THERE’S a reason why we feel stressed, why we feel overwhelmed –and it is not just about the amount of work we have to do. Individual brains react in different ways to the same work environment and understanding this can help us cope better and indeed maybe even help to conquer stress altogether. I first…
The world finds itself in a very different place when a 16-year-old can trigger some of ostensibly the most powerful men in the world and while some are moved, others snarl like playground bullies. How else do you explain Greta Thunberg and her unbelievable address to the United Nations General Assembly? Thunberg isn’t just a…
A RECORD number of Henley Business School Africa graduates will receive their MBA degrees in the UK on Friday, September 20th 2019. Some of them can opt to do it all over again at the end of November in Johannesburg, when Henley Africa caps 943 graduates over a joyous three-day festival of success, honouring successful…
Press release 10 September 2019, Johannesburg, South Africa. HENLEY Business School Africa has noted the rising levels of violence in South Africa with absolute abhorrence and great sadness. Today it recommitted itself to be a safe space for both its students and its staff. “We have always prided ourselves on being a safe space for…
ARE you stressed to the point of feeling ill? Overworked and overwhelmed? Constantly making the wrong decisions? Self-confidence at its lowest ebb? If you can tick any of these boxes, maybe you should be seriously considering signing up for one of Henley Africa’s three masterclass programmes in October. Groundbreaking British neuroscientist Professor Patricia Riddell will…
WE JUNK jargon, we kill clichés, we’re simple enough for clever people. Three simple concepts but ones that you’re going to be seeing a lot more of on billboards in and around Johannesburg soon. But they’re far more than that. Dejargoning education isn’t an advertising campaign, it’s a real statement of intent. I speak from…
FOR JUST over a year now, Henley Business School Africa has been busy training filmmakers across the continent, 60 of them in fact, drawn from 13 countries. It might seem a strange fit for a business school, but it actually makes perfect sense. If creativity and innovation hold the key to Africa’s development, then film…
Graduation Ceremony for MTF’s 1 st Batch of Academy Students! Along with Certificates of Completion, various students rewarded with exciting opportunities including placements & internships with the New York Film Academy College of Visual & Performing Arts (NYFA) in New York; an Indian Film Industry ‘Bollywood’ production internship with Nihilent Limited in India, a ‘Nollywood’…
FOR 30 years the world’s been consuming and spending like never before, but it’s about to come to an end. The globe’s literally a village, but between Brexit and Trump – with a whole bunch of smaller players on the side – we’re entering an era of isolationism. Chuck in the 4th industrial revolution, fluctuating…
5th August 2019, Johannesburg, South Africa JON FOSTER-PEDLEY TO SAY that we are overjoyed by Henley Business School’s back-to-back PMR platinum award for the best MBA business school in the country would be an understatement. We are ecstatic, because it underscores the importance of the journey we set out on in 2011 and affirms the milestones…
