Product Management Consulting & Fractional Product Leadership
Move from Product Strategy to Execution
Organizations across Minnesota and the Midwest don’t struggle with ideas – they struggle with execution.
Whether you’re launching a new digital product, modernizing a legacy platform, improving customer experiences, or accelerating AI adoption, success depends on having the right product leadership, clear priorities, and a disciplined approach to delivery.
Hollstadt helps organizations bridge the gap between strategy and execution through embedded product management consulting, Fractional Chief Product Officer (CPO) leadership, and experienced product teams that become part of your organization – not just outside advisors.
Because strategy without execution is just a conversation.
Why Product Initiatives Stall
Most organizations don’t have a technology problem; they have an execution problem.
We commonly partner with organizations facing challenges like:
- Digital transformation initiatives that have lost momentum
- Product roadmaps that aren’t producing meaningful outcomes
- Product teams struggling to prioritize competing initiatives
- Legacy products that need modernization
- Leadership gaps after losing a Chief Product Officer or VP of Product
- AI opportunities with no clear implementation strategy
- New products that need experienced leadership to reach the market
If your teams are busy but progress feels slow, you’re not alone. The issue is rarely effort…it’s usually a combination of capacity, clarity, leadership, and execution.
Product Management Consulting Services
Hollstadt provides embedded product management consulting designed to help organizations accelerate delivery while building lasting internal capability.
Unlike traditional consulting firms that deliver recommendations and leave, we work alongside your teams to create measurable business outcomes.
Our services include:
Fractional Chief Product Officer (CPO)
Experienced executive product leadership without the cost or commitment of a full-time hire. Ideal for organizations building a product function, navigating leadership transitions, or scaling rapidly.
Product Management as a Service (PMaaS)
Embedded product managers, product owners, strategists, and delivery leaders who integrate with your existing teams to move initiatives forward.
Product Strategy & Roadmap Development
Align executive vision, customer needs, and organizational priorities into a roadmap your teams can execute with confidence.
Product Portfolio Assessment
Evaluate existing products, investments, and opportunities to improve ROI, reduce complexity, and focus resources where they matter most.
Agile & Product Transformation
Modernize delivery practices, improve cross-functional collaboration, and create a product operating model that supports long-term success.
AI Product Strategy
Identify practical opportunities to leverage AI and emerging technologies within your products, services, and internal operations.
Product Organization Development
Build or mature your product organization through coaching, operating models, governance, and leadership development that continues long after our engagement ends.
Our 8•8•8 Delivery Model
Every organization starts in a different place. That’s why we designed engagements that scale with your needs.
8 Days — Accelerate
Quickly assess your current state, identify barriers to execution, evaluate AI opportunities, and develop a practical roadmap for moving forward.
Perfect for organizations asking:
“Where should we start?”
8 Weeks — Transform
Develop the strategy, operating model, roadmap, governance, and implementation plan needed to successfully execute your product vision.
Perfect for organizations asking:
“What should we build and how do we organize around it?”
8 Months — Deliver
Our experienced product leaders become embedded members of your team, accountable for delivering outcomes—not simply recommendations.
Perfect for organizations asking:
“We know where we’re going. We need experienced people to help us get there.”
Every phase builds on the previous one, and engagement fees apply toward the next phase, allowing organizations to start small without creating redundant investment.
Why Organizations Choose Hollstadt
For more than 35 years, Hollstadt has partnered with organizations across Minnesota and the Midwest to solve complex business and technology challenges.
Our clients choose us because we combine:
- Executive-level product leadership
- Experienced delivery teams
- Deep technology and business consulting expertise
- AI-enabled product thinking
- Practical, outcome-focused execution
- Flexible engagement models that meet organizations where they are
Most importantly, we don’t simply advise from the outside.
We become part of your team.
Our consultants build trusted relationships, transfer knowledge, and help create internal product capabilities that continue long after the engagement ends.
Proven Results
Our approach has helped organizations transform stalled initiatives into measurable business outcomes.
One recent engagement with a 50-year-old enterprise organization resulted in:
- A paying customer in under 8 months
- More than $10 million in new business pipeline
- A product organization built from the ground up
- A modern digital offering that positioned the business for long-term growth
- A major at-risk customer retained through product innovation
Built for Midwest Organizations
Headquartered in Minnesota, Hollstadt understands the challenges facing organizations throughout the Midwest.
Whether you’re a healthcare organization, manufacturer, financial services company, government agency, nonprofit, or technology company, our approach is rooted in practical problem solving, collaborative partnerships, and measurable business outcomes.
We help organizations build stronger product capabilities – not just better products.
Strategic Partnership with Transformative Matter
Hollstadt delivers these services in strategic partnership with Transformative Matter, combining Hollstadt’s trusted consulting and delivery capabilities with deep product leadership experience.
Together, we help organizations:
- Build high-performing product organizations
- Accelerate digital transformation
- Launch new products with confidence
- Modernize legacy offerings
- Integrate AI into product strategy and delivery
- Develop internal product leaders and teams
Learn more about Transformative Matter (website coming soon).
Ready to move faster?
Whether you’re building a new product, modernizing an existing one, filling a product leadership gap, or trying to get a transformation initiative back on track, we’d love to start a conversation.
Let’s discuss where your organization is today and we’ll help you discover where it could be tomorrow.