Stuart Ridout
EMEA Sales Enablement Director - AI Business Solutions at Productivity Coach Company
Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolStuart Ridout is an experienced digital transformation leader and EMEA Sales Enablement Director focused on accelerating AI-driven adoption across Microsoft 365, Copilot and Power Platform. With over two decades in technology and nine years in senior customer success roles at Microsoft, he has repeatedly driven measurable adoption gains—such as boosting Teams app MAU by 180% and leading strategy for the largest Microsoft 365 tenant of 2M+ users. He combines strategic program leadership with hands-on delivery, having managed multi-million pound projects, built internal apps on Dataverse, and run global hackathons to scale practical AI use. Comfortable in matrix organisations, Stuart brings a rare mix of technical fluency (developer, designer, trainer) and people-first change management that sparks sustained behaviour change. Outside corporate roles he founded a widely used school homework platform and runs The Productivity Coach Company, reflecting a long-term commitment to practical productivity improvements. Based in Milton Keynes, he blends analytical rigor with empathetic leadership to turn customer obsession into operational and commercial outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Computer Science, Computer Science Computer Science at The Open UniversityA-Levels, A-Levels at Maidstone Grammar School
English, british sign language, French, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (25)
devrel10
microsoft-teams10
collaboration9
powershell9
planning8
dataverse8
microsoft8
azure6
azure-blob-storage6
nodejs6
jpeg6
microsoft-graph-api6
expo6
javascript6
azure-cosmos-db6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
stuartridout/teamlink
Oct 2021 - May 2022
TeamLink is a free Microsoft Teams Power App using Dataverse for Teams. It is a space where your team can share there whereabouts for the week ahead directly in Microsoft Teams. Users can select who they want to 'follow' and see the upcoming presences of or can view by site to see who is planning to be on site on that day. TeamLink allows you then to message to see if the person wants to meet up for a coffee ... all from the click of a button!
Contributions:16 releases, 41 commits, 2 PRs in 6 months
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stuartridout/promptbuddy
Mar 2024 - Dec 2024
Prompt Buddy is a free Microsoft Teams Power App using Dataverse for Teams. It is a space where your team can share their favourite AI prompts and upvote prompts from others. It is preloaded with Copilot categories but others can be added.
Contributions:9 releases, 1 PR, 25 pushes in 9 months
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