How to be better at failing

Do you view failure as something to be avoided, or do you see it as an essential part of your work and collaboration process?

Join us for an insightful and thought-provoking talk by Product Manager Kirstie Tostevin on how to be better at failing. Drawing from her experiences in product development, Kirstie will share how the skills she’s mastered —navigating setbacks, iterating quickly, and learning from mistakes—are essential not just in her field but across a wide range of professions.

In this session, you’ll learn how common pitfalls in product development and strategies to address them, can be applied across various industries. Kirstie will emphasise the importance of fostering a culture where teams can fail responsibly, learn together, and turn setbacks into opportunities for innovation.

Kirstie’s talk will lead into a general discussion, taking inspiration from her insights to explore how failure is important in our own work processes and the opportunities and challenges it presents.

The event is designed for individuals from all sectors, disciplines, and experience levels—including product and service managers and their teams, entrepreneurs, startup founders, and self-employed professionals.

Kirstie is the one steering the ship of product management at Artlist UK. She's spent part of a decade in the creative industry. Now she combines her love for data and analytics with her marketing expertise and deep user and product knowledge to shape tools that digital creators will not just use, but truly love. From strategy and operations to marketing, R&D, and video production, she's done it all. She led the growth of the FXhome user community from 30,000 to a staggering 6.9 million!

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