Work with a coach who has been in your seat.
Every coach has launched real products and led real teams. You get the E3 Product Mindset and a practitioner matched to your context.
The Home Depot
HD Supply
State Farm
USAA
Carter's
Cox Communications
Ingage
eMusic
GLG
Jason Abdo
Jason built Product Protégé from more than 15 years in the product trenches. He launched award-winning mobile apps that grew 60 times at a Fortune 50 company, built product excellence centers for enterprises and startups, and designed A/B testing programs across billion-dollar sites. Along the way he mentored over 150 Product Managers and distilled what actually works into the E3 Product Mindset and the Product Empowerment Pyramid, the frameworks at the heart of every engagement.
He is the author of The Product Protégé Guide, the 4.9-star book many Product Managers keep on their desk, and a Penn State Engineering graduate. His coaching style is practical, tactical, and immediately applicable. What your team learns today, they use tomorrow.
Who you might be matched with.
Every coach here has launched products of their own and led real teams. The Diagnostic tells us which of them fits your gap before we put a name in front of you.
Robert Pudlik
Robert is a product leader with over 25 years of experience spanning enterprise retail, B2B, and consumer technologies. Most recently as Senior Manager of Product Management at The Home Depot, he led large-scale organizational transformation, helped build and scale a Product Center of Excellence supporting 600-plus Product Managers, and partnered with senior leadership to assess and elevate product talent.
Earlier in his career he held senior and principal product roles at The Home Depot, GLG, Ingage, and eMusic.
J’Nae White
For J’Nae, coaching means pairing empathy with high standards. She meets Product Managers where they are, earns trust through patience and honesty, and asks the questions that help people find their own answers. Even the most guarded students find their footing with her, and they leave every session with clarity on exactly what to do next.
J’Nae builds Product Managers who have the habits, the judgment, and the confidence to lead on their own, and her favorite moment in any engagement is watching a student take the lead without her.
Josh Throop
Josh is a product leader and coach with 13-plus years of experience as a Product Marketer, Senior Product Manager, Principal Product Manager, and Group Product Manager within multiple Fortune 50 organizations, including The Home Depot and State Farm. His background spans retail, AdTech, MarTech, payments, CRM, and data platform products, and he has coached more than 50 Product Managers and leaders, along with dozens of product squads.
Josh enjoys helping product professionals at every stage of their journey, bringing a coaching style that is pragmatic, human-centered, and grounded in real-world experience building products, teams, and organizations where people genuinely enjoy doing their best work.
Jeremiah Starr
A proud Georgia native, Jeremiah gets to enjoy life with his amazing wife and daughter. Professionally, he has been a product builder and coach in the airline industry, in B2B organizations focused on mobile apps, and in SaaS banking, where he led platform integrations.
For Jeremiah, nothing compares to the light bulb moment when someone gains the confidence to make great decisions. He has lived that passion for years coaching tennis and helping friends, family, and mentees navigate big life milestones. Driven by a genuine love of continuous growth, he is excited to help your people discover their capabilities, sharpen their skills, and truly thrive.
Ready to work with a coach?
Start with the 2-minute Snapshot, or book the Product Thinking Diagnostic and we will match your team with the right coach.