Why Diversity in Product Matters

Özlem is a passionate, highly skilled and knowledgeable product consultant who leverages modern management principles, practices and methods. By influencing the way people think and act in the complex environment of product development, she enables organisations to innovate faster.

Less than 30% of staff at Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Intel, Microsoft and Twitter are women. Less than 5% are Black or Hispanic. Consider though, what proportion of the users of these companies’ products are women, Black or Hispanic?

Perhaps it would help to have those voices better represented on the teams that are developing these products? Perhaps having more diversity on our teams would also help us come up with solutions to the complex problems we face? In this talk Özlem will discuss why diversity is crucial in product management and what we can do about it.