Automating my work helped me grow as a leader

A senior leader's work consumes enormous energy connecting information scattered across countless channels and documents. When context-switching repeats, it becomes difficult to focus on truly important strategic thinking and creative work.

The GitHub Copilot app is more than a simple chat tool—it's a desktop app that lets you collaborate with an agent that understands your actual work context, including your calendar, email, messages, and GitHub repositories. It integrates with MCP servers to provide Automations that find the information you need without you having to check everything manually.

Key automation use cases include:

• Morning Brief: Analyzes your calendar before meetings to prepare context, checks in advance whether you have access to meeting materials, and organizes the day's priorities.
• Staying Current: Summarizes what's been shipped on GitHub over the past 24 hours in plain language, helping you instantly grasp the state of product releases.

These automations become increasingly sophisticated as they learn your way of thinking. This allows leaders to move away from simple repetitive tracking tasks and spend more time on their core role of leading the team.