{"id":465,"date":"2021-09-03T11:30:55","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T10:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/?p=465"},"modified":"2022-11-07T12:14:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T12:14:13","slug":"nicholas-phillips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2021\/09\/03\/nicholas-phillips\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Phillips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">MBA 2021, UK<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><em>&#8220;The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now.&#8221;<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>My work has centered around providing energy saving technology for large UK energy users.\u00a0I have recently joined E.ON Controls Solutions as a Sales Manager, helping their commercial customers to improve the energy efficiency of their buildings. Before joining E.ON\u00a0 I worked for 12 years with an innovative energy saving device manufacturer, where my last role was building a distribution network across Europe to help sell and market the products.<\/p>\n<p>I am currently interested to see how data and the IoT (Internet of things) can help to elevate the role of energy efficiency in the fight against climate change. 90% of the world&#8217;s data was generated in the last two years so making the most of this data will be both a challenge and an opportunity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Achievements<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Becoming Sustainability Ambassador for Kent Business School<\/li>\n<li>Receiving the Energy Mastering Awards 2019 \u2013 Athens \u2013Energy Efficiency in Retail and Supermarkets. Voltage Optimisation Project (collaboration -AB Supermarkets, IESCO ltd, Ecomechnica)<\/li>\n<li>Opening a first satellite office for a Fast-Track 100 company (Manchester 2009)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What attracted you to the Kent MBA programme and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a resident of Canterbury, the proximity to home was attractive. On further research I was very pleased to discover the great reputation and accreditations that the course has.<\/p>\n<p>The Kent MBA is also very international, which will give perspectives that perhaps some other MBAs might not offer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What were your motivations for undertaking an MBA?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As it had been 14 years since I was last at University, I felt that an MBA would be a great way to put my experience into context whilst building some core business skills and knowledge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aspiration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I want the Kent MBA to take me to a more educated and connected place in my career so that I can make the most of the opportunities that arise.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Advice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Understand your clients\u2019 motivation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MBA 2021, UK &#8220;The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now.&#8221; My work has centered around providing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2021\/09\/03\/nicholas-phillips\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74554,"featured_media":612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[249096],"tags":[249099],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465"}],"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\/74554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":929,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}