Sandy (Sandra) Dias is doing a Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA. She has more than 10 years of sales experience and has spent the past six years working for L’Oréal Canada. She is Product Manager for Shu Uemura Canada.
EMBA: Why straying from comfort works
The Schulich-Kellogg program forces this student to work with imperfect teams, reflecting real-life work situations
What Hong Kong showed a Canadian EMBA
The importance of global units can come from what happens outside the classroom
Middle phase of EMBA is hard
How one person taking an executive MBA handled the exhaustion and workload, and increased sense of responsibility
The awe factor for EMBAs
When Schulich EMBA student Sandy Dias did a stint at Kellogg, ‘Many of us immediately felt the weight of the responsibility of being part of such an important network’
The dreaded EMBA finance class
For those without a background in finance, it is possible to get on top of this topic, but you may need a tutor
EMBAs: Like them or not, it’s all about your team
Just like real life work teams, you have to figure out how to get along
Don’t be scared of B-school stats class
You may learn things that can immediately help you with your business
First week of EMBA: a bit like The Apprentice
Learning how to live and work together as a team will be the central theme of the program
Ruthless triage is the trick to getting through an EMBA
Working full-time and keeping up with impossible readings, plus keeping your sanity, is really possible, but only if you figure out what to ditch
Why I chose to do an EMBA
A little voice inside my head would say, ‘Are you sure? Are you 100-per-cent sure?’
