After finishing his term as President of AIESEC International, Brodie graduated from the University of Calgary and landed a position at the world’s top consulting firm, McKinsey and Company. He worked as a business analyst, gathering more experience in organizational strategy but from a very different perspective than the one he had in AIESEC. After his time at McKinsey, he was inspired to pursue a PhD and is doing so at Case Western Reserve University, one of the top institutes in the world in the field of Organizational Behaviour. He is exploring how whole societies can change themselves to become environmentally sustainable. He has had papers accepted to international conferences, including Academy of Management and the European Group of Organizational Studies. He was also one of ten scholars selected for the distinguished George Washington University - CIBER Summer Doctoral Institute. Brodie is an exemplary case of someone who combined their experience in AIESEC and the idealism and values it fosters, with real world understanding and work, to find an avenue in which he could truly become an agent of positive change. He exemplifies the quote “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs – ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive.” 28 years old Brodie’s idea of happiness: “I’m sitting with the people I love around a campfire on a rocky shoreline of Case Westerns Reserve University – Organizational Behaviour a Canadian wilderness lake. The stars and moon PhD Student are mirrored in the still water, and the sounds of our Canada laughter join the call of the loon in the quiet night.”
Brodie Boland
Kate started her AIESEC career in Auckland in 1998, later working with AIESEC United States (but based in Beijing) in 1999 and 2000 in the project team which opened AIESEC in Mainland of China as China extension manager. After her experience with AIESEC, Kate gainied experience in companies like Yahoo Inc., Future Considerations, and ERM (Environmental Resources Management) consulting.
Kate Larsen Senior Manager, Corporate Responsibility for Asia Burberry New Zealand
In 2006 she entered Burberry as Manager of Corporate Responsibility for Asia. She now leads a team that manages ethical trading and environmental management in the Asia region. As now Senior Manager at Burberry, she continues to also develop global policy. Kate represents Burberry participation in workgroups such as in BSR (Business for Social Responsibility), the Ethical Trading Initiative, Save the Children, Leather Workgroup and with UNCTAD on biodiversity. On a personal note Kate is an avid dragonboater, hiker, and a member of Greenpeace, WWF, Amnesty Intl, and has volunteered teaching english to refuggess in Hong Kong.
“I am an agent of change as I speak up for sustainable development and how we can protect the planet and our people while achieving profit.” 40 under 40