Mike Olson
Microsoft Elevate Partner Sales Manager
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10+ years in the Microsoft Business Applications community, currently serve as Partner Sales Manager of Nonprofit and Education
Win with Impact: Partnering with Microsoft Elevate to Serve Education and Nonprofits
Partners are essential to scaling meaningful outcomes across education and nonprofit organizations. In this session, we’ll introduce Microsoft Elevate and how our team is focused on enabling partners to deliver digital transformation, AI innovation, and measurable impact across the Americas.
You’ll get a practical view of how to plug into the Elevate partner motion, including what Microsoft is prioritizing, how we support partner readiness and skilling, and how we connect partners to real customer needs across EDU and nonprofit. Expect clear pathways to engage, resources to accelerate capability, and specific next steps to help you grow your business while advancing missions that matter.
Microsoft presents: Partner opportunities in the nonprofit sector
This session will give partners an overview of the unique opportunity to serve customers in the nonprofit sector. We will go through the market trends and how to capture this incredible business opportunity. Key areas that we will cover:
- Business opportunity
- Best practices and learnings
- How does the NfP sector differ from other industries
- Why should you focus on Nonprofits
- What support do Microsoft TSI provide to partners in this space
- NfP and AI
Microsoft presents: Business Central for Education, A Deep Dive into Modern EDU Finance
Education finance runs on different rules: fund accounting, grants, compliance, and public accountability are not optional. This 45 minute deep dive focuses on how Dynamics 365 Business Central meets the real world financial and operational needs of K12 districts, higher education, and education adjacent institutions without the cost, risk, or complexity of legacy ERP platforms.
We’ll move quickly past positioning and concentrate on how Business Central is actually used in education: core finance patterns, common implementation models, ISV extensibility, and where Business Central is the right fit or not. The session also covers how partners can credibly lead EDU ERP conversations and align to Microsoft Elevate to drive funded, repeatable wins in the education market.
Mike Olson
Microsoft Elevate Partner Sales Manager
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