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How To Write Outstanding Law School Application Essays [6/2/2026] (Recording)

Your law school application essays are arguably the most important aspect of your law school applications. To have the best outcomes and plenty of options at the end of the process, you need to craft compelling essays with solid narratives that paint a picture beyond your numbers. We will talk about different essay prompts and how best to tackle them, why it makes sense to have two 'main' essays instead of just one, how to handle optional essays and the dreaded 'why x school' essays. We will also have time for some 'Ask Me Anything' at the end!

What makes a Great BYU Admissions Essay [6/2/2026] (Recording)

Standing out in the BYU admissions process often comes down to how clearly and authentically you communicate your story in your application essay. This session is designed for prospective applicants who want to understand what makes a strong BYU admissions essay and how to avoid common mistakes that weaken otherwise solid applications. You’ll learn how to structure your essay, highlight meaningful experiences without overcomplicating your narrative, and communicate your values in a way that aligns with what admissions readers are looking for. Attending live gives you the chance to ask questions about general essay ideas and get real-time feedback on your approach. The speaker works closely with applicants and will share the patterns they see across successful essays, along with what they look for when evaluating writing quality and authenticity. If you want more clarity on how to approach your BYU admissions essay, it’s worth joining live.

Help I'm in the Wrong Job: The Unwritten Rules of Making a Career Pivot

At some point in their careers, most people find themselves wondering where the career path they chose in their 20s is what they want to do for the next few decades. Career pivots are common - especially in a world where technology keeps shifting the job market. But how do you make a career pivot? In this session, we'll explore ways to start moving your career in a new direction -- long before you quit your job. We will have time for prepared topics as well as Q&A - so bring your questions. About Jeff Sigel: Jeff Sigel is an executive and career coach with 20+ years of marketing experience. He has held leadership roles in top Food manufacturing, retail, and restaurant companies - including as VP of Marketing and VP of Corporate Strategy & Business Intelligence. He has made a career pivot of his own into coaching and training emerging leaders.

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.)

REAL INSEAD MBA Interview Mocks

Multiple INSEAD mock interview sequences, based on real questions clients reported in interviews. Use these sequences to practice and ensure you convert your INSEAD interview into an admit.

Build a Meal Planning Agent

Most meal plans assume you live alone, eat anything, and have unlimited time on Sundays. None of that is true. By Tuesday the plan starts slipping. By Thursday you're at the drive-thru wondering why you bought all those bell peppers. ​In this exclusive AI Builder session, Jake Evans will walk you step by step through building a meal planning agent powered by Claude. By the end of the hour you'll have a working AI that knows your diet, your fitness goals, your weekly schedule, the foods you actually like, and the three things your kid will refuse to touch under any circumstance. Tell it you have 20 minutes and a half-empty fridge, and it will tell you what to make. ​But the meal planner is just the on-ramp. The real takeaway is the playbook: how to hand any messy, recurring part of your life over to AI. First dinner. Next a packing assistant, a homework tutor, a family travel agent, a workout planner that adapts to how you actually slept. Same skill, different shape. ​Jake is a full-stack developer, which is a fancy way of saying he's the rare coach who can actually build the thing he's teaching you to build. He's done this for a living. Now he'll do it with you. ​You'll be building alongside him in real time. No demo, no notes for later. You'll leave with a finished agent and a clearer sense of what else you could build next.

How to Strengthen Your Deferred MBA Story Before the Deadline

Deferred MBA programs look for candidates with clear potential, thoughtful career vision, and evidence of leadership early in their careers. If you’re planning to apply this cycle, the months before the deadline are when strong applicants refine their goals, sharpen their narrative, and ensure their experiences clearly support why an MBA makes sense for them. In this session, you’ll learn how to clarify your long-term story, highlight leadership and impact effectively, and strengthen the core themes that run through your essays and application materials.

Strategy Roles in the Age of AI [5/28/2026] (Recording)

After this session, you will understand how AI is reshaping the strategy function and what that means for how you position yourself as a candidate or practitioner. We will cover how to evaluate which strategic roles are growing versus shrinking as AI capabilities expand, how to frame your experience to reflect genuine AI fluency, and what hiring managers in transformation-focused roles are actually prioritizing right now. Attending live means you can ask how these shifts apply to your specific background, industry, or target role, and hear how the coach thinks through cases like yours in real time. The coach works directly with organizations navigating AI strategy today, and this session reflects the patterns they see across candidates who successfully make the transition into these roles.

Path to PhD | How to Make the Most of Your Summer Research Program

How can you make the most of your summer research program as you build your profile for your PhD journey? No matter where you are on your path — whether you have extensive research experience and a clear direction, are just starting out, or are returning to school after time away — this session is for you. While this event is geared toward students in STEM fields, participants from all backgrounds are welcome. In this session, I’ll discuss strategies and concrete steps you can take to maximize your summer research experience as you build a standout PhD application. You’ll Learn: - How to approach your summer program strategically and identify the goals that matter most - Best practices before, during, and after your summer program - How to turn any experience into a competitive advantage With a background in higher education leadership and extensive experience guiding students through the PhD application process, I’ll be drawing from nearly a decade of experience directing the Stanford Summer Research Program, along with my current work as an educational consultant and coach.

How to Ace the Master's Personal Statement

I've helped dozens of candidates land spots at top master's programs in fields ranging from public policy and business to architecture and engineering. In this video, I share with you the essay writing insights that helped me and my clients get into the Ivy League, Oxbridge, M7, and Schwarzman Scholars (Tsinghua University).

Last Chance to Ask Questions for the Dental Early Admit… [6/1/2026] (Recording)

Dental early admission timelines move quickly, and many applicants reach the final stretch still unsure about how their application will actually be evaluated. This session is for students preparing to submit or finalize their dental early admit applications who want clarity before deadlines arrive. You’ll learn what admissions committees focus on most, the common mistakes that weaken otherwise strong applications, and how to make sure your essays, experiences, and overall narrative are working together effectively. Join live for an opportunity to hear directly from an experienced admissions coach who works closely with dental applicants throughout the process. You’ll be able to get real-time answers to key application questions and hear the kinds of insights and patterns typically discussed in 1:1 coaching conversations before submission deadlines.

How to Use AI to Break Into Investment Banking & Private Equity [5/21/2026] (Recording)

In this session, you will learn how to use AI tools to research firms, personalize cold outreach, and prep for technical interviews in investment banking and private equity recruiting. You will also walk away with a framework for identifying which parts of your application process AI can accelerate versus where it tends to create generic, forgettable work. Attending live means you can ask how these approaches apply to your specific background, whether that is a non-target school, a career pivot, or a gap in your deal experience, and hear the answer in real time rather than guessing from a recording. The coach works directly with candidates breaking into finance and will share the patterns that consistently separate the ones who get interviews from the ones who do not.

Deploy Your Own App

​Vibe coding got you to a working app. Now how do you actually get it on your phone, or anyone else's? ​Join Jon Metz, Principal AI Product Manager at Nike, for a hands-on session covering everything between finished code and a real product. Whether you're trying to launch something to the world, get your app on the App Store for a real user base, or just want that AI personal trainer you built last week actually living on your phone, Jon will walk you through how to get there. You'll cover Apple Developer setup, connecting Claude Code to your Supabase backend, the final production checklist, and how to install an app on your own device without touching the App Store at all. ​Come with your own app or use the example. Either way, you leave with something real on a real device.

The Consulting Recruiting Command Center

Track every application, referral, networking touchpoint, and interview in one streamlined dashboard built for consulting recruiting. This document is part 9 of a broader 9-part consulting interview resource kit.

The Written Case Interview Playbook

Realistic BCG-style written cases with model answers, frameworks, and executive-level synthesis examples to sharpen your edge fast. This document is part 8 of a broader 9-part consulting interview resource kit. Please visit my page for additional resources.

REAL Sample Wharton MBA Essays

Multiple real, successful applicant essay sets covering all Wharton prompts. See exactly how admits structured winning answers before you write your own.

What You Need to Know about 2026 Law School Admissions: Insights, Trends, and Q&A [5/28/2026] (Recording)

After this session, you'll have a clear picture of how the 2026 law school admissions cycle is shaping up, including how score and GPA thresholds are shifting at top programs, what admissions committees are prioritizing in personal statements this cycle, and how to position a application that stands out in an increasingly competitive pool. Attending live means hearing how an experienced coach thinks through it in real time, which a recording simply cannot replicate. The coach works with law school applicants daily and will share the patterns that separate successful applications from ones that fall short, offering a genuine look at how this process actually works from someone inside it.

Build Your First Personal AI Agent: A Practical System for Saving Time Without Losing Quality [5/28/2026] (Recording)

After this session, you will know how to design and deploy a simple personal AI agent that handles repeatable tasks without degrading the quality of your output. We will cover how to map your workflow to find the right automation entry points, how to prompt and chain AI tools to act on your behalf, and how to build in checkpoints that keep your judgment in the loop. Attending live means you can describe your actual setup and get a direct answer about where automation fits your specific situation, which a recording cannot replicate. The coach builds and iterates on AI systems as a practitioner, and this session is a rare look at how that thinking works in practice.

Law School App Strategy: Recommenders and Supplemental Essays [5/28/2026] (Recording)

Strong law school applications are built through more than just a GPA and personal statement, and many applicants underestimate the impact of recommendations and supplemental essays. This session is for candidates who want a more strategic approach to these often overlooked parts of the application. You’ll learn how to choose recommenders who can advocate for you effectively, approach supplemental essays with purpose, and create a more cohesive overall application strategy. Join live to ask questions about your own application materials and get guidance on how to strengthen them before submission. The speaker is an experienced law admissions coach and former Villanova Law Assistant Dean who has reviewed and advised on countless applications. They’ll share the patterns they see across strong submissions and the kinds of insights typically discussed in 1:1 advising conversations.

Reaching Out for Recs? Here's How to Make Sure You're Set Up For Success [5/28/2026] (Recording)

Are you gearing up for your MBA applications and wondering how to secure stellar recommendation letters? Join me, Sabrina, for an insightful session on mastering the art of recommendations. With my experience as a Wharton MBA graduate and a member of the student admission committee, I understand the nuances of what makes a recommendation stand out. During this event, I'll share strategies to help you identify the right recommenders, guide them effectively, and ensure your recommendations align with your overall application narrative. Having interviewed industry leaders and held leadership roles at Wharton, I bring a wealth of knowledge to help you succeed. Spaces are limited, so RSVP now to secure your spot and take a crucial step towards your MBA dreams!