Product Momentum Podcast

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Amazing digital experiences don’t just happen. They are purposefully created by artists and engineers, who strategically and creatively get to know the problem, configure a solution, and maneuver through the various dynamics, hurdles, and technicalities to make it a reality. Hosts Sean and Paul will discuss various elements that go into creating and managing software products, from building user personas to designing for trackable success. No topic is off-limits if it helps inspire and build an amazing digital experience for users – and a product people actually want.

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Episodes 201

195 / Barry O’Reilly: AI Should Strengthen Product Judgment, Not Replace It
5d ago · 43:00
The Product Momentum team reached out to Barry O’Reilly, seeking his expertise in helping product leaders rethink how organizations make decisions, innovate, and perform in the age of artificial intelligence. After a quick review of his CV – co-founder of Nobody Studios (a global Top 10 AI venture studio) and author of Artificial Organizations: Build Better Judgment, Speed, and Results with Human and Machine Intelligence (March 2026) – and we knew we had identified the ideal guest for this episode. In this conversation with Product Momentum, Barry explains that AI’s greatest value comes not in
194 / Ovetta Sampson: Designing AI Products Around Human Needs – Not Just Technology
19d ago · 22:53
Ovetta Sampson is a design researcher, AI leader, and founder of Right AI. She previously served as VP of ML and AI Platform Design at Capital One and worked at Google and IDEO. Ovetta brought that experience to the 2026 ITX Product + Design Conference, focusing her keynote on a question that often goes overlooked: what happens when people interact with increasingly powerful machines? To help us answer that question, Ovetta offers a pair of frameworks that center on human engagement risk, responsible AI, and rethinking how product teams design AI products. Building AI responsibly requires more
193 / How Adaptive Leadership Helps Product Teams Navigate Complexity, with Rachel Kohman
1mo ago · 22:53
In our current environment of rapidly changing customer needs and expectations, evolving technologies, and unpredictable market swings, the best ideas rarely come from a single leader. Instead, as attendees of the 2026 ITX Product + Design Conference learned, they emerge when product teams collaborate, challenge assumptions, and adapt together. In this episode of Product Momentum, Rachel Kohman, Ed.D. joined Sean and Dan for an in-person chat, discussing why adaptive leadership helps organizations solve today’s toughest product and technology problems. Rachel, Assistant Dean of Entrepreneurshi
192 / David Pereira: How Product Teams Can Deliver More Value By Doing Less Work
1mo ago · 22:53
Product teams often struggle to deliver meaningful outcomes. Why? Because they confuse activity with progress. Understanding that challenge is the focus of our chat with David Pereira, recorded in person at the 2026 ITX Product + Design Conference, in Rochester, NY. David is a product management coach, speaker, and author of Untrapping Product Teams: Simplify the Complexity of Creating Digital Products. He has spent that past 17 years helping organizations create more value by eliminating busy work. In his conference workshop and keynote, David drew from his work with product teams around the
191 / TiPS: ITX 2026 P+D Conference – Converging Around Better Problem Solving
1mo ago · 25:21
For the past 5 years, the ITX Product + Design Conference stands at the top of the company’s calendar. In this Topics in Product Series (TiPS) episode, Product Momentum co-host Sean Murray called the 2-day conference event “my favorite two working days of the year,” complete with workshops, keynotes, spotlight sessions, and live podcast recordings. Sean (Director of Product Management) is joined by ITX colleagues Shannon Baird (Lead UX Designer), Kyle Psaty (VP of Business Development), and Dan Sharp (Product Manager, Product Momentum co-host). With conference excitement still fresh on their m
190 / Nesrine Changuel: How Product Delight Drives Business Outcomes
2mo ago · 21:57
Product leaders often measure success in terms of retention, revenue, and growth. In this episode of Product Momentum, Nesrine Changuel explains that the most successful products achieve those outcomes by creating meaningful emotional connections with users. Nesrine’s experience includes leadership roles at Skype, Spotify, Google Meet, and Google Chrome. But these days, she is perhaps best known for her book, Product Delight. Nesrine will explore these and other topics at the ITX Product + Design Conference, June 24-25 in Rochester NY. On conference Day 1, she will conduct a workshop that delv
189 / Mike Belsito: Why Timeless Product Skills Matter in an AI-Driven World
2mo ago · 26:23
Mike Belsito has spent years at the center of the product management community. As the founder of Product Collective, a leader at Mind the Product, and now Head of Product Evangelism at Pendo, Mike has built a career around learning from product professionals and sharing those insights with the broader industry. In this episode of Product Momentum, Mike joins Sean and Dan for a discussion that is absolutely top of mind for today’s product leaders today: while artificial intelligence is transforming how products are built, timeless skills such as curiosity, judgment, and taste remain essential.
188 / Prerna Singh: Avoiding the AI Build Trap with Better User Research
3mo ago · 32:45
Prerna Singh helps organizations build better products and stronger communities. As the founder of Scrappy to Scale Advisors and the former VP of Product and Design at Meetup, she has guided startups and mission-driven organizations through rapid change, customer discovery, and product strategy. In today’s episode, Prerna explains why human connection and disciplined product thinking matter more than ever during the AI boom. While AI may accelerate product work, she says, successful teams avoid the must stay grounded in curiosity, customer insight, and authentic community building. Sense of Co
187 / AI Native: Reimagining Product Roles and Development Cycles, with Adam Creeger
3mo ago · 44:44
Adam Creeger is the CTO of Slate and creator of iLoom (pronounced “il-LOOM”). His leadership experience at Meta, Greenhouse, and Frame.io not only informs Slate’s transformation into an AI-native organization, but also shapes the way AI influences product strategy, engineering workflows, and operational models. Throughout his conversation with Sean and Dan, Adam argues that becoming AI native is not about layering AI features onto existing products. Instead, it requires companies to rethink how software is designed, built, and operated – from the ground up. His perspective offers a practical f
186 / TiPS: AI-Enabled First Principles + Core Product Skills Spark Adoption
4mo ago · 24:29
Welcome to TiPS – the Topics in Product Series – a new podcast format powered by ITX and the team at Product Momentum. The TiPS mission is to engage the same important product space issues that you confront every day – but this time through the experiences of ITX product managers, UX researchers and designers, engineers, security analysts, and the rest of the team. In this inaugural TiPS episode, Dan Sharp is joined by Sean Murray and Andrew Knoblauch to reflect on a recent Product Leaders Breakfast, hosted by Prerna Singh. Together, they draw on insights from event attendees to discuss how AI
185 / Confronting Cognitive Bias in AI Models, with John Haggerty
4mo ago · 34:06
John Haggerty brings more than 25 years of product leadership experience at companies like Datasite, Prodege, and Highway.ai. As co-founder and CEO of BiasHawk, John leverages his expertise in product management, behavioral psychology, and AI to develop an AI-powered platform that acts like a behavioral clinical psychologist to diagnose cognitive bias and heuristics in other AI models. In this episode of Product Momentum, John joins Sean and Dan to explore how AI is reshaping product work while also introducing new risks. John’s message is clear: as AI accelerates execution, product leaders mu
184 / Connecting Product Teams with Go-To-Market Outcomes, with Margie Agin
5mo ago · 32:47
Margie Agin is a seasoned go-to-market advisor for B2B technology scale-ups. She brings deep expertise across digital marketing, IT, and cybersecurity. As Founder and Chief Strategist of Centerboard Marketing as well as a former leader at companies like Cisco and Blackboard, she has built a career translating complex technical products into effective market strategies. In this episode (which marks her second visit to Product Momentum), Margie’s message is clear: go-to-market (GTM) is not a one-time event or a siloed function – it is an ongoing, cross-functional system that must connect product
183 / Rich Mironov: Using ‘Money Stories’ To Communicate Real Business Impact
5mo ago · 41:19
Product Momentum welcomes Rich Mironov back to the pod to help us drill down to the bottom line – literally. Rich is a Silicon Valley veteran and longtime product management advisor. He’s spent decades helping C-suite executives and product leaders connect their work to business outcomes. In this episode, Rich reinforces a single, powerful theme: product managers must translate their ideas into clear financial impact. It’s not enough to build great features – success comes from telling compelling “money stories” that resonate with executives and drive decisions. Here’s what we learned: Why Pro
182 / How ‘Sense Shape Steer’ Helps UXers Design AI Solutions, with Bansi Mehta
6mo ago · 31:49
In this episode of Product Momentum, we’re joined by Bansi Mehta, founder and CEO of Koru UX Design, an enterprise healthcare UX agency supporting some of the US’s largest healthcare technology companies. We discussed the busy intersection of artificial intelligence, product management, and UX Design. Bansi’s Sense – Shape – Steer framework helps guide UX design teams as they integrate AI into their products – and avoid the trap of AI’s drive toward mediocrity that limits individual creativity and expertise. Here’s what we learned: Avoiding the Trap: AI Solutions’ Race to Mediocrity AI’s abili
181 / From IC to PM: Practical Insights for Effective Leadership, with Keith Lucas
6mo ago · 33:35
Keith Lucas is a startup advisor, author, and leader who specializes in building high-impact teams. In this episode with Product Momentum, Keith delivers a master class on leadership, team building, culture, values, and motivation. Our conversation is especially relevant in the context of transitioning from a technical individual contributor to product team leader in high-tech organizations. Here’s what we learned: IC to Team Lead: Navigating the Mindset Shift The transition from hands-on IC to leader of a highly technical team requires a mindset shift from “me to we.” The transition requires
180 / Oji Udezue: The Renaissance PM – Core Skills for Today’s AI-Driven World
6mo ago · 42:12
The Product Momentum team first met Oji Udezue following his keynote at INDUSTRY 2025. And we just knew we had to have him on the pod. Oji is a highly skilled product leader whose CV includes companies like Calendly, Atlassian, and Microsoft. In addition, he co-authored (with wife, Ezinne Udezue) Building Rocket Ships, Product Management for High-Growth Companies a manual for product leaders, product managers, and executives who want to build faster, better, and more profitably (raise your hand if that describes you!). In this episode, we begin broadly by discussing the evolving role of produc
179 / Teresa Torres: Is AI Re-Prioritizing Delivery Over Discovery (Again)?
7mo ago · 45:47
For the past 20 years, Teresa Torres has championed the cause of product discovery. We’ve made progress, she says, but there are plenty of companies and teams out there who don’t know much about their customers – and still think they have all the answers. Is AI exacerbating the problem? In this episode, Teresa returns to Product Momentum taking us on a rollercoaster ride that begins in a pre-ChatGPT world full of hopeful optimism in which product leaders were (slowly, steadily) recognizing the value good Discovery brings – but then spirals through phases of grief as AI-powered Delivery seems t
178 / Phil Hornby: How To Make High-Quality Decisions That Stick
8mo ago · 33:23
Phil Hornby is an experienced product leader, coach, and technologist whose mission is to help product leaders think clearly, make strong decisions, and take powerful action that drives high-impact outcomes. He’s a regular speaker at product events and is co-host of the “Talking Roadmaps” YouTube channel and podcast. If Phil were asked to distill product management down to its core, he’d tell us, “We’re paid to have an opinion.” Not simply putting a ‘licked finger to the wind,’ but trusting your experience and intuition to make high-quality decisions. Ah, and also to remember: there’s a differ
177 / Big Bets Are Back — Why They Need a Balanced Approach, with Michelle Parsons
9mo ago · 30:27
Michelle Parsons is a dynamic product leader who has led high-growth teams at Kayak, Spotify, Netflix, Hinge, and Lex. Her passion for building community and embracing new challenges has recently brought her to a leadership role in a new startup that helps people reconnect to themselves and one another. In this episode of Product Momentum, Michelle joins Sean and Dan to talk about “making bets” – not just the seductive big bets that promise game-changing innovation – but also the smaller bets and quick hits that also play important roles in delivering value, validating assumptions, and mitigat
176 / Axel Sooriah: Discovery Done Right To Drive Product Success
9mo ago · 30:56
Axel Sooriah explores the many challenges product managers face -- and explains how simple Discovery activities can help to resolve them.
175 / Seamless AI Integration: Challenges and Opportunities, with Shensi Ding
10mo ago · 19:39
Shensi Ding explores the obstacles to AI integration and offers valuable tips to help product managers unleash the power of AI technology.
174 / How Product Managers Can Master the Art of Communication, with Sahil Jain
10mo ago · 26:36
Sahil Jain, co-Founder and CEO of Samepage.ai, explains how product managers can master the Art of Communication. Tune in to find out how.
173 / John Cutler: Product Managers as Game Designers – Shifting the Workplace Mindset
11mo ago · 24:37
John Cutler explains when product managers think like game designers they can shift the workplace mindset toward fun, growth, and dynamism.
172 / How Emotional Connections Deepen Product Delight, with Nesrine Changuel
11mo ago · 33:44
Dr. Nesrine Changuel, product coach and author, urges product managers to solve for functional and emotional needs to deepen product delight.
171 / Harnessing AI to Transform Content Strategy, with Brian Piper
12mo ago · 35:27
Content strategist Brian Piper explores the implementation of AI, revealing its power to transform content creation into audience engagement.

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195 / Barry O’Reilly: AI Should Strengthen Product Judgment, Not Replace It

194 / Ovetta Sampson: Designing AI Products Around Human Needs – Not Just Technology

193 / How Adaptive Leadership Helps Product Teams Navigate Complexity, with Rachel Kohman

192 / David Pereira: How Product Teams Can Deliver More Value By Doing Less Work

191 / TiPS: ITX 2026 P+D Conference – Converging Around Better Problem Solving

190 / Nesrine Changuel: How Product Delight Drives Business Outcomes

189 / Mike Belsito: Why Timeless Product Skills Matter in an AI-Driven World

188 / Prerna Singh: Avoiding the AI Build Trap with Better User Research

187 / AI Native: Reimagining Product Roles and Development Cycles, with Adam Creeger

186 / TiPS: AI-Enabled First Principles + Core Product Skills Spark Adoption

185 / Confronting Cognitive Bias in AI Models, with John Haggerty

184 / Connecting Product Teams with Go-To-Market Outcomes, with Margie Agin

183 / Rich Mironov: Using ‘Money Stories’ To Communicate Real Business Impact

182 / How ‘Sense Shape Steer’ Helps UXers Design AI Solutions, with Bansi Mehta

181 / From IC to PM: Practical Insights for Effective Leadership, with Keith Lucas

180 / Oji Udezue: The Renaissance PM – Core Skills for Today’s AI-Driven World

179 / Teresa Torres: Is AI Re-Prioritizing Delivery Over Discovery (Again)?

178 / Phil Hornby: How To Make High-Quality Decisions That Stick

177 / Big Bets Are Back — Why They Need a Balanced Approach, with Michelle Parsons

176 / Axel Sooriah: Discovery Done Right To Drive Product Success

175 / Seamless AI Integration: Challenges and Opportunities, with Shensi Ding

174 / How Product Managers Can Master the Art of Communication, with Sahil Jain

173 / John Cutler: Product Managers as Game Designers – Shifting the Workplace Mindset

172 / How Emotional Connections Deepen Product Delight, with Nesrine Changuel

171 / Harnessing AI to Transform Content Strategy, with Brian Piper

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Episodes 201

195 / Barry O’Reilly: AI Should Strengthen Product Judgment, Not Replace It

194 / Ovetta Sampson: Designing AI Products Around Human Needs – Not Just Technology

193 / How Adaptive Leadership Helps Product Teams Navigate Complexity, with Rachel Kohman

192 / David Pereira: How Product Teams Can Deliver More Value By Doing Less Work

191 / TiPS: ITX 2026 P+D Conference – Converging Around Better Problem Solving

190 / Nesrine Changuel: How Product Delight Drives Business Outcomes

189 / Mike Belsito: Why Timeless Product Skills Matter in an AI-Driven World

188 / Prerna Singh: Avoiding the AI Build Trap with Better User Research

187 / AI Native: Reimagining Product Roles and Development Cycles, with Adam Creeger

186 / TiPS: AI-Enabled First Principles + Core Product Skills Spark Adoption

185 / Confronting Cognitive Bias in AI Models, with John Haggerty

184 / Connecting Product Teams with Go-To-Market Outcomes, with Margie Agin

183 / Rich Mironov: Using ‘Money Stories’ To Communicate Real Business Impact

182 / How ‘Sense Shape Steer’ Helps UXers Design AI Solutions, with Bansi Mehta

181 / From IC to PM: Practical Insights for Effective Leadership, with Keith Lucas

180 / Oji Udezue: The Renaissance PM – Core Skills for Today’s AI-Driven World

179 / Teresa Torres: Is AI Re-Prioritizing Delivery Over Discovery (Again)?

178 / Phil Hornby: How To Make High-Quality Decisions That Stick

177 / Big Bets Are Back — Why They Need a Balanced Approach, with Michelle Parsons

176 / Axel Sooriah: Discovery Done Right To Drive Product Success

175 / Seamless AI Integration: Challenges and Opportunities, with Shensi Ding

174 / How Product Managers Can Master the Art of Communication, with Sahil Jain

173 / John Cutler: Product Managers as Game Designers – Shifting the Workplace Mindset

172 / How Emotional Connections Deepen Product Delight, with Nesrine Changuel

171 / Harnessing AI to Transform Content Strategy, with Brian Piper