Microsoft UK appoints Amanda Sleight to lead the UK Public Sector business
Local councils, such as Barnsley , Buckinghamshire and Derby are already embracing GenAI tools, such as Microsoft 365 Copilot and Azure OpenAI , to reduce the burden of time-consuming admin and empower their employees to offer a better quality service to local taxpayers. Amanda brings more than 25 years of experience leading high-performing teams in technology companies, including SAP and AWS, where she most recently led AWS’s Commercial Services team. The move is a return to Microsoft, where Amanda spent 17 years in a variety of roles.
- Agent or tool
- Microsoft 365 Copilot
- Topic
- Sales & Marketing
- Reported on
- Case study (Microsoft)
- Added
- 2026-11-11
Why it matters
Sales and marketing run on research, lists and follow-ups. Agents are starting to take on that groundwork, freeing people for the conversations that actually close deals. It is one of 613 sightings filed under Sales & Marketing on Agent Sightings (number 259 by interest), and one of 122 involving Microsoft 365 Copilot.
How you could try it
Here is a reusable prompt, written by us in our own words, that captures the task. Paste it into Microsoft 365 Copilot or any similar agent and adjust the details to your situation.
I want an agent to do the research and drafting for this sales or marketing workflow, and stop for my approval before anything is sent. The tool in the source case was Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Tip: Start small: run it once on a low-stakes example, read what the agent did, and only then let it run on real work.
Source
Read the original first-hand account on Case study (Microsoft): https://ukstories.microsoft.com/features/microsoft-uk-appoints-amanda-sleight-t…. Our summary is a paraphrase; details are in the source.
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