From expanding access to surgical care to leading teams around the world, four members of Goizueta’s Class of 2026 are thinking beyond their first post-graduation job—and about the kind of impact they hope to make over the course of their careers.
A new year naturally invites a question: What comes next?
For MBA graduates, the most immediate answer might be a new job, a new city, or a return to an industry with a broader set of skills. But ask graduates to look beyond that first step, and their ambitions reveal much more about the leaders they hope to become.
Among the accomplished members of Emory University’s Goizueta Business School Class of 2026 are Ginger (Abblitt) Rondinelli 26MBA, Jasmine King 26MBA, Michael Coyne 26MBA, and Sean Titus 26MBA. Their experiences before and during business school span engineering, marketing, medicine, manufacturing, international development, consulting, retail, and military service.
We asked them to look beyond graduation and consider a bigger question: What are the top two items on your professional bucket list?
Their answers point toward four very different futures—and a shared desire to make an impact that extends well beyond a job title.
Responses have been edited for length and clarity.
Ginger (Abblitt) Rondinelli 26MBA
Hometown: Atlanta, Georgia
Before Goizueta: Retail Marketing Manager, Oldcastle APG, a CRH company
After graduation: Undecided
What are the top two items on your professional bucket list?
First, I want to acquire and grow a business. I’m drawn to the idea of taking an existing company with strong fundamentals and helping it scale through better operations, product strategy, and market positioning. My background in engineering, product development, and marketing has shown me how much value can be created by improving how a business runs day to day, and I would love the opportunity to lead a company through that kind of transformation.
Second, I hope to build a career that allows me to work across borders and collaborate with teams around the world. Travel has always been a big passion of mine, and I’m energized by the opportunity to learn from different markets, cultures, and ways of doing business. Being able to work internationally and bring together perspectives from different regions to solve problems and grow businesses would be incredibly meaningful to me.
Jasmine King 26MBA
Hometown: Buffalo, New York
Before Goizueta: Pivot Precision
After graduation: CEO of Pivot Precision while finishing her medical education
King, an MD/MBA candidate whose interests bridge medicine, manufacturing, and health equity, was also featured by Poets & Quants as one of its 2026 Best & Brightest MBAs.
What are the top two items on your professional bucket list?
One of my foremost goals is to lead the development of a financially sustainable surgical care model for underserved patients. As an MD/MBA pursuing surgery, I hope to design and implement a surgical care pathway within an academic health system that expands access for patients experiencing homelessness, substance use disorder, or significant social vulnerability. I hope to work at the intersection of perioperative care redesign, reimbursement strategy, and community partnership to build models that integrate preoperative optimization, care coordination, and postoperative follow-up for high-risk populations.
I also want to contribute to the revitalization of the trades and economic development in Buffalo through my family manufacturing business. As a third-generation leader, I aspire to use the business as a platform for rebuilding pathways into the skilled trades in my hometown. Beyond growing the company, I want to contribute to a broader economic revival that restores pride in the trades as both viable and vital professions.
Michael Coyne 26MBA
Hometown: Golden, Colorado
Before Goizueta: Project Manager, DAI Global
After graduation: Consultant, Bain & Company, Atlanta
What are the top two items on your professional bucket list?
First, I’d love to lead a business meeting in Spanish.
Second: I hope to manage a state or federal government agency.
Sean Titus 26MBA
Hometown: Washington, D.C.
Before Goizueta: Senior Analyst – Inventory Strategy & Solutions, The Home Depot
After graduation: Consultant, Boston Consulting Group, Atlanta
What are the top two items on your professional bucket list?
First, I want to lead a business unit or consulting practice area on an international scale so that I can continue to work with talented people from all over the world.
Second, I want to provide mentorship and support to those who come after me, so that they can be better than I will ever be capable of.
Looking Beyond the First Job
Taken together, the four lists resist a narrow definition of post-MBA success. Their next steps may be different, but each is thinking beyond the job immediately in front of them.
As a new year begins, that may be the more interesting question for a new generation of MBA graduates: not simply “Where will you be next year?” but “What are you building toward?”
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