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Joakim Sundén is a founding partner at Better Product Work and co-creator of the Spotify model.

His mission is to improve the world of work, to empower people and teams, to create awesome organizations. Joakim believes that work is a big and important part of most people’s lives, and it can have an amazing impact for personal growth, as well as create value and happiness for ourselves and others.

His motto - helping empower people and organizations with his work. Joakim has shared his wisdom and tech creativity as a speaker for more than 20 years. He now helps leaders develop empowered teams and organizations where all employees can be engaged in creating innovative solutions.

Joakim is frequently speaking and training on topics such as Empowered Product Teams and Organizations, Spotify/Product Model, Agile & Product Leadership and Strategy..

Joakim is frequently speaking and training on topics such as Agile at Scale, Spotify, Empowered Product Teams and Organizations, Agile & Product Leadership and Strategy.

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Upcoming masterclasses featuring Joakim Sundén

The Product Model Explained: Learnings from Spotify and the Best Product Companies

Learn the principles and practices behind the success of companies like Spotify, Amazon, and Google. This course equips you with actionable insights to grow empowered product teams, foster innovation, and align strategy with execution—all through practical examples and proven approaches. Ideal for leaders and teams aiming to transform their ways of working.

As more and more people become intrigued by the inner workings of the best tech-powered companies, the term “Product Model” has emerged to describe the common principles and practices shared by companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google, Spotify and iZettle. Companies that understand the necessity of creating an environment where empowered product teams can exercise their creativity, discovering and delivering innovative solutions that not only customers love, but also drive business success.

This course aims to explain what those principles and practices are and how you can apply them in your organization to create a similar environment. It mixes extensive experience from successful scale-ups and models from prominent product thinkers such as Marty Cagan, Melissa Perri and John Cutler. Many of the examples in the course come from firsthand experience of the trainers, who have extensive hands-on experience from success and failure from scaleups including several unicorns (with a valuation exceeding $1 billion) such as Spotify, iZettle, Einride and Klarna.

Monday Mar 3 @ 10:00 | Copenhagen, Denmark

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Content featuring Joakim Sundén

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How Autonomy Saved One of Spotify’s Most Loved Features From Being Killed
How Autonomy Saved One of Spotify’s Most Loved Features From Being Killed
GOTO Copenhagen 2022
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How Autonomy Saved One of Spotify’s Most Loved Features From Being Killed
How Autonomy Saved One of Spotify’s Most Loved Features From Being Killed
GOTO Aarhus 2023
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Agile Transformations Using The “Spotify Model”: Lessons From The Trenches
Agile Transformations Using The “Spotify Model”: Lessons From The Trenches
GOTO Aarhus 2023

Past masterclasses featuring Joakim Sundén

2 Days: Agile at Scale, Inspired by Spotify | GOTO Aarhus 2023

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