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I am driven to create positive change

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because I want to see a world where all

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people have the same rights and we all

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work together to protect our planet

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my personal goal for my year at SBS was

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to strengthen my leadership skills

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so I can better amplify the voices of

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the women who are leading the movement

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for global health equity.

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I'm working towards creating systems and

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economies that support small businesses

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so Impact Lab has shaped my experience

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at Oxford and

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on the MBA in two really important ways.

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the first

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is immersing me in an impact community

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I've made the most meaningful

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friendships through the people I've met

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on Impact Lab.

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And the second one is just inspiring

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and motivating me,

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both my peers and the special guests who

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have come in to talk to us

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have opened my eyes to what impact

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really means Impact Lab has had a major

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effect on my

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MBA experience this year coming in as an

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impact leader I was a little nervous to

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come to business school

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and Impact Lab created a community here

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as well as giving me the skill sets to

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really thrive in the classroom

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Impact Lab has absolutely shaped my MBA 

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experience by connecting to a community

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of like-minded people and having the

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opportunity to learn about different

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backgrounds and industry but drawn

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together by a similar cause

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my biggest takeaway from Impact Lab is

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about systems change,

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so through our discussions about systems

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change throughout the year

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I realised that this dichotomy between

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broad structural change and incremental

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change

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isn't really an either or it's actually

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a both and,

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and that we need both top-down and

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bottom-up

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solutions to work and to co-exist to

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have real impact

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the Skoll Centre really helped me think

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about systems change prior to that in

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the work that I've done i've been really

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thinking of small scale and being here

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at oxford as well as my work in the

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Skoll Centre really started

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making me think about what I can do

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internationally as well as globally

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and just what impact i can have at a

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larger level.

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So the thing I value most about the

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Impact Lab community is just the

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diversity.

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I've learned so much about what impact

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means in different

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regions of the world and to attack

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different sectors and

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issues and challenges what happens in

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Australia and the challenges we have are

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completely different to the challenges

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that

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my peers from South Africa or India face

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so learning about what they

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have done to try and address those

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challenges has really opened my eyes to

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different ways of

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of being an impact leader and trying to

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create change.

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what I most valued from the Impact Lab

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community

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was the safe space it created for me to

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practice

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expressing myself and speaking up about

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the things I believe in

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so through opportunities like our action

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learning sets

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and facilitating a brown bag lunch

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and our storytelling cafes I was able to

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really practice

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talking about in a public way the things

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I believe in

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and I believe that being able to speak

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eloquently

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and convincingly about things that

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matter is a really important leadership

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skill and

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I'm so grateful I had the opportunity to

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cultivate that skill through Impact Lab

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and I know it's something 

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that will stay with me forever. One of

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the things I value the most about

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Impact Lab was the opportunity to learn

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from different peers.

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So we had sessions that were

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co-facilitated by different members of

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the cohort

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and for me whilst we can have external

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facilitators which are amazing

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the core learning of an MBA is an

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opportunity to learn from

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the vast experience and expertise that

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sit within the cohort

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and Impact Lab really created this

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beautiful space of

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learning and unlearning and sharing

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different experiences

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the thing I value the most from the

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Impact Lab community is often when

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you're doing work in the social impact

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space and in the business space it can

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feel kind of lonely

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because there aren't a lot of people who

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are thinking exactly about what you're

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thinking about you're too

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impacty in the business space into

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business in the impact space so

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really having the solidarity of other

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people who are also working

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on these interesting and challenging

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ideas so I most enjoyed from Impact Lab

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programming the breadth of expertise and

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the different realms that people came

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from really demonstrating that you can

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highly technical or strategic or

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prioritise operations

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and all of that comes together to really

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mean impact in a meaningful way.