This article first appeared in the Financial Times MBA rankings magazine on January 29, 2018.
Before moving into asset management, Ryan Harder, MBA ’18 candidate, was teaching at a Hutterite Anabaptist Christian colony in Saskatchewan, an area with a population of 100. The leap to Ivey’s MBA Program came after much deliberation and a desire to control his own path.
“During the MBA I learnt how to speak about myself. As a teacher I did not have to be literate in selling myself —once you are in, you are in and you can stop,” he said. “I came into the MBA with imposter syndrome; I felt like the dumbest guy in the room. But after about five weeks I realised ‘I can do this’. The biggest learning for me was confidence, realising I actually do have a lot of value to add."
