1. Your Passion, Your MBA, Your Career Defining and Proving Your Passion MBAP 2011 Kick-Off Seminar Jones Graduate School of Business Rice University March 26-28, 2010

3. What Is Defining Your Passion? Exercise : : Work Book PASSION What are you most passionate about? Where have you committed yourself, how have you demonstrated that you are serious about your goals? Why? SOURCE/FUEL What specific life experiences have shaped your passion? GOALS What are the implications of your passion? Specifically, what does it look like? IMPACT How do your goals connect to your passion? Why should we care? JUICE What have you done that say you can achieve these goals? Examples/actual experience/ evidence of your potential to achieve your goals. GOALS 1. Short term 2. Long term Paint a picture of what this looks like. DEVELOPMENT What do you need to work on to get to your goals? How critical is it to get your MBA now in order to achieve your short-term goals?

8. Who is the “you?” Is it the group or is it the individual? Excellence and professional behavior Incredible Results Positive media Extremely strong brand More partners, $$$, sustained growth Continued guidance throughout career Most valuable network Most prestigious organization Under-representation problem Solved When “you” represents the collective MLT… Passionate, wealthy, high impact leaders

9. If “you” means only you Stereotypical behavior Top-tier partners leave Results deteriorate Funding dries up Participant quality drops Fewer opportunities, less support to senior levels MLT network not valuable Another mediocre minority org Problem persists Negative media coverage You fail to reach your full potential