Michele Hansen is the CEO & Co-Founder of Geocodio, a SaaS company she and her husband have bootstrapped to multi-millions in annual revenue. A former product manager who learned customer research ""the hard way,"" Michele has conducted thousands of interviews across B2C and B2B contexts. Jim Kalbach is a noted author, speaker, and instructor in innovation, design, and the future of work. He is currently Chief Evangelist at Mural, the leading online whiteboard. Jim is the author of several books: Designing Web Navigation (O'Reilly, 2007), Mapping Experiences, 2nd Ed. (O'Reilly, 2020), and The Jobs to Be Done Playbook (Rosenfeld, 2020). In 2023, he co-authored Collaborative Intelligence (Wiley, 2023) with Mariano Battan. Jim is also the Co-Founder and Principal at the JTBD Toolkit, an online resource with learning, trainings, and content.
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