Post by Aïssata Sy-Lafarge

At the MBA Night at emlyon business school, I had the chance to sit in on several individual strategic project presentations, and I chose to follow three specific alumni whose work cuts through the noise and aligns with the "messy" reality of the energy transition: * Nick Cartmell & Sergio MURILLO : second-life batteries and electrifying logistics at XPO. This isn’t theory. This is the exact chaos I’m living inside my own thesis on the battery industry. *Dena VILLANUEVA : making decisions under climate urgency when your brain is already full. She named the thing nobody wants to admit out loud. Here’s what I know: we’ve been conditioned to present “safe” ideas in “safe” language. Clean. Controlled. Risk-free. But real change? It lives in the questions nobody has answered yet. My research on batteries isn’t about data points. It’s about navigating a world where the map doesn’t exist yet and having the audacity to move anyway. To Fleur LAMIABLE, Mathias ABEL, Noémie Ballot , Florian Roque, Séverine THEVENON, Celine BRUNON congratulations. To Stephanie Ousaci, Rhoda Davidson and Damien VILLARD a big thank you for creating the space. The future doesn’t reward those who wait for certainty. It rewards those who move through the uncertainty anyway. So let’s take some risks!!! And this is exactly why I choose to pursue an E-MBA and big part of my discussions with my peers at emlyon. #emlyon #ExecutiveMBA #BatteryIndustry #EnergyTransition #AuthenticLeadership #Innovation