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Microsoft Mentors: The Podcast lifts the lid on the journeys of the most successful leaders in the Microsoft Partner ecosystem.
Through candid conversations with founders, business owners, and technical leaders, we explore the strategies, grit, and lessons behind their growth and how they’re building competitive advantage for the future.
These are the untold stories and practical lessons from leaders who are defining success in
Azure, AI, Data, App Innovation and Security.
Our mission? To tell Partner stories at scale and create impactful Microsoft conversations.
Through candid conversations with founders, business owners, and technical leaders, we explore the strategies, grit, and lessons behind their growth and how they’re building competitive advantage for the future.
These are the untold stories and practical lessons from leaders who are defining success in
Azure, AI, Data, App Innovation and Security.
Our mission? To tell Partner stories at scale and create impactful Microsoft conversations.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
43 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
48 episodes
since Aug. 12, 2024
episodic
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Most Microsoft Partners know how to scope a project. Define the outcome. Build the solution. Deliver it. Close it. AI is starting to challenge that model. Because what happens when the solution you've delivered needs to be continuously taught, governed, supported and improved? In this episode of Mi…
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Most conversations about AI start with the technology. Which model should we use? Which Copilot licence should we buy? How quickly can we deploy it? The more interesting question is this: What happens to a Microsoft Partner when AI can complete 62% of the technical build? That's the question Alex J…
Most Microsoft rollouts don’t fail because the technology is broken. They fail because people never change how they work. In this episode of Microsoft Mentors, Oli Ridley sits down with Mark Reynolds, Founder and CEO of Hable, to unpack the problem Mark spotted while working at Microsoft, and why h…
A conversation on acquiring Microsoft capability, integrating culture, protecting people, and turning M&A into a real strategic advantage.
Buying Microsoft capability is the easy headline.
Building a business around it properly is the harder bit.
That’s what makes this conversation with Dav…
Most businesses don’t fail because they start badly. They fail because they stop adapting. That’s what makes this conversation with Mark Taylor, Founder and CTO of Chorus, such a useful one. Mark didn’t build Chorus in a hot market with perfect timing, big funding, or some polished founder playbook…
What does it take to build a Microsoft business that lasts nearly 27 years?
In this episode of Microsoft Mentors, we sit down with Mark Taylor, Founder and CTO of Chorus, to explore how the business grew from a bedroom startup in 1999 into a multi-pillar Microsoft business spanning managed services…
How has Microsoft security evolved from the world of Active Directory and infrastructure into one defined by AI, data security, and non-human identities?
In this episode of Microsoft Mentors, Oli sits down with Luke Elston, Microsoft Practice Director at CyberONE, to explore both his personal jo…
What does it really look like to build a business in the Microsoft ecosystem, sell it, and then do it all again? In this episode of Microsoft Mentors, Oli sits down with Mags Totten, CRO at Yavrio and one of the most well-known commercial leaders in the Microsoft partner community, to unpack a care…
“I can usually see what’s coming… just before it starts to come.”
That ability to spot what’s next before the market catches up is what separates good operators from great founders.
In this episode of Microsoft Mentors, we sit down with Mags Totten to unpack a career built on seeing shifts early… a…
What does Microsoft’s AI story actually look like now, once you get beyond the surface-level Copilot conversation? In this episode of Microsoft Mentors, Oli sits down with Alex Pearce, Chief Strategist for Microsoft at Softcat and one of the UK’s longest-standing Microsoft MVPs, to unpack how the M…
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