Hi, my name is Sam and I'd like to talk a bit about my experience this summer as a digital sales intern at Avanade. Over the course of this 10 week program, I built strong relationships with my fellow interns and members of the digital sales team and was taught how to maintain and expand a professional network through social selling. I was able to develop my knowledge of the Microsoft ecosystem, studying the power of cloud services solutions, which culminated in the completion of two certifications, dynamics fundamentals and Microsoft 365. I was trained to leverage our CRM database to develop leads and research accounts and had the opportunity to participate in and observe some client facing work with my sales mentor and digital sales buddy. From bonding with fellow interns and being warmly welcomed and encouraged by the whole digital sales team, to growing my understanding of digital transformation and business, to attending the International Fuel Conference, my time here was made by the people I was fortunate enough to work with and learn alongside. Thank you to Avanade and to the entire digital sales team for bringing me into this outstanding program.

Athletes have so many skills and behaviours that serve them well in the workplace. First, they bring a mental strength that served them well as athletes and certainly serves you well in the office place. Secondly, I think about the ability to seek out coaching and feedback to improve performance. Think about the sense of self accountability that athletes bring to their to the way they approach whatever they do. I think about the perseverance and work ethic. All those things that make you great as an athlete will make you great in the workplace and certainly excel here at Avanade

Together we go beyond. That's the phrase that means a lot to me because I feel like that's a phrase that I've used not only working in Avanade but in my life in general. And it means to me that working as a team, we can achieve goals and milestones that by yourself would be near impossible. It also means to me that you should never be afraid to ask for help from your peers or help others as I feel like that is the only way we can truly keep on growing as a human by networking and building relationships.