It is hard to limit our experiences with the Women & Gender Equality Student Interest Group (SIG) to a 400-word blog post. How do you convey the joy that even a mere 15-minute leadership meeting can bring to your day? Being a woman in business is still not balanced – pay parity is still 100+ […]
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Through the lens of motherhood
This year marks my 5th year as a mother. I embraced pregnancy in 2020, followed by four transformative years of motherhood. The experiences of the last four years have been profound, teaching me invaluable lessons in empathy, kindness, love, sacrifice, and the essence of life – far beyond what my pre-pregnancy years offered. As part […]
What inspires me – reflecting on my Cambridge MBA year
Very shortly indeed, my MBA at Cambridge comes to an end. After about 27 years of succumbing to deafening voices and unreal expectations of the world around me, I finally dared to live these 300+ days in my own grand, glorious and utterly goofy way. “This life is mine alone. So, I stopped asking people […]
Africa Together Conference 2022
The Africa Together Conference was held in May of this year. The event was organised by the African Society of Cambridge University, in partnership with the Cambridge Africa Business Network (CABN) from Cambridge Judge Business School. This conference celebrates the continent’s outstanding achievements and is known for bringing together great minds and speakers who have […]
Leaving a legacy in the impact space
Prior to starting my MBA at Cambridge, I attended a Forté Foundation workshop that encouraged us to find our personal purpose statement. I chose “value: to know mine and to show others theirs”. Little did I know that a short-year later, I would be in a new position that would be giving me the opportunity […]
Tokyo Olympics – an insider view from an MBA alumna
Well, Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games hosted in 2021. That name alone encompasses some of the continuous confusion around a Games that was meant to take place during a global pandemic, only to be delayed to a year later when the Delta variant was causing a 2nd or 3rd (or 4th?) wave worldwide. And […]
Cambridge Women Can
We spoke to Cambridge MBA student Toni Thorne, after she took part in promoting, as well as co-hosting a session at the Wo+Men’s Leadership Centre Annual Conference – entitled Cambridge Women Can. How was the session you co-hosted and managed (remotely)? I hosted the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion panel entitled “Building Beyond the Buzzwords” with […]
Choose to challenge – MBA Wo+Men’s SIG leaders
This International Women’s Day we meet the two leaders choosing to challenge as they head up the Wo+Men’s Special Interest Group for the MBA Class of 2020/21. Sarah Sketchley and Hanna Lil-Malone each bring something different to the table, as they stood up to lead and steer the Wo+Men’s SIG during their MBA year. Why […]
A new venture – Skinlync
The Cambridge MBA is life-changing in many ways; for us, it led to the birth of our venture, Skinlync. Entrepreneurship post-MBA From ideation to reality, 2020 has been a truly remarkable year for our entrepreneurship journey. After a good deal of blood, sweat and tears, we finally launched Skinlync in November, a platform that simplifies self-management […]