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Victoria Feldman

MA (Hons) International Business 2010

Alumni 100
Global Leadership Development Manager, Uber

Victoria is a global leadership development manager who specialises in employee experience and leadership coaching. She manages global organisational design and culture change and adoption programmes for F500 clients as well as startups.

How does it feel to be selected for the Alumni 100 list?

"Amazing and excited!"

What made you choose to study at the University of Edinburgh Business School?

"It's one of the top business schools in Europe."

What are your memories of studying at the Business School?

"It was one of the best times in my life! I really enjoyed the lectures from the amazing professors we had. I also enjoyed working with Professor Chris Carr who guided me to write an award-winning MA (Hons) dissertation."

What's the one thing you think current students need to develop or learn before entering the modern workplace?

"How to pass a job interview, negotiate a salary. How stocks, shares, options and so on work. How to make 'money work for you' and not the other way around."

What key thing that you learnt at the Business School do you still rely on today?

"My favourite subject was 'Negotiation'. One of the key topics we learned was the Prisoner's Dilemma, and the concepts of always having tradeoff."

Proudest work-related achievement to date?

"I've designed and developed leadership development learning experience which impacted over 10,000 employees at Uber and improved culture survey scores!"

Make money work for you, not the other way around.