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Customers and employees are demanding that companies actively address Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in their workplaces. Are organizations and projects ready to make this switch?
 

Creating a sense of belonging and psychological safety are two of the most important factors in developing high-performance teams.
 

Come join the discussion with our host Neil Sanderson, Renee Matsalla, Co-Founder of Tacit Edge, and Jay Brewster, Program Manager of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging at Shaw Communications.

Check out one of our students that is an alumnus of the Applied Product Management Program at SAIT and share her journey to the product!

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On this episode of The Best Careers You Never Knew Existed, we sit down with project manager Mai Khalil to find out how product management professionals lead multidisciplinary teams and bridge the gap between the customer, business, and technology. As consumer demands increase, discover why a growing number of industries are seeing product managers as essential for leading and influencing the most crucial function of an organization — the product.

Shaping the future requires us to "shake things up." Christa Hill and Renee Matsalla are two authentic, badass, superstar ladies doing just that in the innovation ecosystem in Alberta.

All too often products are built just because someone asked for it, not necessarily because it was needed. According to Christa and Renee, product management IS the future and brings the customer, the business, and the empowered team together to achieve meaningful, purposeful business goals with impact.

Join Jen as she has a fun and enlightening conversation with Christa and Renee about all things product management!

A Learner’s Journey To A Career Product Management: See how Temitope (Temi) Oyewole used her experience in the Tacit Edge and SAIT Applied Product Management Program to stand out and land a dream job at a startup.

Customers and employees are demanding that companies actively address Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in their workplaces. Are organizations and projects ready to make this switch?
 

Creating a sense of belonging and psychological safety are two of the most important factors in developing high-performance teams.
 

Come join the discussion with our host Neil Sanderson, Renee Matsalla, Co-Founder of Tacit Edge, and Jay Brewster, Program Manager of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging at Shaw Communications.

Tacit Edge claims a 73% hire rate of graduates into product management and related roles of which more than half are women and nearly three-quarters identify as visible minorities.

Tacit Edge is taking applications for the next cohort of its gender and race Equity, Diversity and Inclusion-based Product Management education programs, which the organization claims is among the most successful globally.

Calgary NEXT, hosted by David Wallach and Tara McCool, is an inspiring, forward-looking program highlighting the work lives of successful business leaders in Calgary. The audience will hear stories of how Tacit Edge’s founders got to where they are today; how they worked through global and local challenges, what they see for the future, how to get there, and how they've kept their people motivated and engaged.

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Why does having a PdM in your company help reduce risk of failure and why does it matter to keep customers and users of your products happy in market-differentiating, and margin-enhancing ways?

When Renee Matsalla and Christa Hill first met, they were on the team that would scale a Calgary-based tech startup to global heights.

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The two women formed an immediate connection through their passion for Product Management and problem-solving, yet in those early days on the team of Benevity — a now $1.1B unicorn — they had no idea how far their career journeys would take them.

It was disruption at first sight — Christa and Renee were destined to cofound something beautiful together — they just needed to articulate what their own startup would be.

Calgary (Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2022) —
New programming from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) is raising awareness about the vacant roles in Calgary’s talent-hungry tech scene.
 

The 12-week applied industry bootcamps, which include Product Management, User Experience Design and Product Go-To-Market Strategy, are aimed at individuals looking to pivot into the sector quickly without learning how to code, giving the talent pipeline a much-needed boost.

Read about how Madhvi Walia, a graduate from the Tacit Edge and SAIT Applied Product Management Program, used learnings from the program to raise $2.5 Million for her startup Tracecost.