Our Graduates. Their Stories.
Whether launching new businesses, supporting nonprofits, or working in a corporate setting, our MBA students and alumni are difference makers leading with integrity.
Here are a few of their stories. In all cases, they are using the ethics-based education they received in the Â鶹´«Ã½ Fox MBA program to make a positive impact in their jobs, and ultimately, in their communities and world.
“I believe we owe something to the communities that helped us.’
As CEO of Fiducient, a financial services company based in Chicago, Sabrina Bailey defines what it means to “give back.” In addition to her job, she mentors students in the university’s business school, serves on the President’s Advisory Council and the College of Business Advisory Board, and recently established the S&J Bailey Scholarship for Women in Finance.
In addition, in 2018 Bailey founded Grow for Hope, a nonprofit that focuses on empowering and educating women and girls in Sierra Leone.
“You can seek after income or you can seek after positive impact,” she says. “I want to have a positive impact on the people around me. I just ended up with an income tied to that.”
‘I have a deeper and greater empathy for everyone around me.’
Her path to earning an MBA wasn’t an easy one, but Shauna Luger persevered, and today she is using her degree to connect high-wealth individuals with important social work programs at Youth Villages, a Memphis, Tennessee-based nonprofit organization that provides services and resources for at-risk children and their families.
“Forty years ago, this nonprofit was on the cusp of closing its doors in Memphis,” she says. “Our CEO was tasked with dismantling it, but he saw its potential and took this small organization and helped it grow into what it is today – a $400 million nonprofit serving nearly 40,000 youths and families across the country.”
‘There is hope and opportunity for everyone as long as you commit to it and go for it.’
What is a leader? As the executive vice president for the Northrup Corporation, an Oregon-based insurance company, Suhail Khan often asks himself this question – and each time, he thinks of his dad.
Were it not for his father making the difficult decision to move his family of five from India to the United States in 2001, they would not have had nearly the same amount of opportunities that they have today.
“My goal has been to represent and help every single person that I can, as much as possible,” he says. “I hope I make him proud.”
“I have always felt a calling toward leadership.’
As an athlete growing up, Jensyn Lown was committed to being an example to others and do all she could to help lead her team to victory. Today, she is pursuing that same goal in her career.
Admittedly, being a woman in the business world is tough. And working in a field that’s predominantly run by older men can be intimidating. There are days when Lown feels inadequate, but she is keeping her eye on the bigger picture.
“At the end of any career – whether CEO, founder or key shareholder – Christ sits on the highest throne in heaven, and any success granted to us on this earth ought to be for his glory,” she says. “I want to grow my knowledge in business with this truth in focus.”