Innovative Product Leadership: The Emerging Chief Product Officer
Develop strategic frameworks, customer empathy, and communication and leadership skills to help you move from product management to the C-suite.
Apply By July 10, 2026
Start Date August 23, 2026
Set your sights on being a more strategic CPO.
Today’s chief product officers have more responsibilities, impact, and influence than ever before. This one-week program helps prepare you for this highly demanding and desirable role. Discover how customer insights can inform product development. Learn how to communicate with purpose and exert influence without authority. And develop leadership skills that motivate cross-functional teams to drive product innovation.
Key Benefits
- Learn product management strategies, innovative approaches, and bold leadership required in the C-suite.
- Develop new tools to strengthen the product management process across larger portfolios.
- Influence product decision-making with the customer at the center.
- Enhance your internal and external communication skills.
- Build leadership skills to manage and motivate cross-functional teams.
Who Should Attend?
- Experienced product managers and aspiring chief product officers who are motivated to lead and ignite change in their organizations — from any industry and country
- Senior-level product managers with at least eight years of product management experience — from any size or stage company
- Technically-minded product managers seeking business expertise to take on more senior-level strategic roles in the organization
Meet the Faculty Leadership
This program is developed by Jonathan Levav and Baba Shiv, and taught by a team of tenured, strategically focused, cross-disciplinary faculty who are experts in their fields. Together, they bring cutting-edge research, thought leadership, and experiential learning to your program experience.
Jonathan Levav
The King Philanthropies Professor of Marketing
Co-Director, Innovative Product Leadership: The Emerging Chief Product Officer
Baba Shiv
The Sanwa Bank, Limited, Professor of Marketing
Co-Director, Innovative Product Leadership: The Emerging Chief Product Officer
Earn Your Certificate
Upon successful completion of Innovative Product Leadership: The Emerging Chief Product Officer, you will be awarded a Certificate of Completion in recognition of your achievement and the investment you have made in your education and professional development.
Applications due July 10, 2026
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