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Innocent started working as an entry level engineer in the mining industry after graduating from college and, through the years, he has progressed to senior management in his company. Feeling career-conscious he has decided that gaining a MBA qualification would help him further develop as a professional. To enable this, he enrolled on the Executive MBA course at University of Bedfordshire.

“I wanted a programme with a very strong marketing expertise” Innocent explains, adding that the course taught him to better analyse markets and situations and trained him to develop appropriate services to suit the market needs. “In what became the most intellectually demanding two years of my life I was stretched, developed and given a set of foundation understandings and skills from which so much of everything else has grown.”

The Bedfordshire Executive MBA course gives its students the opportunity to work with fellow professionals from different nationalities and cultures. Innocent, when evaluating on this experience, said “this has taught me the importance of understanding other peoples’ cultures”. He also believes that “only through this understanding that one can build a common culture towards a specific goal with a diverse team”.

Not having to wait until he completed the course, Innocent was given projects in his workplace where he was able to apply his newly acquired knowledge. One of the projects was concerned with plant process optimisation where “[the] principles of project management obtained during Operations Management module assisted [him] to enhance quick delivery and track project timelines more effectively.”

Innocent, whose career aspiration is to become a successful executive, truly values the time spent at the University of Bedfordshire. “[The course] gave me the time, space, confidence and assistance to achieve my life-changing ambitions. University of Bedfordshire will equip you with tools needed to take a strategic approach to your personal career development; supporting you through skills based learning to achieve your full potential.”

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