About
Mia delivers Product Strategy services in partnership with Elizabeth Stephen, ensuring product decisions are informed by customer insight, market demand, and commercial realities. She brings more than 25 years of global leadership and advisory experience, having guided product strategy across software providers and service organizations, and has worked closely with executive teams to shape product vision, prioritize investment, and balance current-state optimization with future-state growth. In practice, Mia partners with executive teams to define product strategy that balances current-state realities with future-state ambition, bringing a market- and customer-led perspective that ties investment to real demand and long-term growth. Her work includes assessing product portfolios to identify gaps, overlaps, and opportunities for rationalization, connecting customer and market insight to product roadmaps, helping organizations shift from incremental optimization to genuine innovation, and advising on build, buy, or partner decisions. Clients typically gain a clearer product vision and roadmap, stronger alignment between product, technology, and market demand, and reduced waste and duplication across solutions. Mia also guides successful product releases from ideation through market introduction and implements an agile, incubator approach that delivers quick proof of concept and faster time to market.
How Mia helps
The roles Mia steps into. Select one to see how they work in it.
Email Marketing Strategist
With more than 20 years experience in email marketing, Mia Papanicolaou provides strategy, advice and consulting to clients to help them improve their engagement rates and meet their KPIs. She has been named as an email marketing influencer multiple times and is a regular speaker and blogger on digital communication, digital maturity and improving the customer experience through email touch-points. Mia works with clients on lifecycle messaging, journey mapping and email marketing strategy, placing emphasis on the customer experience to get the desired results. She is a thought leader and as an expert in her field, shares her expertise through her consulting. Throughout her career, Mia has been an advocate for improving customer experiences through relevant, valuable and accessible communications. With a strong problem solving mind-set, she is a creative tactician, constantly looking for ways to improve customer communications. Prior to joining the Chameleon Collective, Mia was with industry analyst firm Aspire CCS where she led the US operations and enterprise consultancy. Before that, she worked at Striata for 15 years in South Africa, the UK and then settled in the U.S as the COO of the company, after which she headed up consulting at Doxim.
Selected work in this role
CCM Messaging Advisor at Ricoh USA
Mia moved Ricoh from a product mind-set to a solution sale approach, updating positioning and messaging and delivering the required sales training.
Sales and Marketing Consultant at FIS
Mia repositioned FIS's messaging to highlight a new ecosystem of solutions, and continues to support sales messaging, marketing assets and training.
CCM Industry Analyst at ViaTech
For a new ViaTech product, Mia sized the market and target audience, refreshed the messaging, profiled the ideal customer and led sales training.
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Experience
Partner, Customer Communications Strategist and Consultant at Chameleon Collective
General Manager, North and South America at Aspire CCS
Vice President - General Manager at Doxim
COO at Striata, a Doxim Company
Striata
- General Manager
- Head of Operations
- Vice President, General Manager
- COO
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