Product Momentum Podcast
Product Momentum Podcast, hosted by Sean and Paul, explores the process of creating and managing software products. The hosts discuss topics ranging from building user personas to designing for measurable success. Produced by ITX Corp., the show emphasizes the strategic and creative effort behind amazing digital experiences. No topic is off-limits if it helps inspire and build a product users truly want.
Episodes
197 / TiPS: Building Secure, Trustworthy Products in the Age of AI
Long before ChatGPT burst onto the scene, ITX shared a blog post that outlined The Seven Perspectives of Digital Quality – among them we included app and system security. How secure is your software in terms of data integrity, coding standards, and infrastructure? How well does it stand up to access breaches, threats, and other vulnerabilities?
AI is helping product teams do research, design,
196 / AI Changes the Tools, Not Product Management Fundamentals, with Arpan Podduturi
Artificial intelligence is changing how product teams work, but not what good product management requires. As Arpan Podduturi explains, this remains true regardless of whether the AI integration involves physical products or software. Product teams in both environments face remarkably similar challenges: understanding user context, balancing trust and control, and delivering business value. Lever
195 / Barry O’Reilly: AI Should Strengthen Product Judgment, Not Replace It
The Product Momentum team reached out to Barry O’Reilly, seeking his expertise in helping product leaders rethink how organizations make decisions, innovate, and perform in the age of artificial intelligence. After a quick review of his CV – co-founder of Nobody Studios (a global Top 10 AI venture studio) and author of Artificial Organizations: Build Better Judgment, Speed, and Results with Human
194 / Ovetta Sampson: Designing AI Products Around Human Needs – Not Just Technology
Ovetta Sampson is a design researcher, AI leader, and founder of Right AI. She previously served as VP of ML and AI Platform Design at Capital One and worked at Google and IDEO. Ovetta brought that experience to the 2026 ITX Product + Design Conference, focusing her keynote on a question that often goes overlooked: what happens when people interact with increasingly powerful machines? To help us
193 / How Adaptive Leadership Helps Product Teams Navigate Complexity, with Rachel Kohman
In our current environment of rapidly changing customer needs and expectations, evolving technologies, and unpredictable market swings, the best ideas rarely come from a single leader. Instead, as attendees of the 2026 ITX Product + Design Conference learned, they emerge when product teams collaborate, challenge assumptions, and adapt together.
In this episode of Product Momentum, Rachel Kohma
192 / David Pereira: How Product Teams Can Deliver More Value By Doing Less Work
Product teams often struggle to deliver meaningful outcomes. Why? Because they confuse activity with progress. Understanding that challenge is the focus of our chat with David Pereira, recorded in person at the 2026 ITX Product + Design Conference, in Rochester, NY.
David is a product management coach, speaker, and author of Untrapping Product Teams: Simplify the Complexity of Creating Digital
191 / TiPS: ITX 2026 P+D Conference – Converging Around Better Problem Solving
For the past 5 years, the ITX Product + Design Conference stands at the top of the company’s calendar. In this Topics in Product Series (TiPS) episode, Product Momentum co-host Sean Murray called the 2-day conference event “my favorite two working days of the year,” complete with workshops, keynotes, spotlight sessions, and live podcast recordings.
Sean (Director of Product Management) is join
190 / Nesrine Changuel: How Product Delight Drives Business Outcomes
Product leaders often measure success in terms of retention, revenue, and growth. In this episode of Product Momentum, Nesrine Changuel explains that the most successful products achieve those outcomes by creating meaningful emotional connections with users. Nesrine’s experience includes leadership roles at Skype, Spotify, Google Meet, and Google Chrome. But these days, she is perhaps best known
189 / Mike Belsito: Why Timeless Product Skills Matter in an AI-Driven World
Mike Belsito has spent years at the center of the product management community. As the founder of Product Collective, a leader at Mind the Product, and now Head of Product Evangelism at Pendo, Mike has built a career around learning from product professionals and sharing those insights with the broader industry.
In this episode of Product Momentum, Mike joins Sean and Dan for a discussion that
188 / Prerna Singh: Avoiding the AI Build Trap with Better User Research
Prerna Singh helps organizations build better products and stronger communities. As the founder of Scrappy to Scale Advisors and the former VP of Product and Design at Meetup, she has guided startups and mission-driven organizations through rapid change, customer discovery, and product strategy.
In today’s episode, Prerna explains why human connection and disciplined product thinking matter mo
187 / AI Native: Reimagining Product Roles and Development Cycles, with Adam Creeger
Adam Creeger is the CTO of Slate and creator of iLoom (pronounced “il-LOOM”). His leadership experience at Meta, Greenhouse, and Frame.io not only informs Slate’s transformation into an AI-native organization, but also shapes the way AI influences product strategy, engineering workflows, and operational models.
Throughout his conversation with Sean and Dan, Adam argues that becomin
186 / TiPS: AI-Enabled First Principles + Core Product Skills Spark Adoption
Welcome to TiPS – the Topics in Product Series – a new podcast format powered by ITX and the team at Product Momentum. The TiPS mission is to engage the same important product space issues that you confront every day – but this time through the experiences of ITX product managers, UX researchers and designers, engineers, security analysts, and the rest of the team.
In this inaugural TiPS episo
185 / Confronting Cognitive Bias in AI Models, with John Haggerty
John Haggerty brings more than 25 years of product leadership experience at companies like Datasite, Prodege, and Highway.ai. As co-founder and CEO of BiasHawk, John leverages his expertise in product management, behavioral psychology, and AI to develop an AI-powered platform that acts like a behavioral clinical psychologist to diagnose cognitive bias and heuristics in other AI models.
In this
184 / Connecting Product Teams with Go-To-Market Outcomes, with Margie Agin
Margie Agin is a seasoned go-to-market advisor for B2B technology scale-ups. She brings deep expertise across digital marketing, IT, and cybersecurity. As Founder and Chief Strategist of Centerboard Marketing as well as a former leader at companies like Cisco and Blackboard, she has built a career translating complex technical products into effective market strategies. In this episode (which mark
183 / Rich Mironov: Using ‘Money Stories’ To Communicate Real Business Impact
Product Momentum welcomes Rich Mironov back to the pod to help us drill down to the bottom line – literally. Rich is a Silicon Valley veteran and longtime product management advisor. He’s spent decades helping C-suite executives and product leaders connect their work to business outcomes. In this episode, Rich reinforces a single, powerful theme: product managers must translate their ideas into c
182 / How ‘Sense Shape Steer’ Helps UXers Design AI Solutions, with Bansi Mehta
In this episode of Product Momentum, we’re joined by Bansi Mehta, founder and CEO of Koru UX Design, an enterprise healthcare UX agency supporting some of the US’s largest healthcare technology companies. We discussed the busy intersection of artificial intelligence, product management, and UX Design. Bansi’s Sense – Shape – Steer framework helps guide UX design teams as they integrate AI i
181 / From IC to PM: Practical Insights for Effective Leadership, with Keith Lucas
Keith Lucas is a startup advisor, author, and leader who specializes in building high-impact teams. In this episode with Product Momentum, Keith delivers a master class on leadership, team building, culture, values, and motivation. Our conversation is especially relevant in the context of transitioning from a technical individual contributor to product team leader in high-tech organizations.
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180 / Oji Udezue: The Renaissance PM – Core Skills for Today’s AI-Driven World
The Product Momentum team first met Oji Udezue following his keynote at INDUSTRY 2025. And we just knew we had to have him on the pod. Oji is a highly skilled product leader whose CV includes companies like Calendly, Atlassian, and Microsoft. In addition, he co-authored (with wife, Ezinne Udezue) Building Rocket Ships, Product Management for High-Growth Companies a manual for product leaders, pro
179 / Teresa Torres: Is AI Re-Prioritizing Delivery Over Discovery (Again)?
For the past 20 years, Teresa Torres has championed the cause of product discovery. We’ve made progress, she says, but there are plenty of companies and teams out there who don’t know much about their customers – and still think they have all the answers. Is AI exacerbating the problem?
In this episode, Teresa returns to Product Momentum taking us on a rollercoaster ride that begin
178 / Phil Hornby: How To Make High-Quality Decisions That Stick
Phil Hornby is an experienced product leader, coach, and technologist whose mission is to help product leaders think clearly, make strong decisions, and take powerful action that drives high-impact outcomes. He’s a regular speaker at product events and is co-host of the “Talking Roadmaps” YouTube channel and podcast.
If Phil were asked to distill product management down to its core
177 / Big Bets Are Back — Why They Need a Balanced Approach, with Michelle Parsons
Michelle Parsons is a dynamic product leader who has led high-growth teams at Kayak, Spotify, Netflix, Hinge, and Lex. Her passion for building community and embracing new challenges has recently brought her to a leadership role in a new startup that helps people reconnect to themselves and one another.
In this episode of Product Momentum, Michelle joins Sean and Dan to talk about “making
176 / Axel Sooriah: Discovery Done Right To Drive Product Success
Axel Sooriah explores the many challenges product managers face -- and explains how simple Discovery activities can help to resolve them.
175 / Seamless AI Integration: Challenges and Opportunities, with Shensi Ding
Shensi Ding explores the obstacles to AI integration and offers valuable tips to help product managers unleash the power of AI technology.
174 / How Product Managers Can Master the Art of Communication, with Sahil Jain
Sahil Jain, co-Founder and CEO of Samepage.ai, explains how product managers can master the Art of Communication. Tune in to find out how.
173 / John Cutler: Product Managers as Game Designers – Shifting the Workplace Mindset
John Cutler explains when product managers think like game designers they can shift the workplace mindset toward fun, growth, and dynamism.
172 / How Emotional Connections Deepen Product Delight, with Nesrine Changuel
Dr. Nesrine Changuel, product coach and author, urges product managers to solve for functional and emotional needs to deepen product delight.
171 / Harnessing AI to Transform Content Strategy, with Brian Piper
Content strategist Brian Piper explores the implementation of AI, revealing its power to transform content creation into audience engagement.
170 / Lena Sesardic: Building and Using Custom GPTs for Product Management
Lena Sesardic -- former product manager turned creator of custom GPTs -- helps fellow PMs build and use AI to work less and think bigger.
169 / Matt LeMay’s Keys to Delivering Impact That Propels Your Business Forward
Matt LeMay helps product teams and leaders drive real impact by closing the gap between individual goals and organizational objectives.
168 / Ioana Teleanu, Designing With AI: Overcoming Barriers and Embracing Change
Ioana Teleanu follows her keynote at ITX's Product + Design Conference with this live podcast recording, discussing how to Design with AI.
167 / How SaaS Teams Drive Impact Through Alignment and Innovation, with Usha Iyer
Usha Iyer explains how SaaS product teams maximize business impact by forging strong alignment with GTM counterparts using the Bow Tie Model.
166 / Sophia Prater, on Object-Oriented UX: The Backbone of the Design Process
Sophia Prater, CEO of Rewired UX and evangelist for object-oriented UX, explains how a solid UX structure inspires strong UX design.
165 / A Recipe for Success: Heather Inocencio, on Fractional Product Management
Heather Inocencio, founder and CEO of The Product Consult, explains how Fractional Product Management helps startups and midsize businesses.
164 / Luke Stiles, on GenAI: ‘The Value of Humanity Will Go Up’
Luke Stiles explains how using GenAI tools can deepen a product manager's domain knowledge and accelerate their product's time to market.
163 / Vitaly Friedman, on UX Design + AI in Enterprise Environments
Vitaly Friedman, editor of Smashing magazine, advises UX designers on how to properly disrupt legacy systems -- with assistance from AI.
162 / What Does It Mean To Be ‘Customer Obsessed’?, with Christian Marek
Productboard's Christian Marek explores the intersection of 'customer obsession' and AI to help product managers reach new levels of success.
161 / 3 Core Tenets of Product Strategy and Execution, with Cassidy Fein
Cassidy Fein brings her passion for clear, articulable strategy and empowering product managers to this latest episode of Product Momentum.
160 / Designing Your Career: Pro Tips for Navigating Today’s Job Market, with Sarah Doody
Sarah Doody, CEO of Career Strategy Lab, shares expert advice with UX and Product leaders, helping them navigate today's volatile job market.
159 / How Agility Connects Organizational Strategy to Value Delivered, with Trisha Hall
In this episode, AgilityInsights’ Trisha Hall joins Paul Gebel for a first-ever joint podcast for Product Momentum — here, with Trisha’s Illuminating Insights. Trisha leads the enterprise solutions and government contracting team at AgilityInsights, and Paul is a VP of Delivery at ITX as well as long-time host of Product Momentum. In this inspiring conversation between friends and col
158 / Top 3 Mistakes Product Leaders Make – And How To Avoid Them, with Tami Reiss
Product leader coach Tami Reiss describes 3 mistakes product leaders make -- and explains how they could've avoided them in the first place.
157 / Applying Behavioral Science To Drive User Value, with Katie Dove
Katie Dove, managing director at Irrational Labs, explains how product builders can use behavioral science and psychology to drive user value.
156 / Bruce McCarthy: Prioritizing Stakeholder Objectives Is the Hardest Job in Product
Bruce McCarthy explains why saying no to some ideas so you can say yes to those that move the needle is the Product Manager's toughest job.
155 / Integrating Product Management Principles into Education, with Brad Eiben
At last, a master's-level program in Product Management! Brad Eiben explains how he integrated PdM principles into the core of the program.
154 / How to Use AI: Separating the Hype from the Helpful, with Dan Chuparkoff
Dan Chuparkoff draws on 30 years' experience in Product to provide helpful ways we can use AI now -- and not waiting to realize its potential.
153 / Building Products for Technical Audiences, with Bukky Adebayo and Rye Castillo
Bukky Adebayo and Rye Castillo offer helpful advice for breaking down silos and embracing the value developers bring to product development.
152 / Matt LeMay: The Consequences of Low-Impact Work on Sound Product Management
Matt LeMay explains how a disconnect between company goals and product team goals can lead to unintended consequences for all stakeholders.
151 / Helping Individual Contributors Into Management Roles, with Melika Hope
Melika Hope offers helpful advice to individual contributors in product management who are considering the transition to people management.
150 / Bob Moesta: Understanding Users’ Struggling Moments Is Our Job To Be Done
Bob Moesta, champion of the Jobs To Be Done framework, says product managers must grasp users' 'struggling moments' to deliver top solutions.
149 / How Curiosity + Passion Deliver Next-Gen Innovations, with Shikha Kapoor
Meta's Shikha Kapoor credits "a student mindset" for her success: a passion for learning, staying hungry, and maintaining a healthy curiosity.
148 / 3 Remedies that Boost Product Launch Success, with James Whitman
In LAUNCH Code, James Whitman helps Product and Sales leaders build strong relationships that lead to greater product launch success.
147 / ‘Useful Models’ That Boost Product Launch Success, with Itamar Gilad
Itamar Gilad presents a set of useful models within his larger GIST framework to help product managers boost their product launch success rate.
146 / How To Use Product Ops To Make Better, Faster Decisions, with Denise Tilles
Denise Tilles, co-author of Product Operations, explains how product ops works to help product managers make better, faster, decisions.
145 / Patricia Reiners Answers 3 Key Questions at the Intersection of UX and AI
Patricia Reiners offers expert advice for UX designers interacting with AI tools in their work, careers, and in their role as ethical humans.
144 / Embracing the Human Dynamic in Product Design, with Ryan Rumsey
Ryan Rumsey joins the team in a poignant conversation where he emphasizes the importance of the human dynamic in designing great software.
143 / John Maeda: Creativity, Risk, and the Role of AI
John Maeda records live at ITX's Product & Design Conference to explain how AI helps us create software so we can achieve our broader goals.
142 / Christian Idiodi, on Product Sense: Integrating Data and Intuition
Christian Idiodi explains how product sense combines data with human intuition to keep users happy and generate revenue for the business.
141 / How To Build a Community of Practice, with ITX Leaders in Product + UX
ITX leaders in product management and user experience share their first-hand insights on how to launch and grow a community of practice.
140 / Money Talks: Aligning Product Strategy + Business Goals, with Rich Mironov
Rich Mironov, a 40-year veteran of Silicon Valley, rejoins the podcast to help fellow PMs align product strategy with company strategy.
139 / User Experience Research: AI’s New Frontier, with John Haggerty & Prerna Singh
John Haggerty and Prerna Singh explore the new frontier of UX Research, leaning into AI tools to help make critical product decisions.
138 / The Science Behind Building Better Products, with Holly Hester-Reilly
Holly Hester-Reilly explains how product teams can mitigate risk through evidence-based, continuous discovery.
137 / 3 Tips for Fostering a Culture of Change, with Zoia Kozakov
Zoia Kozakov, Head of Product for Digital Wallets at JPMorgan Chase, explains how to build a culture of change to drive innovation and growth.
136 / Product Operations: Why It’s More Important Now Than Ever, with Denise Tilles
Denise Tilles explores product ops and explains why smart organizations are using it to level up their Product Management practice.
135 / The New PMO: Strategic Partner in Business Transformation, with Laura Barnard
Laura Barnard enthusiastically describes a new role for today's project management office (PMO): strategic partner in business transformation.
134 / Lessons in Product Leadership: The Art of Communication, with Gabrielle Bufrem
Product coach Gabrielle Bufrem joins Product Momentum to explain why product problems are people problems best solved with good communication.
133 / From Positioning to Sales Pitch: How to Make the Buying Process Easier, with April Dunford
April Dunford shares an innovative approach to help Product and Sales craft a compelling sales pitch, helping B2B buyers overcome indecision.
132 / 3 Ways AI Is Transforming Product Management, with Janna Bastow
Janna Bastow rejoins Product Momentum with vital guidance for product managers exploring the power of Artificial Intelligence in their roles.
131 / Shift Left: Integrating a Security Mindset Early in the Software Development Life Cycle, with Paul Connaghan
Cybersecurity expert Paul Connaghan recommends a "shift left" approach for software development teams to build a security-focused culture.
130 / Discovering the Essence of Product Strategy, with Roman Pichler
Product management guru Roman Pichler rejoins Product Momentum to share his insights about empowerment, influence, and responsibility.
129 / Strategic UX: The Path to Outcome-Driven Design, with Jared Spool
Jared Spool describes how strategic UX helps leaders create a compelling vision for their organizations and deliver outcome-based solutions.
128 / Trusting Data Quality: The Key to AI’s Future, with Scott Ambler
Scott Ambler explores AI data quality, managing bias in AI, and the essential role humans play in harnessing AI's potential – and its risks.
127 / How Holistic Leadership Builds Better Games – and Product Teams, with Ben Carcich and Aaron Smith
Ben Carcich & Aaron Smith describe how holistic leadership helps enterprise tech and video game developers create products their users love.
126 / Community First: Flickr’s Approach to Product Management, with Stephanie Cantor
Flickr's Stephanie Cantor explains her product management philosophy and how it helped the company sustain its community-is-product approach.
125 / Product Management Communities of Practice, with Petra Wille
Product leadership coach Petra Wille describes the impact product communities can make especially as drivers of innovation and team success.
124 / Mastering Product Management: ‘Zooming Out’ for Strategic Clarity, with Shelly Kalish
Shelly Kalish explains how product managers can zoom out and zoom in to match the context of their role as product leader and career builder.
123 / Essential Lessons in Digital Accessibility and Inclusive Design, with Dave Dame
Microsoft's Dave Dame shares important lessons in digital accessibility and inclusive design for product leaders, UX designers, and engineers
Special Edition / Audience-first Innovation: How to Use Data to Create People-Centric Products, with Quincy Olatunde
Peacock's Quincy Olatunde explains how to leverage data to nurture curiosity and creativity to build successful people-centric products that grow and scale.
Special Edition / Revolutionize Your Product Development Process with Customer Feedback, with Jay Brewer & Zhuldyz Alimbek
Jay Brewer & Zhuldyz Alimbek explain how user research and feedback empower the product building process, leveraging empathy + collaboration.
Special Edition / Taking an AI-first Approach to Product Development, with Yochai Konig
Yochai Konig works at the intersection of AI + product and explains that the purpose of AI is to serve the product and its users.
Special Edition / Entering the Age of Intelligence, with Todd Olson & Trisha Price
Pendo CEO Todd Olson and CPO Trisha Price explore AI's role in the future of product, and how product leaders can use AI to solve user pain.
122 / The Human Connection: The Tie that Binds Product Teams + Users, with Christine Itwaru
Pendo's Christine Itwaru describes the human connection that binds product teams to their users and strengthens teams' overall health.
