Shows
Voices of InseadFrom Breaking News to Making Deals with RaisaRaisa Bruner 🇺🇸 Class of Insead 23J
Raisa is an already accomplished journalist who started her career at the Yale Daily News (writing about SWUGs - go read about it if you are not familiar with frat culture).
Prior to Insead, she worked as a journalist for Time Magazine in NYC for 6 years. She hustled her way into music reporting, which led her to incredible interactions with celebrities (she confirms: they are as insecure as us).
Join us for a dive into the world of a modern reporter and pick up some tips on how to...
2023-04-1153 min
Voices of InseadRacing to Healthcare with FrancescoFrancesco Bracotti 🇮🇹 Class of Insead 23J
Francesco started off his career on the race tracks going up to F3 (which helped him humiliate us mere Inseaders at Go Karting) 🏁 🏎️
He experienced a tough change in his life at 18 which led him to end the F1 dreams to pursue a career in healthcare, which he realised he was much more passionate about. He provides us with insights into the inner workings of Big Pharma, and makes the case for us to trust these companies to drive innovation within the industry.
Francesco had a lot of crazy experie...
2023-04-0455 min
Voices of InseadSlide into impact with JohanJohan Lammers 🇳🇱 Class of Insead 23J
Johan is a passionate problem solver who has a strong desire to have a positive impact in this World. We discuss his studies of War, what he would do in an end of the World scenario 🌎 💥, how he became the confident public speaker he is today 🗣️, why he decided to become a consultant (think MANY ☕ 💬) and what his experience on the job was (how do you become optimised? Think MECE? What is your job? What to expect if you start dating a consultant? How to manage your time under pressure?).
Stay tuned until the en...
2023-02-121h 06
Voices of InseadBecoming an athlete and a sports scientist with RamanRaman Garimella 🇮🇳 Class of Insead 23J
Raman is passionate about sports whether it’s sweating on a field or working on aerodynamic gear. It started with cricket, the gentleman’s sport 🏏. He then focused on cycling where he worked his way up from zero to nationals 🚴♂️. He is a gritty human who works hard on achieving his goals. His newfound passion is cooking which he has done for 100+ Insead students so far (perhaps you will be lucky enough to get invited to a biryani at his home).
Stay tuned until the end to elucidate his 2 truths and a 1 lie 😉
2023-02-0737 min
Voices of InseadReduce your carbon footprint with MayankMayank Kapadia 🇮🇳 Class of Insead 23J
Quick episode on how to reduce your carbon 🦶. His partner and him have been trying to live more consciously the past years, and he was finding himself having a lot of individual discussions with Inseaders sharing his knowledge SO we decided to implement our POM learnings and make the process more efficient 😉
Listen to find out:
What are the main steps you can do to reduce your emissions?
Can you eat your mexican avocadoes with a peaceful mind? 🥑 🧘♂️
What is up with the Insead bin system (who truly understands it)? Could it...
2023-01-2922 min
Voices of InseadStarting a Restaurant Business in India with DaisyDaisy Rustomjee 🇮🇳 Class of Insead 23J
She comes from Pune in India and is an impressive entrepreneur that started a restaurant business with her brother after university. She walks us through her business for good philosophy, which is influenced by her faith, Zoroastrianism. We learn about her experiences starting up her business from managing employees to decisions of quality of ingredients and price. She had to adjust her strategy over time, and weathered many challenges such as covid restrictions as well as the proliferation of food delivery apps.
Stay tuned until the end to elucidate her 2 t...
2023-01-2335 min
Voices of InseadShip Captain Stavros TavoularisStavros 🇬🇷 Class of Insead 23J
Stavros worked his way up the ranks on ships ⛴️ transporting liquefied natural gas ☠️ before coming to Insead. He immerses us into this highly specialised field with high risk situations.
He also introduces us to his powerful life story where he had to become a very responsible human at an early age.
Stay tuned until the end to elucidate his 2 truths and a 1 lie 😉
1 - He’s jumped off a plane ✈️ 🪂
2 - He reset his own arm after breaking it on top of a mountain 💪 ⛰️
3 - Coffee is his vice ☕
2023-01-0846 min
Voices of InseadMeme Therapy with Victor, Harsh and TimVictor Butenko 🇷🇺, Harsh Gajra 🇮🇳 and Tim Rownes 🇦🇺 Insead Class of 23J
Victor, Harsh and Tim are some of the most active participants of Memesead, our very own class group dedicated to sharing Memes and open to both Inseaders and their partners. The telegram group was created by Victor to prevent flooding their section group chat with Memes.
We discuss how the three got into Memes in the first place, what the meme creation process looks like 🤔, why companies should care about hiring memers 🤣, how to create funny memes (there is no magic 🪄 shortcut - sorry), their favourite professors t...
2022-12-2642 min
Voices of InseadA walk through the music industry with EmmaEmma Thompson-Murphy 🇨🇦 Insead Class of 23J
Emma is passionate about the outdoors as the co-founder of Moutainsead ⛰️ and the music industry 🎵 which she worked in before Insead. She walks us through her hustler story in the industry working around the World. We also discuss the music industry as a whole (festivals, artists) and how it was affected by Covid / streaming platforms.
Stay tuned until the end to elucidate her 2 truths and a 1 lie 😉
1 - She played competitive ice hockey as a leftwing 🧊 🏒
2 - She was once on a 90-hour train 🚋⏲️
3 - She was snuck across a Rus...
2022-12-0428 min
Voices of InseadValedictorians with David Morin and Mattijs Van MiertDavid 🇨🇦 and Mattijs 🇧🇪 Valedictorians of Insead Class of 22D
David & Mattijs are coming towards the end of their Insead experiences 👨🏻🎓🧑🏼🎓
They were both elected by their respective campus’ to represent their class & will be making speeches on graduation day. 💬
We touch on mostly Insead centric topics such as:
Singy VS Fonty Campus
Partners
Diversity
Favourite classes
Stay tuned until the end to elucidate their 2 truths and a 1 lie 😉
Mattijs 🇧🇪
1 - He was the national champion in a high school poem writing competition ✒️
2 - He first got to know about Insead on Tinder ❤️🔥
3 - H...
2022-11-2745 min
Voices of InseadFemale empowerement in the Middle East with Almaha AlmariAlmaha Almari 🇰🇼 Class of Insead 23J
She introduces us to her story, culture and country. Almaha not only had an impressive career, but is also a highly engaged female activist 💪 👭 We talk about the state of female rights in Kuwait, her personal definition of feminism and discuss prejudices that muslim women face in Western society.
Stay tuned until the end to elucidate her 2 truths and a 1 lie 😉
1 - Her family owns the only river in Kuwait 🌊
2 - She was the first woman of her family to drive a car 🚗 🧕
3 - She is allergic to camels
2022-11-2049 min
Voices of InseadLGBTQIA+ community at Insead with Julia LinthicumJulia Linthicum 🇺🇸 Class of Insead 23J shares her story with us
Julia is the co-president of Outsead: Insead’s LGBTQIA+ club. She shares with us more facts & her experience of being asexual (often referred to as "Ace"). We also discuss how our current society has yet to improve a lot to be more inclusive.
Stay tuned until the end to elucidate her 2 truths and a 1 lie 😉
1 - A giraffe once bit her thumb 🦒
2 - She placed in the Irish Dancing World Championships 👯♀️
3 - When she was young, she was once scouted for a smal...
2022-11-1534 min
Voices of InseadJesse Schow: faith, family, and financial accountingJesse Schow 🇺🇸 Class of Insead 23J shares his story with us
Jesse grew up in a religious community in Utah called the LDS church (formerly known as Mormon). He tells us about what it was like to grow up in this community, work as a missionary in the Philippines 🇵🇭 & what led him to lose his faith.
Stay tuned until the end to elucidate the following 2 truths & 1 lie that he shared with us 😉
1 - he was expelled from his high school 🎓
2 - he was adopted 👪
3 - he is a direct descendent of Joseph
2022-11-0632 min
Voices of InseadZen Time with Bub RangdaengSupavit Rangdaeng aka Buba 🇹🇭 Class of Insead 23J shares his story with us
🧘 Meditation 🧘 is a key part of his life after experiencing being a monk for a month.
He tells us about how meditating keeps him sane & aware, and how we can incorporate it in our daily life to help us make authentic decisions.
Stay tuned until the end to elucidate the following 2 truths & 1 lie that he shared with us 😉
1 - he's drank his own pee 🚽🥂
2 - he owns at least 5 closets full of clothes 👞👕...
2022-10-3031 min
Voices of InseadFrom Rocket Scientist to Inseader with Lucile FeronLucile Feron 🇫🇷 🇺🇸 Class of Insead 23J shares her story with us
What it was like to work as an aerospace engineer on launching rockets to space 🚀 💫 🛰️ ? What got her there 👩🏻🎓 ? What brought her to Insead 💼?
2022-10-2325 min
Analytics AnonymousRoles and careers in data & analytics w/ Tiffany ValentinyWhat is the sexiest job in data right now?
In this episode I talk with Tiffany Valentiny (Data Lead at Trade Republic) about roles and careers in data & analytics.
Key takeaways:
Analytics engineer might be the sexiest job in data right now. They empower the whole organization to make better use of data.
Finding good analytics engineers is hard. It can help to give candidates very clear expectations of what that role entails.
Remote work allows more flexibility in hiring, but might not be ideal for more junior candidates because "learning on the job"...
2022-03-2543 min