Cambridge University Consulting Society: Recent Episodes
Sophia Arora
Welcome back to the Cambridge Consulting Society's series of podcasts! To celebrate amazing results and a new class of Cambridge freshers, we're hosting Swatee Depak and talking sustainable fashion and the fashion consultancy industry.
Swatee Deepak is a social justice advisor and freelance consultant. She is a leader in holding private and public foundations accountable to ensure socially minded action. She has sat on a number of boards such as Global Fund for Children, EMpower - the emerging markets foundation and the Healing Solidarity Collective. Swatee was previously Director of the With and For Girls Collective, the world’s only participatory fund with and for adolescent girls and Director of Stars Foundation, a private philanthropic foundation focused on funding children and young people's rights around the world. Her journey is inspiring as a feminist and radical justice leader, making waves in the corporate world, leading movements and supporting transitions across philanthropy, investments, development agencies and the arts.
Her most recent remarkable campaign is titled ‘Remember Those Who Made Them: check it out at https://rememberwhomadethem.co and https://cleanclothes.org
Welcome back to the Cambridge Consulting Society! In this episode, we're in conversation with Sharena Shiv, the founder of Start Up Start Now and a Masters student in Entrepreneurship where she answers questions about grad schemes, starting your own business, improving confidence, and traits to look for in a mentor.
In this episode of the podcast, we will be interviewing Vincent Triesschijn. Vincent is currently Director of Sustainable Investment at ABN AMRO. In this role, Vincent works on sustainable investments, sustainability integration and corporate engagement. Vincent has worked in the investment industry since 2006, previously at UBS, J.P. Morgan and Kempen & Co on sustainable equity and debt related mandates. In this episode, we will be talking to Vincent about his career path, alongside wider discussion surrounding sustainable investing.
In the second episode of the podcast, we interview Jill Zucker, a managing partner in McKinsey's New York office. Jill is actively involved in McKinsey Women and responsible for founding the Dual Career Network, which supports personal and professional advancement of McKinsey colleagues and their partners balancing two careers, alongside authoring the report ‘Making it Work: How Dual-Career Couples find Career Fulfilment.’ We talk about the report and the initiative, her inspiration for setting it up, why it has been so successful, and how other organisations can work to implement similar programmes. We also talk more widely about gender equality in the workplace, and how aspiring professionals can help push for social change in their own careers.
Please find a recording of our Q+A zoom call with the Directors of MBB1O1.
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Our first CUCS Podcast looks at how working in the consulting industry can help you kickstart a career in Politics. We interview Eleanor Wolfson, former Deputy Chief of Staff for George Osborne and Chief of Staff to Amber Rudd. She began her career at BCG and has since had exclusive access working in Government and also worked at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
She provides honest open advice for anyone unsure about their career choices.
It is also inspiring to hear a success story from the non corporate world. We challenge the stereotypes that Consulting is solely a corporate focused career but in actual fact a launchpad to enter any job you are passionate about.