Vidya Dinamani shares important strategies for building belief, healthy product cultures, and positive cross-functional relationships.

Highlights include:

• How have you increased your chances of your initiatives being supported?
• How do you determine what is needed for a product org to improve?
• What do you do when a leader is preventing the product org’s success?
• How do the best leaders manage the demands on their team’s time?
• What advice do you have for teams being crushed by their backlog?

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Who is Vidya Dinamani?

Vidya is the co-founder of Product Rebels, a company that has provided world-class and hands-on product management coaching, by tenured product management executives, to over 1,200 product leaders and founders.

She is also a founding partner of Ad Astra Ventures, a specialist early-stage venture investment firm and accelerator that helps female founders to get funded.

Before founding Product Rebels, Vidya was the VP of Innovation and Design at Mitchell International, where she established and grew a team that was focused on new growth products and the development of an innovation framework, metrics and process.

Vidya also spent a little over a decade at Intuit, where her last role was as the Director of Product & Customer Experience Development for TurboTax.

She holds 9 US software patents. Is a member of both GroupSolver’s and Sash Group’s board of directors. A limited partner of the Neythri Futures Fund. A mentor for Techstars and GrowthMentor. And the founder and lead organiser of Product Tank San Diego.

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Find Vidya here:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vdinamani/ Website: https://vidyadinamani.mystrikingly.com/ X: https://twitter.com/vdinamani

Product Rebels: https://productrebels.com/ Ad Astra Ventures: http://www.adastra.ventures/

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