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Emily
Golding
Senior Product Owner
Youtube
As an Advanced Certified Product Owner (A-CSPO) at YouTube, Emily Golding thrives on transforming complex challenges into innovative business tooling solutions that delight users. With a passion for building collaborative, high-trust scrum teams, Emily believes in fostering a shared understanding of the "why" behind the work, empowering teams to achieve extraordinary results together. Her background in education and higher education research, including a master's degree from Oxford University where she studied the role of mentorship on US college campuses, informs her approach to coaching and developing people in the workplace. This commitment to growth extends beyond her day job, as evidenced by her volunteer role as a grief group facilitator with hospice and her current enrolment in NYU's Certificate in Executive Coaching program. By integrating leadership development principles, personal growth learnings, empathy, and real-world experience, Emily brings a truly human-centered approach to product ownership at YouTube.
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18 March 2026 10:15 - 10:45
Beyond product ownership: Unexpected leadership lessons from six years of grief group facilitation
Imagine your product leadership training ground was a circle of worn chairs, free-flowing tissues, and the unfiltered honesty that often accompanies profound loss. That's where Emily Golding learned to lead. For six years, amidst her work as an individual contributor at Alphabet (Google & YouTube), she volunteered as a grief support group facilitator. Emily learned to navigate the messy, human landscape of vulnerability and the quiet power of rebuilding. In this keynote, she'll reveal how the lessons gleaned from these intimate group sessions fundamentally shaped her approach to product leadership. This isn't theory, this is lived experience. Emily will guide you through five core principles that emerged: investing in friendship, identifying a clear vision, communicating with intention, being of service, and cultivating trust. Discover how her "values-integrated" approach unlocks a path to more fulfilling work and truly impactful product leadership.