Kelly Adediha - A Truly Global MBA Experience

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Uh, a lot of things that the first one being like the idea of doing an NBA coming to business school and then finding the best place based on, you know, some personal constraint or some personal preferences. I'm coming from from tech background, right? I just reach a point in my career where I felt like I needed to, uh, to bring that, like, you know, business document. So the next question then was like where and, uh, put in a lot of time to think through that right? Actually visited to other schools in the U. S. And then in C odd, but I was I was very, um, very convinced by an environment I I found latency, uh, for different reasons. The first one being really, uh I mean, it's gonna sound cliche, but like the diversity of the of the people that I I saw in the, um, in a classroom when I was visiting, Uh, and like people are just genuinely interested in knowing me at the end of the because I was allowed towards the class. I was sitting in the back, uh, didn't have the right to raise my hand to ask any questions and just listening in. It just seems to me that, you know, network of Hallam's foreign See, uh, is very strong in Africa. I've interacted with a lot of them, uh, before applying before coming students and they were, like, very simply, very open and helping me grow. Um, where did you grow up and what was your childhood like? I grew up in question, was under, um So until the age of 12, actually, uh, 100% if I as a Nigerian, Uh, and in 2000 and two, my family moved to Tokyo for actually very difficult reasons. Schools were closed anywhere and, like, you know, hearing gunshots in, uh, at night and bombs in the morning. That's where actually, I completed my the rest of my middle school and, uh, my high school. Actually, uh, the second one is in T. C uh, in the U S. Uh, my dad is right now in Togo, and my mom is between two of my Washington. Uh, and I knew before coming that it was it was going to be hard. Uh, so by the time I got back home, most of the time, he was already in bed between that, I only had, like, you know, the weekends to spend really some some time with him, uh, and I with my wife. You know, lucky enough to have a very supportive partner, her supportive family, and she She made the decision to come with me here, uh, for the duration of the of the program, which is which is great. Um, so it's It's been also very good to have this support system, you know, actually keep, you know, some some feet on the ground because in Seattle, like, no matter what we say is, it's a bubble. Uh, you know, computers as a computer science in January. You know, um, building up your career, and at some point, those are skills that perhaps you want need on the day to day basis, but the language that you need to understand and speak, Uh, and the second one, it was really on, Like building a network and actually beyond the network building a community of people that I, you know, I can rely on right on both aspects. Uh, really, like in terms of learning, like, there's still things like I have my my notes from p one p two p trian Before here, I keep them very, uh, seriously, because I know that those are things that I'm gonna need to get back to, uh, in a year in two years and five years and, like, pick up again, like some concepts, uh, that that I'm gonna need, um, anyways, uh, and I think, um, it's really opened up my mind, uh, my understanding on things that, uh, happen in the world not just in the, you know, professional standpoint like generally just to have, like, you know, a large tool sets to to understand uh, to understand the world and then on the community building peace. I have made a lot of, uh, good friends at EMC are people that I can really, you know, generally called friends. I know that it's going to go beyond, uh, 10 months of the of the of the media programme. Um uh, people that have been on trips with people that have had home or like, why not, uh, for dinner, etcetera, that I've shared a lot of tweets. Um, and I think it just gives you that kind of platform Where, um you lived through, uh, tough times and good times together. You need to um uh you need to always go for, like, the hardest roads, etcetera. Uh, yeah, I think that's that's what you you should do. Like you have those like, you know, constructs, um, and that that that's something that never took a step back to think of. I used to tell people that, like, if I, uh, I had no responsibility in in life and that I didn't have built super whatever, I'll be spending my days and nights playing music, doing music in, like, you know, random bars at night, playing jazz, uh, and guitar. If it makes sense, really with, like what I want to be, what I enjoy, uh, and and the kind of life I want to build, like, you know, at the end of the day, your professional life is like, you know, 34 years. Like when you're 60 or whatever and you retire like you want to be able to look back and say, Okay, I lived a good life, uh, for X y z reason, uh, and not necessarily because, you know, I thought that's what people around me, I felt like I needed to be. Uh, I was in, uh, I was in middle school when my my dad bought, you know, brought a computer home, and I started playing around with that, and I from from that and I felt like I just what I wanted to do, I didn't exactly know uh what it was about. Like after high school, I mean, obviously, you know, like a lot of parents my dad wanted me to do to be a medical doctor, and I said, No, I don't want to study computer science, so actually passed them the test to get into the, uh, computer science school in Togo. Uh, and I was accepted, and at the same time, I I got a scholarship to go in Tunisia to study computer science. Um, and my my sister, uh, my young sister plays the guitar in the piano. Uh, so it's something that we used to do a lot in the family. I started taking piano courses when, uh when I was seven. My passion for the continent is like, it's part of my identity, right? I was born and raised there and uh, my career has been focused there, and I want to work there. Uh, for us, no matter what we say, Like being sitting here right now is being in a place of privilege. You can, uh, you have the resources, you have the potential to do it. Uh, I'm going to come spend my 10 or 12 months at times, and I'm gonna get a CEO job. We don't expect it And how to use the resources that you've been exposed to that you have access to a 20 odd to be a better person, to be a better, uh, professional to be a better community leader. Uh, not when things are going as expected, but like when, you know, things go as not expected when the plan doesn't work, right? Uh, so So that's it.