Leland+ Content Library

A Skill for Creating Skills

"/skill-creator" is Anthropic's official skill that creates new skills from scratch, modifies and improves existing skills, runs evals to test skill performance, and benchmarks skills with variance analysis and description optimization. To install, run this in your terminal after downloading the file: unzip ~/Downloads/skill-creator-skill.zip -d ~/.agents/skills/skill-creator/

How to Create a Reusable AI Skill

This guide covers what should go inside of a SKILL.md and explores multiple methods for creating a skill: from fully manual to fully AI automated.

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.

Skills for Finding the Right Clients

The "Skills for Finding the Right Clients" bundle is a group of four skills that define who you're selling to before doing anything else. These skills build your ICP, personas, objection playbook, and a qualification framework for new prospects. The "Skills for Client Outreach" and "Skills for Campaign Feedback & Improvement" bundles build on this foundation and form a full stack. To install, run this in your terminal after downloading the file: unzip ~/Downloads/foundation-bundle.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

Strategic Approach to GRE Verbal Reasoning

GRE Verbal Reasoning can feel unpredictable, especially when strong readers still struggle with timing and tricky answer choices. This session is for test takers who want a more strategic and repeatable approach to the verbal section. You’ll learn how to break down question types, eliminate misleading options with confidence, and improve both accuracy and pacing under timed conditions.

The Growth Blueprint: How to Find, Understand, and Win Customers [5/1/2026] (Recording)

Finding and winning customers is one of the hardest parts of building a startup, and many founders struggle to turn early traction into consistent growth. This session is for founders who want a clearer, more structured approach to understanding their customers and scaling demand. You’ll learn how to identify your most valuable customer segments, uncover the insights that drive conversion, and build repeatable growth loops that actually work. Join live to ask questions about your own product and growth challenges and get direct input from someone who has done it before. The speaker is an experienced startup founder who regularly works with teams on customer acquisition and growth strategy. They’ll share the patterns they see across successful companies and the kinds of frameworks typically discussed in 1:1 working sessions.

Perfect Your Elevator Pitch

Why use an elevator pitch? What are the key elements to introducing yourself and making a good first impression? How do you use an elevator pitch? Career Coach Connie Ma will guide you through creating a self-introduction or elevator pitch which you can use in any social or professional situation to leave a good first impression. We will discuss how to talk about yourself, how to talk about tricky parts of your past employment history, and how to adjust your self-introduction to suit any situation you may find yourself in. Come work with us on your self-introduction, practice with others, and become more confident in representing yourself!

Case Studies of Successful AI Transformations

Review examples of organizations that scaled AI successfully while maintaining trust and engagement.

Mastering AI Networking & Referrals

Guide to building meaningful relationships in the AI ecosystem, overcoming hiring noise, and securing referrals through thoughtful engagement and value-add interactions.

Creating the Perfect MBA Resume

Slides from a presentation on Aug 5, 2025 on Leland

Behavioral Interviews & How to Tell Your Story

Landing an investment banking offer starts long before the technical questions—your behavioral responses and personal story often determine whether you even move forward. In this session, you’ll learn how to craft a compelling narrative that highlights your motivations, showcases your strengths, and aligns with what banks actually look for in candidates. We’ll break down common behavioral questions, effective frameworks, and the biggest pitfalls that sink interviews, plus how to tailor your story whether you’re coming from finance, consulting, engineering, or a non-traditional background. You’ll leave with clear strategies, practice prompts, and a structured approach you can use to walk into interviews with confidence and tell a story that sticks.

Technical interviews: Overview

This module is all about mastering the finance concepts and frameworks tested in PE interviews - but without wasting time memorizing every textbook definition. You’ll learn how to approach technical questions like an investor, communicate with clarity, and avoid over-complication.

PE 101 for Interviewees and Professionals: Deal Dynamics, Diligence, & Value Creation

Private equity can feel complex from the outside, but understanding deal flow, diligence, and value creation is essential—whether you're preparing for interviews or entering the industry. In this session, Saleem H., an early graduate from a non-target school who has built a career in private equity after consulting, will break down the fundamentals in a way that’s approachable and practical. Having mentored dozens of candidates into top MBA programs, MBB and Tier-2 consultancies, boutique firms, and competitive PE roles, Saleem brings hands-on experience and a passion for supporting nontraditional, first-gen, and early-career professionals. He’ll walk you through how firms evaluate deals, where analysts and associates drive the most impact, and what interviewers expect you to know about value creation from day one.

Data Analyst Resume Template

Stand out in today’s competitive market with this recruiter-created Data Analyst Resume Template. Designed to be ATS-friendly and packed with strategic keywords and metrics, this template helps you showcase your data analysis experience clearly and professionally—boosting your chances of landing more interviews.

Review Hard Text Completion & Sentence Equivalence

Here we will review text completion and strategies as well as sentence equivalence and strategies with additional examples and some new vocabulary.

Top 5 Tips for Succeeding on the GRE

Looking to raise your GRE score with strategies that actually work? Join Leland coach Bruce H., a veteran GRE instructor who has helped countless applicants unlock top-percentile results. Bruce will share his five most impactful tips—from tackling tricky quant reasoning to avoiding common verbal pitfalls and building a smart, efficient study plan. Whether you're early in your prep or aiming for a final score boost, you’ll leave with clear, actionable techniques to level up your performance.

Duke MBA Essay 1 Example: 25 Things About Yourself

This is an example of the Duke MBA Fuqua Essay #1, which has the following essay prompt: "The ‘Team Fuqua’ spirit and community is one of the things that sets the MBA experience apart, and it is a concept that extends beyond the student body to include faculty, staff, and administration. Please share with us “25 Random Things” about you. The Admissions Committee wants to get to know YOU – beyond the professional and academic achievements listed in your resume and transcript. Share with us important life experiences, your hobbies, achievements, fun facts, or anything that helps us understand what makes you who you are. Your list will be limited to 2 pages (750 words maximum). Please present your response in list form, numbered 1 to 25. Some points may be brief, while others may be longer."

The Top 10 Things That Matter in a Deferred Application

Applying to deferred MBA programs requires a unique strategy—strong academics and internships aren’t enough unless you know how to package them into a compelling story. In this session, Tim F., a Chicago Booth MBA graduate with high distinction and former admissions fellow who interviewed and evaluated nearly 100 applicants, will break down the ten elements that most influence AdCom decisions. Drawing on his experience helping candidates gain admission to top U.S. and European MBA programs, along with his professional background at Goldman Sachs and as a project leader at Boston Consulting Group, Tim will share how to communicate impact, craft a standout narrative, and position yourself competitively as an early-career applicant.

Review Medium Text Completion & Sentence Equivalence

In this review we will break down additional medium-difficulty example questions for text completion and sentence equivalence as well as learn some new vocabulary.

Additional Info Essay 3: Example & Analysis

A detailed breakdown of a compelling additional information essay.