Hi [Manager’s Name],

I’m interested in continuing my personal and professional growth and drive impact inside our organization by learning new practices, frameworks, and insights. Therefore, I’d like to sign up for Workit's Product Management Fellowship.

Workit pairs full-time employees like me with a cohort of peers and mentors to learn new approaches, increase my impact, and grow personally and professionally through projects, discussions, peer-to-peer support, and career coaching.

Here’s why I think the program is a good fit.

• Personal development and coaching take time and space for thoughtful listening, dialogue, feedback, and accountability. Workit would be complementary to our current mentoring and coaching practices at [Your Company], helping me to make more space for it.
• I’ll be in a group with other product managers across diverse industries and company stages. It'll be a great opportunity to benchmark against and learn from other organizations facing similar challenges.
• I'll receive feedback and actionable recommendations on how to address some of the challenges that we're currently facing in our company.
• This program isn't an online course or conference. I'll be learning strategic frameworks, tools, and mental models from a cohort of ~10 product mentors and 20 peers during an 8-week period.
• I'll be able to share my learnings with fellow colleagues and new recruits.
• I’ll learn from world-class mentors and peers, for a fraction of the cost of traditional L&D portals and similar career development programs.

In addition, it could be a good opportunity to share what I'm learning with you and discuss how it can be applied to our company and product as part of my work. The program costs $2,500 for a 12 month fellowship. It kicks off with an 8 week accelerator which requires 3-4 hours per week and it's scheduled after our business hours. Would you approve of reimbursement for this expense?

Let me know what you think. Thanks in advance!

Best,

[Name]