dive podcast episodes that expand on course topics with new insights and examples, a leadership newsletter with fresh observations and answers to community questions, and my personal research notes site with years of frameworks and resources I've collected.

Available anytime is the option to add asynchronous coaching through Fieldway Studio if you want more personalized guidance. This gives you direct access to work through your specific leadership challenges with tailored advice and support.

After your first year, the community, podcast, newsletter, and research site access expires, though you can renew if you choose. The core course content remains yours forever, and the option for asynchronous coaching is always available.

The goal is to provide multiple layers of support from peer learning in the community to ongoing insights through the newsletter and podcast, to personalized coaching when you need specific guidance for your unique situation.