Joan D
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Studied at The Wharton School (UPenn)
Works at Boehringer Ingelheim
Available tomorrow at 3:00 PM UTC
I am taking applicants in 2026 admission cycle for US M7 + S16 MBA programs, and major European programs (LBS, HEC, Bocconi, Oxford Said, Cambridge, plus a few non-mainstream German programs)
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About Joan
I am Joan, a sharp, creative and honest person in everything I do. I've spent 8+ years helping candidates find what makes them genuinely irreplaceable, and build their application around that. I have coached 60+ successful M7/S16 admits, with a 40% scholarship rate. My background is unusual for a coach. As an MBB-trained consultant turned healthcare executive, I've lived the career pivot many of you are planning. I can speak candidly about post-MBA trajectories — especially for consultants mapping their exit. I'm also a published creative writer, and I bring that instinct to every essay. Good admissions writing doesn't sound polished — it sounds like you, at your most compelling.
Why do I coach?
I coach partly because I've seen what happens when a remarkable person gets filtered out by a mediocre application. It bothers me in a specific, unshakeable way. MBA admissions is a strange game. The criteria are rigorous, but the process rewards self-knowledge — something most high-achievers have spent their careers actively avoiding. You've been optimizing outputs. Nobody asked you who you are yet. That's where I come in. Not to invent a persona, but to do something harder: help you excavate the real one. I've found that the most compelling candidates are rarely the ones with the most impressive résumés. They're the ones who've figured out what they actually want, and can say it plainly. I coach because that excavation process - part therapy, part storytelling, part strategy - is genuinely the most interesting work I know how to do.
Work Experience
Group product manager, CVRM
Boehringer Ingelheim
2019 - Present
Head of strategy and investments
Bayer
2015 - 2018
Case Team Leader
Bain & Company
2014 - 2016
Investment Banking Associate
Goldman Sachs
2013 - 2013
Technology & Media group, Investment Banking Division 并购
Associate / Senior Associate
Booz Allen Hamilton
January 2008 - July 2012
- Customer relationship & team leading capacities - Fast track promotion - Firm sponsored business school program 并购
Education
The Wharton School (UPenn)
MBA, Finance & Marketing
2012 - 2014
Company sponsored candidate. I have been alumni interviewer for Wharton undergraduate program since 2019
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Bachelor of Science, Industrial Engineering
2002 - 2006
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