Product Leadership Intensive
Cohort 12
Cohort 10
Program Outline
"Set me 2–3 years ahead in my career."
"I came in as a designer. I'm leaving as a leader."
"Nobody can teach you how to think — except this workshop actually did."
"These 2 days were truly transformational. Made me rethink everything I do and why."
"Changed the way I look at innovation and disruption forever."
"Set me 2–3 years ahead in my career."
Nandini Bhosale
Senior Product Designer · TCS
Cohort 10
Four gaps that separate people who advise from people who decide. All learnable. None taught anywhere else.
The best ideas in any room rarely win on merit alone. They win because someone could make them impossible to ignore. Most people never develop that ability.
Seeing the whole ecosystem, the interdependencies, the implications, is what separates people who advise from people who decide. Most never zoom out far enough to see it.
In most rooms, no one has it, no one admits it, and everyone is looking at someone else to create it. The best leaders don't wait. They manufacture it deliberately and fast.
Because they keep chasing the one breakthrough that never comes, instead of building the method that makes breakthroughs repeatable.
Curriculum
Not a course you sit through. A room you work in.
Every session is a conversation,
not a presentation, built around hands-on activities that make every concept immediately felt, not just
understood.
A
The ability to frame a problem so clearly that the solution becomes obvious.
Most people with great ideas can't explain why they're great. Leaders can.
B
Zooming out to see the system — the actors, the interdependencies, the second and third order effects.
C
The ability to cut through confusion and create direction fast.
In today's world of shrinking innovation cycles, clarity must be created — not waited for.
D
How to break the thinking patterns that produce incremental solutions when the moment demands something new.
Innovation isn't magic. It's method.
Six roles that get the most from this
The gap between good and great is not effort. It is method.
Learn to frame problems with precision, communicate strategy that sticks, and lead decisions that move organizations forward.
The product is only as strong as the thinking behind it.
Learn to align your team, articulate direction under pressure, and make product decisions that compound over time.
Design deserves a seat at the table. This is how you hold it.
Learn to articulate design's strategic value, influence decisions at the leadership level, and drive the thinking that shapes what gets built.
Technical excellence is the floor, not the ceiling.
Learn to articulate direction, think in systems, and lead in rooms where the biggest product calls are made.
At this level, how you think is the product.
Learn to create clarity faster, communicate vision with precision, and build the leadership culture great product orgs run on.
Product leadership is not a title. It is a way of thinking.
Learn to influence product direction, align diverse stakeholders, and lead with clarity in high stakes environments.
US Design Patent
Awarded for original industrial design
Red Dot Award
International design excellence award
iF Design Award
One of the most prestigious in product design
Past Cohorts
Your Instructor
Curated and Delivered by
Co-Founder, ZEUX Innovation · 20+ years building digital products across 5 continents.
Over 20 years building products for Fortune 500s and high-growth startups across the globe. He has led 300+ digital transformations and mentored 5,000+ professionals across 5 continents. He doesn't teach from a slide deck. He teaches from the work.
"Perspectives that Saurabh shared had so much wisdom of experience. Everything clicked."
Anisha Varghese, Principal Product Designer, WYB
"My first ever workshop and Saurabh has now set high standards for me."
Prachi Joshi, Principal Designer, DesignWorx
300+
Transformations
5,000+
Mentored
5
Continents
Why This Program
Live, in-person, intensive. The format is intentional — immersion beats passive learning every time. What you learn here keeps paying back.
Not assembled from books or blog posts. Every framework is distilled from two decades of consultancy work across Fortune 500s and high-growth startups.
A ZEUX Innovation certificate that doesn't just confirm attendance — it tells every room you're in that you think at a different level.
Capped at 30 participants. Direct attention. Real feedback. Not a conference. Not a webinar. A room built for transformation.
If Day 1 doesn't change how you think, we give you a full refund. No conditions. We've never had to make good on it.
Live Zoom
In Person, Mumbai
Enrolling your team? Group pricing available Getting reimbursed from your company? Get the L&D kit
No. PLI is designed for anyone who builds products, leads teams or shapes product direction. Designers, product managers, founders, engineering leaders and business leaders can all benefit from the program.
Yes. The online program is fully live and instructor-led, conducted through Zoom. You’ll participate in the sessions, discussions and hands-on exercises in real time.
Yes. The core frameworks, instruction and hands-on learning are delivered in both formats. The difference is simply how you experience the program: live online through Zoom or live in person in Mumbai.
For now, the in-person Product Leadership Intensive is conducted only in Mumbai. We currently do not have plans to conduct this cohort in any other city.
You can apply for a future cohort. If you are unable to attend after enrolling in the in-person program, you can also defer your participation to the next cohort.
Yes. Many professionals attend PLI with company sponsorship. You can share the program details and fee with your manager or HR team, and our team can provide any additional information they need.
If you complete the program and feel it did not deliver the value promised, you can request a full refund under our money-back guarantee. No complicated conditions or lengthy process.
Yes. Recordings of the live sessions will be available for 6 months, so you can revisit the frameworks, concepts and discussions whenever you need them.
PLI is designed primarily for mid to senior-level professionals who already have experience working on products or leading teams and are looking to increase their strategic and leadership impact.
You’ll develop four core product leadership capabilities: Articulation, Big Picture Thinking, Clarity and Disruption, with practical frameworks and hands-on application.
Yes. Participants who complete the program receive a certificate of completion from Z-School.
Absolutely. PLI can be particularly valuable when multiple people involved in product decisions develop a shared approach to thinking, communicating and making decisions.
PLI is led by Saurabh Gupta, Co-Founder of ZEUX Innovation, NID alumnus and Red Dot Award winner, with 20+ years of experience building digital products and leading digital transformation across 5 continents.
The cohort is intentionally kept small to create a more engaging learning environment and meaningful interaction during the program.
Our team reviews your application to understand your experience, current role and goals. If PLI is a good fit for you, we’ll get back to you with the next steps for securing your seat.
Yes. If your company is sponsoring your participation, our team can provide the required billing and payment documentation.
If your circumstances change, please speak to our team before the program. We’ll help you understand the available options.
Yes. PLI participants get access to the Z-School alumni community after completing the program.
For the online format, you’ll get access to the session recording, so you can catch up at your convenience. For the in-person format, you can defer your participation to the next cohort.
PLI is built around real-world product leadership, not textbook theory. The frameworks come from 20+ years of building digital products and leading transformations across Fortune 500 companies and high-growth startups. It focuses on the capabilities that become increasingly important as you move into leadership: deciding what problems are worth solving, seeing the bigger picture, creating clarity, aligning stakeholders, influencing decisions and driving meaningful disruption. It’s not about learning another set of tools or processes. It’s about changing how you think, decide and lead.