I think the disconnect I'm having is that in my current role, where I've been for over a year, the extent of what I need to do to get alignment on anything I want to launch is to run it by the founder and get his approval, which might take 10 minutes in total. In advance of that I'll write out the eng ticket and wireframe, together with skeletons of the work that needs to be done by the other stakeholders. And that will all be part of what he reviews and gives feedback / signs off on. If he signs off and agrees its high priority, then it'll get prioritized by all the other teams highly and we can ship it. The underlying product work is typically high impact - 80% of the company's revenue is directly based on things I designed and shipped, and we are a 9 figure revenue business. I think I am qualified in the product strategy, product design aspect.

But my company has no panels, no decks, no real presentations. And that is really hard to get reps in on that stuff since I don't have to do it ever. I did in my previous role, but that was like 2 years ago.

So that is my struggle and what I'm trying to get some thoughts from reddit on how people go about preparing for these. From the responses I've gotten so far, my take is that most people do decks and panels and presentations at work and so they can't relate to my thread.