📚 Resources & Tools
Everything I use and recommend — tested in the real world as a CIO
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📖 eBooks & Guides
Practical guides & templates to boost your productivity with Microsoft 365 & AI
✅ AVAILABLE NOW · EN & FR
50 Copilot M365 Prompts
The Beginner’s Guide to Save 1 Hour Every Day
50 ready-to-use prompts across Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Copilot Chat — each with a clear use case and copy-paste format, built from real field experience.
⏰ COMING SOON
Power Automate Workflows
Templates for Intelligent Automation
Ready-made Power Automate templates to automate daily tasks across Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, and Excel — document approvals, email automation, data sync, and notification systems.
⏰ COMING SOON
AI for CIOs Bundle
Strategic Guide for IT Leaders
For CIOs implementing AI at scale: leadership, governance frameworks, deployment roadmaps, and change management. Covers AI strategy, Copilot rollout, risk, team upskilling, and transformation.
🎯 Prompt Packs by Role
Specialised Copilot prompt collections for specific professions — 50 production-tested prompts per pack, organised in 10 targeted categories.
✅ AVAILABLE NOW · EN & FR
👥 HR & Recruitment
50 Copilot prompts for HR professionals & recruiters — tested in production, ready to copy-paste.
- 📋 Recruitment & Sourcing
- 🎓 Learning & Development
- 📊 HR Reporting & Analytics
- ✉️ HR Communications
- ⚖️ Employment Law & Compliance
💶 14,99€ | 💵 $15 USD
⏰ COMING SOON
💰 Finance & Accounting
50 Copilot prompts for Finance professionals — reporting, budgeting, forecasting, analysis and more.
Available in English & French · 14,99€ / $15 USD
🛠️ Recommended Tools
Tools I use daily — tested in the field. Some links are affiliate links at no extra cost to you.
🤖 Microsoft Copilot & AI
- Microsoft Copilot for M365 — My #1 daily tool (Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint) · Discover →
- Copilot Studio — Build custom agents & automations · Access →
- Claude (Anthropic) — Long-form writing & deep analysis
- ChatGPT Plus — Quick questions & brainstorming
- Perplexity AI — Research & fact-checking
⚡ Productivity & Organisation
- Notion ⭐ — My #1 for everything: prompts, notes, knowledge base, meeting logs
- Reclaim.ai — AI-powered time blocking & focus protection
- ClickUp — Project management & AI initiative tracking
- Grammarly — Writing refinement
- Cal.com — Meeting scheduling
🧘 Well-being & Balance
- Reclaim.ai ⭐ — My #1 for protecting time & energy
- Headspace / Calm — Short, effective meditation sessions
- RingConn Smart Ring — Sleep & recovery tracking
- Amazon Music Unlimited — Work & relax soundtrack
🎬 Content Creation & Research
- Descript — Edit video & podcasts like a text doc
- Gamma.app — Ultra-fast AI presentation creator
- ElevenLabs — Hyper-realistic AI voices
- Midjourney — Image generation for blog & LinkedIn
- Figma — Design prototyping
🖥️ Publishing & Blogging
- WordPress.com — Blogging & content management
- Gumroad — Digital product sales
- Notion AI — Note-taking with intelligence
- Slack — Team communication
⚙️ Gear & Setup
My minimalist, high-performance setup
- 💻 MacBook + Surface Pro (native Copilot testing)
- 🎧 Sony WH-1000XM6 — Best noise-cancelling headphones
- 💍 RingConn Smart Ring — Sleep & recovery tracking
- 🏍️ Harley-Davidson — The best way to clear my head
📚 Recommended Reading
Books that shaped my thinking on AI, leadership and deep work
📘 The Coming Wave
Mustafa Suleyman
📗 Deep Work
Cal Newport
📙 Atomic Habits
James Clear
📕 Co-Intelligence
Ethan Mollick
📒 50 Prompts Copilot M365
Sylvain Jacquemard 🇫🇷
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Last updated: May 2026 · This page evolves regularly based on real tests and field experience.
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