An Insider’s View to Product Development: Creating Hummingly’s New Leading Well Cards

An Insider’s View to Product Development: Creating Hummingly’s New Leading Well Cards 

Come and gain insights into product development and shape a leading-edge solution that will transform organizations, leaders, and teams.

At some level, most if not all talent professionals will participate in the design and development of training programs. Our April member sessiond will explore the development of Hummingly’s new innovative product, the Leading Well cards.

Presenters Jolie Wills and Jason Pemberton will start by highlighting how Hummingly takes real world experience to create highly interactive products, allowing attendees a rare peek behind the curtain of their product development process. Then, attendees will have a chance to actually play a part in that process, participating in one of their final steps of product development, providing feedback and validation from their perspectives. This final step is one way the company ensures testing and validation before this high-impact product launches.

Session Objectives: 

• Gain an understanding of critical product development steps
• Experience and provide feedback on an active new product concept in its final stages of development prior to launch
• Network and brainstorm ideas on how leaders can actively support the employees they lead through difficult transitions

Hummingly, a global thought leader on performance under pressure, plans to launch their Leading Well Cards in September 2025. Their products draw on global research from 100 leaders who have thrived and performed in grueling post-disaster contexts, with lessons derived and adapted to support leaders in everyday work. They are designed to help leaders do big, hard, meaningful things without burning out themselves or their teams.

About the Presenters:

Jolie Wills – CEO, Hummingly, M.Sc. Cognitive Psychology

Jolie is a cognitive scientist and a global thought-leader in resiliency, leadership and team effectiveness under pressure. Jolie has led teams in the most challenging of environments after disaster and disruption, including following the Christchurch Earthquakes. 

Over the last decade, Jolie has conducted global research on key ingredients needed to support teams to thrive in difficult times. Jolie is the co-founder and CEO of Hummingly – an organization that upskills leaders, teams and organizations to thrive while achieving big, hard and meaningful things. Jolie and her team package the science, research and decades of leadership experience to create practical solutions that make a tangible difference for leaders and teams operating under prolonged pressure.

Jolie is a Winston Churchill Fellow, an Edmund Hillary Fellow, a co-author of Leading in Disaster Recovery: A Companion Through the Chaos and is an advisor to the global Counter Terrorism Preparedness Network.

Jason Pemberton - Content and Impact Advisor

B.COM., B.SC., (Psychology and Human Resource Development)

Jason has spent his career working through unprecedented challenges and innovative design briefs, and supporting others to do the same. A trained and accredited coach, speaker, and facilitator, Jason is adept at creating spaces for people to step forward into the next version of themselves. As a founding leader of the globally-recognized Student Volunteer Army that emerged in response to the Christchurch Earthquakes, Jason has extensive experience in post-disaster contexts and working through disruption. He is trained in workplace mental health and is a strengths-based psychology coach and practitioner. He works with medium and large businesses, social enterprises, BCorps, and those aspiring to do more with their resources.