About Us

Out of Owls is
Randy Silver
& Friends

About Randy

Prior to founding Out of Owls in 2018, Randy held a variety of roles at start-ups, scale-ups and enterprises, across many sectors - including utilities, the arts, online education, media, retail, and financial services.

He’s held interim CPO and Leadership roles at scale-ups and SMEs, advised start-ups, and been Head of Product at HSBC and Sainsbury’s (where he also directed their 100+person product community). He participated in Silicon Valley Product Group’s Coaching the Coaches forum, and speaks frequently at conferences and events.

Randy is the co-host & founder of The Product Experience podcast, the founder of CPO Circles (an exclusive community for Chief Product Officers), runs the Product In the {A}ether meetup, and is the author of What Do We Do Now? A Product Manager’s Guide to Strategy in the Time of Crisis. A recovering music journalist and editor, Randy also launched Amazon’s music stores in the US & UK.

Our Friends

No one can do everything by themselves. To that end, Randy often partners with his extensive network to ensure that you get the best team for your needs.

How we work

With Teams

Free up your time to concentrate on strategy & tactics - we’ll work with you to design an approach to upskill your team & improve their processes.

We’ll work with the team to embed the skills and change needed so that they’ll be delivering more value, faster.

With Leaders

Leadership is a hard job.
You need someone to talk to.
You need a second set of eyes & ears.
And sometimes you need someone else to facilitate, so you can be a participant.

We’re here to help - whether it’s coaching, team audit & analysis, facilitation, training -
or just being there to ask inconvenient questions.