Product Counsel
Product Counsel
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Programs

Four ways to sharpen the craft

One working session, one byline, one stage, one long table. Each gives product leaders a different way to learn from hard-earned lessons.

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Working Sessions

Monthly · online · Counsel only · capped at 15

Bring the problem you are wrestling with. Work it through with product leaders who have faced the same stage, trade-offs and pressure, then leave with sharper options you can use straight away.

How a Working Session fills

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    Topic + contribution call

    "We need 3–4 people who've shipped X recently and can walk the room through what they did."

  2. 02
    Members opt in

    A one-line note on what they'd add.

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    Cap 15, the room fills

    Whoever shows up is the room that wants to be there. Guests may speak; the room stays Counsel.

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    Rod and Phil run

    Topic framing and hosting; RSVP and capacity. The readout goes to the Community.

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Field Notes

Quality over cadence · Substack & email

After a Working Session, Rod works with the presenter to turn the discussion into a deep-dive essay under their byline, capturing what product leadership actually takes from people who earned the lesson firsthand.

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The asymmetry

Counsel
co-creates
Rampersand
amplifies

Newsletter, LinkedIn, rampersand.vc and selective syndication. The byline stays with the member.

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Live Events

Quarterly · Sydney & Melbourne · ~50 in the room

Hear respected Australian product leaders unpack what changed their minds, what failed and what they would do differently. Come for useful thinking and meet the room afterwards.

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What anchors them

Anchored by recognisable Australian product talent.

Tickets via Lu.ma. Community members get priority access.

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Counsel Dinners

Counsel only · rotating MEL & SYD

A long table, about a dozen seats, and a single question Rod sets. Intimate, off the record, and rotating between Melbourne and Sydney. The value is the room itself.

Nothing to book. Nothing to share afterwards.

The programs are how the room works. Membership is how you join it.

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