💡 Product Circle ╠Chat - Transformation Lessons with Lea Hickman
​Welcome to 💡 Product Circle ╠Chat on
🕕 Wednesday 16 July 2025 at 7pm (East Coast US)
🕕 Thursday 17 July 2025 at 9am (AEST)
​Topic: Lessons Learned from Transformations
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What happens when a legendary product leader rewires a $13B desktop software business into a $269B SaaS juggernaut?
​In this special 💡 Product Circle ╠Chat, we’re joined by Lea Hickman, the powerhouse behind Adobe’s famous transition from boxed Creative Suite to subscription-based Creative Cloud. Her work didn’t just change Adobe, it reshaped an entire industry.
​Lea Hickman led product for Adobe’s Design, Web, and Interactive tools (Dreamweaver, Flash, InDesign, Illustrator) and crafted the product vision that would help Adobe leap from projects to products, from outputs to outcomes.
That shift helped Adobe:
📈 Grow from 6M customers to 26M subscribers
💸 Scale annual revenue from $2B to $11.5B+
📊 Skyrocket shareholder value from $13B to $269B
Her story at Adobe is immortalised in "Transformed: Moving to the Product Operating Model" written by Marty Cagan with Lea Hickman, Christian Idiodi, Chris Jones, John Moore. Part of the Silicon Valley Product Group.
​A Partner at Silicon Valley Product Group, Lea shares what it really takes to transform how product gets done inside large organisations and how to bring others with you.
​This session is for:
🧠Product leaders navigating transformation
🧰 PMs shifting from delivery to discovery, outputs to outcomes
💡 Change agents looking to drive business impact, not just ship features
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Zoom Link: See invite
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​The first hour of the Chat will be recorded. Afterward, stay on for live networking with product and tech peers from around the world—no recording, just meaningful connections.
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​If you missed our past speakers, catch up on the recordings with Christian Idiodi, Rich Mironov, Jason Knight, April Dunford, Bob Moesta and many other Leaders!
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​thanks,
​Irene
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Irene Liakos
​Product
irene@phronesisadvisory.com
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