

Talk
Mihaela Draghici
Product Leader, Creator of the Language Mapping Blueprint
Introduction
Mihaela Drăghici is a product leader with 15 years of experience building global B2B and B2C products across industries including education, e-commerce, affiliate marketing, and automotive. She has led cross-functional product teams, launched new digital products, and worked closely with engineering, design, business, and executive stakeholders in complex organisations.
Across these environments, she observed a recurring pattern: product teams rarely fail because of strategy or talent. They fail because people across functions interpret the work differently.
Understanding the critical role language plays in shaping alignment inside product teams, Mihaela’s work focuses on helping product leaders uncover hidden misalignment in how teams communicate, make decisions, and collaborate.
Drawing on her education in linguistics and her experience leading cross-functional product teams, she approaches organisational alignment as a language problem. Her work helps teams surface assumptions, build a shared vocabulary, and create the clarity needed to move faster and make better product decisions together.












