How Adam Dolman Built a Microsoft Powerhouse Inside a Global Giant

What happens when you give a start-up mindset the scale of a global giant? 100,000+ employees. Global systems integrator. Layers of process that can slow anyone to a crawl. And yet, a Microsoft business unit emerged that runs like a start-up. Fast. Innovative. Able to get new ideas to market before the keynote’s even finished. In this episode of Microsoft Mentors, we cover: -The “creep” from hands-on engineer to strategic leader (and how to plan for it) -Why leaving after 17 years made him better when he came back -How to build GTM plans before Satya’s even finished the keynote -The real enterprise play in Sovereign Cloud & AI -Why upskilling sales teams is just as important as technical teams -Leading with ambition and humanity inside a huge organisation Adam’s career path is part roadmap, part reality check for anyone trying to move fast in a big corporate without breaking it. 🎧 Full episode live now! If you’ve tried to build a Microsoft practice inside a big corporate, how did it go?