Kimberley L.

Kimberley L.

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Former Stanford & Northwestern Admissions Director | Proven Success

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Studied at Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern)

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Works at Ascend Education Consulting

Admissions Committee Experience

Available Tuesday at 12:00 AM UTC

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Kimberley's Coaching Offerings

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Kimberley’s College Qualifications

Coaches professionally

60+ people coached for College

I have spent nearly two decades in highly selective educational institutions. My philosophy is to empower individuals to seek their full potential, wherever that may be. I works with students to explore a variety of options ahead of them and helps them reach for their dreams.. Professionally, I have worked at Stanford and Northwestern Universities in a variety of capacities. At Stanford, I worked with international and transfer applications. At Northwestern, I was in the admissions office for 7 years, and oversaw the entire reading and application review process - including training all part-time readers, writing the reader handbook, and directing the application review. As an admissions director, I oversaw applications from around United States and international applications from Europe, China, Singapore, and more. She also directed the transfer admissions process at Northwestern University. After admissions, I was Managing Director, Operations at Kellogg School of Management and the Director of Learning and Development for the Chicago Entrepreneurial Center. ​ Since leaving the admissions, I recognize my wealth of knowledge can help demystify the process for students. I works with individuals to step into their own potential in a space fraught with myths and confusion. I've worked with countless families around the world to help achieve their goals. ​ My work combines a series of 1:1 coaching calls with the student, workshops to craft the strongest sections of the Common Application, and application reviews to help students develop their strongest application.

Kimberley can help with:

Editing

Recommendations

Interviews

Waitlist Strategy

School Selection

Secondary Review

Application Strategy

Essays

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About Kimberley

Kimberley's own degrees are from Wellesley College (BA, Classics), The University of Oxford (MSc., Comparative and International Education & MSc., Education Research Methodologies), and Kellogg School of Management (MBA, Major: Managing Organizations). Professionally, Kimberley has worked at Stanford and Northwestern Universities in a variety of capacities. At Stanford, she worked with international and transfer applications. At Northwestern, she was in the admissions office for 7 years, and oversaw the entire reading and application review process - including training all part-time readers, writing the reader handbook, and directing the application review. As an admissions director, Kimberley oversaw applications from around United States and international applications from Europe, China, Singapore, and more. She also directed the transfer admissions process at Northwestern University. After admissions, Kimberley was Managing Director, Operations at Kellogg School of Management and the Director of Learning and Development for the Chicago Entrepreneurial Center. ​

Why do I coach?

Kimberley Lindsay has spent nearly two decades in highly selective educational institutions. Her philosophy is to empower individuals to seek their full potential, wherever that may be. She works with students to explore a variety of options ahead of them and helps them reach for their dreams. ​ Since leaving the admissions, Kimberley recognizes her wealth of knowledge can help demystify the process for students. She works with individuals to step into their own potential in a space fraught with myths and confusion. She's worked with countless families around the world to help achieve their goals. ​ Kimberley combines a series of 1:1 coaching calls with the student, workshops to craft the strongest sections of the Common Application, and application reviews to help students develop their strongest application.** ​

Work Experience

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Founder

Ascend Education Consulting

January 2025 - Present

-Providing expert admissions advice for students and families navigating the college admissions process.

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Premier Former Admission Officer

Crimson Education

June 2023 - Present

Top FAO (Former Admission Officer) at Crimson Education working with VVIP and VIP clients globally. Provide 1:1 coaching services, lead workshops, and lead global webinars to audiences of 600+ weekly.

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Director of Learning and Development

1871

November 2022 - February 2025

- Work with global experts and practitioners to deliver cutting edge learning opportunities. - Led change management process to provide consolidated hub experience for entire 1871 community. - Have consulted with 1871 since August 2021 on their go-to-market strategy for entrepreneurial curricula (PYROS). Employee Learning & Development, Organizational Development and +3 skills

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Co founder

SquareOne Consulting

2022 - December 2024

- Co-founded consulting company with former colleague to work with college admission offices on improving their operations, strategic vision, and on-boarding new staff. There is always some objective throughout the year (travel/application reading/recruitment) that leaves little time for staff to step back and assess what changes need to be done to improve the next cycle. Our work focuses on giving staff the tools to improve their offices.

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Managing Director, Executive Education

Kellogg School of Management

August 2021 - January 2023

Hiring Manager

- Manage all aspects of program operations for Kellogg's Executive Education. - Supervise 15 full-time program managers and 7 part-time program managers. - Worked with school leadership to revamp academic portfolio offerings to ensure we were meeting the needs to today's clients. - Oversee operational implementation of over 250 Executive Education programs annually. These programs were both open-enrollment (anyone could take a course) and custom (programs delivered for a specific client). - Coordinate with Kellogg faculty, global leaders at international companies, and EE staff to deliver high quality learning development programs. - Led organizational restructuring my team of program managers to provide talent development opportunities for team.

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Associate Director of Admission

Northwestern University

June 2019 - August 2021

Admissions Committee Experience

- Direct evaluation process of all undergraduate applications. Oversee strategic overhaul and implementation of a new review process to ensure equitable evaluation of 50,000+ first-year applications and 6,000+ transfer applications. - Constantly run process analysis to ensure operational strategies align with university targets. - Coordinate hiring and training of 30+ additional readers each year. - Impact of COVID – introduced and established test-optional process for Northwestern. Consulted with other universities to inform their own adoption of policy. - Implement all staff training, onboarding, and day to day operations. - Coordinate university’s partnership with Chicago STAR Scholars. - Manage recruitment and make final decisions for team responsible for 6,500 first-year applications annually.

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Senior Assistant Director of Admissions & Director of Transfer Admissions

Northwestern University

September 2014 - May 2017

Admissions Committee Experience

- Directed transfer admission process. Grew application number by 150% in two years. - Manage regional admission and recruitment team of 8. - Key member of small team managing processes optimization as new CRM was implemented.

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Senior Assistant Director of Admissions

Stanford University

October 2011 - September 2014

Admissions Committee Experience

- Serve as territory manager and review roughly 1800+ undergraduate applications annually from Europe, Central Asia, Russia, India, and part of California. - Work with alumni representatives in Oregon and the UK to facilitate interviews and host events. - Collaborate with another colleague to coordinate the Undergraduate Transfer Admission process at Stanford. - Work with athletic coaches and recruited athlete applications for four sports. - Serve as liaison with UWC students at Stanford and write annual report. - Represent university both on- and off-campus to prospective students, families, secondary school counselors, and all others involved in the college admission process.

Education

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Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern)

Master of Business Administration - MBA, Managing Organizations Major; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Pathway, Managing Organizations

2019 - 2022

Internships: Dean’s Consulting Alliance (2020) -Consulted on Executive Education Certificate strategy, oversaw market analysis and developed marketing strategy. Later recruited as Managing Director of Operations for Executive Education; 1871 (2021): Consulted with the CEO to create and implement a go-to-market strategy for entrepreneurial curriculum, which has now been completed by over 5,000 individuals and 500+ startup companies.

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University of Oxford

Master of Science (MSc), , Education Research Methodologies

2010 - 2011

SKOPE (Oxford University think-tank focused on Skills, Knowledge, and Organizational Performance) co-authored paper presented to UK Parliament on upskilling in the workforce

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University of Oxford

Masters of Science (MSc), Comparative & International Education

2009 - 2010

Internships: Research in Comparative Education directed peer-review for the academic journal. UNESCO: consulted on development of Sustainable Development Goals; OECD: consulted on PISA examinations

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Wellesley College

Bachelor's Degree, Classics

2003 - 2007

Activities: Wellesley Varsity Crew, Words on Wheels Volunteer

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