About The Product Sherpa

The Product Sherpa Story

WELCOME TO THE PRODUCT SHERPA!

My name is Tanguy Leborgne, founder of The Product Sherpa. I’ve been leading product and business teams over the past 20+ years, grew talent, and helped them reach business excellence at companies like Adobe, Avid, and Plantronics. The Product Sherpa is a natural continuity and extension of this same effort for more of you to benefit from this core expertise.

Through the years, I’ve realized most products fail for lack of method and alignment during the exploration phases of product development. The Product Sherpa helps product teams gain deep customer insights and build a strong product vision. The outcome is higher product adoption and customer retention leading to long-term success.

KEY QUESTIONS FOR THE PRODUCT SHERPA

Leading a product portfolio, even a single product, is a significant responsibility. The best leaders obsess over addressing the following questions:

“How do we achieve the right product and business vision?”
“Why aren’t we achieving our business goals with this product portfolio?”
“What are the best ways we can get into our customers’ minds and capture actionable insights?”
“Which techniques will help avoid opinion-trading with my team and executives?”
Which advanced tools or techniques should we use for effective product and portfolio decisions?”

A UNIQUE LENS... FOR YOUR BENEFIT

Unlike overly academic approaches, The Product Sherpa has practical experience. Like a sherpa in the Himalayas, we want to make sure you avoid the crevasses, the frostbites, the lack of oxygen, as you make your way to the top (and realize your vision).

Tanguy’s first post on The Product Sherpa Blog is one of the best resources to understand the motivation behind the inception of The Product Sherpa. Read on “Everything You Need to Know for Guaranteed Product Success”

20+ YEARS OF BUSINESS EXCELLENCE

Tanguy’s experience is a deep foundation for The Product Sherpa. During eight years, he drove the vision, portfolio strategy and full P&L as Vice-President and General Manager for consumer headsets at Poly (Plantronics).

Obsessed with product excellence, Tanguy initiated and orchestrated complete business turnarounds leading to shorter product development times and improved profitability. When the Company’s overall strategy shifted, Tanguy successfully handled the sale of the gaming portion to Nacon.

A FEW TESTIMONIALS

"Tanguy has been a unique contributor to Adobe over more than a decade and served in a huge variety of impactful roles in sales, product, and marketing organizations. A dedicated and rigorous product and marketing leader who helped Adobe become a much stronger global and culturally-rich place on its journey to success."

"A rare individual inspiring growth, paving the way for success and empowering everyone to make great things a reality at Avid. Tanguy is an extraordinary all-around talent. He has that unusual combination of strong fact-based analytical skills and freewheeling creativity for innovative answers to severe problems."

"A charismatic leader and speaker, great at distilling the core, big idea and communicating it. Incredible at listening intently. Tanguy has a natural way when it comes to leadership. He leads fully. He gets the big picture that helps develop well-thought-out and validated short and long-term strategies for our Consumer Business."

"The most level headed, thorough, and trusted executive I have ever encountered. No matter how difficult the situation, Tanguy has invariably found the silver lining. He has a unique talent for managing complexity. Tanguy's framework, organization, analogies, and positivity are always on target."

STRATEGIC THINKING IN HIGH-TECH

Before spending eight years at Poly/Plantronics, Tanguy held a variety of similar general management, product, and marketing leadership roles at Avid for seven years and Adobe for eleven years.

Living in California with his family since 1999, Tanguy enjoys the outdoors and running. He has run more than thirty full marathons, including at least one on each of the seven continents. Originally from France, Tanguy graduated with a Master’s degree from Reims Management School (now part of NEOMA Business School).

Getting to know you first, understanding your top challenges and explaining The Product Sherpa approach. We’ll dig further if we both see a potential mutual fit.

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