FULL SHOW NOTES
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- Professional and personal background
- Living in Fairbanks, Alaska – childhood, the Northern lights, appreciation for nature
- Travel experiences and favourite destinations
- Career journey and working in Microsoft
- What comes with the role of overseeing Business Application Partner Ecosystem, focusing around customer engagement
- Having a fresh look at how Sales is going within Microsoft
- Thoughts on how partners/practices that have traditionally done Dynamics based implementation are evolving moving forward
- Thoughts on Dynamics becoming broader and practices having mastery in different workloads
- What Microsoft Readiness is looking going forward and create a system of “drinking from the firehose”
- Changes in the way Microsoft Partner Network type function and what these changes are in the calendar year
- How Microsoft deals with Partners feeling of being abandoned by Microsoft after the Dynamics group was moved to Enterprise
- Women in technology, a roundtable discussion with women during Dynamics 365 Saturday in Scotland
- “All the Voices” — what inspired the piece and her thinking around it
- Thoughts on equality and inclusion in tech
- Thoughts on diversity and inclusion coming through STEM
Books Mentioned
“The Broken Earth Trilogy” by N. K. Jemisen
Resources
Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoption
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