Management Meets podcast

Listen to the Management Meets podcast series, where School alumni tell tales of success, and failure, in the ever-changing world of business practice.

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Management Meets: Kirsty Matthews - Management in Charities

In the final episode of series three ‘Business for Good’, Katie is joined by MBA graduate, Kirsty Matthews. Kirsty is CEO of charity DFN Project Search, a UK charity enabling young adults who have a learning disability or autism spectrum condition to secure permanent employment.

Listen and learn more about the external challenges facing charities, the importance of financial sustainability in the charitable sector, the potential positive impact of AI on accessibility, and the impact of DFN Project Search’s work on the individuals and host businesses involved in the internship programme.

Management Meets: Dr Philippa Kindon - Management in Healthcare

In this episode of 'Management Meets,' Katie and Steve talk with PhD alumna Philippa Kindon, Business Development Manager at Mayden. Mayden’s flagship product, Iaptus, supports mental health patients through providing digital technology solutions to healthcare organisations such as the NHS. Philippa discusses the evolving needs of the healthcare sector, and how Mayden’s data-driven decision-making approach, providing new offerings and acquisitions, has helped them stay ahead of the curve. The episode also touches upon the company’s flat hierarchy system and why they’ve adopted this ‘made without managers’ approach to business.

Management Meets: Xiaoyu Zhang - graduate outcomes

Steve and Katie are joined by Class of 2013 BSc Economics alumnus, Xiaoyu Zhang, Global Institutional Director and Head of China at AmplifyMe. Throughout his career, Xiaoyu has been committed to helping students achieve their career goals and enhance their employability skills. Currently leading AmplifyMe’s expansion into Asia, Xiaoyu shares his insider knowledge on the variances in the graduate job market internationally, including the cultural differences between working in a corporate environment and a fast-growing entrepreneurial setting and how these factors can change what a company is looking for when recruiting.

Management Meets: Max Teichert - Driving Change

In the first episode of series four, Katie sits down with Max Teichert, founder and CEO of Track Titan, an AI driver coaching startup. Max shares how studying International Management at the School of Management helped him merge his passion for racing and entrepreneurship, getting him to where he is today. His formative experiences at Bath include his involvement in the British University's karting championship and two pivotal placements at Porsche's Motorsport team and a FinTech startup in Jakarta.

We also take a look back at some personal favourites from previous series’, with in-house producer, Becky Toogood.

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Hosted by Prof Steve Brammer, Dean of the School of Management, and Katie Calvert-Jones, alumni relations professional, Management Meets shares insight from leaders within our community on a variety of topics across a range of industries.

The School of Management has over 27,000 alumni in over 130 countries, including business founders, CEOs and Olympians. In this series, we meet some of these, as we dive into the ever-changing world of business practice and learn the latest academic thinking along the way.

From sport to the secrets of the boardroom, get inspired with tales of success, and some failures, in the Management Meets podcast.

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