This talk offers strategies for high-performing Product Managers to overcome uncertainty in critical moments and lead with confidence.
Date/Time
Wednesday, May 13, 2026 from 7pm to 8:30pm PST
Topic
Think Clearly. Decide Faster. Accelerate Your Confidence Under Pressure.
Speaker
Mayla Clark, Principal, MC Training and Coaching
Event Summary
As Product Managers, you’re trusted to make crucial decisions every day that shape products, teams, and outcomes.
So why do the highest stakes moments – roadmap reviews, executive briefings, stakeholder pushback – often trigger hesitation, overthinking, or the urge to overexplain?
In these visible, high-impact environments, there’s no time to second guess yourself. And yet even top-performing Product Managers can feel the internal drag: “Is this the right call?” “Am I missing something?” “How will this land?”
This fast-paced, interactive session tackles what’s really happening in those moments.
You’ll learn to recognize the hidden thinking patterns that slow you down – and replace them with practical, repeatable strategies that help you think faster, communicate clearly, and lead with authority when it counts.
You’ll boost your ability to:
- Have real, practical conversations with peers about what actually works in practice.
- Recognize and neutralize the specific triggers that throw you off your game.
- Ground your decisions in evidence – your track record, your judgment, and the data in front of you.
- Replace unproductive mental loops with clear, objective, structured thinking – even when the path forward isn’t always obvious.
About the Speaker
Mayla Clark is a respected Executive Speaking Skills coach and workshop facilitator. She is currently Principal at MC Training, where she specializes in providing training on Executive Presentations and Meeting Skills.
She has been an adjunct professor in the Santa Clara University MBA program for engineers, a course mentor at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a long-time national instructor for Cisco Systems, Intuit, and Network Appliance.
Other clients include: AEM Holdings Ltd., Amazon, FormFactor, the Hewlett and Packard Foundations, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Proofpoint, and Wilson Sonsini Law.
Mayla is a graduate of University of California, Los Angeles. She is also a former Board Member of Silicon Valley Product Management Association, where she has organized multiple successful workshops.
Cost:
- FREE for Members
- $10 for Non-Members