{"id":1052,"date":"2022-11-07T12:36:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T12:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2024-12-03T15:15:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T15:15:29","slug":"sam-barker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2022\/11\/07\/sam-barker\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Barker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">MBA 2022, UK<\/p>\n<p>Sam graduated from Bournemouth University with a degree in Sports Management in 2007. Immediately after graduating, he started his career at Golfbreaks where he still works today. He has always worked in sales, starting as a sales consultant through to his current role as Sales Director.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of work, he is a keen sportsperson and will try and get out either on his bike or onto the golf course as much as possible. &#8216;Staying fit and healthy is very important to me and if I am not playing sport I will watch it on TV!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Achievements<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Becoming the Sales Director in 2017 after working up from being an intern at university 10 years prior to this<\/li>\n<li>Being the sales lead as the company embarked on a successful full implementation of the Salesforce platform &#8211; this culminated in being asked to present at the Salesforce World Tour at Excel<\/li>\n<li>Navigating the business through Covid with travel restrictions meaning for months on end no travel was permitted &#8211; we retained our staff and customers and are now seeing the full benefits of all the hard work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What attracted you to the MBA programme at Kent Business School and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The reputation and accreditation of the course gave me an instant attraction to the course. After further research, the 1-week intensive teaching model was something I thought would suit my way of learning. I want to learn and develop new skills whilst still staying in my current role. I love the role and business but wanted to gain more external experience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aspiration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To have the skills to continue my career and be a senior leader within business.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Advice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t underestimate the power of hard work and be open-minded. Learn from others and put yourself outside of your comfort zone.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDon&#8217;t die wondering!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MBA 2022, UK Sam graduated from Bournemouth University with a degree in Sports Management in 2007. Immediately after graduating, he started his career at Golfbreaks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2022\/11\/07\/sam-barker\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79181,"featured_media":1053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[249107],"tags":[187377,249099],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1619,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions\/1619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}