Main takeaways: - Understand your impact as a Product Manager - Why your ability to tell a story is important - The importance of gratitude

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Senior Product Manager, PayPal
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Ronke Majekodunmi

6. ABOUT ME
Ronke Majekodunmi
I thrive in finding opportunities
beyond the sight of others

7. ABOUT ME
• Leadership: In Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns
Goodwin
• How to Lead: Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs,
Founders, and Game Changers by David M. Rubenstein
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
• Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful
Lessons in Personal Change Stephen R. Covey
• Basic Black: The Essential Guide for Getting Ahead at
Work (and in Life) by Cathie Black
• The Hating Game: A Novel by Sally Thorne
• Head Over Heels by Jill Mansell

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Understand your impact as a PM
Why your ability to tell a story is important
The importance of gratitude
THREE MAIN TAKEAWAYS

9. Why Product Management Matters
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Product Management can bring the numerous
branches of an organization together to
concentrate on what we are all here for in the
first place - the product

10. Scenario (Pre Covid-19)
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Starbucks allows us to order our food and drinks ahead of time
through their app. What happens many times is when I get there
the store is so busy there is no sitting available

11. Understand your impact as a PM
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• Collaborating with stakeholders early in the process ensures that the
outcome is tied closely with business and user needs
• Guide and represent the product vision and business context to dependent
teams and leadership
• Masters of communicating value, pains being addressed, and market
distinction

12. Why your ability to tell a story is important
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• Transform - Ability to transform us into new worlds and innovative
thinking
• Align - Helps us see each other ‘s perspectives, reduces distance between
people
• Inspire -Enables us to see what is conceivable, affords us a sense of
purpose. When we have purpose, we have progress

13. The importance of gratitude
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Gratitude is a symbol of strength and leads to stronger organizations
Gratitude enhances efficiency
Grateful leaders are modest leaders
Grateful leaders have a growth perspective

14. Solution
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15. Agenda
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Understand your impact as a PM
Why your ability to tell a story is important
The importance of gratitude
THREE MAIN TAKEAWAYS

16. I thrive in finding opportunities beyond the
sight of others
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17. Thank You!
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Ronke Majekodunmi
ronkemajek18@gmail.com
@RonkeMajekodun1

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