Michelle Florian
We recently connected with Chicago Business Fellow, Michelle Florian, about her experience as a Chicago Booth Weekend MBA student early on in her professional career and traveling in from San Francisco for class.
Michelle FlorianAsk a Boothie: How have you grown as a leader at Booth?
Every Booth MBA comes with a promise to transform students into effective, valuable leaders, but what goes into that transformation?
We had Chicago Booth students weigh in on how their MBA experience has developed their leadership abilities; these Boothies detailed how they developed through obtaining tangible skillsets in a robust learning environment, surrounded by a community of mutually developing leaders. Hear students describe how they gained post-MBA leadership confidence with inclusion and empathy at the forefront of their journey.
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- March 23, 2023
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Speaker 1: Something I love and did not fully expect about this time in the the Booth community is this strong emphasis on leadership development. So you have a community of people who can give you feedback. We all have, you know, some shared language for how to talk about leadership development.
Speaker 2: I've been given this sort of skillset where I can think about, okay what type of preparation, what type of question, what type of statement do I need to make within my team right now to push this project forward?
Speaker 3: Booth offers a seminar for incoming new students which allows me to learn different leadership tactics.
Speaker 4: At one point in time there was a certain reluctance to say things to managers, directors, or supervisors but now even in a short time, I feel a lot more confident.
Speaker 5: I have become more aware and I've placed more emphasis on inclusion. I ask more questions. I seek to understand people deeper and I really aim to bring everyone to the table.
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