Brittany Jacob, MBA 25 – From Telling Stories to Shaping Them

About this episode

Brittany Jacob discusses her journey from news anchor to senior consultant and her experiences at Berkeley Haas.

On this episode of the OneHaas Alumni Podcast, meet Brittany Jacob, a former news anchor turned senior consultant at Deloitte thanks to her career-transforming experience at Berkeley Haas. Growing up in Texas, Brittany fell in love with theater and the arts, a passion that propelled her to a career in journalism. For Brittany, community is at the heart of everything she does – a passion that shone through while she was at Haas when she decided to create the podcast, Belonging@Haas. Brittany joins host Sean Li to chat about her upbringing in Texas, what she learned during her time as a news anchor and reporter, what brought her to Haas, how she’s now using her MBA to shape stories, and how she built community through Belonging@Haas. *OneHaas Alumni Podcast is a production of Haas School of Business and is produced by University FM.* Episode Quotes: On her time in the news biz “Imagine, I was lugging around a tripod, a camera, setting up my own interviews, doing my interviews, going back, editing them, writing them, and then setting up my live unit so that I can go live. And I did all of that by myself at the beginning of my career. So when you think about reporting… It was nothing…

People in this episode

Host: Sean Li

Guest: Brittany Jacob

Topics covered

• career transformation
• community building
• journalism
• MBA experience
• storytelling

Keywords

• Brittany Jacob
• Deloitte
• Berkeley Haas
• journalism
• community
• MBA
• storytelling

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Deloitte, Berkeley Haas, Belonging@Haas

Places: Texas

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