About
With a career marked by sales and business leadership I lead a dynamic team of Sales Specialists who champion the adoption of cutting-edge technologies like Copilot for M365, Microsoft Viva, and Windows 365. As a team we are obsessed with elevating the productivity and wellbeing of ANZ public sector employees.
My tenure at Microsoft has also extended to non-profit board participation, where I've contributed through leadership of Microsoft Give in ANZ and as Board Observer at Ovarian Cancer Australia.
Articles by Ian
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Recap on an Exciting March for the Australian Modern Workplace with Microsoft
Recap on an Exciting March for the Australian Modern Workplace with Microsoft
By Ian Heard
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How to simplify small and medium business IT with no compromise on quality
How to simplify small and medium business IT with no compromise on quality
By Ian Heard
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🌐 Poly HP and Pexip: A Cloud Collaboration Revolution ☁️🤝 Amazing week last week, at Poly HP in London conducting a business review around our…
🌐 Poly HP and Pexip: A Cloud Collaboration Revolution ☁️🤝 Amazing week last week, at Poly HP in London conducting a business review around our…
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Chair: Microsoft Giving
Microsoft
- Present 4 years 11 months
Disaster and Humanitarian Relief
The area I value most about working for Microsoft is the platform and freedom you receive to provide impact in areas you are most passionate about.
For our Financial Year 2020 I was humbled to be selected as Chair for Microsoft's Philanthropic efforts, leading a committed group of volunteers to inspire and harness the passion of our colleagues to participate in Giving initiatives.
I am proud to say that this passion has seen us increase donations by 500% and volunteering by 900%…The area I value most about working for Microsoft is the platform and freedom you receive to provide impact in areas you are most passionate about.
For our Financial Year 2020 I was humbled to be selected as Chair for Microsoft's Philanthropic efforts, leading a committed group of volunteers to inspire and harness the passion of our colleagues to participate in Giving initiatives.
I am proud to say that this passion has seen us increase donations by 500% and volunteering by 900%. More importantly we support around 150 non-for-profits at a time of unprecedented need with the Bush Fire Disaster and COVID 19.
Publications
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The CIO Blueprint for Strategic Collaboration
CIO Strategic Marketing Services, IDG
Webcast providing CIOs with a tool to understand current market conditions, highlighting trends and disruptions, and identify collaboration best practices. The content of the webcast is ideally leveraged in the development or optimization of a collaboration strategy.
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Who's Choosing Your Collaboration Solution
Dimension Data Blog
See publicationA reflection on the findings of the 2016 Connected Enterprise Report
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Battle of the Budgets, Who Will Win and Why?
Dimension Data Blog
See publicationA reflection on how to embrace the changing shape of Technology Procurement in the world of 'Shadow IT'
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Adoption! Adoption! Adoption! How visual communications can transform your business
Dimension Data You tube Channel
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What’s the real return on your visual communications investment?
Dimension Data Blog
See publicationAn reflection on the True return of Visual Communications Investment
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