I design product and technology strategy around people, and get the whole room behind it.

People

Who it's designed around

  • Customers who buy it
  • Users who rely on it

The whole room

Who gets behind it

  • Leaders who will own it
  • Executives above you
  • Board and investors

Your
people

  • People

    Who it's designed around

    Customers who buy it. Users who rely on it.

  • The whole room

    Who gets behind it

    Leaders who will own it. Executives above you. Board and investors.

Your people, who helped shape the direction, and now carry it out.

I work hands-on with product and tech leaders to get clear on the value, direction and story the whole room can believe in and commit to. Backed by evidence.

Know what to build, and why

A clear direction for your product or platform, grounded in what your customers and users actually need, and co-created with your team.

So you build what customers stay loyal to, and grow on value.

Make your team strategic, by design

A strategic foundation that defines your ambition, the value you deliver, and how you show up and operate to make it real, built from your people's own voices.

So your team is aligned on direction, focused on the work that matters, and thriving.

Show your value, with proof behind it

A value story and communications framework grounded in real evidence, for whoever needs to say yes, from customers and your own team to the board and investors.

So your value is seen and trusted, from your customers to your investors.

MY APPROACH

A direction everyone commits to

Make your value visible, align your teams around one clear direction, and give everyone something worth rallying behind. That's strategy that moves the business.

Value

What actually matters

Clarity

So you can see it

Alignment

Everyone behind it

Value made visible

Value you rally behind

Clarity that aligns

  • Value

    What actually matters

  • Clarity

    So you can see it

  • Alignment

    Everyone behind it

Where they overlap: value made visible · clarity that aligns · value you rally behind

Dare I say, Cyndee is like an awesome breath of fresh air in conversation and has very much a no-nonsense approach to delivery, adding value and getting stuff done.

CTO, global research and publishing enterprise

Every team has a hero's journey.

This journey has guided transformation since Homer. It works just as well for a product and tech organization.

You're asked to decide what to build, lead a team that shapes what comes next, and show the value of it all.

The challenge

Technology matters more than ever. Markets shift, AI rewrites what's possible, and priorities multiply.

The descent

  • Conditions lag.
  • Bets on opinion.
  • Teams firefight.
  • Value blurs.
  • Growth slows.

Rock bottom

  • Growth stalls.
  • Wrong things built.
  • Teams burning out.
  • Funding at risk.
  • Credibility on the line.

The rise

  • Start with evidence.
  • Bring your people along.
  • Get clear on value, direction, story.
  • Build your own strategy OS.

The return

  • Growth built on value.
  • Loyal customers.
  • Team aligned on direction.
  • Your people thriving.
  • Backing for what comes next.
  • You lead with confidence.

You're asked to decide what to build, lead a team that shapes what comes next, and show the value of it all.

HOW IT WORKS

Your own strategy OS, designed with you and your team.

Not a deck that gets filed. A strategy operating system for what you build, how your team shows up, and how you make your value visible.

VALUE

Listen

Gather evidence from customers, users and your people. Frame the problem.

VALUE

Envision

Align on the evidence, fill the gaps and stretch thinking toward what's possible.

CLARITY

Design the strategy

Connect the dots, make the complex simple and visual, bring expert insight and converge on direction.

ALIGNMENT

Make it real

Create the frameworks, prototypes and playbooks that operationalize and measure it.

  1. VALUE

    Listen

    Gather evidence from customers, users and your people. Frame the problem.

  2. VALUE

    Envision

    Align on the evidence, fill the gaps and stretch thinking toward what's possible.

  3. CLARITY

    Design the strategy

    Connect the dots, make the complex simple and visual, bring expert insight and converge on direction.

  4. ALIGNMENT

    Make it real

    Create the frameworks, prototypes and playbooks that operationalize and measure it.

Co-created throughout, with decisions owned by your leadership.

MAKE IT REAL

Every engagement is different. Every strategy is designed to be seen and used.

20+ years designing product experiences means complex strategy becomes clear, visual and ready to act on, in the tools your team already uses.

KeynoteFigmaPowerPointNotionMiroConfluenceClaudeGoogle SlidesFigJamChatGPTLovableClaude CodeSharePoint+ whatever your team uses

Brands I've worked with

Bringing value, clarity and alignment to teams, from startups to global enterprises.

  • Roche
  • Sony
  • Boehringer Ingelheim
  • iRobot
  • Fisher-Price
  • Invisalign
  • Nostics
  • myTomorrows
  • Nike
  • HSBC
  • 20th Century Fox
  • Nickelodeon
  • CAI
  • Elsevier
  • Digitas Health
  • Hyland's

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