Product Leadership Consultant

Are you facing roadblocks in your product organisation, or have you stumbled upon a time-sensitive opportunity that demands immediate attention? Look no further.

I have over a decade of product leadership experience as a Chief Product Officer at several organisations, including Selligent, intu plc and Ada Health.

I can help you with specific challenges like generating new revenue streams, improving time-to-market, enhancing team efficiencies, defining effective strategies, building high-performing product teams and refining product positioning.

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Success Stories

I’m results-driven and offer a unique blend of expertise and industry knowledge to solve business problems collaboratively. Companies often hire me to address their most critical and time-sensitive challenges, especially when lacking in-house resources or skills. Check out these case studies showcasing remarkable outcomes.

Transforming Pro Sky’s tech-enabled service business to a product-centric business

Pro Sky is an industry leader with a fledgling tech-enabled business for booking sustainable group and charter flights for thousands of people together while offsetting carbon footprint. They hired me to understand the unit economics to increase revenues by 10x by becoming a product-centric business. I held a series of workshops addressing Product Culture and delivered the Product Vision and Strategy for their flagship group flight booking product.

Pro-sky.com →

B2B enterprise pricing overhaul for DataSift

DataSift (Acquired by Meltwater) is the leader in licensing social data to enterprises to build analytics apps and power their products. They hired me to overhaul their pricing to increase sales and conversion rates. Additionally, we semi-automated the sales process and enabled the sales team to go after high-value prospects. The pricing changes added improved benefits to customers onboarding as well.

Meltwater.com →

Discovering the most valuable customer segment for Exploding Topics

Exploding Topics extracts trends from search and social data across the internet (It’s what Google Trends could have been.). Their product has an extremely broad appeal with entrepreneurs, enterprises, investors and universities, to name a few. They hired me to lead the Customer Discovery Process, identify the most valuable Customer Segment, build a Customer Insights Hub and use those insights to improve pricing while reducing churn.

Explodingtopics.com →

Product strategy and customer acquisition for Waive

Waive (Top 50 European startups; Acquired by Future plc) predicts emerging trends for data-driven marketers. I advised them on product and customer acquisition strategies by utilising my experience and domain knowledge in MarTech. I worked closely with the founding team and aided in running pilot tests for customers.

Futureplc.com →

Consulting Packages

You can select one of the existing packages addressing common problems or contact me to discuss your specific needs. The solution and advice are always tailored to your needs and business.

An expert opinion of your people, product and processes. The assessment includes evaluating your Product Org skills, strengths, performance and gaps, product performance in line with customer needs, and processes used to deliver product and value to customers. It will help you prioritise initiatives, guide decision-making and ensure the product's long-term success.

Deliverables
- Assessment Report
- Issues with a severity rating
- Recommendations
- Prioritisation (Value vs Effort) matrix
Outcomes
- Effective cost management
- Better resources utilisation
- Staffing needs
Timing
- 1 to 4 weeks
Enquire about Product Health Check →
This package will suit you if your tech-enabled service business is growing and will hit the ceiling soon enough, and/or most of your employees are spending time servicing a handful of key clients without a clear path to scalability. The transition package includes validating the need and scope for the product with the market and cultural, strategy and process changes.
The transition usually takes a long time (9-12 months or longer) and requires dedicated internal changemakers at the leadership level. I work with the changemakers as a catalyst and advisor on an ongoing basis with a light-weight weekly commitment to take the company through this risky and costly transition.
Enquire about becoming a product business →
Product Strategy is the core differentiating factor for product businesses in a crowded market. It's the driving force to corner and monopolise the market by strategically determining the best use of time and resources. Unfortunately, it's common for tech companies to turn into feature factories with hard-working (and expensive) engineering teams working to their wit's end without winning the market.
I can work with the teams, customers and leadership to define, validate, communicate and integrate product strategy, and provide a strategic decision-making framework for Product Managers and business leaders.
Timing
- 4 weeks to 6 months
- The timing depends on your Product Org's current status and maturity.
Enquire about Product Strategy →

Client Testimonials

"Harpal is creative, can work unguided and stays focused on solving problems. His ability to work closely on a product and review it objectively drove success for us. I'd recommend him in a heartbeat."

Tim Barker
CEO, DataSift
"Harpal brings a strong awareness of the customer needs when managing technical delivery, and makes sure that implementation speed does not result in unexpected compromises. He manages and communicates with stakeholders well, and is very easy to work with."

Susan Aubrey-Cound
Strategic Relationships Director
Syte.ai
"Harpal combines ruthless attention to detail with a relaxed and friendly manner which makes him both effective and a pleasure to work with."

James Del-Gatto
Brand and Comms Director
SThree plc
"Harpal proved invaluable to the team and brought skills to the table we didn't realise we needed. He worked with us to transform our concept into a fully functioning product that we were successful in selling."

Samuel Reid
Head of Technology
Untold Studios
"Harpal has great communication skills, very friendly and calm work attitude, and eye for good design (especially UX)."

Ege Akpinar
CEO, Pointr