The school offers an optional "Crash Course" for those of us without a finance background. Two 8-hour days of accounting and 2 days of microeconomics. I won't lie, they were scary. By the end of day 1, we all looked at eachother and silently asked "What have we done?". One of my classmates asked me if it was worthwhile. Truthfully, I won't really be able to tell until I've gotten far enough into the program to have a little perspective. I can tell you that an Annual Report makes a lot more sense now.
An immediate pay off, however, was the camaraderie. Thanks to Facebook, we all knew a little bit about eachother before we arrived in Denmark, but the crash courses served as the common enemy we united against. And it didn't hurt that we had not one but two "Welcome to Denmark" parties before real classes started.
The class is incredibly diverse. Out of 44 students, we have 23 different nations represented and over 40% of us are women, which is their largest percentage since the program started. We have two lawyers, two MDs, a PhD, and most of us have one Master's degree already. We even have one former ballet dancer and he's not shy about turning a pirouette. The average age of the class is 34, but we have a couple as young as 26 and a few in their 40s. The one thing we all have in common is a genuine interest in becoming not just better business people, but better leaders. I'll talk more about the Leadership Discovery Process in another post, but its what sets our program apart and is the most cited reason for joining. Its also cited by the companies that hire our alumni, so I guess they know what they're doing when they tell us we'll be spending 3 days camping in the Swedish woods but won't tell us why....
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