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Marc Israel, founder of Learn N' Succeed

Technologist · Builder · Educator

Marc Israel

The gap between knowledge and results is almost never a knowledge problem. It's a structure problem.

For 17 years at Microsoft — ending as CTO for West, East and Central Africa — Marc watched the same thing happen everywhere he went. Smart, motivated people would leave a training session energised, and within 72 hours they were back to their old habits. The content was rarely the problem. The follow-through was.

So he started from a different hypothesis: what fails isn't the knowledge, it's the structure around it. Nothing turns a good session into a changed behaviour. He kept testing that idea after Microsoft — founding Aetheis, helping launch a business angel network in Mauritius, speaking at HEC Paris on tech entrepreneurship, and writing 20 books along the way.

Learn N' Succeed is what came out of it. Not more content — the structure around it: preparation before, a real working session, and Atlas coming back until the behaviour holds. That's the whole bet. Knowledge was never the bottleneck.

17 years
at Microsoft
CTO
West, East & Central Africa
Founder
Aetheis
HEC Paris
Guest speaker, entrepreneurship
Mauritius
Based in Port Louis
20 books
published
Publications

20 books, three decades of building.

From the early SQL Server era to cloud, AI and blockchain — Marc has been writing about technology for as long as he's been shipping it.

Private, Hybrid and Public Clouds — Marc Israel
Cloud privé, hybride et public — Marc Israel
Intelligence Artificielle avec AWS — Marc Israel
Blockchain avec AWS — Marc Israel
C# et AWS — Marc Israel
Digital Assets Security, Privacy and Risks — Marc Israel
Parler et faire une présentation en public en toute confiance — Marc Israel
SQL Server 2000 — Marc Israel
MCSE SQL Server 2000 Design Study Guide — Marc Israel
SQL Server 2000 — Migration et Nouveautés — Marc Israel
Migrer votre base de données Access vers SQL Server — Marc Israel
SQL Server 7 — Marc Israel
SQL Server 6.5 Programming Unleashed — Marc Israel
Administration SQL Server 6.5 — Marc Israel
Construire votre site Web commercial (Microsoft Press) — Marc Israel
Connecter votre entreprise à Internet (Microsoft Press) — Marc Israel

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One lesson, one Atlas session on your goal, one written deliverable. No card.

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