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Crayon CEO, Melissa Mulholland, Joins Ultimate Guide to Partnering®

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 miss this special Women's History Month Spotlight Episode of Ultimate Guide to Partnering. My guest for this podcast episode is Melissa Mulholland, the Chief Executive Officer of Crayon. Melissa was an early and popular guest on the podcast three years ago while she was still at Microsoft. I was delighted to welcome her back to discuss her incredible journey. In this episode, she shares her passion for technology, learnings on her journey, and her bold mission for Crayon.

Melissa is the 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

* Crayon's Journey 2:12

* Melissa's path to CEO 9:55

* Lessons from Microsoft 14:19

* Dr. Mike Gervais impact 25:07

* The importance of leadership 32:07

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

Partnering with Crayon

Partnering with Crayon

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