Jean-Pierre Michael, Executive Vice President, Sublime Desserts<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Poets & Quants for Executives released their list of the Best & Brightest EMBA for 2022. Among some of the most impressive Executive MBA students of the year, from the best schools around the globe, were two McGill-HEC Montr\u00e9al Executive MBA 2022 graduates:<\/p>\n
\n- CARLOS ANDRADE, DIRECTOR FOR PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY CHAIN, LETENDA<\/li>\n
- JEAN-PIERRE MICHAEL, EXECUTIVE VP, SUBLIME DESSERTS<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n\u201cThe Best & Brightest are the standouts: the go-to student leaders who are admired \u2013 if not adored \u2013 by classmates and faculty alike. That\u2019s because they are invested: they pour their hearts into everything \u2013 be it work, learning, or family.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>\nRead the full features on Jean-Pierre Michael<\/a>\u00a0and take a look at the complete list\u00a0Best & Brightest 2022 EMBA de Poets & Quants<\/a>.<\/h4>\nWhich academic or extracurricular achievement are you most proud of during business school?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\nIt was the decision to enroll in, continue, and complete a rigorous academic MBA program despite an ongoing global pandemic. The increased uncertainties associated with this generational event, and their potential consequences, could have easily been a reason to postpone participation in the MBA program. I am proud of the courage and resilience my classmates and I have demonstrated during these challenging times.<\/p>\n
What achievement are you most proud of in your professional career?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\nBeing named one of the fastest-growing brands in the US after spearheading our company\u2019s effort to penetrate and expand into this market has been an enriching and rewarding experience. I could not pass up this opportunity without thanking and acknowledging my team for all their hard work. After all, this recognition is a reflection of everyone\u2019s concerted efforts.<\/p>\n
Who was your favorite MBA professor?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\nI am a firm believer in that there\u2019s always an opportunity to learn something new, no matter what situation one finds themselves in. It is for this reason that, despite being a finance major and a Chartered Financial Analyst, I went into our MBA finance classes with an open mind.<\/p>\n
Professor Sujata Madan taught me something extremely valuable: how to teach. This world class professor had an admirable proficiency for simplifying financial concepts with a dash of humor. \u201cEverything can be explained in terms of pizza and beer!\u201d, she would repeatedly say. With my finance background, I had a front row seat to fully appreciate, and learn from, her masterful teaching abilities.<\/p>\n
Why did you choose this school\u2019s executive MBA program?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\nI chose the McGill \u2013 HEC Montreal EMBA program because there were marked advantages stemming from the dualities underlying its very foundation. First, being the fruit of a collaboration between two renowned business schools, would provide me with access to two alumni networks rather than one. The bilingual aspect of the program was also attractive to me as it allowed me to complement my learnings with an additional multicultural aspect embedded into the program.<\/p>\n
What\u00a0<\/strong>is the biggest lesson you gained during your MBA and how did you apply it at work?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\nGood leaders knows that they must surround themselves with the right people. The MBA program taught me that the\u00a0best<\/em>\u00a0people to surround myself with are those with skillsets complimentary to mine to create synergies where the sum of our team\u2019s parts will be greater than the whole.<\/p>\nGive us a story during your time as an executive MBA on how you were able to juggle work, family and education?<\/h3>\n
During the executive MBA program, my wife and I were blessed with our first child, David. The delicate balancing act of keeping up with the strenuous program requirements and navigating unprecedented critical global supply chain breakdowns at work, combined with the sleepless nights imposed by a newborn, made for extraordinary times that will not soon be forgotten.<\/p>\n
What advice would you give to a student looking to enter an executive MBA program?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\nWith the recent normalization of videoconferencing tools, you might be tempted to virtually meet with your classmates for group projects more often than not, in the name of time efficiency. I strongly recommend you fight this urge as much as possible and meet face-to-face. The human connections and lasting memories of working side by side will far outweigh any short term time savings.<\/p>\n
What is the biggest myth about going back to school?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\nA common myth is that going back to school will serve to increase one\u2019s knowledge base, but will not necessarily bridge the gap between theory and practice. Based on my experience, this could not be further from the truth when it comes to the McGill \u2013 HEC Montreal Executive MBA. At the end of each module, candidates are required to write an impact paper, which is essentially a reflection on how the learnings they acquired during the module can be applied directly and practically to their respective business.<\/p>\n
What was your biggest regret in business school?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\nEvery year, the cohort travels to a foreign country to attend the Worldly Mindset Module. The aim is to exchange with, and learn from, the local business community. Unfortunately, due to government imposed travel restrictions, our cohort was constrained to attending the module domestically.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, I must tip my hat off to the program for making the best of the situation and compensating this setback by providing us with access to a wide variety of executives to interview via videoconference from across the globe.<\/p>\n
Which MBA classmate do you most admire?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\nCarlos Andrade, an MBA classmate of mine, has my full admiration for being a very well-rounded person. Conversations with Carlos are always insightful, regardless of the topic, and almost always end up with him making a recommendation for an audiobook, a podcast, or a YouTube video to provide further insight into the subject matter at hand.<\/p>\n
What is your ultimate long-term professional goal?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\nI look forward to someday accumulating enough professional clout to mobilize influential business leaders around me in affecting meaningful change for the less fortunate.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3702862],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14812"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14897,"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14812\/revisions\/14897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Poets & Quants for Executives released their list of the Best & Brightest EMBA for 2022. Among some of the most impressive Executive MBA students of the year, from the best schools around the globe, were two McGill-HEC Montr\u00e9al Executive MBA 2022 graduates:<\/p>\n
- \n
- CARLOS ANDRADE, DIRECTOR FOR PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY CHAIN, LETENDA<\/li>\n
- JEAN-PIERRE MICHAEL, EXECUTIVE VP, SUBLIME DESSERTS<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n
\u201cThe Best & Brightest are the standouts: the go-to student leaders who are admired \u2013 if not adored \u2013 by classmates and faculty alike. That\u2019s because they are invested: they pour their hearts into everything \u2013 be it work, learning, or family.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n Read the full features on Jean-Pierre Michael<\/a>\u00a0and take a look at the complete list\u00a0Best & Brightest 2022 EMBA de Poets & Quants<\/a>.<\/h4>\n
Which academic or extracurricular achievement are you most proud of during business school?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n
It was the decision to enroll in, continue, and complete a rigorous academic MBA program despite an ongoing global pandemic. The increased uncertainties associated with this generational event, and their potential consequences, could have easily been a reason to postpone participation in the MBA program. I am proud of the courage and resilience my classmates and I have demonstrated during these challenging times.<\/p>\n
What achievement are you most proud of in your professional career?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Being named one of the fastest-growing brands in the US after spearheading our company\u2019s effort to penetrate and expand into this market has been an enriching and rewarding experience. I could not pass up this opportunity without thanking and acknowledging my team for all their hard work. After all, this recognition is a reflection of everyone\u2019s concerted efforts.<\/p>\n
Who was your favorite MBA professor?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n
I am a firm believer in that there\u2019s always an opportunity to learn something new, no matter what situation one finds themselves in. It is for this reason that, despite being a finance major and a Chartered Financial Analyst, I went into our MBA finance classes with an open mind.<\/p>\n
Professor Sujata Madan taught me something extremely valuable: how to teach. This world class professor had an admirable proficiency for simplifying financial concepts with a dash of humor. \u201cEverything can be explained in terms of pizza and beer!\u201d, she would repeatedly say. With my finance background, I had a front row seat to fully appreciate, and learn from, her masterful teaching abilities.<\/p>\n
Why did you choose this school\u2019s executive MBA program?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n
I chose the McGill \u2013 HEC Montreal EMBA program because there were marked advantages stemming from the dualities underlying its very foundation. First, being the fruit of a collaboration between two renowned business schools, would provide me with access to two alumni networks rather than one. The bilingual aspect of the program was also attractive to me as it allowed me to complement my learnings with an additional multicultural aspect embedded into the program.<\/p>\n
What\u00a0<\/strong>is the biggest lesson you gained during your MBA and how did you apply it at work?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Good leaders knows that they must surround themselves with the right people. The MBA program taught me that the\u00a0best<\/em>\u00a0people to surround myself with are those with skillsets complimentary to mine to create synergies where the sum of our team\u2019s parts will be greater than the whole.<\/p>\n
Give us a story during your time as an executive MBA on how you were able to juggle work, family and education?<\/h3>\n
During the executive MBA program, my wife and I were blessed with our first child, David. The delicate balancing act of keeping up with the strenuous program requirements and navigating unprecedented critical global supply chain breakdowns at work, combined with the sleepless nights imposed by a newborn, made for extraordinary times that will not soon be forgotten.<\/p>\n
What advice would you give to a student looking to enter an executive MBA program?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n
With the recent normalization of videoconferencing tools, you might be tempted to virtually meet with your classmates for group projects more often than not, in the name of time efficiency. I strongly recommend you fight this urge as much as possible and meet face-to-face. The human connections and lasting memories of working side by side will far outweigh any short term time savings.<\/p>\n
What is the biggest myth about going back to school?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n
A common myth is that going back to school will serve to increase one\u2019s knowledge base, but will not necessarily bridge the gap between theory and practice. Based on my experience, this could not be further from the truth when it comes to the McGill \u2013 HEC Montreal Executive MBA. At the end of each module, candidates are required to write an impact paper, which is essentially a reflection on how the learnings they acquired during the module can be applied directly and practically to their respective business.<\/p>\n
What was your biggest regret in business school?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Every year, the cohort travels to a foreign country to attend the Worldly Mindset Module. The aim is to exchange with, and learn from, the local business community. Unfortunately, due to government imposed travel restrictions, our cohort was constrained to attending the module domestically.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, I must tip my hat off to the program for making the best of the situation and compensating this setback by providing us with access to a wide variety of executives to interview via videoconference from across the globe.<\/p>\n
Which MBA classmate do you most admire?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Carlos Andrade, an MBA classmate of mine, has my full admiration for being a very well-rounded person. Conversations with Carlos are always insightful, regardless of the topic, and almost always end up with him making a recommendation for an audiobook, a podcast, or a YouTube video to provide further insight into the subject matter at hand.<\/p>\n
What is your ultimate long-term professional goal?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n
I look forward to someday accumulating enough professional clout to mobilize influential business leaders around me in affecting meaningful change for the less fortunate.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3702862],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14812"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14897,"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14812\/revisions\/14897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}