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Go Where You’re Valued
Feb 23, 2026
43m 44s
Saying Yes to Challenges
Jun 27, 2025
26m 30s
The Business Behind the Creative
May 22, 2025
26m 27s
Honoring Tradition While Driving Growth
Feb 26, 2025
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A Healthy, Active, Optimized Life
Dec 17, 2024
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 2/23/26 |  Go Where You’re Valued✨ | career transitionsprofessional growth+3 | Hans Yang | MicrosoftYahoo+4 | — | MBAcareer advice+5 | — | 43m 44s | |
| 6/27/25 |  Saying Yes to Challenges | Featuring: Haley Ludwigson ('09), CEO, Cravings by Chrissy Teigen With a long track record as a CFO, Haley Ludwigson ('09) took her career from investment banking to building a major lifestyle brand. She reflects on professional pivots, lessons in leadership and how embracing uncertainty has influenced her choices. From launching a rebrand to working alongside a celebrity entrepreneur, Ludwigson offers insights on staying curious, saying yes to challenges and growing through change. | 26m 30s | ||||||
| 5/22/25 |  The Business Behind the Creative | Hulu's Jenna Cavelle ('23) and McKinney's Anita Schillhorn van Veen ('23) compare notes on how their Anderson MBA has influenced the way they work in Hollywood and Advertising | 26m 27s | ||||||
| 2/26/25 |  Honoring Tradition While Driving Growth | Featuring: Courtney Taira ('18), President, IFG Restaurant Group Courtney Taira ('18) leads the King's Hawaiian food empire, where she steers preservation of her family's legacy and drives innovation. A veteran of the industry, Taira combines hands-on culinary experience with strategic vision to expand the brand her grandfather established in 1950. She discusses the challenges and opportunities of leading an international, multigenerational company, the importance of building the right team and how fostering diversity influences stronger decision-making. | 23m 50s | ||||||
| 12/17/24 |  A Healthy, Active, Optimized Life | No description provided. | 22m 11s | ||||||
| 8/29/24 |  His Career Skyrocketed | Featuring: Muhammad "Mo" Shahzad ('09), President and CFO of Relativity Space With no prior experience, Muhammad "Mo" Shahzad ('09) immersed himself in the rocket industry and secured a top role in the field. An immigrant to the U.S., he embraces the mentality of openness, curiosity and results-driven leadership. Lessons from Anderson fueled his mission to pioneer reusable rockets and make life interplanetary. | 26m 21s | ||||||
| 2/14/24 |  Be Open to an International Career | Singapore-based Savita Iyer ('05) has worked in finance at the Walt Disney company for 15 years. But she's had so many opportunities in different roles worldwide that she doesn't feel like she'll ever get stuck doing the same thing for long. Now CFO of Southeast Asia and Head of Finance APAC Media Networks at The Walt Disney Company, Iyer was the commencement speaker for her FEMBA class at Anderson, and worked as a consultant in Sweden following graduation. She recommends that MBAs who want an international career be rigid in their goals but open to the path they take, and make it known early to employers that they're seeking assignments overseas. | 27m 19s | ||||||
| 1/17/24 |  Bridging Worlds | Featuring: Jon Niermann ('95), Co-Founder and CEO, Loop Media Inc. From a pivotal leadership role at Disney to hosting a late-night show in China to co-founding Loop Media, Jon Niermann's ('95) professional journey transcends borders and defies convention. His unique and influential career is marked by cultural understanding and reciprocity. | 26m 07s | ||||||
| 6/23/23 |  Mastering the Craft | Featuring: Melanie Auguste (MBA/J.D. '13), VP of Global Brand Narrative, Purpose and Athlete Marketing, Nike Melanie Auguste (MBA/J.D. '13) harbors a deep-seated passion for sports and a gift for understanding people and trends. From aspiring pro athlete to influential leader in the sports marketing industry, she transformed her career goals into her dream job at Nike. Her secret? Shift from thinking about your work as a "job" to viewing it as mastering a craft. It also helped that she found, in UCLA Anderson, a graduate school that valued exactly what she wanted to do. | 26m 09s | ||||||
| 2/28/23 |  Always at the Forefront of Storytelling and Technology | Featuring: Malik Ducard ('00), Chief Content Officer, Pinterest Throughout his career, Malik Ducard ('00) has always stood at the forefront of storytelling and technology. He studied liberal arts in college and never thought he would warm to quantitative subjects. When he enrolled at UCLA Anderson, he put himself in the crosshairs of learning new things, fell in love with statistics and developed skills for his first job in entertainment. | 28m 13s | ||||||
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| 11/18/22 |  We Have to Think Macro, but We Have to Act Micro | Featuring: Blair Taylor ('90), Managing Director of Talent and Organization and North American Lead for Inclusion and Diversity, Accenture Senior executive Blair Taylor ('90) has spent his career introducing principles of community engagement and inclusion into daily business practices — a professional journey that has put his service to others first. He discusses the three fundamental shifts in the market that have driven a new era for companies, and he describes an operating plan he wrote for his young self that guided the trajectory of his career. | 25m 37s | ||||||
| 7/26/22 |  Run at the Barking Dog! | John Carmichael (B.A. '90, '95) has enjoyed a 27-year career with Nestlé that is characterized by adventure and turning around struggling businesses. Working like an entrepreneur within a major corporation, Carmichael has found that attacking rather than avoiding the most daunting challenges leads to transformational opportunities. He implores executives trying to solve business problems to "run at the barking dog." | 16m 41s | ||||||
| 5/25/22 |  A Creative's Career Pivot | Double Bruin Ginny Chien (B.A. '98, '10) began her career as a print journalist covering, among other topics, fashion, style and beauty. When she decided to earn her MBA at Anderson, she made the connections and gained the confidence and wherewithal to shift careers. Now she brings her interest in beauty full circle as SVP of brand, content and creative at Murad Skincare, a Unilever prestige brand. | 18m 30s | ||||||
| 4/21/22 |  What Exploring Mars Can Teach Us about Business and Ourselves | UCLA Anderson alumnus Allen "Al" Chen ('07) is the entry, descent and landing lead for the Mars 2020 project at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In describing his fascinating job, he explains how an MBA education fits into a deeply technical role. | 18m 19s | ||||||
| 2/4/22 |  A Problem-Solver Finds Unexpected Purpose in a Corporate Setting | Neesha Hathi ('00), chief digital officer and managing director at Charles Schwab, felt motivated to help people create better financial futures for themselves. But she never thought that would mean working in a large corporation, leading a team of 1,500 people focused on digital transformation. | 22m 32s | ||||||
| 12/10/21 |  A Fitness Entrepreneur Strengthens Her Resolve | Despite a "burning desire" to launch in the fitness space, Felicia Alexander ('05), co-founder and president of BoxUnion and chief revenue officer at TITLE Boxing Club, needed to overcome her risk aversion. | 21m 15s | ||||||
| 10/20/21 |  Teamwork - In the Navy Seals and Business School | No description provided. | 29m 54s | ||||||
| 5/21/21 |  Being Open to New Opportunities | Deb Johnson ('99), Chief Learning Officer of Deloitte Consulting, tells us how a piece of advice her father gave her as a young girl has shaped her entire career and also the skills you should be developing for a career in consulting. | 16m 25s | ||||||
| 2/11/21 |  The path to CFO | Katie Low Anderson, CFO at Guess? Walks us through her up and down journey to becoming the CFO of a multi-billion dollar company. How believing in herself, constantly learning and keeping good relationships were the keys to her success. | 18m 30s | ||||||
| 2/2/21 |  Don't be afraid to trust your gut | Constance Knight, Global Head of Video Curation at Instagram, talks about how not being afraid to make big changes in your career and trusting your gut can lead to life changing outcomes. Also, why it's so important to have specific career goals and predictions for the future. | 21m 17s | ||||||
| 10/15/20 |  Patience and Strategic Thinking for a Career in Analytics | Reggie Panaligan ('10), walks us through the strategy for how he got his dream job at Google. We also discuss the role data plays in entertainment and the dichotomy between new and old media companies. | 15m 26s | ||||||
| 10/14/20 |  A Fortunate Coincidence to Change People's Lives | Hugh Chang ('90) walks us through his journey from a fast-paced tech job to the world of global health at the Gates Foundation. By focusing on innovation as a source of impact, Hugh was able to combine good luck and self-awareness to improve the lives of millions. | 15m 32s | ||||||
| 10/14/20 |  Timing is Everything | Aaron Hirschhorn ('05), founder, CEO and chairman of the disruptive startup DogVacay, tells us how timing was the crucial factor in growing his business from nothing to $100 million in revenue. Also, we discuss how to make the best decisions with the information you have. | 11m 54s | ||||||
| 9/2/20 |  Impact in Business School | Hear how two current students teamed up to create UCLA Anderson's Crisis Response Corps, which pairs MBA student consultants with nonprofits and businesses to help them strategically respond to the effects COVID-19 and social injustice. We explore the role an MBA plays in our new world of socially responsible businesses. Featuring: Bhavna Sivanand ('14), Executive Director, Impact@Anderson | 10m 27s | ||||||
| 2/5/20 |  Incorporating passion - UCLA Anderson | with Darren Pleasance SVP of Global Strategy at Cisco On this episode we talk with Darren Pleasance about incorporating passion into a busy life. We lay out a framework for how to make sure your getting what you want out of life and how to calibrate your self if things get out of alignment. | 21m 39s | ||||||
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