Harry Max

Author of Managing Priorities

Harry Max is an executive player-coach, consultant, and hands-on product design and development leader with vision and a solid grasp of operations. He is a managing partner at Peak Priorities, LLC.

A Silent Leader at heart, Harry works with senior leaders and their teams to help them realize their visions by zeroing in on pragmatic solutions to complex challenges.

Max’s experience includes having been a founder/CEO, operational leader, and strategy consultant with startups, innovators, and global brands, includ - ing Apple, Adobe, PDI/DreamWorks, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Informatica, ITHAKA, Microsoft, PayPal, productOps, Rackspace, SGI, Symantec, and Yotascale. An early pioneer in e-commerce, Harry was a co-founder of Virtual Vineyards (Wine.com), where his designs powered the interaction model behind the first usable and secure online shopping cart.

Harry Max is an autodidact. His undergraduate studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, focused on qualitative problem-solving and sociology. He is also an NLP Master Practitioner and a graduate of the Hoffman Institute and Aspen Institute’s Tech Executive Leadership Initiative (TELI).

Harry’s work has been featured internationally in the Economist, The New York Times, TEDx, The Wall Street Journal, and a Harvard Business School case study. He lives in Santa Cruz, California.

Rosenverse talks by Harry:

" Using a playbook helps codify domain knowledge and prioritization criteria for AI to apply. "

AI for Prioritization (3rd of 3 seminars)

July 11, 2024

" Your priorities don’t tell you what to do — your judgment makes the decisions. "

Prioritization for Leaders (2nd of 3 seminars)

June 27, 2024

" There’s a huge gap between theory and practice when it comes to prioritization in complex dynamic environments. "

Prioritization for designers and product managers (1st of 3 seminars)

June 13, 2024

" People will not sabotage what’s going on if they feel like they’ve been part of the process. "

Priority Zero: Some Things are More Equal than Others

June 9, 2016

" Minimum viable product has become the minimal thing you can do to get out in the world, but doesn’t necessarily satisfy the needs of people you’re serving. "