Confidential briefing
Confidence: High
Chris
Prepared for your Product Leadership Discovery
What stands out
Chris talks about ownership in a way that keeps narrowing rather than broadening — wants responsibility for outcomes rather than delivery.
It matters here because decision making happens close to delivery teams — the same ground, reached from the other direction.
Recommended next step
Meet Chris
Suggested first conversation:
- What ownership actually looks like inside your delivery teams.
- Which leadership behaviours bring out their best work.
- How the work here connects to something they'd care about.
You've not met before.
What we've learned
Ownership
Described in specifics rather than principles — wants responsibility for outcomes rather than delivery.
Heard across separate conversations months apart, described the same way each time.
Leadership
Describes their best managers as coaches rather than reviewers — and the examples behind it were about decisions, not responsibilities.
Raised unprompted more than once, with different examples behind it.
Mission
Chris keeps returning to this without being asked: repeatedly prioritises meaningful healthcare impact.
Revisited deliberately, and Chris did not soften it.
Why we're confident
We expected leadership to be the deciding factor for Chris. Repeated conversations pointed at ownership instead, and it has held every time since.
- Ownership, leadership and mission each read the same way from Chris's side and from yours, separately.
Their expectations sit at £101,000. No prior relationship — the reasoning carries this on its own.
Worth discussing first
- What ownership actually looks like inside your delivery teams.
- Which leadership behaviours bring out their best work.
- How the work here connects to something they'd care about.
- How decisions get made, and where they get written down.
- What would make the first year successful here.
Context
Where they are today
Chris is currently a Head of Product, based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Their employer is theirs to share once you've both agreed to talk.
Where they've operated
Mostly healthcare and media.
Chris has moved from Head of Product to Head of Product over 23 years — widening responsibility rather than lateral moves. Not looking, but would take the right conversation. Status: not yet connected.