On today's episode, we have Tony Towns-Wittley, corporate vice president of worldwide public sector and industry at Microsoft.

She's responsible for leading a team of over 2,000 sales professionals, serving government, public safety, education, and healthcare customers and partners in more than 100 companies worldwide.

She's passionate about creating positive change and global impact.

Hey folks, it is phenomenal to be here. Back on campus, it's 1982. It was the last time I was here

playing basketball for Princeton women.

We did beat you.

Look, we've forgotten it.

I mean, but for the T-shirts that we printed.

We forgot it.

We forgot it.

It was a great game.

I was playing Power Forward.

So it's phenomenal to be back a few years later.

In this role, talking on a conversation that I would say is an emerging topic,

not only across technology companies, but quite frankly in the spirit of leadership

and what leadership's going to look like going forward.

So look, my role, I'm 27 months in at Microsoft.

And I made the decision to leave the East Coast and come out to Seattle

with my husband because of a mission, really a mission statement. You say who actually makes a

decision on a mission statement, other than the Jerry McGuire movie that you may have seen,

which didn't turn out so well for Jerry initially Initially, we really moved on a mission statement.

And the mission statement was to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

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