
Founder Style Leadership: The Key to Empowered Product Teams
Marty Cagan opened the 2025 Product at Heart conference with a keynote on Founder Style Leadership – a leadership approach particularly effective for those leading product organizations. He emphasized its importance in today’s context. While a few years ago, his talks were often focussed on distinguishing the role of the Product Manager from that of the Product Owner, he now sees a different gap in Europe: a lack of strong product leadership.

Insights and Key Takeaways from the Product at Heart Leadership Event 2025
What happens when you gather 60 forward-thinking product leaders, add in insightful and inspiring industry thought leaders, and allow them to mix and mingle? You get open conversations, collaborative problem-solving, and actionable takeaways. That’s the idea behind the Product at Heart Leadership Event, and 2025 delivered all that and more.