A CEO: I got an opportunity to step out of my comfort zone by participating the Hanken EMBA

Osmo Lahtinen is a CEO at OV Lahtinen Oy. Watch Osmo share his experience and main learnings of the Hanken Executive MBA.

The programme gave me skills to handle change in sales, finance, strategy and leadership. It was delivered to me in an academic way, but at the same time in a fairly pragmatic way, so it was easy for me to apply it to my daily business.

I had the opportunity to step out of my comfort zone, both personally and professionally, by proving to myself that I can study and work with very different people from various backgrounds and industries than I was used to.

"Once you apply to the programme, you really need to be mentally and physically prepared to invest a lot of time in it."

I have started to see more opportunities and threats in different industries and businesses than I used to. Also nowadays I question more and more established businesses and ways to do business than what I used to do before.