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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.

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Build an AI Personal Trainer

A good personal trainer costs $100 an hour and sees you twice a week. Yours will live in your pocket, cost nothing, and know exactly what to tell you the morning after you slept four hours. ​Join Jon Metz, Principal AI Product Manager at Nike, for an exclusive AI Builder session where you'll build your own AI personal trainer from scratch. Jon will walk you through every step, and by the end of the hour you'll have a working AI that takes your health information and fitness goals and generates a plan that's actually yours. ​This isn't a demo. You'll be building alongside him in real time, so you'll leave with a finished product, not a to-do list. ​Jon spends his days at Nike figuring out how AI can meet athletes where they are. Now he's bringing that expertise directly to you. ​Open exclusively to AI Builder Program members.

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.

Turning a Non-Traditional Background Into a PE Offer: Retail Banking to PE [4/30/2026] (Recording)

If your background is non-traditional for PE, this session will show you exactly how to reframe that experience into a compelling PE narrative, how to identify the right funds to target given your profile, and how to position your deal exposure in a way that resonates with PE interviewers. Non-traditional candidates often lose ground in the screening phase, and this session addresses the specific signals that help you clear it. Attending live means you can ask how your particular background maps to this framework and hear a direct response, not a general one. The coach works with candidates navigating this exact transition regularly, and the patterns they share about what separates successful non-traditional hires are worth showing up to hear firsthand.

How to Build a Winning MBA Application

Many MBA applicants have strong profiles but struggle to bring all the pieces together into a cohesive, competitive application. This session is designed for candidates who want to understand how admissions committees evaluate applicants across essays, resumes, recommendations, and interviews. You’ll learn how to define clear career goals, build a compelling narrative, and position your experiences in a way that demonstrates leadership, impact, and fit with your target programs.

Breaking Into Product Management: What It Takes

Breaking into product management can feel confusing when job descriptions ask for experience that many aspiring PMs are still trying to build. This session is for candidates who want to understand what it actually takes to land their first PM role and how to start positioning themselves now. You’ll learn how successful applicants frame their background, what hiring managers look for when evaluating entry-level PM candidates, and practical ways to build product-relevant experience even before landing the role.

GRE Sprint Kickoff: What the GRE Tests and What You Need for a Top Score

After this session, you will know exactly which GRE skills separate high scorers from the rest and which study habits waste time. We will break down what the Verbal and Quant sections are actually measuring, why most test-takers misread the test's logic, and how to build a study plan around the patterns that consistently produce top scores.

LSAT Logical Reasoning: Common Flaws and Common Wrong Answers

After this session, you'll be able to identify the logical flaws test-makers return to most often and recognize why certain wrong answers are designed to feel correct. We'll cover the structural patterns behind common flaw types like circular reasoning and false causation, how to spot the specific language that signals a trap answer, and what distinguishes a tempting distractor from a provably wrong choice.

The Hardest Med School Interview Questions—And How to Tackle Them [4/30/2026] (Recording)

Medical school interviews often hinge on how well you handle the toughest, most unexpected questions under pressure. This session is for applicants who want to strengthen their interview skills and feel more confident tackling challenging prompts. You’ll learn how to approach difficult ethical scenarios, think through curveball questions in real time, and structure responses that demonstrate maturity, judgment, and self-awareness. Join live to ask questions about your own interview prep and get guidance on how to refine your answers. The speaker is a Tufts University School of Medicine graduate and experienced coach who has helped many applicants navigate the interview process. They’ll share the patterns they see across strong performances and the kinds of feedback typically given in 1:1 coaching sessions.

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.

How Candidates Actually Land Elite Boutique Offers [4/30/2026] (Recording)

Elite boutique investment banking offers are highly competitive, and the candidates who break through are intentional about how they position their experience and navigate the process. This session is for students targeting firms like Evercore, Lazard, and PJT who want to understand what actually differentiates successful applicants. You’ll learn how to build a focused recruiting strategy, position your background to signal strong fit, and approach networking and interviews in a way that leads to real traction. Join live to hear how an experienced coach evaluates candidates targeting elite boutiques and the patterns they see across successful applicants. You’ll also have the chance to ask questions about your own recruiting approach and get real-time guidance typically shared in 1:1 coaching sessions.

How To Write Outstanding Law School Application Essays [4/29/2026] (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.

How to Prepare for the GRE With Just Two Weeks vs. Two Months [4/30/2026] (Recording)

In this session, you'll learn how to build a realistic GRE study plan based on how much time you actually have. Whether you're working with two weeks or two months, you'll walk away knowing which question types to prioritize first, how to allocate your hours across Verbal and Quant, and when to cut your losses on a concept and move on. Attending live means you can describe your specific timeline and score goals and get a direct answer about what your plan should look like, not a generic framework. The coach works with GRE students regularly and will share the patterns she sees in how successful test-takers adjust their approach when time is short, which is the kind of thinking that does not show up in a study guide.

My Top 5 Tips for GRE Quant Questions [4/29/2026] (Recording)

GRE quant questions often reward strategy as much as math ability, yet many test takers rely on slow or inconsistent approaches. This session is for anyone looking to improve their performance on the quantitative section with clearer, more efficient methods. You’ll learn five high-impact strategies to simplify complex problems, avoid common traps, and approach questions with greater speed and confidence. Join live to ask questions about specific problem types and see how an experienced GRE expert applies these strategies in real time. The speaker regularly works with students to improve quant performance and will share the patterns they see across high scorers. Expect practical techniques and insights similar to what’s covered in focused 1:1 prep sessions.

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.

Acing the MIT Sloan Interview [4/30/2026] (Recording)

After this session, you will know how to approach MIT Sloan's distinctive interview format with a clear strategy. We'll cover how to structure your responses to behavioral questions, how to articulate your post-MBA goals in a way that aligns with what Sloan evaluators are listening for, and how to prepare for the conversational style that catches many deferred MBA candidates off guard. Attending live gives you the chance to ask about your specific background, your goals, or a response you're unsure about, and to hear how those answers land in real time. The coach works with deferred MBA applicants through this process regularly, and this session reflects the patterns they see across candidates who interview well.

Land Your Job or Study in ... Denmark

Denmark does not make much noise. It does not need to. Novo Nordisk alone accounts for roughly 4% of the entire Danish GDP. Vestas leads the world in wind energy. Danfoss sets the standard in industrial automation. These are not household names to most non-EU professionals, and that is precisely the point: the competition for roles here is lower than the quality of the companies would suggest. The labour market is tight and the skills shortage is real, which works in your favour. English is the default language in most professional environments. The workforce is genuinely multicultural, and Danish workplace culture is notably flat: titles matter less than contribution. This session covers both paths in: studying at world-class institutions like Copenhagen Business School and the Technical University of Denmark, and entering the job market directly. We go through visa options, the Danish approach to work-life integration, living costs, and what international candidates consistently get wrong in their applications. Two real cases show what a successful move to Denmark actually looks like. Denmark is smaller than its neighbours and more selective. This Thursday, we show you exactly how to qualify. New episodes in this series cover a different European country every Thursday.

Building for Agents: The Next Layer of Product Adoption [4/30/2026] (Recording)

After this session, you'll understand how to think about product design when AI agents, not humans, are your primary users. We'll cover how agent-native interfaces differ from traditional UX, what drives adoption when the end user is an automated system, and how to evaluate whether your product architecture is built for the way agents actually consume data and trigger actions. Attending live means you can bring your specific product or use case and hear how an experienced PM thinks through it in real time, which a recording cannot replicate. The coach works at the intersection of AI and product development daily, and this session is a chance to see how that thinking is applied, not just described.

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.