Meridian / The Policy Brief

Name the value you create and the kind of challenge you lead. Keep it to one clear sentence; let the evidence elsewhere substantiate it.

Finding the customer problem worth building for.

Fictional example · Replace it with your own positioning.

Start with your current remit and the enterprise problems you solve. Add two career chapters that explain your judgement. Finish with your leadership approach and the conversations you welcome. Use your real scope and dates.

I lead product organisations at the intersection of customer problems, business ambition and technical possibility. My focus is on helping teams make considered choices about what deserves to be built, what should be learned first and what should be stopped. I see a roadmap as an expression of judgement, not a list of promises. Discovery and delivery belong in the same operating system: evidence from customers should change priorities, and the consequences of those priorities should be visible to the business. I build relationships between product, engineering, design and commercial teams so that the organisation can make trade-offs together rather than negotiate them late in delivery.

Fictional biography · A structural example, not a claim about you.

Describe a customer problem, the discovery evidence, a roadmap trade-off and the resulting adoption or commercial learning.

1. Context: what was happening and why it mattered.
2. Your remit: what you owned and where you influenced others.
3. Decision: the alternatives and the trade-off you made.
4. Evidence: approved outcomes, dates, units and attribution limits.
5. Reflection: what you learned and would apply again.

Never invent a metric. Use a precise qualitative outcome when a number cannot be shared.

Anchor each expertise area in an example: product strategy, customer discovery, portfolio prioritisation, product operating models. Signature and Royale include a journal; Royale also includes speaking and media.

• • A roadmap should explain the trade-off
• • Discovery needs a decision at the end
• • Launch is the beginning of an adoption story

For each topic, state a decision your audience faces, explain your point of view and offer a practical question they can use. Publish original, reviewed material.