Alumni

Not a corporate presentation, yet interesting discussions on professional matters. Beer and wine for sure, but not just that.

The Henley Business School alumni afterwork was kept on Thursday 30th March in the traditional restaurant Venn. One of the topics we discussed, was "What tribes are there in Finland?"

Just before the global pandemic hit, in early 2020, Hannu-Matias Nurmi took a brave step. He founded a company. Not the most common route to entrepreneurship as Hannu-Matias has a humanistic background. However, nowadays, the company – called Chief Executive Search – employs eight people and is growing.

The Henley Business School alumni afterwork was kept last Thursday (2.2) in the traditional restaurant Venn. The number of participants was a record high, more than 20.

Our January alumni spotlight story introduces new Director of custom programmes at Henley Business School Finland, Paula Kilpinen, who is also an experienced Executive coach.

The last day of November 56 Henley Alumni members gathered around a big topic on every agenda; sustainability. We need to understand sustainability – not only in companies but also on a personal level, like how to motivate and encourage people to implement it in practice.

This time our alumni spotlight story touches not only human beings, but also our animal friends. Susanna Peiponen graduated from the Henley Executive MBA last year, she is the Director of Partner and Customer Experience in the Finnish animal pharma company Vetcare.

The Helsinki summer weather treated us nicely as we gathered in the British Embassy with approximately 90 alumni members to network, hear interesting speeches and honor all 2022 graduates from the Henley Executive MBA, with a special ceremony for the ones with distinction.

Summer holidays are approaching. We, the Henley alumni board, will also take a pause soon but before that, we wanted to say hello and look back at what the first half of 2022 entailed.

Asim Shaikh, who completed recently the Boardroom Skills programme, explains his motivation to embark onto the programme and shares the highlights of his studies, which contained lots of self-reflection – the thing that Henley is known for.

We need to unlearn our current behavior This eye opening information and much more was shared in our event, “Finnish Sustainable Development Roadmap” that focused on understanding Finland’s road to…