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The Military-to-MBA Timeline: What to Do and When

After this session, you will know exactly how to sequence your MBA application efforts as a military candidate, from when to start building your school list to how to time your GMAT prep around separation or transition milestones. You will also leave with a clear picture of how to frame your service record for civilian admissions committees and which application components military candidates most often underinvest in.

AI Monthly News Update - April 2026 (Slides)

Join us for the AI Monthly News Update, where we dive into the latest trends and insights in AI. I'm Solomon Christ, your guide on this AI journey. With a background in AI + Automation, I've dedicated my career to helping individuals and businesses unlock the true potential of AI—not by turning you into a tech wizard, but by enhancing your existing skills to make you unstoppable. I specialize in educating SMBs on implementing AI tools through practical, hands-on approaches. In this session, we'll cover the latest news that was just released in the past month helping you keep up to date in the ever changing AI Landscape! Spaces are limited, so don't miss out on this opportunity to elevate your business with AI. RSVP now to secure your spot and start your journey towards becoming 1000× more powerful with AI + Automation!

How to Make Your PM Resume Impossible to Ignore

After this session, you'll know how to position your PM resume so it reflects the way hiring managers actually evaluate candidates. We'll cover how to frame impact metrics that go beyond output, how to signal product thinking through your bullet structure, and how to cut the experience that's quietly working against you.

MBA Recommender Outreach Template

Take the guesswork out of managing your MBA recommendations. This plug-and-play template gives you a ready-to-send communication package to share with your recommender. It covers everything from timeline management to content guidance, so they can write the strongest possible letter on your behalf. What's included: - A professional email template to send to your recommender, with built-in instructions on the recommendation process and submission timelines - School-specific question breakdowns for Stanford GSB, Harvard HBS, and Wharton, with coaching notes on how to guide your recommender's responses - A strengths framework to help your recommender highlight your leadership, strategic thinking, and growth mindset with concrete examples - A structured section for the constructive feedback question, one of the trickiest parts of any recommendation, with a fill-in format for situation, reaction, and results

A Successful Harvard Law School Resume

This resume was successfully used in applying to Harvard Law School. It is focused heavily on public interest roles.

Telling Your Story - Your Guide to Making a Career Pivot

Exercise Self Paced Guide: This guide helps you do the inner work behind a career pivot; understanding your experiences, identifying what you want next, and building clarity around your direction so you can move forward with confidence.

Career Reset: Break the Cycle and Find Work That Fits

Many professionals find themselves stuck in careers that once made sense but no longer feel aligned. Work becomes reactive, decisions feel unclear, and the path forward gets harder to see. This session is designed to help you pause, reset, and regain direction. We’ll explore how to break the cycle of career chaos and reconnect with the kind of work you’re meant to do—work that aligns with your strengths, values, and energy. In this session you will: - Recognize the signals that it may be time for a career shift - Clarify what “career fit” actually looks like for you - Learn practical ways to evaluate whether to stay, pivot, or reset - Walk away with a clearer framework for making your next career decision If you’ve been asking yourself “Is it time for a change?”—this conversation will help you find the answer and the next step forward.

AI Monthly News Update - April 2026

Join us for the AI Monthly News Update, where we dive into the latest trends and insights in AI. I'm Solomon Christ, your guide on this AI journey. With a background in AI + Automation, I've dedicated my career to helping individuals and businesses unlock the true potential of AI—not by turning you into a tech wizard, but by enhancing your existing skills to make you unstoppable. I specialize in educating SMBs on implementing AI tools through practical, hands-on approaches. In this session, we'll cover the latest news that was just released in the past month helping you keep up to date in the ever changing AI Landscape! Spaces are limited, so don't miss out on this opportunity to elevate your business with AI. RSVP now to secure your spot and start your journey towards becoming 1000× more powerful with AI + Automation!

Crafting Powerful Narratives for MBA Applications

Many MBA applicants have strong experiences but struggle to turn them into a clear, compelling story that resonates with admissions committees. This session is designed for candidates who want to understand how to connect their past experiences, leadership moments, and career goals into a cohesive narrative that strengthens every part of the application. You’ll learn how successful applicants frame their impact, choose the right stories for essays and interviews, and communicate a believable path from where they are today to where they want to go.

Build Your Master’s Application Narrative

Many strong applicants struggle to clearly explain why their experiences, goals, and chosen program fit together into a compelling master’s application. This session is designed for candidates preparing graduate school applications who want to turn scattered achievements into a focused, persuasive narrative. You’ll learn how to connect your academic background to future goals, identify the experiences that matter most to admissions committees, and structure essays that present a clear story about who you are and where you’re headed.

Big 10 to MBB + Big Tech: Positioning Yourself to Get Offers

This guide was written by a former Bain & Company Associate Consultant, now in a Strategy and Operations role at LinkedIn, who went through the full MBB recruiting process out of Indiana University's Kelley School of Business. It covers everything that actually matters when you are trying to break into a top consulting firm or land a Big Tech strategy role from a non-target school. Inside you will find a no-nonsense breakdown of how MBB firms actually differ, what a competitive application looks like, how to build a resume that passes the ten-second scan, and the networking approach that moves the needle versus the one that wastes your time. The guide goes deep on case interview preparation, including the pyramid framework approach and what interviewers are genuinely evaluating in the room, and covers the behavioral and fit interview with the same level of honesty. The final chapter covers what transfers from consulting to Big Tech, how that recruiting process works, and how to negotiate an offer once you have one. This is not generic advice. It is based on having gone through the process recently, having sat on the other side of the table at Bain, and having made the transition to Big Tech firsthand.

Real MBB + Big Tech Resume: Bain AC to LinkedIn Strategy & Operations

This is a real resume from someone who successfully recruited into Bain & Company out of a Big 10 non-target school and subsequently landed a Strategy and Operations role at LinkedIn. It is not a template or a fabricated example. It is the exact resume used to secure these offers, formatted and structured the way MBB recruiters expect to see. Use it to understand how to frame internships and experiences with quantifiable impact, how to structure bullet points that signal analytical ability, how to present a non-linear background in a way that reads as an asset rather than a liability, and what a clean, one-page consulting resume actually looks like in practice. Whether you are preparing your application for MBB firms or targeting Big Tech strategy roles, this resource gives you a concrete, real-world benchmark to pressure test your own resume against.

Experienced Resume Template | Landed Roles at F500 Companies

My most commonly used 2-page resume template for professionals with a wide range of experience. Includes a polished PDF example of a strong resume plus an editable Word version with detailed comments explaining structure, formatting, and content decisions. This resume template is flexible and can be a 1-page resume depending on client goals/preference.

How to Run an Efficient Small Business Search

Buying a small business sounds simple until you actually start searching. Suddenly you are juggling deal flow, broker calls, industry research, financial review, diligence, and legal concepts. All while trying to keep your life and job moving. This session is for the person who is ramping into acquisition entrepreneurship and wants real guidance, not a generic accelerator curriculum and not “just ask ChatGPT.” If you are smart, motivated, and serious about buying a business but feel overwhelmed by the volume of decisions and the lack of a clear path, this will click. We will walk through what an efficient search actually looks like in the real world: the phases of search, where people waste time, what progress looks like, and what it realistically takes to get competent. Spoiler: 5 hours a week is usually not enough. Most people underestimate the reps required (think hundreds of hours, not a weekend), and the main goal is to compress the learning curve by focusing on the highest-leverage work. What you will leave with: - A clear picture of the search process end-to-end and what “good” looks like at each stage - The real time commitment and why most searches stall - Practical ways to run search faster and cleaner (systems, workflows, decision filters) - A map of the core skill areas you need to build: deal sourcing, industry analysis, financial fluency, diligence, and negotiation A simple decision framework for your next step: learn it, hire it out, or partner Who this is for: - You want to buy a small business, but you do not want to wander for 12 months figuring it out the hard way - You want more hands-on support than an accelerator, and more signal than generic online content - You are ready to put in the work, but you want a more efficient path and fewer dead ends We will also share a bit of our own search context - what we have tried, what has worked, what has not - and why we believe 1:1 support can meaningfully cut down ramp time when you apply it correctly. If you have been circling ETA and keep thinking “this is a lot,” you are not wrong. Come get a sharper path.

Case Walkthrough with a Former Bain Interviewer: Mergers and Acquisitions

M&A cases are a core part of consulting interviews, but many candidates struggle to structure them clearly and communicate their thinking under pressure. This session is for candidates preparing for consulting interviews who want a better approach to tackling mergers and acquisitions cases. You’ll learn how to break down an M&A prompt, structure your analysis across synergies and risks, and walk through a case the way interviewers expect to see it.

Final Tips Before You Submit Your Deferred MBA Application

In this session, you will leave knowing how to tighten your essays in the final hours, what admissions committees at top deferred programs actually look for in the "future vision" prompts, and how to self-evaluate your recommender package before you hit submit. These are the specific pressure points that separate competitive deferred applications from strong ones.

8 Steps to an MBA app: 1) Life Story, Timeline, & MBA Resume

Applying to business school can feel overwhelming! You have dozens of moving pieces: essays, short answers, video content, resume, recommendations, outreach, research, and more. This workshop is the starting point of a structured 8-part MBA Identity Mapping series designed to take you from fragmented tasks to a clear plan of action. In this session, you will build your foundational Life Timeline of all your key stories and begin transforming your resume into MBA format. These sessions walk you step by step through building one fully aligned MBA application. In every workshop, you will be assigned tasks to complete over the next two weeks, keeping you organized and accountable. By the end, you will have strong, authentic essays and a cohesive narrative that runs consistently through your resume, goals, recommendations, school strategy, and interviews. You are absolutely welcome to attend individual sessions if you only need focused help on a specific component(s) of your MBA application. Event 1 identifies your significant experiences and reshapes your resume into MBA format: • Understand the full trajectory of the 8-phase MBA Identity Mapping process and how each piece connects. • Build a comprehensive Life Timeline that captures the raw material of your life. • Begin transforming your professional resume into MBA format. The MBA Identity Mapping process has guided 100+ applicants into every M7 program, all other top 20 U.S. programs, and leading international programs including INSEAD, London Business School, IESE, Esade, Oxford, Cambridge, NUS, and more. Clients consistently describe it as transformative because it replaces scattered effort with forward momentum and strategic clarity. If you are ready to stop juggling tasks and start building an organized, cohesive MBA application, this is where you begin. (Please message me if you would like a copy of the super helpful free resource mentioned in the video: MBA Resume Transformation Guide.)

GRE Text Completion: How to Use Context Clues Effectively

Many GRE test-takers struggle with Text Completion not because of vocabulary gaps, but because they miss the contextual signals that reveal the correct answers. Understanding how to leverage context clues can turn these questions from guesswork into strategy. In GRE Text Completion: How to Use Context Clues Effectively, you’ll learn how to analyze sentences and identify the hints that point directly to the right choice. Audra Z. regularly works 1:1 with GRE students and will share the same strategies used in coaching sessions to help candidates improve accuracy and confidence. Who This Is For - GRE test-takers aiming to boost their Verbal scores - Students who find questions tricky or time-consuming - Candidates wanting a structured approach to decoding sentence meaning - Test-takers who want to move beyond memorizing vocabulary What You’ll Walk Away With - A framework for identifying context clues in complex sentences - How to predict the correct answer before looking at choices - Patterns I see across students who consistently select the right options - The common mistakes I correct in 1:1 sessions - Practical exercises to apply these strategies immediately

Understanding the Med School Application Timeline and Strategy

After this session, you'll know how to structure your medical school application timeline from AMCAS submission through secondary essays, and understand how to avoid the pacing mistakes that cost competitive applicants interview invitations. You'll also leave with a clearer framework for deciding which schools to prioritize given your specific academic and clinical profile.

Medical School Personal Statement Example - T5 Admit

This is my medical school personal statement, which helped me get accepted to UPenn, Northwestern, Duke, and Vanderbilt with merit scholarships.