Winners of the Drucker Challenge Essay Award 2025

Students Category

1. Vitoria Maia Machado (BR)
While it still blossoms on the outside

BIOGRAPHY ESSAY

2. Antonia De Mello (BR)
Forecasting Justice: Why the Future Can’t Wait for Tragedy

BIOGRAPHY ESSAY

3. Hope Philip * (NG)
Embracing Second Curves: The Pastorialist's Approach

BIOGRAPHY ESSAY


*  HONORABLE MENTION FOR THE MOST CREATIVE  ESSAY

Places 4th to 10th

4. Avinash Lanka (US)
Ascend: From Rupture to Reinvention on the Second Curve of Leadership		 BIOGRAPHY ESSAY
5. MacDonald Maduabuchi (NG)
The Second Curve; Even in Pursuit of the First		 BIOGRAPHY ESSAY
6. Nithinkaatesh Palanisamy (SG)
Riding the Second Curve: Mastering Transformation in an Uncertain World		 BIOGRAPHY ESSAY
7. Simone dos Santos (AO)
The Courage to Change at the Right Time: My Second Curve Between Skies and Continents		 BIOGRAPHY ESSAY
8. Maria Eduarda Motta (BR)
How Many Edges Does a Curve Have? Leading Each Curve from the Inside Out with Purpose and Presence		 BIOGRAPHY ESSAY
9. Gabriel Edibo (NG)
Renaissance of Growth Playbook		 BIOGRAPHY ESSAY
10. Faith Nyokabi (KE)
Riding my own Second curve		 BIOGRAPHY ESSAY

Places 11th to 15th (no ranking) in alphabetical order

Luma Gabrielle Almeida Borges (AR)
When The Water Boils		 ESSAY
Emily Haynes (GB)
What do you want to be when you grow up?		 ESSAY
Erika Ito (US)
From Scalpel to Systems: Navigating the Second Curve with Drucker		 ESSAY
Hylda Silalahi (ID)
The Making of A Sailor		 ESSAY
Isabela Silva (BR)
The 'Second Curve': The Reinvention Algorithm		 ESSAY

Winners of the Drucker Challenge Essay Award 2025

Managers/Entrepreneurs Category

1. Rosemary Chiedza Mukucha (CM)
From Mbare’s Hustle to Digital Horizons: Embracing Zimbabwe’s Second Curve with Stoic Heart

BIOGRAPHY ESSAY

2. Oluchi Nkeonye (NG)
Ready or not, Here It Comes

BIOGRAPHY ESSAY

3. Kudakwashe Whitney Foya (ZW)
3084: The Transhumanistic Second Curve

BIOGRAPHY ESSAY

Places 4th to 10th

4. Trishali Singh Chauhan (IN)
The Curve of Life: Embracing Change Beyond the Straight Line		 BIOGRAPHY ESSAY
5. Peter Junior Njovu (ZW)
The cave I feared to enter: How the need for a career shift altered my way of thinking		 BIOGRAPHY ESSAY
6. Royyan Adiwijaya (KO)
How my Second Curve Turns my Fear into Fuel		 BIOGRAPHY ESSAY
7. Nancy Dabas (IN)
Curves of Change - The Unfinished Curve of Political Renewal		 BIOGRAPHY ESSAY
8. Siphiwe Sikhosana (ZA) *
I Died Before I Learned to Live		 BIOGRAPHY ESSAY
9. Shamsikamar Sharipova (UZ)
The courage to "plant a tree" where there was no forest: A Second Curve School Story		 BIOGRAPHY ESSAY
10. Alex Watani (KE)
A journey from concrete to calling		 BIOGRAPHY ESSAY
10. Fehintoluwa Fabelurin (NG)
Move on		 BIOGRAPHY ESSAY

*  HONORABLE MENTION FOR THE MOST CREATIVE  ESSAY

Places 11th to 15th (no ranking) in alphabetical order

Blessed Gracious Chinaka (ZW)
The Second Curve of Reinvention: From Startup Collapse to Social Good in Zimbabwe		 ESSAY
Anesu Ndoro (ZW)
The Rhythm of the Second Curve: A Musician’s Perspective		 ESSAY
Viraj Parikh (US)
From The White House Situation Room to the Hardware Store		 ESSAY
Jessica Santos (BR)
The Second Curve: A Personal Journey Through Transformation		 ESSAY
Listianing Widiastuti (ID)
The Glance at The Rearview Mirror		 ESSAY