Teresa Torres
Teresa Torres is an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and coach. She teaches a structured and sustainable system for continuous discovery that helps product teams infuse their daily product decisions with customer input. She’s coached hundreds of teams at companies of all sizes, from early-stage startups to global enterprises, in a variety of industries. She has taught over 11,000 product people discovery skills through the Product Talk Academy and hundreds through her coaching practice, and is the author of Continuous Discovery Habits.
Discovery & Research Skills
Effective product discovery depends on maintaining a disciplined distinction between customer needs and product solutions, which is the most common hurdle for product teams.
"I can tell you that opportunity is an unmet need pain point or desire, and that's great. But I can tell you that 98% of people that write opportunities write them as solutions. So we tend to just real..."
Strategy & Positioning Skills
Visualizing product strategy as a tree provides the necessary scaffolding for teams to navigate the complex journey from abstract outcomes to concrete solutions.
"So it's a tree visual. So it's just like a decision tree. It starts with an outcome at the root of the tree, and then it branches into the opportunity space and then it branches into solutions, and ma..."