Week-one of the Berlin School Asia Module sees participants exploring the hyper-connected business world of Shanghai. Read some of their insights and learnings as they begin to unpack the seemingly contradicting philosophies that influence leadership culture in one of the rapidly expanding innovation hubs in the world.

We caught up with the winner of the first RARE Scholarship for our Executive MBA, Austrailian producer and director, Emma Morris. As a fierce supporter of diversity in her own work, Emma believes that empowering diverse content makers "behind the screen" is the best way to tell authentic stories that resonate accross the spectrum of Australian viewers. 

This year’s bursary winner for the Cannes Creative Leaders Programme is Martin Woska, the Chief Creative & Strategy Officer and Co-Owner of TRIAD Advertising, independent agency with branches in Prague and Bratislava. We spoke to home about the evolving advertising climate in Slovakia and the cornerstones of building strong client relationships.

Earlier this year, award-winning Latvian designer Edgars Zvirgzdins became the winner of the first Berlin School Open Scholarship for our Executive MBA in Creative Leadership. We spoke to him about the importance of treating design as essestial and not an addition to strategy, and his vision for creating great design teams that challenge one-another.