MBA essays are often misunderstood. Many applicants believe the goal is to sound inspiring, emotionally compelling, or unusually creative. They focus on dramatic openings, elaborate metaphors, or polished language. Yet admissions officers are not reading essays for literary pleasure. They are reading to evaluate clarity of thinking, maturity, and alignment. In competitive MBA admissions environments, […]
September 2024 marked the beginning of a once in a lifetime experiment at Imperial College London. Working with the college chaplain Andrew Willson, I designed, planned and pitched a vision to turn a COVID test site into a thriving community garden in central London. Mobilising key-stakeholders, negotiating with funders we managed to secure an unprecedented […]
There is now an abbreviation for ‘In Real Life’, IRL, which tells you a lot about where we are as a society. We’ve gotten so accustomed to operating in digital space, that we now have a shorthand to remind ourselves that physical reality exists. And yet, here we meet, on a digital blog. Are you about […]