Matt was instrumental in helping define the 0 to 1 of our product strategy. What felt like disparate and conflicting ideas became a cohesive and complementary strategy with his guidance. Within a few days, we were interviewing customers extracting meaningful insights and shortly after that we were onboarding customers with a guided experience they wanted. Matt is exactly the kind of person you want on your side when vision needs to become strategy.
— Josh Perera, Founder
“Matt was my first manager when I started in Product. He not only taught me and guided me through the basic principles of product management, but he also gave me the courage and mentorship to become the product leader that I am today.
Years later, I had the pleasure of working alongside Matt again in a very fast paced environment. We not only needed the extra bandwidth, but we were lacking in traditional roadmap planning and product led development principles. Matt, within days of starting, led product workshops, developed a roadmap planning practice and guided our team to become some of the best product managers I know!”
— Kimberly Gant, Director of Product
“I had the pleasure of working with Matt for several years. He helped drive meaningful improvements to our product that improved the lives of customers which led to a significant improvement in our financial performance.”
— Jeff Gardner, Board Director and CEO Coach
To anyone considering working with Matt, I want to give my highest endorsement. It's clear that he’s invested incredible effort and passion into becoming a true expert. You don’t know what you don’t know about product management until you work with Matt (and realize how lost you would’ve been without his help!)
Most importantly, his delivery and coaching is well-organized, mindfully customized and delivered efficiently, effectively and still with great patience, making it a real pleasure to work with him. I can’t overstate what an asset he was to our team as we were just getting started, and what an asset I know he’ll be to us as we continue to grow in our early stages. Draw a new line item into your budget! You need this man in your corner.
— Sydney Heiskanen, Founder
When I was starting my career in tech and aspiring to become a Product Manager, Matt mentored me and helped me secure my first PM title. Years later, as a Senior Product Manager myself, I took a role that allowed me to work with Matt again. Matt is one of the most dedicated and inspiring product leaders I've ever worked with. He consistently advocates for his team, prioritizes solving for the user's needs, and drives business value.
I have invited Matt as a guest speaker in my General Assembly Product Management courses as he is a passionate teacher and advisor. The students love how he teaches and practices product management in a way that emphasizes vision, user focus, and problem-solving.
— Danielle Walker, Senior Product Manager
“Matt’s product leadership is rooted in his passion for delivering amazing customer experiences.
From being bootstrapped, to working in two different Private Equity portfolios, Matt has seen product management and product leadership up close and personal at many stages of growth. He’s able to bring proven product discovery methodologies to the table – like design sprints and voice of the customer programs – and pair them with his own practical experience both serving as a PM and managing PMs, as well as understanding the need to create product roadmaps that inspire and produce measurable outcomes.
Above all, Matt loves to mentor, coach and teach, especially when the topic is product management. ”
— Phil Stern, Head of Sales Center of Excellence
"I was fortunate to have Matt as a coach and mentor when he was VP of Product at my company. Matt came in at a crucial time, when we were on the precipice of a multi-billion dollar valuation and continued exponential growth.
Matt was the first true Product Leader that I had worked with up to that point in my career. His passion and expertise for Product is contagious–he got myself and the team so excited about it! His ability to come in, assess a situation, and help to manage and coach accordingly is nothing short of elite.
I know that he will be an incredible asset, leader, and coach to any organization that he works with."
— Chris Matthews, Senior Product Manager
During my time working with Matt at Daxko, he demonstrated a strong ability to coach and grow product managers.
He was also able to implement solid product management practices in early stage companies we acquired; enabling those companies to continue their growth trajectory with confidence in their data-driven product strategy. He was able to quickly assess the strengths and weaknesses of each company and put in place the right people and processes to ensure that we were effectively developing these products to meet customer needs.
Matt is a talented product manager with a proven track record of success. I highly recommend him as a product management consultant.
— Nathan Bobbin, Vice President of Product
"I was lucky enough to meet Matt at a time in my career where I wanted to make the jump to Product. He was a tremendous resource, helping take something that seemed so daunting into something possible, breaking things into meaningful chunks. His leadership and direction helped me ramp up in a few short months. Within the first year of joining Product I am now leading major feature development within our platform and attribute much of my success to Matt's early impact.
Matt's core principles of customer focused and data driven decisions are the perfect building blocks for developing top tier products. Any organization/mentee would be lucky to work with him!"
— Reid Sangster, Associate Product Manager