Heather Deggans is the Vice President of Microsoft US, Partner Go-to-Market. She leads a diverse team of marketers focused on empowering partners to market, sell, and deliver the unique value of the Microsoft cloud across prioritized industries to accelerate customer outcomes. She is accountable for accelerating partner growth to take share and grow Microsoft cloud revenue with the mission to empower every person and organization to achieve more.

A business and technology industry veteran of more than 23 years, Heather was previously the Chief of Staff for the President of Microsoft US, a $50 billion subsidiary driving Microsoft’s strategic alignment across enterprise sales, public sector, marketing, services, commercial partner, and operations.

Heather strongly advocated for Diversity and Inclusion initiatives as she led the Brené Brown, Empathy in Action program. Dare to Lead is a foundational six-week course helping leaders bring empathy to life in their teams and business units.