Product Agility Pippa Topp: Pockets of Brilliance: Small Behaviours, Big Product Impact - Productized 2025 TalkInTen
Nov 14, 2025
In this engaging talk, Pippa Topp, a CPO and coach specializing in emotionally intelligent leadership, shares insights on how small, value-driven behaviors can greatly impact product development. She emphasizes the importance of aligning personal goals with business needs and discusses practical values like curiosity and collaboration that can guide product teams. Pippa also addresses the common feelings of inadequacy in product roles, encouraging growth through agency and small, experimental changes that lead to cultural shifts.
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Small Behaviours, Big Impact
- Pockets of brilliance are small, value-led behaviours that produce outsized product impact regardless of company size.
- Pippa Topp argues these behaviours let ordinary teams do excellent product work without unicorn resources.
Focus Development Where It Matters
- Stop trying to master every emerging tool or capability at once; pick what matters now.
- Prioritise learning and capability growth that serve your immediate product and communication needs.
Align Goals With Context
- Identify a personal goal and align it with your company's context before choosing what to develop.
- Use values (curiosity, creativity, learning, collaboration) to observe and shape the behaviours that move you toward that goal.