Video transcript - How Kasia transformed her career with an Online Masters in Sustainability Business Leadership

Video transcript for ‘How Kasia transformed her career with an Online Masters in Sustainability Business Leadership’, embedded on Kasia Kraszewska’s student profile page.

(An animation of a laptop opening is shown, with the words ‘Online Sustainable Business Leadership MSc’ on the laptop screen. ‘Student testimonials’ is typed into a search bar shown on the laptop screen.)  

(Kasia Kraszewska, a Sustainable Business Leadership MSc graduate, is shown on screen.)  

Kasia: So my name is Kasia Kraszewska and,   I'm an Associate Director of Marketing Communications at RepRisk. So we're an ESG data provider, so that's environmental, social, and governance data. And, I wanted to have a better foundation for communicating about these topics. So I started looking for, possible Master's degrees.  

 (The animation of the laptop screen reappears on the screen, showing the question ‘why Leeds?’ being typed into a search bar. Kasia then reappears on screen) 

Kasia: The Leeds programme, I really liked that it was the School of the Environment, the School of Business, courses across both. So it would give me both an understanding of the sustainability space, but then also the business side of it. 

(The animation of the laptop screen reappears on the screen, showing the question ‘Did you find the course flexible?’ being typed into a search bar. Kasia then reappears on screen) 

Kasia: When reading about the program, the fact that, you know, there are live webinars that were early in the morning for me, but if I missed it because of school drops or anything like that, I was able to catch up with the recording. So that was actually a very important consideration. It was nice to have that flexibility.  

(The animation of the laptop screen reappears on the screen, showing the question ‘How was the application process?’ being typed into a search bar. Kasia then reappears on screen) 

Kasia: The application process was very smooth. And then the academic advisor, that was a great kind of check in also, to keep you on track.  

(The animation of the laptop screen reappears on the screen, showing the question ‘How did you find the teaching’ being typed into a search bar. Kasia then reappears on screen) 

Kasia: One of the nice things about it is that we are working with academics that are sharing,   sharing their research. It reignited that kind of energy for research, for finding out information.  

(The animation of the laptop screen reappears on the screen, showing the question ‘What were your highlights?’ being typed into a search bar. Kasia then reappears on screen) 

Kasia: The first course that I took was a governance course and that was a really good foundation to understanding the space that I'm working in. For some of the business related content that was very much directly related to my professional world in terms of, like, the decision making and the change management courses. 

The cohort was very, global which is to be expected because of the nature of the online learning and, the accessibility that that gives. And so it was really interesting to have that global perspective in the class.  

We did have a WhatsApp group, and that was a good way to know that, you know, other people were going through the same thing as you.  

(The animation of the laptop screen reappears on the screen, showing the question ‘What would you say to prospective students?’ being typed into a search bar. Kasia then reappears on screen) 

Kasia: It was very manageable and very, very fulfilling. And so I would do it again in a heartbeat. 

(The video ends showing the animation of the laptop being closed. The screen shows the University of Leeds logo.)