It is with absolute pleasure; I would like to introduce one of our longest standing ‘Partners in Play’ who have inspired and championed product management for us and the wider community for over 15 years. Adrienne Tan, the CEO of Brainmates is a global hero in product management, a friend, mentor, and all-round awesome human. She is very special to us here at Parity Consulting where she has relentlessly focused on lifting the skills within the global product management Industry.
Brainmates is Adrienne’s love story. Founded in 2004, Brainmates has developed into a leader in product management professional services in Australia and New Zealand. It is a people-oriented company focused on learning, passion, and humility and this could not be truer of our experience with the business. Brainmates’ hero the product management industry, making sure that product management is recognised as the engine of sustainable growth in every organisation. They help organisations leverage product management to drive business value through products customers love.
I always love sitting down and chatting with Adrienne and seeing how her innovative mind works. When asking her about the advice she would have given her younger self, she shared the following wisdom.
“Don't be scared of the unknown. There's so much pressure to decide what we must do and become… when we're at school, at university and even in our first job. But it's OK not to know. It's OK to explore and allow yourself the time to get to know who you really are.”