Michael Neal
Ex-Deloitte & Founder | We Build the Project That Gets You Hired
7,575 min coached
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Studied at Chicago Booth
Worked at Centerview Partners
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Michael's Offerings
Custom hourly · $250/hr
Get help with AI Agents, AI Fundamentals, and .
Michael also coaches for Investment Banking, AI for Product Development, AI Services, AI for Data & Analytics, AI for Finance, and Build with AI. View all.
Michael’s Break Into AI Careers Qualifications
Experience level: Associate
Michael has helped clients get into these companies:
I moved from consulting into tech and finance myself, so I know the version of this that actually works. You need something concrete to point at. At Deloitte I spent four years on cloud strategy and technology coverage. Since then I've built and shipped my own AI products, including the prep platform I run now. So I can talk through what a product actually does, and also tell you what a recruiter will care about. The clients who land offers usually have one thing in common. They stopped reading about AI and built something. With one MBA client we co-built a product project together, and it became the thing he talked about in every interview. He is now at a tech startup in San Francisco. If you're coming from consulting, finance, or another non-engineering background, that is the path I know best.
Michael can help with:
AI Agents
AI Fundamentals
Interview Prep
Job Search Strategies
Networking Strategy
Resume
Skill Building
Michael also coaches for Investment Banking, AI for Product Development, AI Services, AI for Data & Analytics, AI for Finance, and Build with AI. View all.
About Michael
I started in civil engineering, spent four years at Deloitte on cloud strategy, went to UChicago for an MBA and a master's in computer science, and recruited into investment banking. Along the way I worked on technology for the Olympic Games and built my own company, a prep platform for banking candidates that I still run. None of those moves were obvious from the outside. Each one took the same work: figuring out what the bar actually was, then getting specific about how to clear it. That is what I do with clients. I coach investment banking recruiting, and breaking into tech and AI. If you are switching tracks, I have made that switch more than once.
Why do I coach?
Most of the people I work with are not short on information. They have read the guides and watched the videos. What they are missing is someone who will tell them which parts apply to their situation and which parts to ignore. I had that person at a few points and it changed the outcome. That is the part I try to be.
Work Experience
Summer Associate
Centerview Partners
June 2025 - August 2025
Technology Group
Consultant
Deloitte
November 2020 - September 2024
Cloud Strategy / Tech coverage
Operations engineer
KATERRA
May 2019 - August 2019
Head Teaching Assistant
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
August 2018 - August 2020
Education
Chicago Booth
MBA & MS CS
2024 - 2026
Activities and societies: Investment Banking Group — Technical Lead; Quantum @ Booth — Founder
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
BS + MS, Civil Engineering
2016 - 2020
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Michael has helped clients get into these companies: