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Elena Leonova
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The Three Questions Your Execs & Board Actually Cares About

60 min
Nov 10, 2026 1:00 PM

What you'll learn

Lead your update with the right three questions

Boards care about market opportunity, capital efficiency, and risk profile. Everything else competes for slide budget.

Cut the 27 slides your execs and board doesn't need

Identify the slides that drain execs & board attention from your strategic ask. Rewrite a 30-slide deck into a 3-slide o

Defend the update scope to your CEO before the meeting

Cutting slides is the easy part. Defending the cut to your CEO is the hard part. Learn the conversation that closes it.

Why this topic matters

Most execs & board decks fail for one reason: the product leader goes too deep on product, not deep enough on the market. The execs & board don't want feature detail. They want three things: market opportunity, capital efficiency, risk profile. Everything else is a distraction. The proposal that gets funded is one that gets read in 5 minutes and understood in 2.

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Elena Leonova

Elena Leonova

Founder & CPO, OneRank.io, ex-CPO @ Spryker, VP of Product @ BigCommerce

Spryker Systems
BigCommerce
eBay Inc.
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Spryker Systems
BigCommerce
PayPal
eBay
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