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TEDx events at Geneva Business School

Please enjoy a selection of the most recent TEDx talks from our esteemed guests, faculty, and students below:
Barcelona Campus 2021
On October 27 our Barcelona Campus hosted the second TEDx event for our school.
In October, Geneva Business School hosted a TEDx event at our Barcelona campus to explore the theme:
Lessons Learned: Are we really capable as humans to learn from our mistakes?

About the speakers
Surviving near bankruptcy | Tom Van Der Heyden
The role of mistakes in language learning | Sara Jach
Are Humans capable of change? | Ricardo Jovani
Entrepreneurship survival during a pandemic | Javier Gonzalez
Javier talks about strategies for an entrepreneur for surviving disruptive times such as a global pandemic. He highlights the tools that helped him and his business survive and the lessons learned from 2020. Javier is an instructor in Barcelona Faculty of Geneva Business School, a Strategic Management expert and he’s passionate about education through his own work and teaching for institutions around the world including as a consultant for the UN. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.
Watch Entrepreneurship survival during a pandemic | Javier Gonzalez
The pandemic's impact on Digitalisation & Africa | Moyosore Saka
Moyosore explores and explains the impact of the global pandemic on the continent of Africa and deep dives into the various effects on the progression to digitize the continent and make economic progress in developing nations. Moyosore Saka is a Lawyer, strategist, and negotiator, based in Geneva and a graduate of Geneva Business School. Her TEDx talk centers on the global pandemic's impact on Digitalisation and African business ecosystems. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.
Watch The pandemic's impact on Digitalisation & Africa | Moyosore Saka
Mental health & a Ph.D. during a pandemic | Dr. Elena Emma
Dr. Elena Emma shares a deeply personal story of her struggle during the global pandemic. She unravels how she balanced being there for her family, wrote a doctoral thesis, and navigated the existential crisis that was 2020. Her lessons are outlined and she shares some sound advice to help us navigate in times of uncertainty. Elena is an entrepreneur, executive coach and artist. In her TEDx talk she shares what she learned balancing the mental health of herself and her family while completing a Ph.D. during a global pandemic. Her art illustrates the talk and formed part of her therapy during the stressful moments of 2020. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.
Watch Mental health & a Ph.D. during a pandemic | Dr. Elena Emma

TEDx Geneva Business School Studio
On October 8 2020 our Geneva Campus hosted the first TEDx event at our school.
TEDx Geneva Business School Studio talks from our media room
About the speakers
Breaking barriers | Alexandra Mohnhaupt Quintana
Alexandra Mohnhaupt Quintana wrote her name in the history book of Formula 4, when she became first woman in the world to win an FIA Formula 4 race in the 2017-2018 NACAM Championship. Her hard work and dedication brought success in her racing career and paid off when she was moved up to racing Formula 3. After suffering an unfortunate car crash during one of the testing rounds, she made the hardest decision of her life to stop racing to face the anxiety, depression and trauma she experienced in the aftermath of her crash.
Hear her story here.
What does success look like? | Brian Haugen
In May 2016, Brian Haugen was appointed social media producer at The International Olympic Committee. He was tasked with creating successful video content for their social media platforms. But what really is success? At the start, he believed that it was all tied to engagement and the number of views. After several years of creating moving and emotional content, his personal life began to become affected. An incident at the 2016 Olympics in Rio made him re-evaluate the meaning and his perception of what success is. “It’s at that moment that I felt that this is what success looks like…it’s happiness”.
Listen to his pursuit of success here.

TEDx Geneva Business School
On October 8 2020 our Geneva Campus hosted the first TEDx event at our school.
Geneva Business School invited esteemed guest speakers to our first student-run TEDx event to explore the following theme:
Is our growing society equipped to care for the mental health of its individuals?
About the speakers
The Future of Psychiatry | Logos Curtis
Mental health issues due to COVID-19 | Vincent Subilia
Different tools for business | Claire Cunneen
Stay tuned for upcoming events on our Events page.