Schulich places First at Reimagining Women in Leadership
For the third time in three years, Schulich has placed first at the 2024 Reimagining Women in Leadership competition. Congratulations to Mikayla Wronko (Tech MBA Candidate 2024), Sophia Katzell (MA/MBA Candidate 2025), Sophie MacLellan (MBA Candidate 2025) and Joanne Estephan (MBA Candidate 2025).
Hosted in Toronto by the Ted Rogers School of Management, the case this year asked students to tackle a leadership issue. An engineer working for a supply chain logistics company had just been promoted into her first executive role as Vice President of an Innovation Incubator within the company. She started facing significant resistance and character attacks by both management and staff. The case challenged students to provide recommendations on how she can recover from the crisis and plan a successful career path moving forward. The Schulich team proposed an integrated strategy focused on rebuilding relationships at all levels of the company, and on building a culture that would return the company to its role as an industry leader in innovation.
“Sophie, Joanne, Sophia, and I formed our team months before the competition,” said Wronko. “To us, Reimaging Women in Leadership both recognizes the organizational challenges unique to women and how to approach them through the case format. The case itself was a real-life leadership scenario, pushing us to think about how we can tackle the team dynamic and workplace culture issues that exist after graduation.”
The team was supported by three alumni who participated in this event in prior years – Mathuri Mayakrishnan, Amy Rudnicki and Niketa Saini. Niyati Choudhary, current GBC President, was on the winning team last year and also supported this year’s team. The students would like to acknowledge three faculty members, Minerva Cernea, Kevin Tasa and Thomas Medcof, who have supported them enthusiastically throughout the year, and have also provided key insights about leadership that were relevant for this case. They would also like to thank coach Joe Fayt.