Founder @ PMDojo | Ex-Atlassian | Product Leadership Coach | Keynote Speaker | Community Builder | Mom 👩‍👦🐶

You’re a high-performing woman doing everything right. You consistently deliver the results, survive the fire drills and have proven your value ten times over. Yet, when the Dir/VP roles open... you hear

"Be more strategic" "Have more executive presence" or "Wait your turn"

while less qualified people move ahead.💔

This isn't about your work ethic or working harder. It’s about power, perception, and strategic influence. As a former C-Suite executive, I know how these decisions are made because I've sat in the talent reviews and promotion discussions.

I started my career right at the bottom in a junior Tech Support role and fought through dysfunctional reorgs and M&As to become a Company President and C-Suite Executive. 

As a working mom and often the youngest executive in the room, I was told every reason why I wasn’t “fit” for the top. I didn’t just shatter the ceiling…I mastered the behavioral psychology required to own the room.

I’ve helped 5,000+ women get promoted at Dir/VP and C-Suite levels and, for many, build founder paths alongside or beyond corporate securing $5.5M in combined raises. and secure $5.5M in combined raises in months, not years.

Stop being the doer that does all the work and start being the leader who leads it. Every cycle you wait is a $40k-$125K mistake.

Send me a DM. Get your seat at the table.✌️

Bosky Mukherjee

Every investor who rejected these 6 women is somewhere regretting it. 🌶️ 
The venture capital world loves to talk about "potential," but only 2.3% of funding goes to women.

These 6 women didn't wait for a term sheet or a seat at someone else's table. They built their own, and more importantly, they kept every chair.

1: Sara Blakely - Turned $5,000 into Spanx, built a $1.2 billion company, and self-funded it for 21 years. When Blackstone bought it in 2021, she still owned 100%.
Lesson: The money you have is enough to start. The money you make is enough to grow.

2: Mahisha Dellinger: A bank told her no, so she bootstrapped CURLS with $25,000 anyway, a hair care brand for natural curls that industry ignored. Today, it's a $15 million brand sitting in Walmart, Target, and CVS Health.
Lesson: A bank's "no" isn't a verdict. It's a detour to full ownership.

3: Cate Luzio: Self-funded Luminary when everyone told her to raise. Now: 30 countries, 100+ corporate partners, and zero outside capital.
Lesson: People warning you about risk often haven't taken any themselves.

4: Natalia Shahmetova: When VCs wouldn't touch pet tech, she went ahead anyway. Woofz now has 21 million downloads and $20M in annual revenue, built entirely on her own terms.
Lesson: Build where no one's looking. By the time they notice, you're already ahead.

5: Jaclyn Johnson: Bootstrapped Create & Cultivate, sold it for $22 million, then bought it back. All by 35.
Lesson: An exit doesn't have to be the end. If you built it right, you can take it back.

6: ✨Vivian Kaye: She built what the beauty industry wouldn't...products for Black women with curly hair, starting with herself. A college dropout and single mother, she bootstrapped KinkyCurlyYaki to 7 figures.
Lesson: The best products come from founders who needed them first.

We’ve been trained to think that "making it" means someone else validated us with a check.

These 6 women didn’t wait for the world to change.
They built empires anyway.

P.S. Know a woman building something without VC backing? Tag her below; let's give her some 🌸 🥰 .

#womenintech #womeninbusiness #leadership #women
#womeninleadership

I build AI products from zero to one, and I teach others how to do the same.Over 12+ years, I've taken AI/ML products from proof-of-concept to launch at Amazon, Nike, T-Mobile, and Disney. The work I love most is early-stage: validating ideas, getting executive greenlight, and shipping MVPs that prove value before scaling. At Nike, that approach drove a $100M annual reduction in product returns.I also teach what I build. I co-created and lead the AI Product Management Certificate at the University of Washington, where experienced PMs ship real GenAI products complete with evaluation plans and GTM strategies. Previously, I trained 4 cohorts at Product School.What I bring: the ability to translate messy AI capabilities into clear product value, align technical and business stakeholders, and move fast without breaking trust. I write about AI PM craft at aipmguru.substack.com.I'm currently exploring opportunities to lead 0→1 AI product work at companies solving meaningful problems. I'm especially energized by AI in healthcare and education, though I'm open to any domain where the product can genuinely improve lives. 

Shaili Guru

This message made my morning ☀️

A reader just shared that they landed an AI Product Manager role, and mentioned my content helped along the way.

Here's the thing though: I'm glad the content helped, but they put in the work.

The learning. The interviewing. The career pivot. That's all them.

Moments like this remind me why I write. Not to have all the answers, but to make the path a little clearer for folks navigating the transition.

If you're in the middle of your own AI PM journey right now, keep going. It's working.

AI Product Leader | 0→1 Builder & Educator | Ex-Nike, Ex-Amazon, Ex-Disney

My kids got Harry Potter Guess Who for Christmas, and watching them play gave me an idea. What if I built a digital version with our 46 family members? They could learn their relatives the same way they're learning about Hogwarts. I opened Bolt and started building. 34 versions later, I had a working game. But the real lesson wasn't about AI coding tools.

It was seeing PM fundamentals play out in real-time, compressed into one afternoon. Clear requirements prevented wrong interpretations. Defining the data model upfront avoided rewrites to the architecture. Thinking through edge cases early meant fewer fixes later. AI doesn't ask clarifying questions or push back on ambiguity. It just builds exactly what you describe.

Vibe coding is a mirror for PM discipline. It validated what I've learned across teams: clear requirements, defined data models, explicit acceptance criteria. The 4 patterns that made this work 👇

If I were teaching someone about AI product lifecycles for the first time, I'd start with POCs.
Not because they're the first step in a framework diagram.

Because they're where most AI products quietly die.

It reminds me of my research days working with Zebrafish embryos. You don't scale up a staining protocol before you've proven it works on a handful of samples.

Same logic applies to AI.

But here's what most teams get wrong: they run AI POCs like traditional software spikes. Build it, demo it, ship it.

AI doesn't work that way.

Your POC might hit 85% accuracy. Looks great in a demo. But what happens to the 15% that fails? Who handles those cases? What's the cost of being wrong?

These are the questions traditional PMs aren't trained to ask.

In my latest post, I break down:
→ Why POCs are the critical gate (not just another phase)
→ Three types of AI products and how they change what you're validating
→ The question most teams forget to ask before calling a POC "successful."

Link in comments 👇

Building your personal brand is hard. On LinkedIn, off LinkedIn—doesn't matter. It's just hard.

I have been at it for about a year now, and honestly? Still figuring it out.

I'm part of PDMA Seattle's committee, and our next session is with Leslie on how to make LinkedIn work for your PM career.

📅 Jan 14, 12-1 PM PST 🔗 https://luma.com/wno7fylk

Our last session on PM hiring trends had a great turnout, and everyone walked away with something useful. Expecting this one to be just as good.

Come through if you're trying to figure out the brand thing too.

Product Development and Management Association Seattle team - Anna Bigornia Sako Eaton Harmony Crawford Prabina B. Matt Foster Sahit G.  Banu R.

#productmanagement #linkedin #personalbrand

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