Leadership Conversations with Inspirational People

Dan joins me for a discussion about Leadership. Dan is the General Manager of Business Applications for the Americas at Microsoft. He is responsible for driving market share growth by enabling sellers and partners to sell to success. He has a very strong track record for leading teams to exceed business goals and targets by taking a people-centric approach to everything he does as a leader. Prior to becoming GM, Dan spent the past twenty years with Microsoft leading teams and organizations across digital and field sales, presales, marketing, sales enablement, operations and more. Most notably, the last 16 years of his career with Microsoft have been focused on Business Applications. Dan is a graduate of the University of Arizona with a degree in History in Spanish. He came from humble beginnings growing up in small Midwestern towns before moving to Seattle where he resides with his wife and three kids. Dan’s upbringing instilled a strong sense of family, work ethic, accountability, service, and a passion for life that guides the way he lives his life both personally and professionally. In his free time, you can find Dan enjoying the outdoors, biking, running, skiing and spending time on the Pacific Northwest lakes.

Vasu Jakkal l Corporate Vice President l Microsoft, Security, Compliance, Identity and Privacy joined me for a conversation on leadership.   

Vasu is responsible for the $15B+ Security, Compliance, Identity, Management & Privacy business and marketing at Microsoft, serving as the Directly Responsible Individual [DRI] to Microsoft CEO & Senior Leadership Team, working across all functions to drive Microsoft's security strategy and growth. During this session, it was pretty special to learn about her journey, the investment made in growth, learning and skilling along with the enablement of diversity and inclusion in Security.   

Thank you, Vasu for the incredible conversation.    

Recently I had the honour of connecting with Nina Harding l Corporate Vice President l Microsoft, US Global Partner Solutions for an incredible conversation on Leadership. Nina and her organization at Microsoft are responsible for empowering partners to unlock more for customers - enabling more agility, efficiency, and innovation – and transforming the Microsoft US partner ecosystem into a strategic asset to drive digital transformation.

Over this session, Nina and I talked about her incredible journey of overcoming resilience, turning the impossible into possible and the value of meaningful partnerships.

Thanks for the incredible conversation, Nina.

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Matt Renner l President l US, Enterprise at Microsoft joined me for a conversation around Leadership.   Matt is responsible for revenue growth and driving digital transformation across customers and partners utilizing all of Microsoft's commercial products, services, and support. Matt leads a team of more than 5,000 people who service more than 2,200 of the largest US commercial customers across the lifecycle of sales and consumption functions.    Over this session, Matt shares some key insights that every leader should hear about how to lead a team, business and organizational change during challenging times. In addition, we talked about Matt's leadership journey, the importance of trust, change and adaptability to leadership - and his approach to leading the organization to make an impact and empower each individual and organization to achieve more.    Thanks, Matt for the incredible conversation.    RB

Kevin Peesker l Microsoft l President, Small, Medium, Corporate and Digital recently joined me for a conversation about Leadership. As President of SMC & Digital at Microsoft, Kevin is responsible for leading a global team in the delivery of Cloud, Data & AI, Business Applications, Modern Workplace and security solutions for Small, Medium and Corporate business and government customers across North America, Latin America, Europe Middle East Africa and Asia. 

Over this session, Kevin shared some of his stories from his early days in the Prairies in Canada, and the importance of foundations and values around respect, integrity and humility. In addition, it was inspiring to learn about his approach of bringing together multiple businesses within the organization, on being unified around a single vision for Small, Medium, Corporate & Digital businesses,  and his philosophy on cultural adaptability while driving performance consistency across different cultures. 

As a long-time member and most recently Chairman of Canada’s Tech Nation, Kevin is a huge proponent of tech skilling and it was great to learn how he is approaching tech skilling on a global scale, and the role that Microsoft plays.

Thanks, Kevin for the remarkable conversation. 

RB

Rodrigo Kede Lima l President of Latin America at Microsoft joined me over this session to discuss his leadership journey, lessons learned, principles he lives by and the broader impact he aspires to achieve.   Rodrigo has had a tremendous Leadership journey working across the US, Latin America, and Asia with some amazing learnings and experiences working with different cultures and people. Some of his roles were as President at IBEF Sao Paulo, to WW VP at IBM, President at TOTVS, and also a Board Member and Advisor.   Rodrigo, obrigado por nos inspirar tanto nessa conversa e por ser tão autentico com a sua sabedoria e filosofia de liderança. Eu agradeço seu tempo, e espero continuar aprendendo contigo   Thank you, Rodrigo for the great discussion.   RB

Deb Cupp, President, Microsoft US joined me over this session and discussed her Leadership Journey from sales rep to President of Microsoft, US. Deb also shared her approach on Leading with Insatiable Curiosity, Leading with Empathy and the value of learning and creating experiences by going out of the comfort zones.  Thank you, Deb for the incredible conversation and for the impact you're making to people and society every day!   RB

Ashley Haynes-Gaspar l COO of US Business Applications & Industry Clouds at Microsoft joined me over this session to discuss her Leadership journey, the importance of building a personal brand. In addition, Ashley shared some really great insights on creating a space for authenticity and some vital ideas on how to deal with burnout.   Thanks, Ashley for the great conversation!   RB

Lillian Barnard, Managing Director / CEO at Microsoft South Africa on her Leadership Journey, Diversity and Inclusion, the Importance of Resilience and much much more..