Power BI for Power Users: My New Course Is Here
📣 It’s Finally Here
I’ve been working on something big for the last several months, and I’m thrilled to finally share it with you. My newest course, Power BI for Power Users, is now live on my website, IW Mentor.
If you’ve ever opened Power BI, stared at the screen for ten minutes, and then gone back to Excel — this course was built for you. If you’ve been emailing PDF reports, building charts that are outdated before the meeting starts, or waiting weeks for IT to create a dashboard that you need today — Power BI for Power Users is your way out.
I’ve been teaching Microsoft 365 tools for over 20 years, and I kept hearing the same thing from students: “I know Power BI could help me, but I don’t know where to start.” So I built the course I wish existed when I was learning it myself. Twelve hands-on modules that take you from a blank screen to a fully interactive, self-updating, professionally shared report — without writing a single line of code.
📊 What You’ll Build in Power BI for Power Users
This isn’t a course where you watch someone click around and hope you remember it later. You’ll build one report progressively across the entire course, learning skills with every module. By the end, you’ll have created a complete, multi-page Power BI solution that includes interactive visualizations like bar charts, line charts, donut charts, scatter plots, treemaps, and matrices with sparklines. You’ll add drill-through navigation so users can click from a summary number straight into the detail behind it.
But Power BI for Power Users doesn’t stop at building reports. You’ll create dashboards with data alerts that notify you when a KPI crosses a threshold. Learn to build scorecards for goal tracking with owners and status check-ins. Then publish your work to Power BI Service, share it through workspaces and Power BI Apps, and learn how to embed it directly in SharePoint and Teams — so your audience sees the data where they already work.
Keeping reports current is just as important as building them. You’ll set up scheduled data refreshes, and email subscriptions that deliver report snapshots to inboxes automatically. Learn how to make Power Automate flows send Teams messages when your data needs attention. Your reports will essentially run themselves.
🤖 Copilot Changes Everything
One of the things that makes Power BI for Power Users different from other courses is how deeply we cover Copilot. Microsoft’s AI capabilities in Power BI are genuinely useful. It’s not just a gimmick — and I wanted to teach this the right way.
You’ll learn to use Copilot to generate visuals from plain English prompts, and summarize entire report pages into narratives. You can paste into an email, and ask follow-up questions about your data conversationally. We also cover what Copilot can’t do. The quality of your data model impacts the quality of Copilot’s answers. Everything you learn about clean data and good report design in the earlier modules is what makes Copilot work well in the later ones.
🎯 Who Is Power BI for Power Users For?
I designed this course for business professionals who work with data every day but aren’t developers or IT admins. You might be a department manager, a team lead, an analyst, or someone in operations, finance, HR, or marketing who’s tired of being dependent on someone else to get insights from your own data.
If your organization runs on Microsoft 365, you already have Power BI available to you. Most people just don’t know it. Power BI for Power Users shows you how to use what’s already in your toolkit to build something your leadership will actually open and use.
And here’s something I want to highlight: this course is perfect for enrolling your whole team. When everyone on a team understands how to read, interact with, and build Power BI reports, the conversations change. Instead of “can someone pull the numbers?” it becomes “I already see the numbers — let’s talk about what to do about them.” Are you a manager looking to level up your team’s data skills? Power BI for Power Users gives every person a common language and a common toolset. Group enrollment and bulk discounts are available, and the course is included for all Ultimate plan members.
🆓 Try It Before You Buy It
I know that choosing a course is a commitment, so I’ve made four video lessons available for free. You can watch the Introduction to Power BI, see how the Power BI Desktop interface works, watch me build visualizations from real data, and see what Copilot can do in Power BI. If you like what you see, the full course is ready for you June 1. It can either be purchased individually ($60 one month) or as part of Ultimate ($65 monthly plan).
Head over to the Power BI for Power Users course page to watch the free lessons, read the full syllabus, and enroll. If you’re already an Ultimate member, the course is included in your plan as of June 1, 2026. Just log in and start learning.
I'm also hosting a free 30-minute live preview session on June 4 at 1:00 PM Central specifically about Power BI for Power Users. I'll walk through exactly what you'll build in the course, show you a live Power BI report, and answer any questions you have. Bring your team — I want you to see what's possible before you commit. Register for the free live preview here — spots are unlimited but you'll get a reminder when you sign up.
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💬 Over to You
Have you tried Power BI yet? Are you stuck in Excel and curious about making the switch? Or maybe you've been using Power BI for a while and want to take your skills to the next level? I'd love to hear where you are in your Power BI journey — drop a comment below and let me know!