If you want to learn how this leader's passion for technology, partners, and future-focused leadership led her on a journey to CEO of Crayon, you won't want to miss this 110th Episode of Ultimate Guide to Partnering. My guest for this episode of the podcast is Melissa Mulholland, the Chief Executive Officer of Crayon. Melissa was an early and popular guest of the podcast three years ago while she was still at Microsoft. I was delighted to welcome her back to discuss her amazing journey. In this episode, she shares her passion for technology, learnings on her journey, and her bold mission for Crayon.

Melissa was recently named Chief Executive Officer of Crayon, a global leader in providing innovation and services to help companies worldwide leverage the power of technology to drive the greater good. This charismatic, people-first executive is passionate about using technology to maximize impact, primarily through data and AI.

Melissa spent 12 years at Microsoft, leading strategy and business development worldwide to help businesses be profitable through cloud transformation. She focused on enabling partners and customers to accelerate their business transformation and deliver profitability, efficiency, and scale across Microsoft's Cloud services resulting in over 3M people skilled and over 100K certifications. She has authored 12 books on building a successful business in the Cloud and is a board member of SHE, Europe's largest gender equality conference.

In this episode, we have a great conversation about her company, career, and life journey with her family to Crayon and Oslo, Norway, significant lessons that sparked her, and great learnings and advice from a woman CEO in an industry not crowded with women CEOs.

What you’ll learn in this episode:

* Melissa's career and life journey fron Intel to Microsoft to Crayon.* Crayon and its mission. * Great advice and leassons learned along the path to CEO.

I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I enjoyed reconnecting with Melissa Mulholland.

Other Related Episodes That Might Interest You.

* 59 - Capitalize on the Digital Transformation Opportunity - my first interview with Melissa, three years ago.* 79 - Passionate Leadership, Focus, and Commitment to Make the Invisible, Visible. with Gavriella Schuster.

Links & Resources

* Engage with Melissa Mulholland on Linked In.* About Crayon * Learn more how Ultimate Partnerships helps technology organizations optimize partner results. * Ultimate Guide to Partnering Linked In – Stay tuned as I’ll share details around our new offering for you.* Subscribe to Ultimate Guide to Partnering on Apple,  Spotify,  Google,