Amazon Fmr Product Director on Building Creative Confidence and Propelling Breakthrough Ideas

Leslie Grandy

University of Washington Foster School of Business, Executive in Residence

Leslie Grandy is a global, first-to-market product executive and board advisor with a 25+ year career delivering game-changing products for top brands – Best Buy, Discovery, T-Mobile, Apple, and Amazon. Throughout her career, Leslie has been at the front end of innovation, launching the first paid video streaming service, RealOne SuperPass, with over 1 million subscribers after co-authoring a patent for a system that provides integrated media, delivering the first Android mobile device, the T-Mobile G1 and the first cellular-enabled digital picture frame, the T-Mobile Cameo; and leading Best Buy’s Digital Innovation Lab. Leslie founded The Product Guild, a product and innovation advisory services company through which she has advised early-stage ventures and numerous publicly traded companies on innovation and new product development, including Starbucks, Oracle Power, and Red Robin Gourmet Burgers. A sought-after keynote, featured speaker, and lecturer on creative leadership, product and service design, and digital transformation for Emeritus.org, The Product School, the University of Michigan College of Engineering, Center for Entrepreneurship, Regis College, West Virginia University’s Reed College of Media, and the University of Washington Foster School of Business Elevate Program, Leslie is also an IDEO-trained leader in Design Thinking who inspires audiences to achieve their creative potential.

About the host

Nisarg Desai

Director of Product

Nisarg is currently the Director of Product at cloud security unicorn Lacework, and has a decade of experience in Product Management with the entirety of his focus on securing enterprises from cyberattacks. He has built both 0-1 and 1-100 products in cybersecurity. He is passionate about pushing forward the field of product management by helping a diverse field of entrants grow into successful PMs. He lives in Boston, MA.