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About
Nobody looked at my résumé a few years ago and saw a McKinsey consultant. I was running paid media for retailers and auto dealers, with a real estate operations job before that, and no consultants in my family to ask for advice. Then I went to Kelley on a full tuition merit fellowship, recruited into consulting, and earned a full time offer from McKinsey. That path taught me what most coaches who took the straight line never had to learn: how to make an unusual background read as an advantage instead of a question mark. Your story isn't a liability. Told well, it's the reason they remember you. Today I'm a McKinsey trained strategy consultant in Chicago, working with Fortune 500 leaders across CPG, retail, technology, and staffing, and leading enterprise generative AI adoption work. At Kelley, I screened candidates for the consulting club and led student consulting teams. Over the years I've coached 50+ friends, colleagues, and classmates through MBA and consulting recruiting.
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Aboira’s MBA Qualifications
Kelley MBA on a full tuition merit fellowship, Consortium Wallace L. Jones Fellow, and McKinsey trained strategy consultant. I recruited into consulting from a digital marketing background, screened candidates for Kelley's consulting club, and converted my McKinsey summer internship into a full time offer. I help MBA students and incoming admits who want consulting: building a recruiting plan before first year starts, networking with intention, turning a nonlinear background into a compelling story, and preparing for case and fit interviews through final rounds.
Aboira can help with:
General Exploration
Interviews
Networking Strategy
Resume
Why do I coach?
I coach because someone did it for me. Between my first and second year at Kelley, I worked with a coach, and it made a real difference in how I prepared and how confident I felt walking into interviews. Now I get to be that person for someone else. I especially love working with people whose paths don't follow a straight line. Career switchers bring perspective that firms genuinely value, and helping someone find the words for their own story is one of the most rewarding parts of what I do. My approach is practical and encouraging. Together we'll build clear, structured case thinking, shape fit stories that sound like you, and map out a recruiting plan you feel good about. I'll always be honest about what's working and what to sharpen, because I want you walking into every interview prepared and proud of your story.
Work Experience
AI & GTM Strategic Advisor
Stealth Startup
August 2025 - Present
Advise leadership of an early stage digital health AI company on go to market strategy, AI product positioning, and enterprise customer success.
Associate
McKinsey & Company
September 2024 - Present
Strategy and operations consultant serving Fortune 500 C suite leaders across CPG, retail, apparel, technology, automotive, and staffing. Work spans enterprise generative AI adoption (scaled onboarding on the firm's internal generative AI platform), roughly $100M procurement negotiation prep for a global food and beverage company, initiative sizing and marketing org redesign for a public staffing firm ($9M to $15M annualized impact identified), and competitive benchmarking for Fortune 100 tech CFOs. Regularly builds partner ready and client ready deliverables under tight timelines, including SteerCo decks, financial models, and executive workshop materials.
Summer Associate
McKinsey & Company
May 2023 - August 2023
Summer internship on a Fortune 500 pricing and commercial excellence engagement. Designed a tailored KPI dashboard for C suite executives to strengthen strategic decision making, and led dynamic SKU level pricing analysis and cross functional training across divisional offices, reducing lost sales and improving brand health. Received a full time return offer.
Associate Manager
Rise Interactive
November 2020 - May 2022
Managed paid media strategy for a $1B enterprise client as the agency's subject matter expert, developing and executing upsell strategies that expanded channel mix and revenue. Led a company wide redesign of new hire onboarding that significantly reduced ramp time and improved satisfaction scores, and designed DEI programming that grew event attendance by 200%+. Left to pursue an MBA at Kelley.
Project Manager
jhme Real Estate Advisors
December 2019 - May 2021
Part time project management consultant for a real estate advisory firm, overseeing $2.5M to $16M construction projects on behalf of institutional lenders. Identified 5+ issues per project on average, preventing $250K+ in potential overruns and keeping every milestone on schedule across the portfolio.
Digital Media Consultant
Creative Circle
December 2019 - May 2021
Contract consultant advising a $20M+ portfolio of 12 businesses, including Berkshire Hathaway and MassMutual, on paid media strategy. Insights contributed to a $10M+ client contract renewal, and built custom data tracking systems that increased client website engagement by 250%.
Account Manager
Publicis Groupe
July 2019 - December 2019
Account Manager at one of the world's largest marketing and communications holding companies. Owned search engine performance for a Fortune 500 retail client, generating $1M in incremental revenue, and led the expansion of shopping ad campaigns that delivered a 25% revenue lift during Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
Senior Digital Media Specialist
L2TMedia
June 2018 - July 2019
Led paid media execution across a $12M+ automotive client portfolio, managing 3 direct reports and driving 10% revenue growth by expanding media channels and improving cross sell rate by 15%. Ran biweekly training for a 20 person offshore team, reducing account errors by 50%.
Chief of Staff / Property Manager
Richco Industrial Inc
January 2017 - May 2018
Chief of Staff and Property Manager overseeing a $10M commercial and residential real estate portfolio. Reduced excess expenditures by $10K/month through vendor renegotiation and expense rationalization, and led $200K+ contracting projects that achieved 100% occupancy.
Aboira was also given offers to work at
Starbucks
Gartner
3M
Rockwell Automation
Education
Kelley School of Business (Indiana)
Masters of Business Administration, Management
Kelley Merit Fellowship (full tuition) The Consortium: Wallace L. Jones Fellowship recipient Delta Travel Scholarship recipient Case Competition Finalist Consulting Club: screened candidates during club recruiting Consulting Academy Leader: led a team of first year MBAs advising a business 1Kelley Consulting Lead: led a team of undergrads advising a business
University of Tulsa
BS, Marketing and Business
Freshman Student Government President
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