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Mihaela Draghici

Mihaela Draghici

Product Leader | Creator of the Language Mapping Blueprint

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Mihaela Draghici Fix the language gaps behind bad product decisions

Mihaela has 15 years of international experience building and scaling products across education, martech, e-commerce, and automotive.

She has led cross-functional Product, Design, and Engineering teams in global organisations, managing budgets, portfolios, product strategy and product delivery at scale.

Across teams, functions, and leadership layers, she observed a consistent pattern: decisions break down when the same words mean different things to different roles.

This insight led her to develop the Language Mapping Blueprint, a practical approach to aligning how teams think, decide, and collaborate.

Having worked closely with engineers, executives, and commercial leaders, she helps teams connect technical decisions to revenue, risk, and growth, by fixing the language systems behind them.

Previously at
Volkswagen Group
Awin
QS Top Universities

Lightning Lessons

Free, interactive sessions to explore new topics

Alumni reviews

A very good alignment of Business & Dev.

Swastika

20 May Cohort
senior data engineer · zalando
The session was really good and practical. I liked how it connected engineering work to business thinking instead of just focusing on delivery. The dev-to-business translation framework especially stood out to me, and I’m excited to start applying ideas like WSJF and outcome-based thinking in roadmap and planning discussions. It gave me a better perspective on how engineers can influence not just execution, but also what gets built and why.

Manjula

20 May Cohort
VP · JPMorgan
This workshop really helped me shift to a more product and business focused mindset when evaluating work. I especially appreciated the interactive break out sessions that challenged me to apply the skills as I learned them and reviewing the outcomes of those sessions as a group for further insight.
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James

20 May Cohort
Staff Software Engineer · Salsify
A good hands-on workshop about applying business side thinking to your every day engineering. It gets into the "why"s of many of the things your team may already be doing and will probably teach you how to think more clearly about goals and outcomes at every level.
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Tristan

20 May Cohort
Sr Software Eng · Salsify