Product Consult

Elevate Your Product for Sustainable Success

Looking for high-impact, bespoke consulting to boost growth, profitability, and customer satisfaction? I’ve worked with companies across industries to tackle these very challenges—let’s collaborate on a bespoke consulting engagement that drives real results.

Whether you’re a new founder, scaling a team, or optimising your product for growth, I can provide the strategic guidance to achieve your business goals.

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Is Your Product Operation Thriving?

Product Health Check

Uncover opportunities for growth with a Product & Team Health Check. Through a thorough assessment of your product team’s processes, operations, and alignment with company goals, we’ll identify key areas for improvement to boost performance, revenue growth, and profitability.

🔍 What’s Included:

Deep dive into product team processes and operations

Evaluation of cross-team collaboration to achieve company goals

Assessment of Product Vision & Strategy, org structure, and product operations

📊 Benefit: Receive a detailed report outlining the health of your product operations across five key areas, with actionable insights on what to keep doing, stop doing, start doing and how.


Ready to improve your product operations?

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Idea Validation as a Service

Turn Your Business Idea Into Reality

Got an idea but not sure how to validate it?

The Idea Validation as a Service program helps you take your idea from concept to a validated, profitable business over 12 weeks. With expert guidance, we’ll walk through every step needed to bring your vision to life.

🗓 What’s Included:

You’ll get 1-on-1 sessions to validate your idea, tools and templates for customer validation, pricing, competitor analysis, and more.

Hands-on support and weekly accountability check-ins 

Ready to validate your business idea?

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Solve the Right Problem to Create Value

Customer Discovery

Are you sure you’re solving the right problem for your customers? Through a bespoke Customer Discovery approach using the Jobs to Be Done (JTBD) framework, we’ll uncover real customer needs and align your organisation around high-value opportunities.

🔍 What’s Included:

JTBD interviews

Customer Jobs Mapping & Prioritisation

Opportunity identification based on customer value and willingness to pay

Let’s ensure you're building what your customers truly need.

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Boost Retention & Reduce Acquisition Costs

Optimise Your Customer Journey for Growth

Boost Retention & Reduce Acquisition Costs

Design your product for customer growth with Product-Led Growth (PLG) strategies that increase retention, reduce customer acquisition costs, and build a sustainable growth engine. We’ll help you embed virality and repeatability into your product to maximise long-term success.

💡 What’s Included:

Customer Journey Optimisation

Growth and Engagement strategies

PLG integration

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Boost Profitability

Price Your Product Right

Maximise Monetisation Opportunities with Strategic Pricing

Don’t leave money on the table—ensure you’re pricing your product correctly to capture maximum value. We’ll develop a pricing strategy that aligns with your business goals and leverages pricing psychology to enhance customer perception.

🔍 What’s Included:

  • Customer Value Perception uncovered through Customer Discovery

  • Analysis of Product, Features & Experiences compared to Alternatives (competitors and substitutes)

  • Designing of Product Packages and Pricing Options to Maximise results 

  • Embed product monetisation and growth in the user journey, utilising behavioural science techniques

  • Price/Value Messaging to increase conversion and retention

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What Others Have Said…

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    "Highly recommend Irene to other product organisations."


    Irene completed 3 remote sessions of product training for the team at Class Ltd covering a huge amount of content in an engaging and interactive way, drawing on her own extensive experience and other case studies to bring the learning to life. We really valued what was delivered and highly recommend to other organisations looking to build capability on good product management.

    Amy Johnson
    Former Head of Product, Class Super

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    “Her work is incredibly impactful.”


    Irene is an outstanding leader, educator and product professional.

    Her work with our team has been incredibly impactful in a very short amount of time, and has brought clarity to product strategy and delivery.

    I highly recommend Irene.

    Craig Boshier
    Former COO, Airmap

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    "Quickly Understand Issues. Provide Quality Advice"


    Meeting Irene was certainly delightful. Not only was she able to quickly understand the landscape of my issues, she expertly gave quality tips/advice to help me navigate the world of product. I highly recommend Irene!

    Adannia Eze
    Hilti North America

  • A man in a gray suit taking a selfie inside a building, with a patterned wall and a door in the background.

    “Irene had a wealth of information to present, however her great strength was communication.”


    Irene had a wealth of information to present, however her great strength was communication. Irene was able to engage with a very large group of inductees in a personable way, while still engaging the whole group. I learned so much, I couldn’t recommend her more!

    Elric Marshall
    Westpac

  • "Instrumental in delivering Transformation"

    Irene played a major role in the transformation of Telstra.com. She was instrumental in delivering fundamental changes to the site and was always positive, innovative and collaborative in her approach - highly regarded by the team.

    Omar Khalifa
    Former Director, Telstra

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    "Recommendations backed with in-depth research and thought"

    Irene is incapable of performing any task in a less than disciplined and thorough manner. All recommendations she brings to the table are backed with in-depth research and thought. She is adept at managing priorities and has never failed to meet a deadline. Irene is a joy to work with as she approaches all tasks with enthusiasm and is a highly co-operative team member.

    Mei Sien Loke
    Former General Counsel, Melbourne IT

  • A man wearing a black long-sleeve shirt and a red running vest, participating in a trail race outdoors, with trees and greenery in the background.

    "She has the ability to command a room and get buy-in on ideas"

    I was impressed by Irene’s ability to deal with clients, effortlessly. She has the ability to command a room and get buy-in on ideas. These skills often take years to develop among consulting professionals, but they seemed to come perfectly naturally to her. She is also one of the hardest workers I have ever work with and would be honoured to work with her again.

    DeVilliers Malan,
    Senior Product Manager, Cover Genius

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    "Highly engaging and insightful in navigating and overcoming problems"

    Irene is very knowledgeable and always willing to share her deep expertise in Product Management linked to her experience in Telecommunications as well as Financial Services. She is highly engaging and insightful in navigating and overcoming common problems that product managers face in implementing product change including engagement with key stakeholders. I look forward for the next opportunity to collaborate with her and always enjoy her enthusiasm and passion in delivering great outcomes for customers.

    Trevor Lee

    Service Owner, Group Product Chapter Capability and Rhythm, Westpac

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    "Irene takes her job very seriously and goes above and beyond"


    She takes her job very seriously and goes above and beyond, like when she spent hours patiently listening to me on the state of the company, providing a sounding board to help us clarify our thinking on the next steps.

    She is also very flexible with timezones, which played a central role for us since we had to connect 3 continents with over 16h of gaps.

    I highly recommend her

    Francesco Guglielmino

    CEO, Cuebiq

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    "Practical Advice with Rich Industry Experience"

    Irene's thoughts and ideas have created a richer understanding of product management for me. Specifically, she has impacted the way I think about product management in small companies compared to large companies.

    I felt empowered to make important career decisions with confidence. Her practical advice comes with rich industry experience. In every meeting with Irene I came with big questions and always left with concrete solutions and plans.

    For anyone that is stuck and is seeking clarity and confidence, I highly recommend speaking to Irene.

    Amaar Iftikhar

    Product Manager, Optus

  • A young woman with long black hair, wearing a white top and a dark jacket, standing outdoors in a park with trees and a lamp post in the background.

    "Irene is an outstanding mentor and guide in the field of Product Management"

    Irene Liakos is an outstanding mentor and guide in the field of Product Management. I had the privilege of being mentored by her, and the experience is truly invaluable to my professional growth.

    If you get the chance to have Irene as your mentor or coach take it. She knows her stuff, is super motivating, and will definitely give your career a boost.

    Samriddhi (Sam) Shrivastava
    Product Manager - Wilson AI

  • A smiling woman with blonde hair, wearing earrings and a black top, against a plain neutral background.

    "What doesn't she know?!"

    What an amazing course! I'd love to take more courses with Irene. What doesn't she know?!

    She presented complex concepts in a clear and understandable manner, with the latest trends and developments in the field of product management, as well as a solid set of models and history of what has come before and how we got here. For example, I didn't know that product management actually came out of marketing!

    Katherine (Kat) Widomski Mohn

    XDI

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Have Me In Your Team

Hire Me As Your Fractional Product Advisor

Every organisation faces unique challenges. 

For companies needing long-term, executive-level support, my Fractional Product Advisory service is designed to deliver continuous, hands-on guidance. 

With over 20 years of experience in product strategy, growth, and transformation, I’ve worked with organisations to achieve measurable, sustainable success. My consulting services combine deep industry knowledge with hands-on guidance to ensure you meet and exceed your business objectives.

But if you're seeking focused, project-based engagements, the consulting solutions below may be the perfect fit—tailored to meet your specific needs, just as I’ve done for other clients.

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Ready to See Results?

You don't need more theory—you need practical wisdom (aka action). 

Let’s work together to turn your product into a high-performing, revenue-driving machine.

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