1:1 Personalized Essay Workshop

You'll get a full workshop for a set of essays (e.g., Stanford GSB's "What Matters Most & Why" and "Why GSB" essays) -- which you can use for any set of essays. We'll go though 3-4 real-life examples of essays that worked and extrapolate techniques you can use to build a genuine narrative for yourself. My mentor, Glenn Kramon, GSB Professor, NYT Senior Editor, and teacher of the acclaimed "Winning Writing" course described the goal of this workshop best -- it will start you on a path from being one OF a million applicants to one IN a million. Even if you're feeling completely lost, unoriginal, or intimidated by the task, we'll work together to get you to a place where you stand out and land a spot at a life-changing MBA program. For additional services -- longer-term essay work, resume review, application strategy, and a complete application review, see the "Comprehensive Package" offerings on my profile! How we'll work together, step by step 1. Before we meet: three videos and four questions. Ze Frank's "The Human Test", Vonnegut on the shapes of stories, and a James Baldwin interview. None of them are about business school. They tune how you read your own writing: how someone brings an audience in, what they are actually trying to get across, and which moments land. Under an hour. 2. The workshop itself. 90 minutes, built out of roughly 20 MBA bootcamps and 100+ essay sessions. We read real essays from people who got in, in full: a "What Matters Most" and "Why Stanford" pair, two 250-character goals answers, and a before-and-after opening. You read first and tell me what you see before I say anything. The point is not whether you like them. It is that you understand how they function, so you can do it in your own voice. 3. What we extract. Stop writing for what you think they want to hear. Levels of depth, not topics. What is pushing you away from where you are and what is pulling you toward this specific future. Your contributions are your receipts. If a sentence could refer to anything, it is not good enough yet. Then we point every one of those at your own material while we are still on the call. 4. What you take away. The MBA Self-Discovery Workbook: 40 pages, 13 sections, 60+ questions on your goals, values, strengths, challenges, behavioral stories and story bank. Built for several sittings, not one. Most of it will never reach an essay, and that is the point: the thinking is the deliverable. For the full process after this, including unlimited drafts, a fact pack per school, editing and final review, see my Essay Unlimited and Comprehensive packages.