Leaders Series – Focus on Listening, Understanding, Knowing Where the World is Going!

Leaders Series spotlights amazing leaders as part of Ultimate Guide to Partnering’s Fifth Birthday Celebration.

A Microsoft Corporate Vice President Joins Ultimate Guide to Partnering®

For this Leaders Series episode of the podcast, I was delighted to welcome Alysa Taylor – Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President for the Cloud Marketing Business Applications and Global Industry divisions at Microsoft. In this episode, Alysa advises us to focus on listening, understanding, and knowing where the world is going.

In her role at Microsoft, Alysa leads the product marketing teams responsible for Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform (Power BI, Power Apps, Power Virtual Agents, and Power Automate) as well as the global industry product marketing team.

Alysa’s previously led the Cloud and Enterprise business marketing group in Microsoft’s U.S. subsidiary, where she was responsible for the U.S. business, marketing, and operations across the cloud, and the infrastructure portfolio of products, including Windows Server, Azure, System Center, SQL, and Visual Studio. Taylor came to Microsoft with a background in consulting and advertising account management and design.

What You’ll Learn

* The innovation, change and transformation coming from her organization.

* How data, business processes, and industry are at the core of the transformation in Microsoft’s approach.

* Her recent announcements – Healthcare Cloud and Retail Cloud and what that means for partners.

* Why partners are more important now than ever and why they need to drive with agility and customer-centricity.

* Lessons for our listeners from her amazing career journey.

I hope you are as enlightened and inspired as I was in this interview with Alysa Taylor.

Why Listen?

This episode is for leaders looking to best engage with the technology giant AND gain great leadership lessons, principles, and insights from an amazing business leader. In this episode, Alysa Taylor shares her career progression to Corporate Vice President, the progress of her organization embracing new models, and the innovation coming out of Microsoft.

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