{"id":507,"date":"2021-09-07T16:08:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T15:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/?p=507"},"modified":"2024-09-25T18:05:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T17:05:38","slug":"ryan-franklin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2021\/09\/07\/ryan-franklin\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Franklin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">MBA 2021, USA<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><strong>\u201cGood leaders must first become good servants.\u201d <em>Robert Greenleaf<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>My organisation provides refugee assistance, sustainable community health development, leadership training, and Bible education to well over 50 countries.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last three years I have developed our internship program to raise up additional cross-cultural workers. For two of those years, I also acted as the Director of Mobilisation where I strategised for domestic recruitment and international field development, developed and led a national team, and built partnerships with professional and academic entities. I now stand in a period of transition as I co-lead initiatives to build a branch of our organisation in the European sector with partner organisations.<\/p>\n<p>I have a passion for people, developing teams, leadership, and being an innovative organisation. I love the mountains and outdoor activities, reading, anything coffee, and meeting up with friends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Achievements<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Being the youngest director of my department and member of our organisation\u2019s leadership team in our 44-year history<\/li>\n<li>Since taking the job of Director of Mobilisation nearly two years ago, my team and I saw one of the strongest recruiting years in our organisation\u2019s history<\/li>\n<li>While restructuring our internship program, I saw 43% annual growth over the last three years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What attracted you to the Kent MBA programme and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was drawn to the beautiful location and the communal foundation of the programme among a diverse group of people. Yet during the interview I was captivated by the relational character of the staff and the desire for me to succeed. I want to be pushed to new boundaries and I believe the Kent MBA will push me to those new frontiers of my own education, growth and career development.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What were your motivations for undertaking an MBA?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over the progression of my personal development, I have found myself yearning for more experiences and education on business. Further, I believe the MBA will help me continue to think intuitively to grow with changing times rather than against them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aspiration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I want the Kent MBA to further my connections with a global network. I have many blank pages of life to fill, and those pages will be filled no matter what. Yet what really enriches those experiences are the human-to-human connections and networks we make. We all learn from each other and we experience life together. So, it\u2019s not necessarily the degree that will take me places, although I know it will be vastly enriching. Yet it\u2019s the human connections that take me places and I hope and expect the Kent MBA to deliver.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Advice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I can attribute my personal progression in my field to two things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A good leader is always relational; he or she is in the trenches listening and doing <em>with<\/em> their people, whether that be amongst one\u2019s team or the client base<\/li>\n<li>Curiosity &#8211; one must be a constant learner!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MBA 2021, USA \u201cGood leaders must first become good servants.\u201d Robert Greenleaf My organisation provides refugee assistance, sustainable community health development, leadership training, and Bible &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2021\/09\/07\/ryan-franklin\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74554,"featured_media":1387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[249096],"tags":[249102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507"}],"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=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/1028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}