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Hello, I am Ahmet Acar. I am a seasoned PM, consultant, and trainer with two decades of experience. I provide product strategies, build product teams, and create PM training programs. I help you attain tech best practices by incorporating NoCode and AI tools. Customers I helped establish PM best practices included Maersk, TUI, and Standard Bank. McKinsey, AWS, Google, GE, SAP, and others chose to employ me because their customers had the following challenges: ✓ Lack of coherent and effective product strategy ✓ Scaling and optimizing product teams ✓ Inefficiencies in product development and delivery processes leading to slow ROI ✓ Securing strategic partnerships and sponsorships at international scope ✓ Developing and retaining top talent ✓ Staying updated with the latest best practices and thought leadership in innovation and AI Results: Amazon: secured $20M+ in contracts and $60M+ in influenced platform revenue as an L7 advisory to C-level executives. McKinsey: Reduced 30FTE worth of manual work through modernized visual asset delivery to all customers as a product manager, creating a portfolio of five products. Google: Created an ICANN event platform, a $4.5M research institute, and a research network with Harvard, Oxford, and Keio as program manager. Digital Academy: raised $2M in contracts in 6 months and built a coaching team of 80 as head of innovation. Product Development • Pain Point: Automotive client struggled to innovate and consolidate acquisition growth • Solution: introduced best practices in creating 30+ new products, established self-organization Product Strategy • Pain Point: Diagnostics Platform lacked a coherent and effective platform business strategy, leading to low traction and slow launches. • Solution: Sped up time to market by 6 months, crafting the strategy across 3 units, set new KPI, aligning launch and growth efforts. Training Programs • Pain Point: multinational finance group unable to build and launch products quickly due to lack of product capabilities • Solution: designed and launched a product management program to train 200 new PMs. 15+ years of training professionals in design thinking, agile, and product management with over 2000 trained through onsite workshops, courses, and long-term programs. Training Customers: DB, SAP, Haniel, Haufe, TUI, Adidas, Mercedes, Porsche, Volkswagen, Maersk, General Electric, Roche, Novartis, Sanofi, Zurich, Deutsche Bank, Standard Bank +30 more.