PLAYFUL product leadership LAB
May 11, 2026 from 09:00–17:00 – Hadsten, Denmark – DKK 3,495 (Excl. VAT)
Solve real product leadership problems through the power and science of play.
A one-day event, facilitated by Joakim Sundén, co-creator of the Spotify Model, and Portia Tung, executive leadership coach and founder of The School of Play.
You’ll approach burning product leadership challenges from the combined perspectives of product leadership, personal leadership, and organisational transformation. Participation is limited to a maximum of 15 people.
What’s In It For Me?
You will learn how to lead with greater influence, creativity, and courage, and you’ll leave with practical ideas you can apply immediately in your own context. Play is used as a method to unlock better thinking, deeper insight, and new options for action. Especially when traditional approaches no longer move things forward! Portia will facilitate and guide the day, and help participants work with real product leadership challenges through reflection, dialogue, and designed playful exercises.
We have teamed up with play alchemist and leadership coach, Portia Tung, and product organization coach and co-creator of the Spotify-model, Joakim Sundén, to offer you an interactive and energizing event. Together, we will explore the challenges you bring as product leader from the triple perspective of product leadership, personal leadership and organisational transformation.
What you’ll take home:
- Concrete next steps on a real product leadership challenge you bring on the day
- New ways to unlock creativity and movement when progress feels stuck
- Practical techniques for leading in complexity, without needing full control
- Greater resilience and calm in the day-to-day reality of product leadership
Playful Product Leadership Lab
May 11, 2026
DKK 3,495
Join the Playful Product Leadership Lab
A one-day lab for product leaders and decision-makers who want to improve decision-making, create clearer direction, and make better products when the speed of innovation and delivery increases.
- Includes light breakfast, lunch and snacks throughout the day
Pay by card or invoice • VAT invoice available • Instant confirmation
Content
The lab is designed so that product leadership challenges are explored through two complementary perspectives: leadership and transformation.
The lab begins at 09:00, and we’ll spend the morning working with the leadership dimension in product organizations. We will look into real challenges from participants and explore leadership practices that unlock clearer thinking, deeper insights, and new options for action. After lunch, the focus shifts to the wider organisation, and we’ll translate the insights from the morning into a transformational perspective, exploring how systems, structures, and culture shape both what is possible and how product leaders can create movement in complex environments. Throughout the day, we will iterate between leadership and transformation, moving from shared challenges to practical experimentation and finally into concrete next steps.
LEADERSHIP
The first part of the lab focuses on leadership in the everyday reality of product work.
Portia Tung will explore what it means to lead with greater influence, creativity, and courage. Especially when you don’t have full control or when traditional product approaches no longer move things forward.
Through dialogue, reflection, and playful practices, participants work with real challenges from their own context and unlock clearer thinking, deeper insights, and new options for action.
EMPOWERING TEAMS IN PRACTICE
Building on the morning’s exploration of playful leadership and creative problem-solving, Joakim Sundén will shift the focus to the organisational conditions that enable teams to turn leadership intent into real impact.
Through an interactive exercise, participants will explore how four forces shape empowered teams: Clarity, Competence, Control and Context. Together we will diagnose where empowerment breaks down in real organisations and generate practical ideas for how leaders can tune these forces in their own environment to unlock engagement, innovation and faster value creation.
To close the day, we will bring leadership and transformation together as participants co-create a practical product leadership roadmap, with concrete next steps to take forward in the weeks and months ahead. Thus, you will be able to translate insights into concrete next steps to improve product leadership in your organization.
Facilitators
Portia Tung is an executive, personal and team coach, and a play researcher specialising in the art and science of transformation. She combines coaching and business strategy with Play Science to help leaders and organisations create positive, enduring change. Portia has more than 25+ years experience in organisational change, and through this she has uncovered the secret formulae which brings about positive and enduring change among individuals, groups and teams. Portia is the founder of The School of Play and has worked across diverse environments ranging from education and healthcare to global financial institutions.
Joakim Sundén helps leaders in transforming and improving their organizations into models where employees are empowered to create innovative solutions that not only customers love but also drive business success.
Joakim is co-creator of the Spotify Model and founding partner of Better Product Work.
Both Portia and Joakim will also speak at Product Leader Summit Copenhagen 2026 in October. This lab is a great opportunity to work hands-on with their perspectives in an intimate setting, before continuing the conversation at the Summit later in the year.
Practical Information
Date: May 11, 2026
Time: 09:00–17:00
Location: Evald Tangs Alle 45, 8370 Hadsten
Price: DKK 3,495 (excl. VAT)
The price includes full-day participation, all session materials, and full catering throughout the day. Please note that the whole day will be in English.
Registration is confirmed on a first-come, first-served basis. To ensure a focused and interactive experience, the number of seats is limited to a maximum of 15 participants.
You can buy your ticket by clicking the button below. If you’d like to pay by invoice instead, please email us and we will assist you with the process.