MBA Launch 2023 | Digital programme volume two

MBA Launch 2023

Contents

Schedule by day:

Monday 25 September

4. Career Transitions by Joseph Lui

Personal Impact & Influence: UK Body Talk

7. Pathways session: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Impact

Tuesday 26 September

8 Developing your personal brand by Joseph Lui

Lumina Spark: Plenary session by Nikita Mikhailov

non-traditional career path. Learn more about how you can make the most of your MBA journey to navigate the different stages of your career change – from explorer through to accelerator

Personal Impact & Influence: UK Body Talk

11.30 - 13:00 |

The team at Body Talk have researched, developed, and refined a practical method of coaching that is backed by science, so you can build trust and rapport as you network. Use the power of storytelling to create persuasive and engaging communications, learn how to best deliver a 30 second elevator pitch, and gain confidence through utilising advanced body language and non-verbal techniques.

In this interactive session, Joseph Liu will work with you to help you understand the components of a strong brand, provide a framework to define your own unique personal brand, and share concrete steps to reinforce your value proposition in a clear, convincing way, that supports your career ambitions.

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11:00 - 12:30 | Nelson Mandela

Lumina Spark provides cutting-edge personality, emotional intelligence, and competency tools and qualification programmes through an integrated suite of digital psychometric resources. These resources develop self-awareness, teamwork, and leadership, and are at the heart of many successful selection and development solutions as part of organisational transformation

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alternative career direction, developing clarity and insight into what you want from your career will help you navigate your MBA year The focus of this session is on self-awareness to inform your strategic career mapping and job search. It will be an important part of how you talk about yourself when meeting employers or applying for jobs. Prepare for this session by reading our Career Decision Making course.

Career Development: Reflections and the way forward

11:00 – 12:30 | Nelson Mandela

Learn how best to reflect on your career purpose and motivations and how this might inform where you’re going by considering the big picture and what you do, how you do it and why you do it. The session will bring together several elements of Launch and provide details on how the career development centre will continue to support you View a short video

p g , p g , University, if you are considering a career in the technology sector. They will be joined by Malika Malik, an AI and Machine Learning Specialist, Odhran O'Donoghue from the Oxford Big Data Institute, and a diverse panel of alumni representing various sectors within technology, ranging from start-ups to Big Tech

Pathways Session: Consulting

9:00 – 12:00 | Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre | All Sections

Hear from Michael Smets, the Head of Consulting Careers, James Nugent, and senior alumna, Laurie Lanoue (MBA 2014-15, Partner – McKinsey & Company, Canada) to understand how you can leverage your MBA to explore your route into the consulting sector We also have a panel of recent MBA students working in strategy, energy, and data strategy consulting to share their experience about making the most of the opportunities at the School.

These pathways sessions are designed to help you better navigate the possibilities across the programme and provide more opportunity to align your career outcomes with your on-programme experience

This session will see world-leading quantitative futurist, Amy Webb, discuss the connection between forecasting and business strategy and the tools you can use in this area. She will also explore the top trends shaping your MBA journey and beyond.

A professor of strategic foresight at NYU Stern School of Business, Amy advises CEOs of the world’s most admired companies, threestar admirals and generals, and the senior leadership of central banks and intergovernmental organisations (IGOs). Amy is also CEO of the Future Today Institute, a leading foresight and strategy firm that helps leaders and their organisations prepare for complex futures

Named by Forbes as one of the five women changing the world, listed as the BBC’s 100 Women of 2020, and ranked on the Thinkers50 list of the 50 most influential management thinkers globally in 2021, Amy isn’t short of accolades. She is the author of four books, including the international bestseller, The Big Nine on AI and Big Tech, and her latest book, The Genesis Machine, exploring the future of synthetic biology

MBA Launch 2023

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