Your Strategic Partner for Transforming Teams & Tech 

I’m a Product Leader and Coach with over 15 years of experience in the tech-driven sectors of Healthcare, Education, and Sustainability. I leverage my authenticity, energy, and communication skills to solve technical challenges, align teams, and foster collaboration. I help organizations navigate change and growth so they can solve important world problems like climate change.

I jump in to efficiently deliver results as a fractional Product Manager

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I empathetically develop your tech team and guide them through change

Do these situations sound familiar?

Fractional Product Management

Your organization is just setting out or just starting a new project – and the goal is clear but the path is uncertain. Now the tech team is spinning their wheels when they need to be delivering a minimum viable product (MVP). You are getting early customer feedback and need to prioritize among many compelling next features or tweaks. 
You’re building a great piece of technology with some serious operational underpinnings and need the software and the service / operational components to work well together. The Tech team and Operations Team don’t speak the same language or feel threatened by one another’s work, when they need to be each other’s strongest collaborators and advocates.
You lost a Product Manager (PM) in the middle of a critical build and don’t have spare capacity in your org that can step in. You know hiring the right permanent PM takes time and now you have an immediate gap.
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You need Tiana’s Fractional Product Management Services

Organizational & Coaching

Your tech team used to all fit in one room (or small zoom) and collaboration “just worked.” You’ve been growing and now teams are disconnected or stepping on each others’ toes. The distinct working styles of individuals are getting in the way of meeting milestones, the changing landscape is distracting, and the organic “team glue” isn’t holding things together anymore.
Your team just got a next round of funding, has big goals, and now it’s time to rapidly grow. You need to build the team with the right folks, but you worry about losing the team camaraderie you’ve fostered as a small group. You know how important hiring is but don’t have the bandwidth among the leadership team to focus on it.
You have one or two Product Managers on board, who have the right raw talent, but the executives they report to lack PM experience or are too busy with vision-setting and investors to nurture the PM team.
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You need Tiana’s Organizational &
Coaching Services

Services I Bring to Your Organization

Fractional Product Management

MVP Build Product Management

I work with your team to appropriately scope the minimum viable product (MVP) feature set, plan a realistic execution timeline, assess critical-path resourcing, plan success metrics, and guide the team through buildout to initial launch.

Interim Product Support

I quickly step in to a vacancy and keep the tech team on track, executing the planned roadmap while you fill the role with a permanent PM. *This service pairs well with Tech Team Building. 

Program Management

I map the stakeholders and craft service design strategies that let you interweave the tech and operational processes. I show you strategies for listening with empathy across functional team boundaries and help the team build rapport.

Organizational and Coaching

Tech Org Process Leadership

I assess your tech team’s personnel and processes, suggest adjustments to ways of working, and guide communication and workflow processes to get the team working and feeling like a team. I coach the leadership team on navigating periods of transition through clear goal-setting and keep tabs on morale as the organization evolves. I codevelop and facilitate retreats or on-site team-building activities.

Tech Team Building

I work with you to assess the current team’s skillset and develop a competency assessment and hiring strategy, so you can grow the team toward the right mix of attitudes and skillsets and set up the right structure as you grow. I help you craft the job postings, interview questions, and scorecards to help you identify the best-fit people to add to your team, with an eye to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. 

Product Manager Coaching

I coach PMs and provide skills development, frameworks, templates, and the “tools of the trade”, as well as general guidance and coaching, individually or in small groups.

Testimonials

Working with Tiana as a coach has changed the way I think about myself. She has created the space and structure to think critically about who I am, what my strengths are, and what I truly want in a career and my life. From scaffolded activities to accountability, she has helped me move and reframe my goals immensely. I know that she will support what I bring to the table, challenge me to dig deeper, and remind me to celebrate all the wins along the way.

Jordyn Burger
Patient Advocate and Healthcare Problem-Solver

Tiana has become an integral part of our team, helping us prioritize our tech needs, manage a distributed engineering team, and focusing our product development on how it can unlock the most impact for our team and customers. Tiana is a joy to work with and elevates our game while nourishing our collaborative culture.

Sam Schiller
Founder & CEO, Carbon Yield

Tiana has been a joy to work with and has had a huge impact on our company. I asked Tiana to help my group develop and implement a time sensitive, bespoke project management program for our innovation organization. Tiana jumped in, quickly understood our context, and then brought all her expertise to bear to develop an extremely successful program. I highly recommend working with Tiana!

Juliana Bernalostos-Boy, PhD 
Sr. Director, Portfolio Management & Innovation Strategy, Ingredion Incorporated

In working with my team over the past year, Tiana has served as a coach, thought partner, workshop facilitator, process improver, sticky situation fixer, and extra pair of trusted hands. Whatever it is, she gets it, and she can probably help. I’ve personally valued Tiana’s strategic insight, wise counsel, and candid feedback — she’s made me a better manager *and* expanded our team’s capacity to execute, and I’m grateful for both.

Dr. C. Jason Woodard
Dean of External Programs and Partnerships, Olin College

Tiana is my go-to person when I am feeling stuck or faced with a consequential career decision. Her approach is deeply clarifying and insightful. She knows how to listen empathetically and ask the right questions at the right time, probing you to thoughtfully examine your own assumptions and actions. Her wealth of experience in tech and practical knowledge make her an invaluable coach and mentor.

Gaby Waldman-Fried
Technical Program Manager, Autodesk

Tiana is a highly dependable product manager who I could always trust to own complex and multidisciplinary projects. Her excellent communication skills and deep empathy for her colleagues and customers helped her build trust with her teams and the right product for her customers.

Jonathan Hennek
Chief Product Officer, Osmo

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