Aaron Sanders

With 20+ years of experience as a product strategy leader, I have been integral to organizational transformation efforts & innovative product delivery, leading to exceptional brand loyalty & multi-million-dollar revenue increases. I am skilled in product road mapping, prioritization, portfolio management, as well as value delivery streamlining, of which I have proven across my successful career. I am passionate about building life-changing products & an advocate for beautifying the planet.

Key Achievements Include:

• Presented at multiple international conferences worldwide on the concepts of dual track agile, advanced collaborative discovery techniques, design thinking, and other product development practices
• Mentored 100s of executives and product development teams at globally leading brand companies to instill mutual collaboration with stakeholders to deliver diversity in ideas, innovate products and services, enhance existing products, and identify new market opportunities using agile strategies to execute top user-focused products, resulting in transforming 30+ organizations
• Granted over 5000 people in almost 300 courses either the Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) at the beginner, advanced and professional levels with active instructor-led courses in 28 countries and remotely
• Allowed for dynamic re-teaming, leading to clean code and turning around a concept in 2 weeks, given the go-ahead to move forward with a $5M contract as a contract CTO for an AgTech based company
• Guided a mobile team to incorporate discovery tools, resulting in a new client for a distributed clinical trial and allow the team to switch to prototype mode and continue development when the underlying API contract broke
• Develop and lead a team of 5 Agile Coaches and 1 Technical Program Manager who embed on self-capable teams and execute against our Driver Safety and Telematics programs, enabling our All-in-one Fleet Solutions for the entire client base
• Partner with sales to close five of the largest prospective and existing enterprise clients with over 10k subscriptions each and get over a 13x return on their investment
• Influential in automating 75% of work orders within residential maintenance services and 30% for commercial entities in facilities management, leading to multi-million-dollar revenue growth
• Contributed to the pivoting to a property model, evolving an app providing keyless check-in to a product strategy for two high-end, Millennial-focused properties meeting select services and extended stay needs, fostering +$100M return from an idea much bigger than an “app for that.”
• Coached Cisco Telepresence on product innovation, scaling techniques, design thinking, story writing, mapping and estimating, responsive portfolio management, Kanban, Scrum, collaboration, and facilitation, scaling from 3 teams producing $100M to generating over $3B in product revenue