Great question!

If you are a business analyst, a project manager, a program manager, a designer, or in any product development roles like engineer, QA, engineering leads, tech leads, architects – no matter what part of the organisation you are in, it is essential to have a holistic understanding of the entire product lifecycle including what makes products successful in the market for you to grow to the next level of influence in an organisation.

It’s not just sufficient for you to have a good technology context but understanding the customer context, the market context – who are we building products for, what problems are we solving for them, understanding the business context – how do our products become successful and profitable in the market is

critical to drive innovation, propel your career into the next level, whether you are in a start-up or in a large organisation.

That’s what IPL programs are designed to do. To make you effective and successful in your roles.

Modern day executives are expected to rally & motivate teams towards a common purpose, influence people from cross-functional teams, convince key stakeholders like internal teams, customers, partners, investors of their point of view, make informed and contextual decisions, negotiate relentlessly and manage conflicts. These require some some specific leadership skills like:

• Executive Presence
• Art of Storytelling
• Facilitation Skills for decision making
• Influence without authority
• Negotiation & Conflict Management skills
  
  

You don’t have to have prior product management experience before you join the programs. If you do, it certainly will help you accelerate that skill and develop that further.

Our programs will help you build foundational skills in User Experience, Agile Product management, Product marketing, Growth hacking, Strategic acumen, Business finance,  Art of Storytelling in a hands-on way.

All of this comes with a fantastic unlimited 1:1 mentoring, career guidance from experts with Career Labs and weekly hiring events with the singular goal of creating a really well-rounded personality so you can become a true product leader.

Product management is also not just in title but also has to be understood in the role. At the end of the day it’s a customer facing, innovation driven role where you’re involved in developing all the way from an idea to validation to productizing it to launching it.

Many people are at different stages in their careers and our programs are designed around concrete career outcomes, with the product industry in mind and help create the next generation of product leaders for their companies.

Hence we have several different Product Management, Product Leadership programs both short term and long, both campus-based and live-online, both certificate and degree programs.

Whether you are someone very interested to make sure you are not stuck in a particular role but get onto a high impact career path or, you are already in a senior role and interested in moving forward faster, go further faster to leadership roles, there is a program specifically designed for that outcome.

Take the assessment to get personalised recommendations on the right program that is right for our career goal.

We also suggest you talk to a Counselor to communicate your career goals. That will help you determine the best program for your needs.

The short answer is – very well!

The institute was created by industry CEOs and leading product practitioners, who form the EPIC Board that directs our mission. Most of our global faculty members are senior practising executives. In fact, it is not only recognized but deeply appreciated so much so that there are industry-sponsored scholarships to promote the creation of more product leaders in the ecosystem.

The Institute of Product Leadership is a globally recognized premium institute for Product Leadership.

The Executive MBA in Product Leadership program from the institute is laser-focused on building the actionable skills necessary for accelerated careers in the product industry. Here are five fundamental ways the EMBA is different from other programs:

1. 1. Curriculum – Relevant, New Age and Industry Career Path focused.
   2. Pedagogy –“Learning by Doing” and Experiential Learning.
   3. Global Practitioners as Faculty – “Learning from People who DO (not just know)”
   4. Personalised coaching – Unlimited 1:1 coaching with product and career experts
   5. Career Management – Lifelong access to dedicated Career Assistance with weekly hiring events
      
      

Since 2012, over 3500+ alumni have graduated from the institute. Over 280 companies have engaged with us to run programs for their senior management teams.

You can see hundreds of success stories of these Alumni and we’ve been rated 4.7+ by many others on Google, Quora for 10 yrs now.

So, don’t take our word when we say we offer the best Product Management and Product Leadership courses.

You can see how the IPL Product Management Certificate Programs compares with the ones from IIM Lucknow, IIM Indore, IIM Kozhikode, ISB, Kellog, Product School, UpGrad.

Yes, IPL also does corporate programs with large product teams where it is essential to have a common vocabulary across the teams for an understanding of the end-to-end product life cycle, the productizing process and the best practices.

See the corporate engagement page for more information.