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Lucie Mclean

Google, Zalando, Omio, BBC

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Lucie is a Scottish, Berlin-based product leader with more than 30 years experience in media and tech.

For the last 20 years, Lucie has led product and engineering teams at organisations including the BBC, Zalando and Google to deliver best in class user experiences across fashion inspiration, travel, news, sport (including the 2008, 2012 and 2024 Olympics), finance, children's games and video on demand.

Lucie started her career as a journalist before pivoting into product. Over the last couple of years she has also added executive coaching to her skillset and currently coaches internally at Google and externally with groups and individuals.

Stop micromanaging, start scaling

17.09

CIC Berlin

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Product leaders are expected to be the visionary strategist, the organisational diplomat, the team coach and the final safety net for product quality — all at once.

Delegation sounds simple in theory but, in reality, it's really hard. It's one of the most difficult psychological transitions a leader can make. Moving from 'doing' to 'leading' can be a challenging mindset shift for high achievers.

How delegation happens matters too. Offloading tasks don't ensure they're done to the right vision and standards, but micromanaging can be demotivating for team members and calendar-cluttering for leaders.

In this 90-minute deep-dive session, Lucie explores how to create a culture of empowerment that enables teams to make high quality decisions without needing to be in all of the detail, all of the time.

The session combines slides, pair discussions, whole group discussion and silent personal reflection exercises. Lucie also provides access to further resources and tools for use after the event.

Suitable for leaders with line management responsibilities and product managers looking to grow into people management roles.

< Key learnings >

  • Explore the beliefs which can make delegation hard and how to reframe them

  • Explore how creative organisations such as architecture firms and fashion designers scale their 'taste'

  • Look at practical tools and techniques that proven product leaders from organisations including Google, Netflix and Zalando use to scale themselves through rituals, artifacts and culture

  • Share delegation successes and challenges with others in the workshop to build connection and get fresh insight and inspiration

  • Identify the shifts and actions to take to improve delegation

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Conference Day (Sept 17) + 1 day between: → Craft & AI Day (Sept 16, 5x20seats parallel workshop tracks on: building AI products, judgment, strategy & personal AI OS) or → Leaders Day (Sept 15, AI strategy & building AI-native teams, for 60 people managers)

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