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EADA’s commitment with its Alumni’s career advancement goes beyond training consultancy. For example, through the EADA Careers department alumni can get in touch with different types of companies that recruit profiles with an MBA for positions of responsibility. Similarly, thanks to the EADA Entrepreneurship Centre many of them can start off the business venture they had always dreamed of.
In addition to this we should mention the role EADA plays as a preferential partner in companies founded by Alumni, in order to address their training, people development and continuing professional education needs in their specific areas. And this is where EADA’s Corporate area plays a fundamental role by providing customised professional and managerial development programmes to accompany its partners to develop their main asset: people.

The general manager of FESTO, Xavier Segura (on the left) with EADA’s general director, Miquel Espinosa at the time of signing the agreement.

Fellow travellers

The most recent example of collaboration with a company managed by an EADA Alumnum is FESTO, a worldwide provider, with a presence in over 60 countries, of pneumatic automation systems, electronics and network solutions for all kinds of industrial processes and activities. A few days ago, its general manager, Xavier Segura, signed a collaboration agreement with EADA’s general director, Miquel Espinosa, by which the business school will jointly design with the company the contents of customised training courses adapting them to its current training needs and offering special discounts.
For Segura, EADA’s support is crucial because “in the face of greater competition and the industrial market’s going global, the requirements and expectations of suppliers are increasingly more demanding” In this sense, he goes on to say, “only through a new management and leadership style based on competent and responsible people, team work, demandingness and continuous training can we accomplish our great challenge: to become our customers’ trusted and regular supplier”.

On his part, Miquel Espinosa congratulates himself for becoming “FESTO’s fellow business traveller” and points out that “the challenge is to mutually enrich ourselves through contributing added value”. Espinosa insists on this idea because “adding value is synonymous to trust and complicity, two values that define EADA Corporate area’s mission”. What’s more, he added “collaborations such as this point to the fact that we are not only service providers but also a strategic partner for achieving their corporate objectives”:

An exemplary success story

Xavier Segura took an Executive MBA in EADA in 2008, while he was Commercial Manager at FESTO. He looks back with great satisfaction at his time at EADA, “above all for having been surrounded by excellent colleagues and professors, which was an unbeatable source of inspiration that profoundly changed my strategic vision and reinforced my idea of a management model based on values, strong leadership, trust and people development as the fundamental and differentiating element for business success”. To which he added: “My experience on the EADA Executive MBA helped me to grow personally and professionally, anchoring essential competencies for taking on the responsibility of company general manager two years later”.