Brendan Marsh Product & Org Adviser, Organa

Brendan Marsh is a Product & Org Advisor and Director at Organa, where he helps organisations strengthen product strategy, org design and execution at scale. Past clients include Lyka, ABC, Queensland Health, IBM and Atlassian to name a few.

He previously served as Chief Product Officer of a mental health non-profit and spent five years at Spotify during its hypergrowth phase, first as an Agile Coach supporting innovation and product discovery teams and later as a Product Manager responsible for the Mac and Windows clients (40M+ MAU).

Brendan currently teaches at the Australian Institute of Management and is completing a Master of Gestalt Psychotherapy, bringing a humanistic lens to complex organisational change. His work focuses on improving strategic alignment and decision-making at scale, while preserving team empowerment, creativity and innovation.

with Chris Howard – Manager, Delivery Coaching, Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Empowered product teams sound simple, until you scale. In large orgs, strategy often turns into huge amounts of planning and process, with little room for uncertainty & discovery. So how do you align tens or hundreds of teams to big outcomes without SAFe-style control? Drawing on over a year of experience addressing this challenge at ABC Digital, we’ll demonstrate a lightweight model for turning strategy into coordinated action. You’ll learn where key decisions belong, how to think about strategic bets, and how to balance alignment with autonomy.

with Chris Howard – Manager, Delivery Coaching, Australian Broadcasting Corporation

A special opportunity to dive deeper on the topic of flight levels and strategic bets in a small group setting. Come with your questions ready to have a relaxed conversation with Brendan and Chris.