Xin L. | Career Coaching Coach

Xin Li

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Early Career Strategy for Ambitious Business Professionals

6,030 min coached

93 followers

Studied at Stockholm School of Economics

Works at Hubexo

Successful clients at

Available tomorrow at 7:00 AM UTC

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Xin's Coaching Offerings

Custom hourly · $115/hr

Get help with Cover Letters, General Exploration, and .

Xin also coaches for Management Consulting, FP&A, Leadership Coaching, and Business Operations & Strategy. View all.

Xin’s Career Coaching Qualifications

Experience level: Vice President

Xin has helped clients get into these companies:

Most career coaches can tell you what a good resume looks like. I can tell you what a hiring manager actually thinks when they read it — because I've sat on both sides of that table. I'm currently VP of Global Business Control at Hubexo, a global SaaS company, where I lead a team of 20 and report to the CFO. Before that, I was an Associate at McKinsey advising on strategy and transformation. Before that, I rotated across business control, commercial strategy, and M&A through Ericsson's Global Leadership Program, with stops at NREP and EY in real estate investment. My career has never moved in a straight line — and that's exactly what I coach people to navigate. What I bring that most coaches don't: I understand how competitive business roles are actually evaluated — not from the outside looking in, but from the room where decisions get made. I know what signals make someone look like leadership material versus someone who just has a good resume. And because I've made significant career pivots myself, I know how to help you frame transitions, identify what's genuinely transferable, and build a story that holds up under pressure. I work best with ambitious early-career professionals who want to move fast and think strategically about their trajectory — not just land the next role, but set up the five after it.

Xin can help with:

Cover Letters

General Exploration

Skill Building

Job Search Strategies

Resume Review

Leadership

Professional Networking

Salary Negotiation

Networking Strategy

Interview Prep

Career Planning

Personal Branding

Freelancing

Xin also coaches for Management Consulting, FP&A, Leadership Coaching, and Business Operations & Strategy. View all.

About Xin

I spent years in strategy and operations across PE, M&A, and large-scale commercial transformations before breaking into McKinsey, earning the highest scores across every interview dimension. My interviewer called me afterward to say performances like mine were rare. That wasn't luck. It was a system built on first-principles thinking, not tricks. Before consulting, I worked at the intersection of commercial strategy and complex technical programs at a Fortune 500 company, giving me a depth of real business judgment that most coaches simply don't have. I hold dual master's degrees in Finance and IT Management from top European and Asian institutions, and I've lived and worked across multiple continents — so wherever you're applying from, I get the context.

Why do I coach?

Most case coaching teaches you tricks. I teach you how to think. Frameworks are easy to memorize, and interviewers can tell when that's all you've done. The candidates who get offers are the ones who think like consultants before they walk in the door: structuring ambiguity on the fly, pressure testing their own logic, and telling a personal story that actually lands. I specialize in two things most coaches underserve: PEI that feels real and case thinking that transfers to any problem you've never seen before. No canned frameworks. No "tips and tricks" that fall apart the moment an interviewer goes off script. Just structured, first principles reasoning that gets you the offer and serves you on the job. I work with candidates who are serious about leveling up, not looking for shortcuts. Whether you're struggling to make your PEI stories compelling, hitting a wall on case math, or blanking when a case goes somewhere unexpected, I'll help you build the muscle, not just the motions. If you want the coach who'll make you genuinely better, not just more rehearsed, let's talk.