📚 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

🆓 FREE · EN & FR

Copilot M365 Readiness Checklist

Is your organisation ready to adopt Copilot?

10 questions to build a compelling case for your leadership — covering business case, risk, adoption, and technical readiness. From a CIO who’s done it.

✅ 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

  • 💍 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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