Professional Roles and Achievements
Achievements
- Excellence in Entreprenuership Scholarship Recipient
- President, Blacks in Business & Allies
Academics
-MBA Batch of 2024
-Covenant University, Bsc. Industrial Mathematics, 2016
What is invisible but essential about YOU? or ESADE? or Barcelona?
Sometimes, the things that matter can be difficult to spot, even though they play a big role. These hidden qualities have two things in common—most people don’t notice them, including ourselves, and they can make a huge difference or be really important for other things to work well.
An essential but invisible trait I possess is the way I see things from a unique perspective. I grew up in a family where everyone had prowess in Finance, but I was different. While they liked numbers, and easily identified patterns, I had interests in literature and understanding abstract ideas. As I grew up and started my career, I often found myself choosing to do things differently, even when others thought it wasn’t the clearly favoured choice.
It wasn’t until I went to business school for my MBA that I understood how valuable it is to be different. We often feel like we need to do what everyone expects, but that’s not always right. When I started my MBA, I wondered what someone like me, whose experience majorly spanned around the arts, could bring to a class full of people who were experts in consulting and finance.
During my time in school, I realized that my way of looking at things in a different light was actually a strength. Asking “why” about almost everything helped me connect with people, contribute to group projects, and make a difference in my class.
I soon learned that all the unusual choices I had made in the past led me to one of the best MBA schools in the world. And I know that these choices would also be important for whatever I do next in my life, no matter what it is.
I like to remember something Steve Jobs once said: “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.”
So here’s to making different choices, even when they don’t seem to make sense at first.
Invisible but Essential 