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Amritha M.

Amritha Mani

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50+ Admits incl. LSE, Michigan, Columbia, IIM, Harvard | Columbia MBA

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    Columbia Business School

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    The Renegade Co.

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Your strong GPA and GMAT scores are NOT enough. Admissions teams for the top schools review 1,000s of incredible profiles every day. What will make YOURS stand out? Hey, I'm Amritha. I'm a Columbia MBA graduate, former Strategy Leader and now, MBA Admissions Consultant. And I help Master's and MBA candidates NAIL their application strategy. It all starts with your STORY. Why are you applying - why now, who are you - and what do you stand for? You need a SINGLE UNFORGETTABLE STORY that ties together your entire application package - from your resume, to your essays, to your letters of recommendation. A story that will STICK in the minds of the admissions team, as they wade through application after application. And I will help you find your story - even if you believe you don't have a story or you're not that special. You are. I know this from both sides. At 17, I walked into KPMG shy, scared and clueless about what I wanted. So I asked myself the hard questions. Who am I? What matters to me? How do I build a career around that? Those are the exact questions admissions committees are asking you. Answering these questions and building my application around them, took me into Columbia Business School as one of the youngest in my cohort, through four countries, the World Bank and the United Nations, and three ventures I launched, scaled, failed and launched again. I've coached 50+ applicants to admits, including LSE, Michigan and Harvard (MPA), and mentored 6,000+ young leaders worldwide. Columbia MBA. Ex-KPMG. Ex-Dalberg. 14+ years leading strategy and transformation. Book a free intro call. Tell me where you're applying and what scares you most about it, and I'll tell you exactly what I'd do next. Amritha.

Amritha’s Master’s Programs Qualifications

Coaches professionally

100+ Master’s Programs clients

Your ability to tell your unique story will make or break your application. Who are you, really - and how do the dots connect? Most applicants can't see it clearly themselves. I can. I hold an MBA from Columbia Business School and have hands-on experience as an MBA admissions consultant with The Red Pen, where I've helped 50+ applicants uncover their real story and land offers at schools including LSE, Michigan, Columbia, IIM, and Harvard (MPA). I know this process from both sides - I went through it myself, got into Columbia, and have spent years since helping others do the same. Beyond admissions, I bring 14+ years of enterprise-scale strategy and transformation leadership - operating at Director and Principal level across financial services, government, and global consulting. I've been an advisor to 500M dollar strategy reviews, presented directly to Boards and C-suites, and led cross-functional teams of up to 500+ stakeholders - delivering measurable results, including 40-45% efficiency gains. My background spans KPMG, Dalberg, and the United Nations, working across Sydney, New York, Jakarta, and Mumbai. Let's find your story - YOUR INCREDIBLE UNIQUE STORY — and build an application that's unmistakably yours.

Amritha can help with:

Application Strategy

Editing

Essays

Financial Aid & Scholarships

General Exploration

Interviews

Letters of Recommendation

Resume

School Selection

Secondary Review

Waitlist Strategy

Why do I coach?

Your version is better than mine because it's in your voice, so I only fixed grammar and one gap in the flow: Most people never get asked who they are. An application is the first time anyone forces the question. Why this? Why now? What do you stand for? Even brilliant applicants freeze, because nobody ever taught them how to answer it. I know that freeze. I never thought I could be a leader. Then I started asking myself the hard questions, rebuilt who I was on purpose, and built my Columbia application around the answers. The career I have now is incredible BECAUSE I coached myself constantly to build it around what matters most to me. Then I started coaching others. I founded a global career programme for young people and have now coached 6,000+ young people worldwide. I see in real time what happens when someone finally sees their own story. They walk into the room differently. Their career, their whole life, transforms. That's why I coach. Everyone has a story worth telling, and my job is to make sure the people reading your application can't miss yours.

Work Experience

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Director

WaterNSW

August 2017 - June 2018

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Founder and Managing Director

The Renegade Co.

August 2017 - Present

The Renegade Co. is a transformation and strategy consultancy for founders and leaders at an inflection point. We are not textbook consultants. We are not junior analysts with frameworks. We are a group of renegades who have been in the room - at the Board table, in the crisis, in the chaos - trained at the world's best institutions, and crazy enough to have built things ourselves. We have the rigour. We have the scars. And we know exactly how to fix what's breaking - so you can lead with clarity again. Whether you're a founder at a startup, steering a scaleup while you see the cracks form - or a vagabond division inside a bigger business - we've got you. Client list so far - BDO TransGrid WaterNSW CrazyMightWork TAFENSW Woolworths Group Online Education Services Candella Australian Government --- We also have a social enterprise wing, that provides subsidized career coaching to young people worldwide, with 6000 young people trained and upskilled so far.

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MBA Admissions Consultant

The Red Pen

January 2017 - November 2018

BAI Communications Logo

Strategy & Analytics

BAI Communications

June 2016 - June 2017

Dalberg Logo

Senior Strategy Consultant

Dalberg

June 2015 - March 2016

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MBA Consultant

United Nations

May 2014 - August 2014

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Manager

Commonwealth Bank of Australia

February 2013 - July 2013

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Senior Consultant

KPMG Australia

January 2007 - August 2010

Education

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Columbia Business School

MBA, Business Administration

2013 - 2015

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University of Technology Sydney

Bachelor's Degre, Business

2007 - 2010

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