About Stephen

TL;DR: - School: Stanford GSB / E-IPER dual degree - Pre MBA experience: consulting & blue collar work - Stats: 3.25 GPA / 710 GMAT - Other: reapplicant, first-gen college student - Strengths: overall application, essays, resume, and storytelling I am a first-gen college student who look longer to figure out his path in life. My dad drove 53-foot tractor trailer trucks and my mom worked at a grocery store, but my parents always instilled in me that college was the path to a more successful, stable life. So, off I went to the highest-ranked school I got into - Wake Forest University in North Carolina. At Wake I majored in Exercise Science and became a Division I cheerleader (Go Deacs!), hoping to work for a major athletic apparel company doing research. Yet, I graduated without vision and worked a string of odd-jobs (running shoe store, pizza parlor cashier, and a grill salesman at Lowe's), until I figured out my next step. Consulting seemed like the best career launchpad, so I enrolled in a MS in Management program at Wake Forest to make the pivot. I worked at Deloitte Consulting for five years, where I focused on emerging tech strategy and policy in government. Each choice up to this point was for survival - to create a better foundational for a career, to be able to support my family, or to make more money to pay off my student loans quicker. I decided to go to business school to do something I was passionate about and to create a lasting impact I could be proud of. At Stanford I am focusing on the future of transportation and freight and supply chain innovation. I like to think I am following in my dad's footsteps. I have been advising startups in the freight tech space, and soon I hope to launch my own venture that pairs my love of technology & trucking. I decided to coach because the only reason that I have gotten to where I am today is because of the kindness and guidance of people paying it forward. My dad taught me that you can change the world by changing one person's world, and that is the impact I hope to have.