Diego Granados is a Fuqua MBA Alum, Product Manager at Microsoft, and is passionate about helping people transition and succeed in Product Management Careers. As someone who worked hard to break into Product Management during his MBA, Diego found himself asking how he could help others break into the field during the beginning stages of COVID-19, and began writing, posting, teaching, and speaking about his experience, learnings and advice about how to break into Product Management. During our conversation, Diego spoke about his journey to Product Management, and his tips for aspiring MBA Product Managers.Links:Diego’s LinkedInDiego’s YouTube ChannelDiego’s Substack Newsletter

Derek Pando is a BYU MBA Alum, and has done tours of duty in marketing roles at companies like Salesforce, LinkedIn, and most recently, Zoom. Along the way, Derek has always been thoughtful about making career decisions and has had a genuine curiosity in career development and growing a career. During our conversation, Derek spoke about his career journey, lessons he’s learned from each experience and how he has made transitions, and his advice to MBA and aspiring MBAs about how to build a successful career.Links:Derek’s LinkedInDerek’s BlogDerek’s Q&A with Nathan Tanner

Nick deWilde has spent his career working in talent development. After graduating from Stanford GSB, Nick served as the Managing Director of Tradecraft, where he helped hundreds of talented people navigate career transitions into design and marketing roles at high-growth startups. He currently serves as a Product Marketing Principal at Guild Education and publishes a newsletter called The Jungle Gym. He writes about career strategy, learning and the changing nature of work.Links:Nick’s Jungle Gym NewsletterTwitter: https://twitter.com/nick_dewildeLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickdewilde/ 

Ryan Price is a MBA Student at the BYU School of Management (Class of 2023.) Prior to BYU, Ryan worked as an entrepreneur, which fueled his decision to pursue an MBA at BYU. Ryan is also the Host and Founder of the MBA Secrets podcast, and during our conversation, Ryan spoke about his decision to pursue an MBA, the highs and lows of his MBA application journey, and what he’s learned from creating the MBA Secrets Podcast.

After graduating from UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School with her MBA, Kerry Rigley returned to her career in management consulting, and was able to take much of what she learned in business school to expand into new opportunities in her career. After breaking into serving new clients and new industries, Kerry then pivoted into an internal strategy role in the Travel and Hospitality Industry, and then again to a role within the tech industry. Through the successes and challenges, Kerry has learned valuable lessons along the way which have helped her grow personally and professionally. During our conversation, Kerry spoke about her life after graduating, how she has managed through the highs and lows of her career, as well how she is thinking about her career as an MBA Alum.

After graduating from Yale SOM in 2019, Jasmine Ako moved across the country  to return to Los Angeles and began her post-MBA career in management consulting. Throughout her post-MBA journey, Jasmine has been able to use her MBA experience to develop and grow, personally and professionally. During our conversation, Jasmine spoke about her journey to her post-MBA career, her life after business school, and her advice to MBA graduates about how they can be successful in their lives after they graduate from business school.

After graduating from the University of Texas-Austin (McCombs) with her MBA, Lucero Perez began her post-MBA journey after graduating from Texas McCombs by transitioning into a career in management consulting, before switching to a career in Tech at an enterprise software company. Along the way, Lucero navigated the post-MBA career and life journey with the support of family and friends, and her own career ambitions. During this conversation, Lucero spoke about her journey to transitioning to life after graduating, some of the highs and lows, and provided her own advice to how to best navigate career and life after graduating from business school.

After graduating with an MBA from the University of Michigan (Ross) Jodi Innerfield moved to San Francisco to start her post-MBA career working in a Product Marketing role at a startup. Since then, she’s moved to larger companies and has built a career at Salesforce and moved back across the country to the East Coast. During our conversation, we spoke about her life after graduating from Ross as well as some of the exciting opportunities and challenges of life after business school. Jodi also spoke about her career journey, how she views her own career development, and her advice to MBA graduates for how to best launch their post-MBA careers.

In this episode, we spoke to Austin Lavin, and Elle Wisnicki, two Haas Student Ambassadors and Class of 2022 MBA students at the Haas School of Business. During our conversation, Austin and Elle shared their journey to Haas, their own beliefs in why Haas is a unique place, and what made them choose to pursue an MBA at Haas. As Haas Student Ambassadors, Elle and Austin talk to numerous prospective MBA students, and shared their advice for how prospective and admitted students can choose if Haas is the right MBA program for them.

In this episode, I spoke to Anh Phillips and Gerald Kane, two experts in the fields of digital transformation and the future of work, and 2 Co-Authors of The Technology Fallacy: How People Are The Real Key To Digital Transformation, and the upcoming book, The Transformation Myth: Leading Your Organization Through Uncertain Times. During our conversation, we spoke about what MBA students need to understand and know about the  impact of digital transformation on organizations, people, and careers. We also spoke about the future of work, and the ways in which MBAs can use their time in school to prepare for their future careers.The Technology Fallacy (Amazon)The Transformation Myth (Amazon)Gerald KaneAnh Phillips