Lunch and Learn: The Many Hats of Technical Program Managers
Modern technical program work rarely arrives cleanly — it shows up as competing priorities, incomplete information, and teams pulling in different directions. In this session, attendees will be introduced to the “Seven Hats” framework, a practical way for technical leaders to recognize which perspective a moment calls for — engineer, researcher, product owner, storyteller, entrepreneur, human-centered designer, or simply human — and to shift between them deliberately rather than by default.
MEET THE PRESENTER
Dr. Joe Shepherd is Founder & CPO of Career Highways, an enterprise AI platform company, and author of “The 7 Hats of Technical Program Managers: How Great Product Leaders Navigate Complexity, Ambiguity, and Real Work.” He holds a doctorate in Business Strategy and Innovation, an MBA, and degrees in Management Information Systems and Aerospace Technology. With nearly 25 years of cross-industry technology leadership — including time on Microsoft’s forward-deployed engineering team — Joe works at the intersection of strategy, product, and AI, helping leaders navigate complexity and ambiguity in technical program work.
PMI Northeast Ohio Chapter members, this event is free for everyone. When registering, no need to log in to get registered.
