Damien interviews Will who is an aeronautical engineer by day and part time MBA student at the Melbourne Business School by night. Will talks about his life growing up in Tasmania, moving to Melbourne to study at university and doing additional studies before getting a job at an engineering firm that works on aircrafts such as helicopters and jets. Will also does probono work for 180 Degrees Consulting, a probono consulting organisation that services the not for profit sector. Will talks about his experience of the MBA and why he decided to study at Melbourne Business School. He talks about his takeaways from the course in our brief 2 weeks to date.

Damien walks you through his day from waking up at 6am to hit the gym, traveling to work by tram and starting at 8:30am at Kinaway Victorian Indigenous Chamber of Commerce, having meetings with Corporates as part of Meereeng 50 at PWC with PWC Indigenous Consulting, Lend Lease, University of Melbourne, talking to Indigenous businesses and having internal meetings. Leaving work at 5pm to walk to the Melbourne Business school to start class at 6pm to finish after 9pm and leave at 10pm and be home by around 10:30pm. Do some more work before going to bed by 12am.

Damien takes you through the reading summaries for the subject ‘Managing People’. He talks on the articles he has read about business books, best practice and leadership and management being based on scientific evidence.