The Professional MBA program at the Moore School helped Glenn Gonzales transform his skill into a start-up.
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After graduating from the Air Force Academy and completing 10 years active duty, Glenn’s ambitions were still rising.
As he considered an MBA, he knew it would be difficult to balance life as a husband, father, working pilot, sales professional and student. Yet all that stood between his business savvy equaling his technical skills was finding the right training.
“The Professional MBA was the best program in the area that allowed me to both work and travel like I did and still gain a great degree from a reputable university.”
With access to regional campuses and technology, Glenn worked closely with his professors and classmates and completed his MBA goal on schedule. A few years later, Glenn launched a unique jet ownership start-up that now boasts a fleet of private jets positioned around the eastern United States with rapid expansion anticipated throughout North America and southeast Asia.
“An MBA opens your eyes. And it definitely will prepare you for the next step whenever you determine what that is.”
After a career in athletics, Kristen Dozier took her shot at high profile, corporate consulting.
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When Kristen Dozier began to consider an MBA, she’d just reached the end of a four-year professional volleyball career.
“Spain. Puerto Rico. Israel. Germany. Poland. I lived and played all over,” she says. “I was ready to come home and figure out what my next chapter would be.”
For a time, it seemed like that future lay with the athletic training business she’d founded in her hometown of Washington, D.C.
“Being an entrepreneur was great. And, honestly, I initially pursued the masters as a way of taking that business to the next level.”
Then Kristen got a taste of what corporate consulting was all about and everything changed. While interning with a hedge fund her first year in the program, she worked closely with its emerging markets team and discovered how much she loved this new focus area.
“It was so completely different, but so exciting.”
Kristen used the momentum of the internship and her immersion experience in Mexico to secure a consulting job in New York the fall before graduation.
“It was fantastic. A huge relief to be able to have a great position locked down and be excited about where I was heading after graduation.”
Chris Stegmaier’s MBA turned 20 years of public service into a thriving civilian career.
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Chris Stegmaier had already met his share of challenges when he began to consider an MBA. With more than 20 years of government service under his belt (including time in the Army and National Security Agency), Chris saw the program at South Carolina as an efficient way to turn his considerable project management experience into a thriving civilian career.
“My MBA was a 10-month tutorial in how to adjust the skills I’d learned in the service and better leverage them to meet the demands of the private sector,” he says.
As his interest in consulting sharpened, Chris added Lean Six Sigma certification to amplify his process and project management education. Just one day after graduating, he began an engagement with a southeastern pharmaceutical company and then joined Accenture, a global provider of strategy, consulting, digital, technology, operations and services.
Today, Chris moves seamlessly from a Fortune 500 boardroom to a client’s international jobsite. Just as he transformed his career, he’s solving his clients’ most vexing business challenges with innovative solutions that make them more competitive.
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Ryan Nielsen credits his Moore School education and connections for adding incalculable value to his career.
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Ryan’s childhood unfolded in a rural Utah community — the kind where the cows outnumber the people. A few months after high school graduation, he left Utah for a much-busier and bustling South Korea where he spent two years as a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints missionary crisscrossing the country.
That international experience was eye opening. Later it inspired him to pursue his International MBA at the Darla Moore School of Business where he’d undertake an immersion in China.
“The MBA was an opportunity to learn strategic thinking, operations, marketing and all the different aspects of business an effective leader needs to understand,” he says. “That my wife and newborn child could join me and share that experience was profound.”
With graduation on the horizon, Ryan learned of a leadership development program with Bank of America from a senior cohort. By the time he donned his cap and gown, he was accepted into the program and still works for the bank today, mitigating the global complexities of information security governance.
“Business school gave me direction,” says Ryan. “I didn’t really have a career before my MBA. I had jobs.”
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Taylor Moss followed his IMBA into an exciting life abroad.
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By the time Taylor Moss finished his bachelor's degree in economics, he was sure of only one thing.
“I didn’t want to wake up 60 years from now having worked the traditional, 9-to-5 grind and regret not trying anything different.”
Taylor had a love of different cultures and felt that if he didn’t explore it at that point in his life, he never would. So he took the international plunge, leading education and community-based projects in Jamaica for two years. It only strengthened his appetite for a life abroad.
“All of a sudden the IMBA program made perfect sense,” he says. “Even though I didn’t know exactly what I wanted to specialize in, I knew I could further my economics degree and turn this passion for multicultural experiences into a real career.”
A short time into the program, Taylor found his niche in operations management, and after graduation began putting it to work for UnitedHealth Group. Four months later, he became the chief of staff for the CEO of UnitedHealthcare Global, a Brazilian arm of the company serving four million people in more than 126 countries.
Our campus was abuzz with activity when we welcomed new students for a supercharged orientation week in June that included extensive career coaching sessions, an exciting case competition, and meet and greets with alumni from elite firms such as Deloitte, Coca Cola, and UPS.
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In one year, MBA student Michelle Norwood became a globetrotting blue-chip recruit.
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When Michelle started working as an audit accountant in Maine, it felt like a natural step. She enjoyed finance and knew she’d have ample opportunities to advance in the firm.
But a few years later, the work felt stale and limiting. Though she audited different industries, her work tasks rarely varied. She craved a challenging career that would expose her to new concepts. The kind of job that she knew started with a higher-caliber education. That’s when she decided to enroll at the Moore School.
“I was interested in the one year program because I wanted to get back into the workforce as quickly as possible.”
Michelle spent the next year complementing her finance expertise with advanced business skills. She was thrilled to be recruited by ExxonMobil right on campus.
Today she’s rising through the ExxonMobil ranks and works at the company’s massive Houston campus. She is currently working on a new trading project, a global effort that has taken her to India, Brussels, Argentina, Brazil and Italy in the first six months of 2018.
“Having my MBA, I feel like I came in with an advantage. Now that I’m in my third role in the company, I’m a supervisor managing cross roles, cross functional teams.”
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