Cornerstone OnDemand and FEMBA

Thanks to our current FEMBAs who hosted us at Cornerstone OnDemand last week.
Left-to-Right:
Pratik Savai 16, VP of Application Development
Margaret Chang 18, Operations Support Analyst
Aditya Shah 19, CPA, Senior Manager of Internal Controls and Compliance
Jordan Sugar 17, Talent Acquisition Project Manager
Isadora Dantas 16, Mobile Product Manager
Rich Headley 16, Software Product Manager

What an inspiring UCLA Anderson example of Sharing Success! Cornerstone was founded by Adam Miller, UCLA Anderson JD/MBA, and now Cornerstone is hiring lots of new Anderson MBAs. Great recruiting visit; thanks Cornerstone, for hosting us! Thanks Chris Thompson on our team, for creating the event!

“I got everything I wanted from my MBA” meet Isadora Dantas ’16

“I got everything I wanted from my MBA”  Meet Isadora Dantas, UCLA Anderson FEMBA Class of 2016. Hers is a fantastic global journey from Brazil to New York City to Los Angeles, a powerful personal transformation, and incredible career results. Isadora shares generously about the impact of FEMBA:

• Discovering a passion for public speaking during Professor Firstenberg’s course
• Becoming a TEDx campfire speaker at UCLA
• Aligning her prior Master’s degree research on happiness
• Co-founding a start-up, Petsnap, with FEMBA classmates
• Switching careers, from graphic design to product management, leveraging the coaching of Susan Cowell and our FEMBA Career Services team
• Switching companies, from Disney to Sony to finally landing at UCLA-founded, Cornerstone OnDemand, all utilizing her UCLA network
• Taking a Global Immersion to Israel with Professor Gabriel to see the vibrant tech scene
• Meeting her “FEMBesties” during school
• (Short on time?? Start at 38:00 to hear Isadora’s summary of her FEMBA journey, and what’s next.)

Enjoy!

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Backstreet Boys after Finance Class

Backstreet Boys after Finance Class? What kind of interactive study-tool is this? Well, Kelly Stelbasky ’16, Tour Director, North American Concerts, for Live Nation Entertainment sent me this note this week, and the below photo, and you can gauge for yourself.

Kelly: Hey Dylan! Here is a photo for your collection. In honor of Throwback Thursdays, a group of us went down to The Forum last week after class to see none other than the Backstreet Boys.Clockwise from top left:
Carlos Aguirre ’16, Senior Analyst, Compass Lexecon
Yuliya Shynkarenko ’16, Senior Project Manager, United Aeronautical Corporation
Howie Hendler ’16, Asset Management Analyst, Radnet
Shreena Grewal ’16, Senior Financial Analyst, The Walt Disney Company
Dave Forbes ’16, Director Of Finance, Center Light Films
Kristen Palchak ’16, Senior Account Manager, TVGla
Nigel Beckmeier ’16, Test Engineer, Woodward HRT
Isadora Dantas ’16, Product Designer, Cornerstone OnDemand
Josh Kahn  ’16, Executive Assistant to EVP Production, HBO
Lisa Mau ’16, Senior Business Analyst, Ethics and Compliance Planning, Southern California Edison
and Kelly Stelbasky ’16, Tour Director, North American Concerts, for Live Nation Entertainment

Dylan: That’s great Kelly. How may people went?

Kelly: There were 27 of us including SigOs and FoFEMBAs (friends of FEMBAs) who made our way down to Inglewood after Finance class. Afterwards some folks hung around to mingle and eat some post-show dessert in the Forum Club. This, plus very loud singing, dancing, people watching, and general merriment pretty much summed up the night.

Dylan: Love it. Thanks for organizing the great photo. That’s gotta help retention of your Thursday night’s Finance material, putting it to music!

After I initially posted this story, Kristen Palchak, emailed me with an addendum.

Kristen:  Thanks Dylan. We had a blast dancing and singing BSB favorites from the past, with FEMBA friends of the present – my 12 year old teeny bopper heart was happy. Kelly was amazing to organize for us!  And here’s another fun photo from the night: