Meet The Experts Podcast

Multi-tasking within Design with Clarissa Biolchini

For this episode of Bite-sized Berliners, we caught up with Clarissa Biolchini. Clarissa is an alum from Class 20 of our Executive MBA and is a true creative leader. From a young age, Clarissa had a real passion for the arts. Influenced by her grandmother’s painting career and her grandfather’s passion for toy-making, she decided to pursue a creative field upon leaving Brazil at 21. Clarissa accredits her diverse creative career to the inspiration she has received in the many countries she has lived in – from various cultures she has experienced and all of the artistic people she has met. Bite-sized Berliners is our short-and-sweet podcast series serving up fresh, under-10-minute food for thought that’s perfect to chew on while enjoying your favorite beverage. Tune in as Berliners* – both participants and alums – offer up their juicy observations on life and work. *In Germany, a Berliner is also a jelly donut

Leading From the Heart with Marie Reig Florensa

Maria Reig Florensa of Class 19 is a recent graduate of our EMBA. She is a humanist, communicator and heart-based creative leadership executive coach. As a humanist, Marie studies at the crossroads of leadership, creativity and human values. As a communicator and executive coach, she designs, coaches and facilitates tailor-made, playful and artistry-based learning and development tools and experiences that support individuals, teams and organizations in unfolding their best selves in alignment with their values and ‘soul’ purpose. For her EMBA thesis, she thoroughly researched heart-based leadership. This is just a sliver into her research findings. Take a listen, wholeheartedly.

Shaping the Future: Using Metaphors to Transform Perspectives with Marguerite Coetzee

Marguerite Coetzee is an artist, anthropologist and futurist based in Cape Town South Africa. After getting her postgraduate diploma in Future Studies at the University of Stellenbosch Business School, she became an emerging fellow at the Association of Professional Futurists and started her own company Omniology in 2019, dedicated to “Breaking the barriers of research and strategy by merging anthropology, futures, marketing and design.” As she puts it [quote], “Anthropology provides me with multiple perspectives to understand where we come from, Futures Studies enables me to anticipate and shape where we are going.” Marguerite has worked as a consultant to a wide range of South African businesses and international brands, among them Royal Canin, Vodacom/Vodafone and Santander Bank. We spoke to her back in March.

Improving News and Media Literacy with Paul Glader

Paul Glader of Class 12 recently founded a new business, Vett News, designed to help news outlets become more transparent with their audience and readers become more media savvy – at a time when public trust in news media is at a historic low. They’ve developed a CX tool, which is now up and running on more than a dozen partner platforms. Be sure to also check out the Forbes article Paul wrote explaining how to identify reliable news outlets: http://bit.ly/3p1AbPG

Re-imagining Retail with Arie Fabian

Arie Fabian is an alum of Class 21 of our Executive MBA in Creative Leadership. His journey in fashion began back in 1996 at Hugo Boss. A year later, he joined his father, Jeffery Fabian, in running his company Fabiani, developing it from a successful fashion retailer into a leading luxury menswear label, while in tandem opening multiple new shops across South Africa. This year, Arie co-founded a bold, new symbiotic business model that redefines the traditional retail ecosystem from both the customer and brand side. This podcast tells the story of We are EGG – an “authentic”, retail platform focused on collaboration, co-creation and co-evolution. Bite-sized Berliners is our short-and-sweet podcast series serving up fresh, under-10-minute food for thought that’s perfect to chew on while enjoying your favorite beverage. Tune in as Berliners* – both participants and alums – offer up their juicy observations on life and work. *In Germany, a Berliner is also a jelly donut