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Aim for the Pain, Not the Pride
Two counterintuitive moves that drove 97% Copilot adoption - recruiting your loudest skeptics and replacing your training program with a five-minute game.
The Signal Boost
Curated thoughts on AI, leadership, and the intersection of both with what it means to be human throughout.
NarrateThe Frontier of Cowork with Copilot & Claude
Microsoft built their most ambitious agentic feature on Anthropic's technology. The 'who copied who' debate misses the point. The real challenge is helping thousands of professionals shift from asking AI questions to directing AI work.
ActivateLab #3 - Clean Up Messy Data with 'Edit in Copilot'
The third hands-on lab in my community resource series gives you a deliberately wrecked spreadsheet and walks you through fixing it with Edit with Copilot - one problem at a time, then all at once. Includes a practice file you can download and break yourself.
The Death of Thought Leadership (And What Replaces It)
John Winsor argues AI has made it trivially easy to perform expertise without possessing it. He's right - but his solution still centers the outsider.
NarrateFrom Prompting to Partnering: What Agent Mode Changes About AI Readiness
Copilot's Agent Mode shifts the core skill from 'what do I type?' to 'how do I delegate?' After watching it chew through 700,000 rows of adoption data in minutes, I'm rethinking what our training program needs to teach next.
ActivateLab #2 - Master Your Inbox with Copilot Prioritize
The second hands-on lab in my community resource series tackles email overload. Configure Outlook's AI prioritization feature, set up custom rules for what matters most, and learn how to refine your instructions as Copilot learns your patterns.
NarrateA Field Guide to Copilot's AI Models
GPT, Claude, Gemini, reasoning models - Microsoft's multi-model Copilot puts several AI engines at your fingertips. Here's what each does best and when to take the wheel.
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From First Steps to Deep Dives - Copilot Studio & Lisa Crosbie
Lisa Crosbie's new book is the practical walkthrough I wish I'd had when I started building agents.
ActivateLab #1 - The Bio Builder
I've turned my live demos into a self-serve lab to learn or share with your users. In just twenty minutes, learn how to build a white-label ready AI agent that solves real workplace annoyances.
NarrateBeyond the Sparkle: Why We Need a UX for AI
Microsoft says Copilot is the UI for AI, but we’re still missing the UX. It’s time to move past 'human in the loop' toward intentional human-AI relationship design.
NarrateSPARKing Process Innovation
When standard Agile rituals failed an eclectic, cross-functional team, we designed a new rhythm. Discover how we leverage PowerApps and Copilot to balance asynchronous efficiency with meaningful human connection.
NarrateTurkeys and Turning Points (Or: How Grandma Got Won Over by an Agent)
A Thanksgiving survival guide for explaining AI Agents and Microsoft Ignite takeaways to your family - moving the conversation from chatbots to the "sous chefs" of the future and beyond.
NarrateArticle Scrapbook, Vol 1
A curated collection of notes, reflections, and connections from five recent articles that helped frame my AI perspective as we close out 2025.
NarrateBuilding With Purpose - Inside Our India Hackathon With Microsoft
A look inside our India Hackathon with Microsoft, an event focused on proving that innovation isn't just theater, but about empowering global teams to build on their own terms.
NarrateCopilot as a Multi-Model Framework
With Claude joining Copilot, the conversation shifts from a single-vendor future to genuine model choice. This is more than a feature update; it’s a new chapter in enterprise scale AI.
NarrateThe Secret Life of Prompt Personas
Discover how using personas in your AI prompts can dramatically improve context and the quality of your results. Learn why this simple shift in communication changes the conversation and unlocks deeper, more creative collaboration with tools like Copilot.
NarrateCopilot, Chapter Two
This chapter is about everything that happened next—how we scaled without losing the soul of the story, how leaders learned to model the future, and how pivotal choices turned Copilot from “that cool AI thing” into an ordinary part of daily work.
NarrateCopilot, Chapter One
The secret to driving AI adoption? It's not in the tech specs—it's in the stories we tell. When someone tells you about saving two hours on a project or finally having time to think strategically instead of taking notes, that lands differently than any ROI calculation ever could.
NarrateStories, Technology, and the Human Experience
Exploring how AI serves as the next chapter in humanity's storytelling journey, amplifying our narratives rather than replacing them, and how professionals can harness these tools while staying anchored in human connection and creativity.
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