Impact Map of Product Tonic for Southeast Asia Product People

Michael Ong
Product Team Tonic
Published in
2 min readFeb 20, 2023

Why: To create a safe environment for product leaders in Southeast Asia to share, learn, and grow in their personal and professional lives.

Who: The Product Tonic community consisting of Agile, Tech, Design, User Experience, and Product communities of practices across Southeast Asia (we have roots starting in Singapore, Indonesia — Jakarta / Malaysia — Kuala Lumpur (PM Huddle) / Philippines — Manila (Product PH).

How: Through Product Tonic meetups, unconferences, retreats, and the Product Tonic Lab, we provide opportunities for participants to engage in conversations, learning pathways, and hands-on experiences that foster engagement, productivity, and value creation.

What:

  • Phase 1 — Seeds of Idea (2013): Established the processes, practices, and platform to create a product group that examines skills, habits, personal strengths/gaps towards life goals, and personal development. #PersonalDevelopment #ProductGroup #CrossMeetupCollaboration
  • Phase 2 — Learning Pathway (2018–2020): Co-created retreats and unconferences that explore empowering product leadership through effective decision making, trust building, sustainable product development, and personal growth. #Retreats #Unconferences #EmpoweringProductLeadership
  • Phase 3 — Product Tonic Lab (2021–2022): Cohorts that focus on leadership and decision-making in product development, building trust within teams, mentoring and coaching, creating a sense of ownership, transforming business approaches, using product skills for sustainability, self-awareness, and effective communication. #ProductTonicLab #LeadershipDevelopment #ProductDevelopmentSkills

What’s Next:

  • April 2023 gathering in Bohol, Philippines to share stories, learn from each other’s personal roadmaps, and continue the journey of growth and learning. #ProductTonicRetreat2023 #BoholGathering #PersonalRoadmaps
  • June 2023 Product Tonic Lab Cohort 3 invites individuals to take a long-form cohort based program to develop their personal roadmap towards product leadership with peers, co-facilitators and mentors.
  • 21st October 2023 Product Tonic Unconference lands at Ground-Up Initiative Singapore making its in-person debut after 5 years in the online space.

Follow our progress at https://linktr.ee/producttonic

History: Over the past 10 years, the Product Tonic community has grown and forged meaningful relationships in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan, Denmark, Lithuania & Cambodia through over 100 meetups, 2 retreats (Bali’18 & Yilan’19), and 5 unconferences (2018–2022).

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Michael Ong
Product Team Tonic

Professional Leisure Cyclist + Community Builder + Facilitator, Trainer & Coach for Individuals & Product teams to thrive in work & (serious) play