Charlene Mowery
General Manager of Federal Growth, Microsoft
Leveraging her experience as a former Navy officer and from key leadership roles in industry, Charlene Mowery leads the Microsoft federal growth organization, focusing on organic growth and partner expansion across the U.S. federal market.
Under Mowery’s leadership, her organization expanded in 2021 to provide enhanced support for business development, strategic capture, mission strategy and proposal services across Microsoft Federal in response to industry needs. As a result, these teams offer more personalized experiences for strategic opportunity engagement.
Microsoft’s mission is to “empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more,” and this serves as a key motivator.
“It’s exciting to lead these teams to drive growth,” Mowery said. “For me, the most effective business development motions are through an ‘operationalized’ mindset, whereby the teams anticipate, inspire and innovate with strategic outcome-based intents to best enable customers and partners.”
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In 2022, Mowery and her teams will continue to drive long-term growth, leveraging unique capabilities to identify opportunities to solve the toughest problems, with a specific emphasis on the federal mission space and the Microsoft classified clouds.
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Mowery added:
“We embrace a growth mindset and work collaboratively across the business to develop compelling differentiating solutions and durable long-term pipelines. It’s an incredible experience to work with the talented teams at Microsoft and to see the impact to our customers and partners every day.”