About Christophe
Christophe is a transformation coach with 15+ years of experience helping large organizations like Sandvik and Telenor evolve from traditional IT to product-led organizations, establishing and scaling empowered product teams that consistently deliver customer value. He led the product model transformation at Sandvik Group IT and received the Brickell Key Award in 2017.
- Expert in large-scale organizational transformation
- Led product model transformation at Sandvik Group IT
- Brickell Key Award recipient (2017)
Expertise
- Agile Coaching
- Product Development
- Team Empowerment
- Organizational Change
Upcoming events with Christophe
- Free Webinar: An Introduction to the Product Model — February 10, 2027
- The Full-Stack Product Manager — February 16, 2027 – February 18, 2027
- Free Webinar: An Introduction to the Product Model — May 12, 2027
Articles by Christophe
- From Gatekeepers to Partners II: A PM's Playbook for Building Stakeholder TrustMay 11, 2026Mandate is not granted by org charts or new operating models. It is earned, one stakeholder at a time, through competence in their domain and clarity in your conversations. This second part of our stakeholder series turns that idea into a practical five-step playbook for PMs ready to do the work.
- From Gatekeepers to Partners I: Why Stakeholder Trust is the Product Model's Hidden LeverApril 17, 2026In the product model, empowered teams need stakeholders to be partners, not gatekeepers. But that shift doesn't happen by redesigning org charts. In this first article of a two-part series, we explore why the stakeholder relationship is the most underestimated lever in the product model, and what needs to change for trust to take root.
- The Golden Path: Why Your Teams Need a Framework, Not a PlaybookNovember 6, 2025Introducing the Golden Path concept, how it differs from conventional Playbooks, and how it's core 'comply or explain' principle is more adapted to empowered teams. The Golden Path helps the organization adapt and innovate practices to navigate their ever evolving context.
- What building with AI taught me about product senseOctober 1, 2025How my personal journey building a game became an accidental simulation of what's about to hit organizations at scale: AI doesn't reduce the need for product sense and discipline - it amplifies it exponentially.
- How AI is reshaping product development, and what teams need to thriveApril 10, 2025We share our working map of how AI is reshaping product work — from delivery to discovery to strategy — and what it means for teams that want to stay ahead. No hype, just a practical view of what’s emerging. One thing is clear: empowered teams are key to AI adoption.
- Understanding Output, Outcome, and ImpactFebruary 25, 2025What's the difference between Output, Outcome, and Impact. What do they really mean? How are they connected? And why should we care?
- The Product Operating ModelFebruary 7, 2025The product operating model: creating products customers love, yet work for the business.
- Why your teams aren't really empowered (and how to fix it)January 20, 2025Empowering a team is not only about letting them decide how to implement a feature, it's about giving them a significant customer or business problems to solve.