Andrea Michalek

@ThatAndreaM
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Helping tech leaders launch products, build teams, and lead with confidence → I've built and sold multiple million $ businesses → Now I help you do the same

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Stop "shoulding" yourself this holiday season.

My word for 2026: Adventure.

What's yours?

Three questions for the end of year:

→ What to START doing?
→ What to KEEP doing?
→ What to STOP doing?

Be brutally honest.

This is from my Saturday newsletter.

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Leadership Advantage - Leadership Development for Product Leaders

Practical frameworks, proven strategies, and real-world tools to help product and engineering leaders go beyond incremental results.

Your permission slip to NOT do everything between now and January 1st.

It's ok for it to be business not as usual.

Up and to the right is a simplification of what success looks like, but it never plays out that cleanly in reality.

I learned, very early on, that the path to your ultimate goal is often the "silly path."

It has missteps, turnarounds, and in hindsight, was the harder way to go.

When the idea finally clicks

My book didn’t start with an outline. It started with fear. A talk I over-prepared for. And one drawing I couldn’t stop thinking about. That was the moment it became a book I had to write.

But someone gave me better advice: wait until you have a book burning inside you that you can't not write.
I finally found mine.

This week's newsletter is the origin story behind Beyond Incremental, and a question for anyone circling something that hasn't clicked yet.

My book didn't start with an outline.
It started with fear.
A talk I over-prepared for. And one drawing I couldn't stop thinking about.

When I ask other authors if I should write a book, they usually say, "Don't do it."

If your team can’t move without you…

That’s not leadership. That’s dependency.

Time to shift.

I built a course to help you do exactly that.
✅ Communicate vision clearly
✅ Build leadership systems
✅ Lead without being the bottleneck

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Beyond Incremental - Breakthrough Leadership Framework

Transform constraints instead of optimizing within them. Master People, Performance, and Passion to create breakthrough results in product leadership.