Jeff helps organizations build better products and executives build the cultures that build better products. He is the co-author of the award-winning book <em>Lean UX</em> and the Harvard Business Review Press book Sense & Respond.
Starting off as a software designer, Jeff now works as a coach, consultant and keynote speaker helping companies bridge the gaps between business agility, digital transformation, product management and human-centred design.
Most recently Jeff co-founded Sense & Respond Press, a publishing house for practical business books for busy executives. His most recent book, <em>Forever Employable</em>, was published in June 2020.
Jeff Gothelf is a business agility pioneer and bestselling author who bridges Lean UX, OKRs, and product leadership to help companies ship better products faster. He coaches executives on customer-centric cultures that thrive in uncertainty, blending humility, curiosity, and evidence-based decisions.
Co-author of Lean UX (3rd ed.), Sense & Respond, and Who Does What By How Much?—the definitive OKR playbook—he founded Neo Innovation, a global Lean/Agile agency sold in 2015, after early roles at AOL and iXL during the dot-com era.
Today, via Sense & Respond Learning with Josh Seiden, he trains on AI-era product management, goal-setting, and storytelling, turning rigid orgs into adaptive machines that prioritize outcomes over outputs.