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Executive coach spends time with executive students

Nick Karim — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:37:31 +0000

Jason Womack, executive coach to global leaders, visited campus last week to talk to undergraduate students and students in The School of Business & Management’s Young Executive MBA and MA, Management programs. Womack came to campus a few weeks ago to get a better feel for our culture and how our students could most benefit from his expertise. After returning last Thusday, March 17th he offered the following three tips for students:

1. Follow up with one new person you meet each week. Build your professional network long before you need to call on it.

2. Practice makes…comfortable. We do what we’ve done. So, if it’s time to do something new, it helps to practice on small things to prepare to perform on important ones.

It’s a cohort Christmas!

Nick Karim — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:58:46 +0000

When students choose APU’s MBA and MA, Management cohort programs for recent college graduates, they are choosing to be part of tight-knit community of about 20 students who go to every class together. This community is the perfect place to spend a year in between college and career. Not only do we do every class, for a year, with our cohort, but many of us work together as well. This is a picture of two of my cohort friends and myself at an office Christmas party.

Tomorrow, our MBA cohort is having a Christmas celebration together before we all leave for Christmas break. Many of us will see each other over break but will miss the others, i’m sure. I don’t know if any other MBA students in the country are like ours but this is family and why not celebrate Christmas with your family.

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Are we crazy?

Nick Karim — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:23:49 +0000

With the start of a new graduate term comes new classes, new professors, tons of work, and sleepless nights. Starting an MBA program right after graduating. Am I crazy? Why would I want more of the same? Why wouldn’t I go get some work experience first? Am I ready for this? My name is Nick Karim and i’m in the Young Executive MBA program. The program started in June, right after May graduation and seems to have flown by so far. As we start this new term I couldn’t be more excited. Thats right, EXCITED! I’m excited to go through this life changing program with some amazing people that have become my closest friends. This summer, I got to meet the 25 people that i’ll spend the next year with. We did a retreat together, traveled to Atlanta, Georgia together, and some us got to study in Brazil together. Excited is an understatement, with my new family around me I’m ready for the next step!