How To Rock Your Workshops – Jonathan Courtney on The Product Experience

Taking a break from the always entertaining/sometimes informative podcast Jake & Jonathan (formerly known as The Product Breakfast club, which he co-hosts with Jake Knapp), AJ&Smart CEO Jonathan Courtney joined us to chat about Design Sprints, workshops, and how to get groups of people collaborating.
Quote of the Episode
One of the best things about an excellent process is [that] you know that it’s good when you don’t have to think about the process – all you’re trying to do is solve the problem,  all you’re doing is thinking about the solutions. So I don’t allow the team to change the process on the fly, because I want them to focus on the challenge.
Listen if you’d like to learn more about

* Design Sprints
* Lightning Decision Jam method
* Product Design and Innovation
* How to use Social Media to build your brand

Links mentioned in this episode

* Follow Jonathan on Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn
* AJ&Smart Homepage and free course
* Built To Sell book UK & US
* Lightning Decision Jam Workshop Masterclass
* Jake & Jonathan Podcast

Hosts
The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver.
Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. Lily also founded ProductTank in Bristol, the Product Managers’ meetup with regular events and talks on Product now with 800+ members and growing. Now the Product Director at Symec, Lily also runs ProductCamp in Bristol and Bath.
A recovering music journalist and editor, Randy has been working as an interactive producer and product manager across the US and UK for nearly 20 years. After launching Amazon’s music stores in the US and UK, Randy has worked with museums and arts groups, online education, media and entertainment, retail and financial services. He’s held Head of Product roles at HSBC and Sainsbury’s, where he also directed their 100+-person product community. Now a trainer, Discovery and Leadership consultant, he’s spoken at Mind the Product Engage (Hamburg and Manchester), the Business of Software, Turing Festival, a number of ProductTanks (London, Zurich, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Oxford, and Brighton… so far!) and at conferences across the US and Europe.

Music
Our theme music is from Hamburg-based Pau, featuring ProductTank Hamburg’s own Arne Kittler on bass. Visit the podcast's native language site