Preeti Bajaj CEO and managing director, The Adecco Group

Master of Applied Finance, Macquarie University, 2016

“Learning is across a continuum and different things are important at different stages of your career. In Applied Finance, we did a subject called Venture Capital and Private Equity. Shortly after, I was sent to Silicon Valley by Schneider Electric to set up the first ever venture funded by Schneider Electric Ventures and I became CEO. That was a direct moment of setting up a new business, understanding the venture-funding model, creating a full playbook of what that business could become over time. I was applying everything from the classroom to real life, including the language.”