The conversations behind Microsoft Partner growth.
Founders, executives and Microsoft ecosystem leaders share how they built their businesses, scaled their capability, delivered customer value and what they believe comes next.
Every Microsoft Partner is navigating the same competing demands…
Keeping pace with Microsoft
Turn changing priorities, programmes and technologies into confident strategic decisions.
Building frontier capability
Develop the leadership and specialist expertise required to capture emerging demand.
Protecting delivery margin
Expand capacity while controlling delivery cost, quality and customer outcomes.
Driving revenue growth
Convert Microsoft alignment, innovation and capability into profitable customer demand.
Microsoft Mentors turns individual experience into collective advantage.
We bring together the strategies, experiences and hard-won lessons of leading Microsoft Partners, creating actionable insight for business, technology and commercial leaders across the ecosystem.
Every conversation explores four dimensions of Partner growth
Build
How was the business built?
We explore where the business or practice began, the opportunity it was created to address and the leadership, people and early decisions that shaped its development.
Scale
How was growth achieved?
We examine the decisions that enabled the organisation to expand-from developing new practices and entering new markets to investment, acquisition, culture and operating-model change.
Deliver
How is customer value created?
We discuss how Microsoft Partners turn technology into meaningful customer outcomes-and how they protect quality, margin and customer confidence as demand increases.
Vision
What comes next?
We look beyond immediate priorities to understand the organisation's ambition, the changes its leaders see across Microsoft and the market, and what they are preparing the business to become.
Partner insight, one decision at a time.
Short extracts from conversations with the people building, scaling and reshaping the Microsoft Partner ecosystem.
About the host
Bringing Partner experience beyond the boardroom
Oli Ridley has spent more than a decade supporting Microsoft Partner growth through specialist talent acquisition.
Working alongside Microsoft Solutions Partners, Azure Expert MSPs and Microsoft Partner of the Year winners, he has seen first-hand how high-performing Partners navigate change, build capability and create lasting customer and commercial value.
His vision for Microsoft Mentors
Take the stories, strategies and lessons that work beyond the boardroom-and share them across the Microsoft Partner community.
Our reach
Conversations and insight shared across the Microsoft ecosystem.
100+ hours
Of conversations with Microsoft Partner leaders
100,000+
Microsoft professionals reached each season
35+ countries
Reached across the Microsoft ecosystem
One community
Connecting Microsoft Partner leaders
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If you are building, scaling or leading a Microsoft Partner, your experience can help others make better-informed decisions.
Join Oli Ridley to share the strategies behind your growth, the lessons learned and your vision for what comes next.
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We help Partners make and execute the capability decisions that turn ambition into reliable, profitable delivery.