Why pursue an Executive MBA?
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My name is part names or hi, I'm a J. Johnson. She in my name is Ashish Travel and I'm currently a second year executive. I had always wanted to get an NBA. Yeah, had reached a point in my career where I felt like I really needed to take my skill sets and knowledge to the next level in order to keep progressing. I also wanted to contribute to the growth of my firm and I wanted to take on more of a leadership role. In order to do that, I felt like I really needed the skills of the N. B. A. Uh to help me take that next, I realized is that I didn't want to stay in middle management. Um I wanted to go higher in my career and to take on more senior level roles, but in order to do that, I had to go back to school to get my M. B. A. A lot of people were like, why do you need an NBA? While I had a lot of practical experience, I still needed the skill set to advance in my career. I wanted to grow on multiple fronts simultaneously and I felt that pausing my professional work to pursue strictly academic work was just not aligned with where I was going and who I wanted to be. I was sitting in a meeting with my company's CFO. Um and there were other senior leaders in attendance and in this particular meeting we were discussing a rather new and unique problem, one that we had never faced. The CFO. Just asked everyone point blank what do other companies do in this situation? I realized that this is where I can add value above and beyond other peers at the senior level management.
