Leland+ for Management Consulting

Market Sizing Master Class

After this session, you will know how to structure a market sizing answer that holds up under follow-up questions, not just one that lands a reasonable number. We will cover how to choose the right estimation approach for a given prompt, how to segment a market in a way that signals business intuition, and how to recover cleanly when an interviewer pushes back on your assumptions.

Crafting Strong Behavioral Stories for Consulting Interviews

After this session, you will know how to structure behavioral stories that hold up under the pressure of a consulting interview, including how to frame impact without overstating your role and how to adapt the same story across different competency questions. You will also leave with a clearer sense of which story types tend to resonate with interviewers evaluating leadership, ambiguity, and teamwork.

Clean up Your Consulting Resume in 30 mins

Your resume is often your first opportunity to make an impression, and in consulting, even small changes can make a meaningful difference. This session is for candidates who want to strengthen their consulting resume and improve their chances of landing interviews. You’ll learn how to communicate impact more effectively, highlight the experiences firms care about most, and eliminate the common mistakes that weaken otherwise strong resumes.

The Best Recruiting Companion - Networking Tracker

There is no better way to tackle application cycle stress, than without this simple and fool-proof networking tracker! Navigating recruitment can be overwhelming, but managing your contacts does not have to be. Designed for ultimate efficiency, this foolproof tracker keeps everything you need to know perfectly organized and easy to access. It cuts out the unnecessary data so you can focus strictly on building relationships that matter. Download it now to streamline your process and start growing your professional network.

How to Structure Any Case

After this session, you'll know how to walk into any case with a clear framework for structuring your thinking from the first 30 seconds. We'll cover how to identify which structure fits a given prompt, how to avoid the most common structural mistakes I see candidates make in live interviews, and how to communicate your logic in a way that signals business intuition rather than memorized templates.

Live Case Coach Throwdown: Bain vs. McKinsey

Two of Leland's top case coaches. One case. Zero mercy. Watch a Bain alum and a McKinsey alum go head to head through a live mock case, judged in real time by former consultant interviewers who know exactly what it takes to crack a case at the highest level. Who structures better? Who drives insight faster? Who would actually get the offer?

Management Consulting Week Kickoff

Breaking into consulting can feel overwhelming when you're trying to navigate networking, recruiting timelines, case interviews, and firm selection all at once. This kickoff session is designed for aspiring consultants who want a clear roadmap for the recruiting process and a better understanding of what to focus on throughout the week. You’ll learn how top firms evaluate candidates, identify the most important components of a successful recruiting strategy, and create a plan for getting the most value from each upcoming session.

Frameworks and Tips for Case Interviews

Overview of the most common case interview frameworks plus general interview tips and best practices.

XYZ Holiday Parks: Full Case + Model Answers

The exact case I ran live in Inside the Interview Room, now with the full model solution written out. Covers all 5 questions: structuring the profit drivers, estimating revenue under pressure, calculating EBIT, assessing the acquisition with a competitive framework, and testing MECE logic on a growth question. Each question includes what the interviewer is actually scoring, not just the "right" answer. Best for anyone prepping for MBB case interviews who wants to practice with real interview-style questions and see exactly how a structured answer should look.

Crack the Quant: A Framework for Case Math and Exhibits

This is the deck from a previous event about tackling exhibits. Learn a new framework I built to help understand where you're going and what you're missing, then apply that framework to a real exhibit.

MBB Math Guide

The interviewer slides a number across the table, the mental clock starts, and a perfectly capable person goes silent, scrawls something unlabeled in a corner of the page, and produces an answer with no idea whether it's plausible. This guide fixes that. It distills MBB quantitative interviewing down to the seven patterns that show up again and again: market sizing, breakeven, profitability trees, ROI and payback, the margin-versus-markup trap, capacity and utilization, and unit economics. It works each one through a full, spoken-aloud solution, the way you'd actually deliver it in the room. You'll learn to frame the equation before you calculate, round aggressively and say so, sanity-check every number against the real world, and close with the one sentence that separates a calculator from a consultant.

MBB Market Sizing Guide

You can get the number right and still fail the case. MBB interviewers aren't scoring your arithmetic; they're scoring whether you stated the equation before you computed, whether you caught that transactions aren't cups, whether you know an installed base from an annual sales flow and whether you finished with the business implication instead of the number. This guide is seven cases, ordered by difficulty, each written the way the question actually appears in a real interview: clarifying questions worth asking, the trap that catches the average candidate, a full worked answer, and a breakdown of what separates a strong one. You'll size: + Disposable cups at a national coffee chain + Airport throughput two independent ways + UK pet insurance + German elevator maintenance + US EV fast-charging in 2030 + An AI radiology product with no observable price + US residential HVAC

4 Case Interview Habits That Separate Offers From Rejections

Most case prep focuses on frameworks and practice. What it misses is the small habits that interviewers actually notice in the room. This cheat sheet covers 4 behaviors that consistently separate candidates who get MBB offers from those who don't. Based on real experience as an ex-McKinsey consultant and HBS MBA who has been on both sides of the interview table. Useful whether you have 3 weeks or 3 months until your interview.

McKinsey PEI - REAL EXAMPLES AND TEMPLATE

This resource is for folks who are preparing for the McKinsey PEI. The McKinsey PEI is a notoriously difficult interview to prep for as it's unique to the Firm. This short guide contains an explanation, real examples, and templates as you prepare your stories. Feedback from successful McKinsey candidates who have used this template: - "Sophie helped me a lot for preparing for McKinsey's PEI section, and I received feedback that it was a very strong part of my interview. The stories, and the way she helped me structure them, helped me stand out at other firms I recruited for as well. Would highly recommend!" - "I highly recommend her for your behavioral interviews. She has taught me how to approach it with a structure overall and within each of the STAR steps, making it very easy for my interviewers to follow through." - "Sophie taught me how to approach questions with a clear structure, both overall and within each step of the STAR method. This made my stories much easier for interviewers to follow."

Tracker Template for Practice Cases

This is a tool I used for my case tracking purposes, combined with other elements used by peers during our MBA recruitment cycle

Practice cases

4 Practice McKinsey-style cases, written by someone who has given 100+ cases at McKinsey.

McKinsey PEI: Behavioral Story Development Worksheet

This worksheet is a companion tool to the bootcamp / consulting offer week classes I teach on developing a compelling behavioral & PEI story, and walks through two frameworks for how to select a story and how to develop it in order to get to a strong first pass.

Consulting Resume

Received interview invites with BCG, McKinsey, Bain, Deloitte, Accenture, EY Health, Strategy&, Chartis

Accenture Cover Letter

Received interview invite

Deloitte Cover Letter

Received an interview