5-Week Online Programme | ★ 75 NPS

Building Mission-Led Teams

The playbook for how to grow, align and empower a team to deliver impact once you've found traction.

With Matt Walton, CPO and product coach

10% off early bird discount if you sign up by December!

  • Weekly workshops

    Join a small cohort for online workshops to apply concepts to your product.

  • Self-paced learning

    Work at your own pace through concepts, methods and case studies.

  • Network

    Establish connections with a supportive cohort for peer mentoring & discussion.

  • Coaching

    Includes one 1-hour coaching session with Matt to get tailored product advice.

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Commitment

This learning fellowship expects you to commit around 4-5 hours per week. It is on your schedule with the exception of the live workshops - these are interactive and therefore not available on demand.

Next cohort starts w/b 24 February

  • 5 Weeks

  • 2-3 hours learning p/w

  • 7 x 105min live workshops

  • 30 min weekly peer intros

  • 1 x 60min coaching with Matt

  • “This was such a brilliant course - thoughtfully curated and relevant learning material, considerately paced, and a genuine feel of community being built amongst the cohort. Whether you're scaling fast, wanting to try something new where you are, or you want to expand your network of thoughts and ideas, highly recommend.”

    Anna Bowers
    Head of Delivery
    THRIVE

  • “The Fellowship has been the perfect support and guide we’ve needed for the stage of maturity our business is in. Matt brings great materials and frameworks as well as credible and relevant industry experience. An invaluable experience all round.”

    Richard Campagna
    Chief Operating Officer,
    55/Redefined

  • "I gained invaluable insights that I was able to apply immediately—literally the very next day. Matt's deep expertise, combined with his extensive use of real-world examples, makes the content highly actionable. This course is a game-changer for anyone looking to bridge the gap between knowledge and practical application."

    Joe Adams
    Chief Product Officer
    Tangent

What we’ll cover

Each week there will be self-paced learning and activities, followed by a workshop to work through concepts and apply methods with your peers.

Week 1
Why mission-led teams?

We start by exploring why adopting a mission-led operating model and cross-functional working can deliver better outcomes quicker and the fundamental characteristics.

We’ll also explore the common misconceptions and pitfalls.

Diagnose where you and your team are, what your goal is and get to know your peers. This week we’ll cover:

  • Why you need to value outcomes over output

  • Motivation 2.0: Purpose, Mastery and Autonomy

  • The Product Operating Model

  • The Thrive Model

Week 2
Align

How do you get everyone on the same page, speaking the same language, picturing the same vision and collaborating to make it happen?

We explore:

  • Communicating a shared mission and leading with context

  • How to inspire with vision and communicate a clear strategy

  • The importance of agreeing clear principles

  • Why a shared cadence help everyone to go in the same direction

Case studies: Kahoot!, Babbel

Week 3
Design

How do you design a cross-functional organisation and the teams and communities of practice within it? And how do you do this in a way that enables you to grow and adapt quickly?

This week we cover:

  • How to design around the strategy and vision

  • The kinds of work and the types of teams and skills required

  • Social units, team sizes and how to design for humans

  • Team Topology, Team Taxonomy and Dunbar’s Ripple Structure

  • How, when and why to grow and who to hire

Case studies: Tonies, Zen Educate

Week 4
Empower

Finally we look at how to set teams up to execute and deliver on outcomes. How do you set goals, create the right planning cadences and ways to support and measure progress?

We look at:

  • How to set teams effective missions, objectives and goals

  • Why continuous discovery and delivery is important

  • The best ways to support teams and measure their progress

  • How to nurture a collaborative culture and agile practices

Case studies: Busuu, Oak National Academy

We’ll finish by bringing it all together with a mini capstone: a 5-minute lightening reflection from each participant that includes:

  • Your big ‘ah ha!’ moments

  • What you have already put into practice

  • Your plan for what to do next

Week 5: Mini Capstone

About you

For leaders in purpose-driven startups or innovation teams in established organisations on the journey from 5 to 150 people looking to adopt a collaborative, outcome based culture.

  • Startup leaders

  • Changemakers in established organisations

  • Product leaders

Your guide

Matt Walton

Matt is an edtech coach and advisor and works with edtech startups, scale ups and universities.

He was founding Chief Product Officer at FutureLearn, one of Europe’s biggest edtech platforms partnering with hundreds of universities, growing it to 14m learners and securing over £50m in investment.

He built an inclusive and collaborative culture building a product organisation from 0-65 people as the wider team grew to over 200.

He recently was fractional CPO at LIS, a new start up university and learned his product craft at the BBC.

Standard Price

£1495

Expense the cost with your employer.
Group discounts available.

Self-funded / non-profit

£995

Discounted rate for those funding their own development, non-profits and bootstraped early stage.

Finding Product-Market Fit and Building Mission-Led Teams bundle

30% off if you join both programmes