CUBS Leaders of Tomorrow is an initiative that formally recognises the impact of students beyond academic grades. It allows students to showcase their many talents, capabilities, and resulting impacts across several categories. Open to all undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes, Leaders of Tomorrow enables students to articulate a complete picture of their impact during their time in CUBS.
The 2022/23 recipients were celebrated at a ceremony at the Aula Maxima in UCC where they were presented with their awards by Dean of Cork University Business School, Professor Thia Hennessy.
Find out more about each of the awardees below.
Outstanding Achievement Award Winners - L-R: Sam Davies, Rose Goggin, Margaret Lynch, Alison McKeown, CUBS Dean Professor Thia Hennessy, Emma Coffey and Neasa O'Sullivan.
- Neasa O Sullivan (BSc Finance4): won the Global Citizen category helping to create successful social enterprises that delivered positive impacts for both the environment and society. She got the opportunity to represent Ireland and present the social enterprises at the Enactus World Cup in 2022
- Margaret Lynch (MSc Human Resource Management): won the Innovation & Entrepreneurship category for managing the nursing leadership of a 30 bedded modular build in the Mercy University Hospital (MUH). There is a daily challenge to allocate beds to admitted patients in the Emergency Department (ED) who are on trollies and meet our required commitment to admit patients for time critical cancer procedures.
- Sam Davies (BComm International French4): won the Exceptional Journey category for overcoming a sudden loss of vision and long-term visual impairment. Sam empowered himself through his disability to achieve great experiences and educate people on the topic of accessibility.
- Rose Goggin (BComm4): won the Student’s Choice. As chairperson of UCC’s Commerce Society, she ensured each committee member was able to do their role to the best of their ability, grow new skills and be able to put their academic learnings to practice. She organised the first ever BComm co-curricular event where the Commerce Society along with 80 BComm students came out in full force and raised over €1600 for our local charity SHARE.
- Alison McKeown (MSc Human Resource Management): won the Learning Transformation category for working with the Scout Section in Bishopstown Scouts. She redeveloped the learning programme by improving planning methods, including long term skill development strategies, and incorporating the children into developing the plan using the 'Court of Honour' system.
- Emma Coffey (BComm4, Quercus Scholar): won the Deans’ Leadership category for her contribution to CUBS Conference, as well as being included in the Sunday Independents 30 under 30 list of 2022. She is a very successful CEO and Founder at FinalBend, and co-founder at UGC.ie. FinalBend specialises in providing sustainable sportswear at sustainable prices. Through scaling FinalBend, the idea for UGC.ie, an automated content service was born. UGC.ie gives Irish SME’s access to content creators based across Ireland and Europe.
Shortlisted Candidates
Global Citizen
- Brian Lagrue (BSc BIS)
- Albert Alexander Kure (MSc Food Security Policy and Mgmt)
- Sneha Sampath (BIAS)
- Jade Morrissey (BSc International Development and Food Policy)
- Rachel O Callaghan (BSc Finance)
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- James Collins O'Brien (BSc BIS)
- Patrick O'Gorman (MSc Design and Development of Digital Business)
- Madan Malathesh Haribhat (MSc Marketing and Management)
Exceptional Journey
- Aoife Foley Landers (BComm)
- Gaurav Nagpal (MSc Marketing and Management)
Recognition Certificates
Global Citizen
- Cara Griffin (BComm Int)
- Sumer Mehra (MSc DDDB)
- Jack O'Neill (MSc ISBP)
- Darragh Williams (MSc HRM)
- Ria Sunny Philip (MSc Finance)
Innovation
- Jai Lalita Soren (MSc BIAS)
- Sean O'Mahony (BSc BIS)
- Piotr Janus (BSc BIS)
- Clare O’Driscoll (BSc BIS)
- Eilish Galvin (BSc BIS)
- Learning Transformation
- Ritika Roongta (MSc BIAS)
- Michael Duxbury (BSc BIS)
- Alex Linehan (BComm)
- Niamh Harrington (BSc BIS)
- Casey Doran (BSc BIS)
- Garvit Gulati (BSc BIAS)
- Clementine Kamekpo (BComm Int)
Exceptional Journey
- Sarah O'Connell (BSc BIS)
- Mayank Srivastava (MSc BIAS)
- Students Choice
- Rahul Math (MSc BIAS)