MBA Women # 9: Creating life balance to achieve success
Caroline Hyde, Financial journalist and Anchor on Bloomberg TV, joins us for a fireside chat to discuss the peaks and troughs of striving for success, including balancing a career with a family, managing stress, perfectionism and fear of failure, and the importance of carving out time for yourself to prevent burnout.
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MBA Women # 8: The impact relationships have on success
Hosts Alice Wainwright and Siera Torontow, two recent Imperial MBA graduates, look at the impact of relationships on success. From discussing the role relationships play in their own lives, and considerations to cultivating relationships that best support your ambitions, Alice and Siera share their honest thoughts and opinions on this important subject.
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MBA Women # 7: The Future of AI in Finance
Host Samantha Bonnar introduces three esteemed guests to discuss the future of AI in Finance. Louise Smith is the Chief Digital Officer at Lloyd's and Board Member and Chair of the Scottish Financial Enterprise FinTech Executive Group, Rachel Kirkham, the Director of AI Solutions for MindBridge AI and a member of the AI Public-Private Forum, and Cathy Mulligan, Lecturer at Imperial College Centre for Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering. The discussion covers trust, ethics and barriers to rate of adoption, all within the context of revolutionising industries like Financial Services.
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MBA Women # 6: Overcoming Impostor syndrome and using it to your advantage
Host Rachel Thunde (Erickson) is joined by Imperial faculty heavyweight Fiona Sandford, and Nikki Emerson, Head of Business Development at England Rugby and Imperial Global MBA student for a lively and interesting deep dive into how we can recognise and overcome Impostor Syndrome and utilise it to become more effective leaders.
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MBA Women #5: The importance of strategic networks
This week, host Samantha Bonnar is joined by Victoria Fritz, BBC presenter and journalist, and Kimberly Arms, freelance Producer & Director, previously the Head of Video at American Vogue. They discuss the importance of building strategic networks in this lively and anecdote filled episode, discussing the best learnings and making the most of opportunities from the fast-moving world of media.
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MBA Women #4: Women in Healthcare Technology
Host Ib is back with another insightful episode discussing the unique experiences of our guests across healthcare, technology and business. Our guests are Saira Ghafur, Lead for Digital Health at the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London is also the co-founder of Psyma Mental Health Technologies Ltd. Psyma is a revolutionary mobile app that allows clients to access psychological therapy through a live video call, and Ijeoma F. Uchegbu is a Professor of Pharmaceutical Nanoscience and Pro-Vice Provost for Africa and The Middle East at University College, London. Professor Uchegbu works in the pharmaceutical sciences, creating new medicines using nanotechnology.
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MBA Women #3: The power of social impact
Dr Giulia Macagno hosts this thought-provoking and inspirational episode discussing the life-changing importance of businesses built on social impact. She is joined by Aime Rebecca, the founder and CEO of Patapia - which helps finance refugee SMEs after arriving in Uganda as a refugee herself in 2010 - and fellow Imperial MBA student Alberta Asafo-Asamoah who works within Impact Investing for small and growing businesses in Africa. An empowering and motivational episode showing the effect of focusing on human benefits rather than just the bottom line on communities and companies.
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MBA Women #2: How has Covid-19 reshaped leadership?
Samantha Bonnar hosts the second episode of the Imperial MBA Women podcast with guests Leila Guerra, Vice Dean of Imperial College Business School, and Celia Moore, Professor of Organisational Behaviour. Addressing the restrictions of reading a room through Zoom, why people respond differently to working across digital platforms and the growing blur between home and work life, this episode discusses the silver linings of managing in crisis and how going through this experience together has fast-tracked improvements that will continue on beyond the pandemic.
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MBA Women #1: Celebrating Black Women in the C-Suite
Dr Ib Adedugbe launches the debut Imperial MBA Women podcast to celebrate Black History Month, talking with guests Dr Funke Abimbola, Mameeyaa Kwafo-Akoto and Gbemi Abudu.
Discussing their experiences and the barriers they’ve had to overcome to reach the C-Suite, from racism and micro-aggressions at work to building support networks, this insightful and inspiring episode highlights the importance of tackling adversity and supporting each other to increase diversity throughout the business sector.
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