Somewhere along the way, I stopped measuring my life by how busy I was. Kellogg EMBA interrupted habits I had stopped questioning. It forced me to notice how often “progress” becomes an excuse for noise, and how rarely we slow down enough to choose what actually matters. What stayed with me most came from the people, a cohort that made reflection unavoidable, and faculty who didn’t accept easy answers. I graduate more careful with my time, and more deliberate with my ambition

[7th Nov 2025] We just finished our last class. .....and tomorrow the program closes. And I’m sitting here thinking about how wrong I was about what this would be. I came here for strategy, finance, operations, frameworks .... the tools to build bigger and lead better. And yes, I learned all of that. But what I needed most was everyone I met along the way. My cohort, who turned exhausting weekends into friendships I’ll carry for life. Professors, who taught me that admittin

T he most conflicting EMBA course I have been in is Ethics, because it made me uncomfortable in a way I hadn’t expected. I’ve studied ethics before (in medicine, in public health, in postgraduate programs), and all those courses were excellent at teaching principles: what’s right, what’s wrong, and how to lead with integrity. It was all meant to help me understand what it meant to be an ethical leader. Prof. Maryam Kouchaki’ s class at Kellogg shook that confidence. It made