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AI Transformation Leader | Helping organisations move from experimentation to adoption at scale | Microsoft MVP | Governance, Operating Models & Workforce Readiness | EmPOWER Your World
Simon Owen
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Technology is rarely the difficult part of transformation. Most organisations can run a pilot, launch a platform or experiment with AI. Far fewer successfully turn those experiments into sustainable organisational capability. That's where I've spent much of my career. I help organisations move from experimentation to adoption at scale through governance, operating models, workforce readiness, capability development and measurable business value. Over the last 25+ years I've worked across manufacturing, life sciences, energy, consumer goods, public sector and consulting, leading transformation initiatives that connect people, process, technology and organisational change. I've helped: • Recover struggling engagements and rebuild stakeholder confidence • Establish governance and operating models for Power Platform and AI solutions • Design scalable enablement and adoption approaches • Lead enterprise transformation programmes and global communities • Shape bids, propositions and transformation narratives • Build capability across customers, partners and consulting organisations Today I work within Capgemini's Cloud & Custom Applications practice, helping organisations explore and operationalise AI Business Solutions, Copilot Studio and Microsoft Business Applications. Alongside this, I am the founder of EmPOWER Your World, an AI transformation ecosystem exploring how organisations become AI-enabled through practical frameworks, open standards, capability development and community-led adoption. [2026-08 Si...Microsoft | Word] I am also a Microsoft MVP, international speaker, blogger and community contributor with a particular interest in: • AI Transformation • Copilot and Agentic AI • Governance and Guardrails • Operating Models • Workforce Readiness • Digital Enablement and Adoption • Community-led Transformation If any of those topics are relevant to what you're working on, I'd be delighted to connect and exchange perspectives.
Cowork = My Collaborative Worker
Cowork is MINDBLOWING but there are some risks! I’ve been experimenting with how I can use it to transform an end to end process to aid me develop the Empower Your World…
Holistic Low-Code Enablement – Blog structure and navigation — EmPOWER Your World
Empower Your World - Blog Index and Plan 1 Jun Written By Simon Owen Most low-code programmes fail because they pick one of Platform, Process or People and quietly hope the other…
E7 Licence in real life
Microsoft licensing pages are marketing — until you've actually switched a licence on in your own tenant and used it for real, you don't actually know what it does. In March 2026…
Scalable Governance of Low Code solutions for any organisation — EmPOWER Your World
Scalable Governance v2 PrinciplesStrategyScalable Governance 9 Apr Written By Simon Owen Governing a sandbox prototype the same way you govern a regulated production solution isn't fair, it's wasteful — and it's exactly…
The ‘Enablement Engine’ – Enable people and Orgs to change their awareness, perception, & behaviours — EmPOWER Your World
Maker Movement v2 Enablement EngineMaker MovementPeople 5 Apr Written By Simon Owen Welcome everyone! This post is part of my wider series on how to implement low-code not just from a technology…
Copilots in the Flow of Work – But when?
There are an increasing number of Copilots with varying capabilities and strengths and surfaced in different areas of the Microsoft platform. This post provides a simplified view of these and explains how…
PP – which license when?
One of the challenges with Power Platform licensing is how to bring the different licenses together to achieve your use case in the most efficient way. Depending on the requirements of your…
Copilot Licensing
Coilot Studio and licensing is the next piece of the broader Power Platform puzzle to explore - What does it mean? What does it cover? What sort of use cases might it…