
Sabrina Cao
Breaking into Consulting and Sustainability | McKinsey & Haas MBA/MCS
Studied at Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Works at McKinsey & Company
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Sabrina's Offerings
Custom hourly · $80/hr
Get help with Career Planning, General Exploration, and .
Sabrina also coaches for Management Consulting and MBA. View all.
Sabrina’s Career Coaching Qualifications
Experience level: Analyst
Hi, I'm Sabrina — a sustainability practitioner and career coach with a background in consulting, based in Toronto and now Berkeley. My path here has been anything but straight: I studied Finance and Accounting, completed five internships spanning audit at Deloitte and consumer fintech at PayPal, then spent three years at McKinsey building my consulting foundation. From there, I took a leap into mission-driven work as a Fellow at Conservation International, focused on ocean conservation finance. Now I'm pursuing a dual MBA and Master of Climate Solutions at UC Berkeley, navigating the sustainability space in real time — which means I know firsthand what it takes to break in, stand out, and build a career with both impact and trajectory. Since college, I've been passionate about helping people find work they're genuinely excited to wake up for. I've been in the thick of tough career decisions myself, and I'd love to help you navigate yours.
Sabrina can help with:
Career Planning
General Exploration
Personal Branding
Professional Networking
Resume Review
Sabrina also coaches for Management Consulting and MBA. View all.
Work Experience

Conservation Finance Fellow
Conservation International
March 2026 - Present
1-yr non-profit fellowship with Conservation International & The Blue Nature Alliance

Senior Business Analyst
McKinsey & Company
October 2022 - Present
Strategy and climate finance - I served institutional investors, private equity, multilateral development institutions, Fortune 500 companies and nonprofit organizations.
Education

Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Master's, MBA / Master of Climate Solutions
2026 - 2028
Incoming class of 2028

University of Waterloo
Bachelor of Accounting and Financial Management, Finance and Accounting
2017 - 2022
5 internships as part of co-op program with PayPal, Deloitte, KPMG, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and Curiato (health-tech start-up)