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Networking with Kingsley Aikins
We were delighted to invite Kingsley Aikins, a renowned authority in Ireland on business networking, to address MBAAI members and guests in the RDS Members Club in October 2025. Dublin-born, Kingsley is an Economics and Politics graduate of Trinity College Dublin who has lived and worked in six countries around the world. He returned to […]
Learn over lunch: pensions and auto-enrolment
The latest in an occasional series of informative 30-minute virtual insights on topical business issues, labelled "Learn over Lunch", took place with a talk by pensions experts Moneycube on "Auto-enrolment – what it means for you and your team" . Auto-enrolment – the...
“Learn over lunch”: the AI Act
The first of an occasional series of informative 30-minute virtual insights on topical business issues, labelled "Learn over Lunch", kicked off in July with a talk by Parva Consulting on the AI Act. Attendees came away with a clear understanding of what the EU AI Act...
Deborah Perry Piscione: Employment is Dead!
Our quarterly series of international speaker events continued in June at the RDS as we welcomed Deborah Perry Piscione, author of the recent Harvard Business Review publication Employment is Dead! How Disruptive Technologies are Revolutionizing the Way We Work....
Visit to Dail Eireann
We were delighted to make available to members an off-site visit to Dail Eireann in May. Leinster House is the seat of Ireland's Parliament and the tour honed in on its rich 300-year history, as well as taking in both the Dail and Seanad chambers, and the famous Dail...
2025 MBAAI annual golf outing
The annual MBAAI Golf Outing again took place at Powerscourt Golf Club in Co. Wicklow, with past Board member and retaining champion Bryan Murphy taking the spoils, two shots ahead of previous winner Conor Horgan. In glorious sunshine, members and guests took on the...
Navigating Complexity through LEGO® Serious Play®
In conjunction with Resonate Leadership, a LEGO® Serious Play® session took place recently for members in the RDS dealing with the subject of "Navigating Complexity". In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, traditional approaches to leadership often fall...
Hira Ali: Helping men lead through advocacy
In the first in our series of international speaker events this year, we were delighted to welcome Hira Ali, author of Her Allies: A Practical Toolkit to Help Men Lead Through Advocacy, to Dublin to address members in the RDS Members' Club. The event took place in the...
Alf Smiddy in UCC: Mastering adaptability
The Association's Southern Chapter was delighted to host a breakfast event at the UCC Centre for Executive Education in Cork in February with MBA Adjunct Professor Alf Smiddy speaking on the topic of effective leadership. This was an illuminating session on adaptive...
TU Dublin wins Annual Strategy Competition
TU Dublin beat off stiff competition from four other business schools to win the annual MBAAI National Strategy competition at Platform X at KPMG in Dublin. The team, comprised of Tom Proctor, Xiaoyu Xie, Thokozile Phiri and Rachel Murphy, were adjudicated by a panel...










