Doug P.
5.0
Studied at Stanford Graduate School of Business
Worked at KIPP DC
Available Wednesday at 12:00 AM UTC
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About Doug
Coached 50+ MBAs on shaping their narratives. 5-year K-12 educator. Coachees admitted to HBS, Wharton, Kellogg, Yale, & more. I will be ruthlessly honest & endlessly supportive in ensuring your success. -- Doug has spent his career as an educator building programs to center student belonging -- first directing an outdoor orientation program at Dartmouth, then for 5 years as a teacher in Washington DC with Teach for America. Now he's at Stanford's GSB to think about people-centered, community-led entrepreneurial approaches to educational equity. Doug is on Leland because he knows how hard important it can feel to work in social impact, but also how boxing in it can feel. If you book with Doug, he will help you build the narrative you need to get into a top tier MBA program or help you consider what next steps make the most sense for you.
Work Experience
Theater Arts Teacher & Director
KIPP DC
July 2018 - June 2023
• Leadership: Taught 150 students annually during day & directed casts of 40 after school. Built brave cultures in casts & classes. Earned 2021 Teacher-to-Teacher Award; nominated & selected by 100+ colleagues for excellence in teaching. 2018 Teach for America DC Corps Member; awarded TFA Community Champion award upon completion of the program. • Communication: Managed 5 assistant directors, producers, & choreographers to produce annual musical. Initiated & managed 18 partnerships with local theaters, non-profits, & contractors to support our work. • Operations: Created & managed 4-month long production calendars to meet creative & technical demands. Managed $29,000 annual budget & earned over $10,000 in supplemental grant funding. • Strategic Design: Designed theater group to emphasize student leadership & connection; created student executive board, pioneered inaugural student-written & directed One-Act Play festival. • Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion: Directed West Side Story in response to community-based violence; facilitated activities for students to heal through performance & connection.
Director, Dartmouth Outing Club First-Year Trips
Dartmouth
December 2016 - December 2017
Hiring Manager
• Leadership: Hired and supervised a 19-person leadership team; developed structures to facilitate strong communication & build culture within the team. Guided leadership team in facilitating the recruitment, selection, and training of 366 student volunteers. Managed $350,000 budget. • Partnership: Collaborated with 12 College offices to provide students a welcoming & smooth introduction to college life. • Strategy & Operation: Reimagined 82-year-old program finale to accommodate new location within 3 months due to construction delays in planned location. Exit survey results showed 90% satisfaction with programming at new location. Wrote 27-page Annual Report summarizing the program's impact. • Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion: Developed and executed an inclusive recruitment strategy that solicited 651 volunteer applications, a 30% increase from the prior year and the largest volunteer application pool in the program’s 80-year history. Emphasized outreach to folks from BIPOC communities, generating 15% increase in applications from students from such communities; met our goal of making Trips’ volunteer corps reflect the student body’s demographics.
Education
Stanford Graduate School of Business
MBA, MBA
2023 - 2025
Johns Hopkins University
Masters of Science, Education
2018 - 2020
Dartmouth College
Bachelor's Degree, Geography
2013 - 2017
Doug was also personally admitted to
The Wharton School (UPenn)
Chicago Booth
Yale School of Management
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