Workshops & Coaching for Growth-Stage Product Leaders

Stop Taking Orders. Start Leading with Impact.

Break free from firefighting. Gain a clear strategy, align your team, and build high-performing products—in weeks, not quarters. Survival Metrics cuts through the noise so you can finally move forward.

Trusted by 50+ product leaders at SmartRecruiters, Pendo, and Pfizer

Adam Thomas
15+ Years in Product
50+ Teams Coached
$5M+ Market Captured
Top 50 SVPG Coach

Sound Familiar?

You're Not Failing. You're Fighting a System That Was Never Built for You.

"It feels like I'm thrown into a tornado."
— A VP of Product I interviewed last month

The Frankenstein Business

You're stitching parts together without a soul. Winded from the hamster wheel. Shipping features, but nothing moves the needle. Leadership keeps asking "what's the ROI?" and you don't have an answer.

The Poop & Swoop

Executives derail your roadmap because you lack a data-backed vision to stop them. You're relying on gut instincts because there's no time to think. Every sprint becomes political whack-a-mole.

The Constant Triage

You're a necromancer—keeping zombie projects alive because no one knows how to kill them. You're worried you may be fired for missing deadlines you never controlled. Your team is burned out. You are too.

Get a clear product strategy, align leadership, and build a team that executes with confidence. No cookie-cutter frameworks or templated strategies—we build on your existing ways-of-working and give you a practical plan-of-action with clear outcomes.

90%

Employee retention rate on teams I've coached

50%

Faster decision-making cycles

15+

Years in product leadership

50+

Product leaders coached

Survival Metrics

Stop guessing. Start making decisions that finance will fund. A simple framework for knowing when to stop, pivot, or double down—so you can kill the zombies and fund the winners.

Stop

Kill the Zombies

Initiatives cease when they hit pre-set thresholds. No debates. No sunk cost fallacy. Stop the bleeding and repurpose resources to what matters.

Pivot

Reconsider Direction

A trigger to evaluate whether the path is still right. Not a failure—a conversation. Data-informed, not data-paralyzed. Make the call with confidence.

Invest

Double Down

An active choice to go all in. Pull resources from elsewhere to chase a clear opportunity. Success metrics that tell you when you've won.

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Used by product teams at Google, SmartRecruiters, and Pfizer

Don't Just Inspire. Operationalize.

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From Chaos to Clarity

You don't have to fix everything overnight. Start where you are, with what you have.

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Team Workshops

Hands-on sessions to align your entire org—so you can confidently present your roadmap, secure buy-in, and hit measurable goals.

Workshop Topics

Survival Metrics

Product and AI Story

Anatomy of a High Performing Team

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1:1 Coaching

Personalized guidance for product leaders navigating complex team dynamics. Learn to speak the language of revenue and build influential relationships.

Focus Areas

Building executive presence

Navigating organizational politics

Data-backed stakeholder communication

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03

Keynote Speaking

Talks that don't just inspire—they operationalize. Your audience leaves with a plan, not just motivation.

Signature Keynotes

"Don't Just Inspire. Operationalize."

"The 5 Deadly Sins of Strategy"

"Stop Taking Orders"

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Clarify. Empower. Deliver.

1

Clarity Call

30-minute conversation to understand your challenges. No pitch—just diagnosis.

2

Custom Plan

A tailored engagement—coaching, workshop, or keynote—built around your specific situation.

3

Deep Work

We roll up sleeves together. Real frameworks, real conversations, real change.

4

Ongoing Support

I don't disappear after delivery. Follow-up sessions ensure the work sticks.

Results, Not Rhetoric

Adam was critical in the process of hiring and building new teams at speed and scale. His superpower is building trust across the organization, evangelizing innovation and vision.

Frances Ibe

Frances Ibe

SVP Product, Tide

Adam sees in 8 dimensions. He appreciates both the big picture and the subtle details. Trust Adam for insight, foresight, candor, and product courage.

Eli Holder

Eli Holder

Founder, 3iap

I walked away with a completely new perspective on decision-making, defining success criteria, ensuring we're aligned on whether to kill, pivot, or scale—without getting trapped by competing incentives.

Adam Attas

Adam Attas

Staff PM, Walmart

Adam was very thoughtful in his work, and his excitement and knowledge of product management were infectious. He's motivated and dedicated to a high standard in this field.

Rebecca Feliciano

Rebecca Feliciano

Conference Ops, Pendo

Adam's leadership set our team in strategic fluid motion. His data-driven methods paired with his infectious ebullient personality were a winning combo for us.

Curtis Michelson

Curtis Michelson

MindTheProduct

Adam is a results-oriented professional who helped drive focus and bring outcome visibility through his strong data-driven approach.

Guido Lonetti

Guido Lonetti

Head of Product

Adam Thomas

Hey, I'm Adam

You Don't Need Another Framework. You Need a Director.

I'm a product coach with 15 years of experience—at SmartRecruiters, Pfizer, and Google—focused on turning strategy into impact through clear metrics, organization design, and frameworks that actually work.

My approach? I help you double down on what already works, so your team can make better decisions—and see real progress—every single sprint.

When I'm not helping teams, I teach AI at MICA, equipping future leaders with tomorrow's tools. And sometimes I direct theatrical productions—turns out, aligning cross-functional teams isn't so different from getting actors to hit their marks.

SVPG Trusted Coach MICA Instructor O'Reilly Author
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The Initiative Document

A one-page template to get your entire team aligned on what you're building, why you're building it, and how to know when to stop, pivot, or invest.

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