24 Sept 2017

CEMS Talk on the topic Building BIG: What an impressive start to CEMS Alumni autumn 2017!


Three top speakers, engaged attendees, beautiful venue, and great wine tasting created an unforgettable CEMS Talk.


What is the key take away from the CEMS Talk on the topic Building Big?
  • Learn from the best ones: Get the job in a top company in your area of interest
  • Become an industry expert: Understand the business you are in
  • Follow your personal values in your career as well as in your business without compromises
  • Find what you enjoy: Go for it, work on it, stay hungry, humble and persistent
  • Find a gap: Fill it in with a unique offering
  • Grow wisely: No need for rapid jump up
  • Choose great people who are better than you are: Don’t go only for good ones.
  • Be flexible and adaptive: See and use new opportunities that are constantly arising
  • Follow the signs
  • Give back

 

CEMS Talk is an event concept inspired by TED talk:

  • Every CEMS Talk is dedicated to a unique topic related to life and career in today’s world. 
  • Speakers are chosen based on their level of experience and relevancy for a chosen area. 
  • The audience is built from CEMS students and alumni, both Czech and international. 
  • The main purpose of CEMS Talk is to share real, authentic and honest stories and thereby inspire members of the CEMS Community in their future life and business choices.



Who were our three speakers?


Jan Hrdina: an extraordinary entrepreneur

Jan has managed to grow a family owned business into an internationally recognized company, #1 on the Czech market for wooden products. 
His success lies in the combination of:
  • unique product offering, 
  • focus on top quality, 
  • choosing the best people and 
  • following and embodying his personal values such as: fairness, honesty, transparency, family business, ecological approach, giving back. 


Radomir Salitros: a top star all across

Radomir became a VP in an Austrian banking group before he turned thirty. 
With his CV and experience, he could have had easily an amazing and secured career in the financial industry. 
Instead he decided to do what he enjoyed. He moved back to his home town in eastern Slovakia and founded a company producing luxury beds that is one of the top companies in this field internationally.
What is the magic behind? 
  • being transparent and honest,
  • staying hungry and humble, 
  • following the signs, 
  • learning from the best companies and then applying that in own business and 
  • based on his experience not trusting anyone.


Frantisek Peterka – a modern start-up entrepreneur

Frantisek does not see a difference between doing business in a digital or real world. Frantisek has already managed to establish and grow several top digital companies. 
His passion is the first stage of the entrepreneurship journey: building new company. 
Aiming to build a business for his wife, he founded the biggest and most successful shopping platform for kids and mums in the Czech Republic. 
Frantisek’s secret is build upon:
  • his desire for building new solution for customer needs, 
  • being adaptive, flexible and open to new opportunities and 
  • doing business with people he can trust as his family, friends, former colleagues.


We thank to our exceptional speakers as well as to all attendees.
We look forward to seeing you at one of our next events.
Pavlina on behalf of CEMS Alumni Board

PS: We are extremely happy for you feedback, below a few notes:

Hi Pavlina
Just wanted to thank you for a great event on Thursday, I had to leave quite early so didn't have a chance to say it in person Looking forward for more events like that
Nika (CEMS Student)
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Dear Pavlina, 
thank you so much for organizing the event yesterday - we all loved it! 
Kate (CEMS Student)
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Ahoj Pavlíno, 
včerejší akce totální liga, smekám za organizaci a děkujeme za úsilí, které jsi tomu věnovala.Budu se těšit na dalších akcích
Richard (CEMS Alumnus)
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Ahoj Pavlina,
Este raz dakujem za pozvanie a perfektnu organizaciu vcerajsieho eventu. Bol to velmi inspirativny a myslim, ze aj najviac autenticky event zo vsetkych CEMS podujati, ktore som dosial navstivila. Tesim sa uz na dalsie stretnutie. 
S prianim pekneho dna,
Gabriela (CEMS Student)


Pavlína
on behalf of your CEMS Alumni Board Team
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