Katie Tamblin

Katie Tamblin is an advisor to businesses and private equity investors in North America and Europe. She has deep experience managing data and software development, particularly in value chain Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting as well as health and safety compliance. Katie Tamblin is the multi award-winning author of The Lean-Agile Dilemma: Product Management Inside a Chunky Corporate, named Best Production Innovation book of 2025 in the Hustle & Heart Book Awards and awarded Silver in the Nonfiction Book Awards. She is also the founder of Ecodove, a knowledge sharing portal focused on sustainable living.

Katie has previously served as Chief Product Officer and Board Member at Alcumus, a market-leading global business providing software-led risk management solutions through its Planet Mark, ISOQAR, SafeContractor, and CHAS brands. Katie was also Chief Product Officer at Achilles Information Limited, where her team was instrumental in developing Achilles’ approach to measuring sustainability in supply chains and delivering ESG rating systems for B2B supplier assurance.

April 21, 2026

S5E2: Finding Balance in Product Management with Katie Tamblin

Ever had one of those weeks where the roadmap is bursting at the seams, everyone wants one more thing , and you can practically feel your balance slipping through your fingers? This conversation with Katie Tamblin goes right into that moment. Katie shares the kind of stories product people don’t usually admit out loud. There’s the time she walked into a team with seventy‑two product “priorities” taped around the room like a horror‑movie timeline and had to help the organization face the truth ab...

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Jan. 27, 2026

S4E2: Why Lean and Agile Struggle in Chunky Corporates with Katie Tamblin

What happens when all the advice you followed turns out to be wrong for the job in front of you? In this episode, Karl talks with Katie Tamblin about the lived reality of building products inside what she calls “chunky corporates” and why so many well‑intentioned product efforts quietly fall apart there. Katie shares hard‑earned stories from decades inside large organizations, including the moment she realized that everything she knew about building new products simply did not apply to replacing...

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