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Feeling Stuck? The Unwritten Rules of Getting Promoted

Feeling stuck in your career and wondering how to climb the corporate ladder? Join me for an insightful session on "The Unwritten Rules of Getting Promoted." In this event, we'll explore key strategies in leadership, skill-building, and career planning to help you break through barriers and achieve your professional goals. Whether you're looking to make a move or find your next role, this session will provide you with the tools and insights needed to elevate your career. Topics: Creating Credibility Showing Up Elevating Your Role Making Sure You & Your Work are a Priority About Jeff Sigel: With over two decades of experience in marketing and business intelligence, including VP roles at Cracker Barrel and Ahold Delhaize, I've honed my skills in leadership development and career advancement. Space is limited, so be sure to RSVP and secure your spot today!

How to Nail Your Stock Pitch [5/8/2026] (Recording)

A strong stock pitch can be the difference between breaking into hedge funds and getting passed over, but many candidates struggle to make their ideas both clear and convincing. This session is for those preparing for hedge fund interviews who want to refine how they present an investment thesis. You’ll learn how to structure a compelling long or short pitch, communicate your edge and assumptions, and handle the kinds of pushback investors use to test your thinking. Join live to ask questions about your own pitch ideas and see how experienced investors evaluate them in real time. The speaker brings deep hedge fund experience and regularly coaches candidates on pitching and interview prep. They’ll share the patterns they see across successful pitches and the kinds of feedback typically given in 1:1 coaching sessions.

Optimizing Your Law School Waitlist Strategy

After this session, you'll know how to write a waitlist letter of continued interest that actually strengthens your candidacy, when to reach out to admissions offices and what to say, and how to honestly assess whether your waitlist position has realistic potential. Most applicants either go quiet or over-communicate, and this session addresses both mistakes directly.

Challenging Boss? The Unwritten Rules of Managing Up

Navigating the complexities of managing up can be challenging, especially when dealing with a difficult boss. Join me, for an insightful session on "The Unwritten Rules of Managing Up," where we'll explore essential leadership development and communication skills to help you thrive in your role. Topics: Understanding Your Boss's Perspective Creating Credibility Prompting Your Boss (BossGPT) Dealing with challenging bosses (Micromanagers, Absentee Bosses, The Chaos Creator) Plus - Q&A time to cover any specific challenges About Jeff Sigel: With over two decades of experience in marketing and leadership, including serving as Vice President at Cracker Barrel and Ahold Delhaize, I bring a wealth of knowledge to this session. As author of "The Middle Matters: A Toolkit for Middle Managers," I specialize in empowering middle to senior level leaders to build trust and drive success. My coaching approach is tailored to help you become a more effective and impactful leader.

NYU Stern Essay 1 Example (Accepted with Full Ride)

NYU Stern Essay 1 example of a female from a CPG start-up accepted into the class of 2028.

Accepted Kellogg Essay 1 Example

Kellogg Essay 1 example of a female from a CPG start-up accepted into the class of 2028.

Home for Ambition #7 — Weekly Live Show [4/29/2026] (Recording)

Home for Ambition is a weekly live show, by Leland, for people trying to stay ahead as work, learning, and opportunity keep changing. Each episode tackles a handful of timely, high-signal topics across AI, careers, education, and the future of work. We expect thoughtful debate, unique perspectives, and practical takeaways you can actually use. It is not a typical interview show or a generic news recap. It is a live roundtable built to help ambitious people make sense of what is changing, understand what matters, and leave with a sharper point of view on how to navigate what comes next.

Sales Rep Coaching Report Skill

"/rep-coaching-report" generates a data-driven coaching report from a rep's full pipeline from HubSpot, flags stalled deals, identifies the highest-leverage coaching opportunities with specific dollar amounts attached, and hands you a ready-to-use 1:1 agenda. To install, run this in your terminal after downloading the file: unzip ~/Downloads/rep-coaching-report-skill.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

Hubspot Revenue Monitor Skill

"/revenue-monitor" takes a weekly pipeline snapshot from Hubspot, detects meaningful changes, and generates a digest of what moved and why. To install, run this in your terminal after downloading the file: unzip ~/Downloads/revenue-monitor-skill.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

Accepted Kellogg Essay 2 Example

Kellogg Essay 2 example of a female from a CPG start-up accepted into the class of 2028.

AMCAS Work & Activities: Turning Experiences into Acceptances [4/29/2026] (Recording)

After this session, you will know how to frame your Work & Activities entries so they communicate growth, responsibility, and fit rather than just listing what you did. We will cover how to allocate your most meaningful experience designation, how to write descriptions that read as reflective rather than resume-like, and how to handle gaps or unconventional experiences without over-explaining. Attending live means you can ask about your specific situation and hear how context changes the answer, which a recording cannot replicate. The coach reviews these sections regularly across successful applicants and will share the patterns that separate entries that land from those that get skimmed.

Identifying Key Metrics using AI for Data and Analytics [4/30/2026] (Recording)

Identifying the right metrics is one of the hardest parts of data and analytics, and AI is starting to change how quickly and effectively teams can do it. This session is for professionals who want to use AI to surface, prioritize, and refine the metrics that actually drive decisions. You’ll learn how to leverage AI to identify high-impact KPIs, connect metrics to business outcomes, and avoid common pitfalls that lead to noisy or misleading analysis. Join live to ask questions about your own data challenges and see how an experienced data scientist approaches metric selection in real workflows. The speaker is a current data scientist and engineer at Accenture who regularly works with teams on analytics and AI implementation. They’ll share the patterns they see across strong metric frameworks and the kinds of insights typically discussed in 1:1 working sessions.

Sample Senior Software Engineer Resume

An example of a Senior Software Engineer's Resume

How to Recruit for Consulting out of Your MBA

After this session, you will know how to build a credible consulting recruiting timeline from your MBA program, including when to start networking with firms, how to approach case prep alongside academics, and what separates candidates who land offers from those who stall out in the process. The coach will also walk through how to position your pre-MBA background so it works for you, not against you, in consulting interviews.

PM Interviews in 2026 - Key Trends + Ask Me Anything

After this session, you'll have a clear picture of how PM interview expectations are shifting in 2026, including what interviewers are now prioritizing in product sense rounds, how AI-adjacent experience is being evaluated, and where candidates are losing points in execution and metrics questions. These are patterns that show up repeatedly across the candidates I work with, and knowing them changes how you prepare.

How to Properly Set up Claude Cowork for Agentic AI workflows

If you want to set up Claude Cowork so that you can properly create and automate your business workflows, you need to check out this playbook. It will give you step by step instructions to set up what you need to get agentic AI outcomes. It doesn't matter what business you are in, the set up will be applicable!

Resume Example

I used this resume to land a job at the Department of Sanitation in NYC. Can be used for any government job OR job in waste management. Can use this as a template by editing it in Adobe.

Accepted Harvard Essay 3 Example

Harvard Essay 3 example of a female from a CPG start-up accepted into the class of 2028.

Resume Template

Use this template to tailor your resume to the job you are applying to. Make sure to read the entire resume as some lines are examples and some lines explain what to write. You will need a PDF editor to use this template. If you don't have one, reach out to me and I will help you!

NYU Stern Short Answer Example (Accepted with Full Ride)

NYU Stern Short Answer examples of a female from a CPG start-up accepted into the class of 2028.