In a world marked by uncertainty and repeated cycles of conflict, a fundamental question continues to surface: what can we learn from the past?

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Priyanka Murthy, INSEAD Executive Master in Change (EMC) 2024 graduate, is an Organisation Development Leader who is well-versed in the mechanisms of change management and the tools and frameworks required for driving change in global organisations. For well over a decade, she has held HR roles in some of the best-known organisations in the world, including Deloitte in the past and in her last held role at Novartis.

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Helen Tubb has long worked at a strategic level in public policy consulting, advising the European Commission across a slew of critical areas, from employment to social inclusion to climate action. Hers is a highly accomplished career that has played out at the heart of European affairs, managing great complexity and bringing together diverse and disparate stakeholders to accelerate learning and collaborative problem-solving.

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Carmen Schwender’s career path is as inspiring as atypical. She left her native Romania for New York in 1995 with the dream of becoming a professional ballerina—an ambition that was realised in Connecticut’s New England Ballet Company. After 20 years dancing and teaching dance, Carmen felt it was time to hang up her pointe shoes and pivot to a new career; one that would deliver new challenges along with the financial stability she needed. A degree in finance followed and in 2002, a new career with then Merrill Lynch now Bank of America on Wall Street. 

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The INSEAD Executive Master in Change (EMC) programme is unlike any other. With a convenient modular 18-month schedule that allows you to study while you work, it is a personal development pathway that takes you deep into the fundamental drivers of human behaviour and the hidden dynamics of organisations.  The curriculum’s system-psychodynamic approach enables you to develop your capability and authority to lead people and organisations through transformation.

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We asked Nicky Sparshott, CEO of Unilever Australia & New Zealand, to share her experience of INSEAD’s Executive Master in Change (EMC) programme. Read on to find out what drew her to the EMC, how it helped her lead her organisation through the pandemic, and the key takeaways she gained. Nicky also talks about ways the programme continues to impact her professional life, and how its learnings can help with a purpose-led approach to leadership.

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The INSEAD Executive Master in Change (EMC) is a programme unlike any other. It is a personal development pathway that takes you deep into the basic drivers of human behaviour and the hidden dynamics of organisations.  By integrating business education with a range of psychological disciplines, the EMC prepares participants to assume roles in leading organisations, drive individual and organisational development, and successfully execute change management.  

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