
My name is Laurent Barrere, and I am currently half-way through the UWA MBA Full Time Intensive program at the University of Western Australia (UWA). I am also the recipient of the Dean’s Scholarship for which I am very grateful. I was expecting to learn a lot this year, in finance, economics, and organisational behaviour. And I did. But I couldn’t possibly anticipate the learnings I gotten so far about myself, my strengths, my weaknesses, and my potential. Over the past six months I have interacted with great leaders of Australia; close encounters with greatness that would humble me and excite my aspirations for the future. I recently came to realise more broadly what those learnings about leadership were and how they lay critically at the core of Corporate Australia’s attitude towards change.