The bonds you create throughout the program and afterwards are what allows you to make it through the core courses, to benefit from the global electives, and to leverage your new knowledge and growing network. This starts in Launch Week when you are placed in a carefully designed study team, where members use their diverse backgrounds and skills to support each other. During the Global Network Week in Evanston and in your many elective courses around the globe, you’ll get to know a large number of students from the partner schools. And once you graduate, you can count (and call) on all of them to support you professionally or to just enjoy an evening together, reminiscing about the journey you shared.
For your capstone project, you will have a choice of two destinations, Costa Rica or Tanzania. In both cases the purpose is to apply what you have learnt in the program to achieve a real impact by developing innovative solutions that help local businesses and society. In Costa Rica, you work with social entrepreneurs or enterprises, while in Tanzania your team provides actionable advice to one of the many co-operatives there. Not only will you facilitate innovation in these countries, but you will also return with many ideas about how you and your organizations can make a difference back home.
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When going through the program, you won’t just spend time in the classroom, the partner school or pop-up campuses. You’ll also explore the many different locations you visit as part of your journey: discovering local neighbourhoods, organizing an excursion or hike, attending indoor and outdoor events, or simply enjoying the local food and drink together. These shared moments often become an extension of the learning itself, offering a more personal lens into different cultures and ways of thinking. And like past cohorts, when asked to assemble a slide show of iconic moments during the previous 18 months to celebrate your convocation, you will highlight the off-campus adventures, spontaneous detours, and social gatherings in the places you visited. And while you might forget some of the academic frameworks you have been taught in class, these manifold joint experiences, shaped by both structured and unplanned moments, will remain etched into your memory.
It’s hard to put into words what this experience meant. It came at a moment of real transition – when I was shifting gears in my career after moving to Canada – and it gave me exactly what I needed: perspective, connection, and clarity.
The program helped me sharpen my thinking, see a few blind spots, and gave me a more structured lens for leadership and decision-making. But more important than that, it made me stop and ask the right questions about how I want to work, who I want to work with, and what kind of impact I want to have.
When I decided to pursue an Executive MBA, I was looking for a program that prioritized global perspectives and cross-cultural leadership. My undergraduate experiences studying in Israel and Spain shaped how valuable learning in diverse contexts is—and a decade into my career, I felt ready to broaden my lens again.
The Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA program stood out because of its strong global orientation and partnerships with leading universities worldwide. It’s designed for those who want to grow through international collaboration, cultural insight, and big-picture thinking.
This program has been transformational. The learning, inside and outside the classroom, has been nothing short of extraordinary. It’s one thing to expect from a business school. It’s another to experience the kind of stretch, depth, and perspective this EMBA delivered. From intense academic moments to real-world application across global markets, I’ve walked away with a toolkit—and a mindset—that will serve me for life.