My Brilliant Career: Jon Foster-Pedley
Jon Foster-Pedley is the dean and director of Henley Business School, Africa
Tell me about your work at Henley. We build the people who build the businesses that build Africa. I have a brilliant job, working with the best of Africa's people, helping them learn about their possibilities and giving them optimism for the future in a world with plenty of difficult news daily. The school has grown in the past six years from six to 50 full-time people, we have tripled our MBA class size (we now have 1250 MBA students on a 30-month course with us) and increased revenue by 700%. We call ourselves a "design agency for learning", and have transformed our MBA from 30% black to 68% black, and from 20% women to 42% women. I spend most of my day challenging and pushing for higher quality, better processes and insisting on clear thinking and using imagination. We have a frank atmosphere at Henley - we believe in candour. What sets Henley apart? Our strong sense of mission and purpose - and our creativity. We want to build a better South Africa by creating skills to build o...
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