Better leadership, wellbeing, human connection, team presentations, relationships are part of the experience

Fátima Rodrigues : Final Insights: Most companies talk about wellbeing. Few operationalise it…

We closed the week with a visit to Sanitas Bupa. And it reinforced one idea:
Most companies talk about wellbeing. Very few actually build it into how they operate.

Hearing from Eva Fernandez Aparicio, Víctor Manuel Rodríguez, Ana Mañero, Mamen Laynez del Campo, Mara Porras Martínez and Patxi Amutio made that difference clear, wellbeing there is not an initiative. It’s part of the system.
Grounded in trust, human connection and how people actually experience work day to day.

And that connects directly with everything from the week.

Every day before lunch, Shane O’Connor guided us through mindfulness sessions.
Something shifted.
People showed up differently.
More present. More open. More honest.
By the end, conversations were going further than they usually do in a business setting.

On the final day, Dr. Silvia Centeno Rodríguez asked for one key takeaway.
Mine was simple:
Hope.

Because after a week like this, you realise that better leadership is not theoretical.
It’s already happening.

We also had our final team presentations, where it became clear that understanding concepts is one thing, applying them under pressure is another.

And moments outside the classroom mattered too, including an incredible dinner with our Marketing Professor Teresa Recio PhD , a great reminder that relationships are part of the experience 🙂

A final note to the people behind it:
From IE: Dr. Silvia Centeno Rodríguez, Samuel Alvarez Naranjo, Frida Mérida Lindgren, Irene Yagüe Sancho
From PBS: Ana Côrte-Real, Andreia Morais, Sandra Vasconcelos Caramalho

Thank all for a great week: Organization, IMBA, EMBA and GOMBA cohort🙌

Mariana PereiraIndu BaruahMaximilian BrozioDevin DavisLuca DivenosaLucas Lopes da SilvaDomenica BonillaSilvana CortavarríaAlejandra Llanos MatallanaLaura Alejandra Rodríguez FloresStefany De Ugarte

Fátima Rodrigues :

Strategic Finance | MBA candidate Porto Business School | Calm, analytical & solution-driven problem solver

M.Z.I. Dalton Zahir | TravellerTimes Desk