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The Three Questions Your Execs & Board Actually Cares About

Hosted by Elena Leonova

Tue, Nov 10, 2026

6:00 PM UTC (1 hour)

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From PM to Strategic Product Leader: Make Decisions Leadership Trusts
Elena Leonova
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What you'll learn

Lead your update with the right three questions

Boards care about market opportunity, capital efficiency, and risk profile. Everything else competes for slide budget.

Cut the 27 slides your execs and board doesn't need

Identify the slides that drain execs & board attention from your strategic ask. Rewrite a 30-slide deck into a 3-slide o

Defend the update scope to your CEO before the meeting

Cutting slides is the easy part. Defending the cut to your CEO is the hard part. Learn the conversation that closes it.

Why this topic matters

Most execs & board decks fail for one reason: the product leader goes too deep on product, not deep enough on the market. The execs & board don't want feature detail. They want three things: market opportunity, capital efficiency, risk profile. Everything else is a distraction. The proposal that gets funded is one that gets read in 5 minutes and understood in 2.

You'll learn from

Elena Leonova

Founder & CPO, OneRank.io, ex-CPO @ Spryker, VP of Product @ BigCommerce

Elena Leonova is a product executive with 15+ years of experience leading global SaaS and digital commerce platforms, including Magento (Adobe), BigCommerce, and Spryker. She has built and scaled multi-product portfolios, led platform transformations, and managed international product organizations across high-growth B2B and enterprise markets.

Elena is a co-founder of OneRank.io, an AI-powered product strategy platform helping PMs and executives make financially grounded, strategic decisions. She has coached hundreds of product leaders to operate with the clarity, confidence, and executive presence required at the VP/CPO level.

Previously at

Spryker Systems
BigCommerce
PayPal
eBay
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