Leland+ Content Library

IELTS Coaching Overview – Packages & Approach

This resource outlines my IELTS coaching philosophy, the core and comprehensive packages I offer for Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking, and what learners can expect in terms of process, feedback, and typical timelines. It’s designed to help potential clients choose the package that best matches their goals and availability

Crack the Quant: A Framework for Case Math and Exhibits

This is the deck from a previous event about tackling exhibits. Learn a new framework I built to help understand where you're going and what you're missing, then apply that framework to a real exhibit.

The 2026 AI Job Market, Decoded: Which Track Is Your Career On?

The AI job market didn't shrink, it split. I coach PMs, TPMs, and AI/ML professionals to land on the right side of that line. By day, I'm a Senior Engineering Program Manager at Apple working on AI-powered search and safety, where I sit on the hiring and evaluation side of exactly the roles my clients are targeting. Before Apple, I spent years in autonomous vehicles at Uber ATG and Aurora, so I've lived through one AI hype cycle already and know what actually gets people hired when the market shifts under them. I'm also an ICF-PCC certified coach with a master's in I/O Psychology from Purdue, which means our sessions aren't just resume tweaks. We work on how you tell your story, how you interview under pressure, and how you build a portfolio of evidence that beats any credential. What we can work on together: Positioning for AI/ML PM and TPM roles, including full interview loop prep Resume and narrative overhauls that lead with finished work, not job titles Career strategy: which track your role is on, and the moves that compound from here Executive presence, stakeholder management, and the senior skills now expected at every level I've coached clients into roles at OpenAI and top AI companies, and I've written two books on career growth and working with AI. If you want a plan built around your career instead of the averages, book a session and let's map it out.

Ross MBA 101: The Insider's View

Deck from a previous Leland event (recording is also available). The content includes: what adcom is looking for, as well as how to approach networking, essays, and interviews - all from a Ross alum and admissions interviewer.

Build Your First AI Agent: Put AI to Work on Real Tasks

By the end of this session, you will have built a working AI agent that can handle a real task autonomously, not just generate text. We'll cover how to define an agent's goal and tools, how to connect it to external actions like browsing or sending data, and how to avoid the common setup mistakes that cause agents to loop or fail silently. Attending live means you can describe your specific use case and get a direct answer about whether your approach will work, something a recording cannot give you. The coach builds and deploys AI agents in production and will share the decision-making framework they use when scoping what an agent should and should not handle on its own.

MBB Math Guide

The interviewer slides a number across the table, the mental clock starts, and a perfectly capable person goes silent, scrawls something unlabeled in a corner of the page, and produces an answer with no idea whether it's plausible. This guide fixes that. It distills MBB quantitative interviewing down to the seven patterns that show up again and again: market sizing, breakeven, profitability trees, ROI and payback, the margin-versus-markup trap, capacity and utilization, and unit economics. It works each one through a full, spoken-aloud solution, the way you'd actually deliver it in the room. You'll learn to frame the equation before you calculate, round aggressively and say so, sanity-check every number against the real world, and close with the one sentence that separates a calculator from a consultant.

MBB Market Sizing Guide

You can get the number right and still fail the case. MBB interviewers aren't scoring your arithmetic; they're scoring whether you stated the equation before you computed, whether you caught that transactions aren't cups, whether you know an installed base from an annual sales flow and whether you finished with the business implication instead of the number. This guide is seven cases, ordered by difficulty, each written the way the question actually appears in a real interview: clarifying questions worth asking, the trap that catches the average candidate, a full worked answer, and a breakdown of what separates a strong one. You'll size: + Disposable cups at a national coffee chain + Airport throughput two independent ways + UK pet insurance + German elevator maintenance + US EV fast-charging in 2030 + An AI radiology product with no observable price + US residential HVAC

Experience Translation: International Resume & Narrative Alignment

A highly practical, diagnostic tool engineered by Caolan Hunter to help professionals translate their domestic track records into universally understood markers of executive value. The resource addresses a critical cross-border bottleneck: the reality that local reputation, regional company prestige, and market-specific job titles do not automatically migrate across international borders. Designed for automated screening systems (ATS) and overseas recruiters, this checklist breaks down the conversion process into four actionable layers: 1. Company Scale & Brand Legibility: Methodologies for translating unknown local corporate brands into universal operational scale metrics ($USD revenue, headcount, or global analogues). 2. Role, Scope & Title Alignment: Frameworks to standardize idiosyncratic job titles and explicitly quantify geographic, budgetary, and cross-cultural management scope. 3. Jargon Elimination: Practical strategies to scrub region-bound acronyms, local compliance codes, and niche tools, reframing them into universal commercial business outcomes. 4. The Post-Move Narrative Check: Features the Coherence Sentence Formula, a strategic tool designed to eliminate lifestyle-driven motivations and replace them with rigorous commercial logic that global hiring managers respect.

Wharton Essay 2 — Contribution (First-Gen Background)

A 400-word contribution essay that turns a first-generation background into specific, executable contributions — from M&A case workshops to a 1Gen mentorship program. Annotated with the test every contribution should pass: could someone with a different resume make the same promise?

Wharton Career Goals Essay: Got a Consultant Admitted (Class of 2027)

The complete 500-word career goals essay from an admitted Wharton applicant, reproduced as submitted and anonymized. A first-gen candidate with an accounting and M&A consulting background traces a through-line from his uncle's corner store to a Head of Corporate Strategy ambition — and maps every named Wharton resource to a specific, honestly admitted gap. Includes a "Why This Essay Worked" breakdown (the memory-driven hook, the goal framed as reversing a trend the applicant witnessed firsthand, the verifiable short-term plan) plus the structural blueprint so you can build your own version without copying a single sentence.

Career Goals Essay Worksheet

A six-step worksheet that builds the essay's skeleton, not just notes: find your career thread, pressure-test your goals until they're checkable, and map your specific gaps to what each school actually provides.

The Wharton TBD, Decoded

The Team-Based Discussion is a work sample, not a debate. The five behaviors evaluators reward, prep that helps versus prep that backfires, and how to handle the self-assessment question afterward.

The Consultant's MBA Resume

Translate client work into an admissions-ready story. Bullet formulas, before/after rewrites, confidentiality rules for what you can actually disclose, and the three failure modes every consulting resume falls into.

Outreach Templates That Get Replies

Five copy-adaptable templates — cold alumni outreach, warm intros, thank-yous, pivot recruiting, and the no-ask revival email, each annotated with the psychology of why it works.

AI in Product Recruiting: What to Expect

AI is changing the way product teams build, prioritize, and make decisions—and product recruiting is beginning to reflect that shift. This session is designed for aspiring and current product managers who want to understand how AI is showing up in the recruiting process and how to prepare effectively. You’ll learn the types of AI-related questions companies are asking, how to demonstrate thoughtful AI product thinking, and what hiring teams are looking for as product roles continue to evolve.

MBA Recommender Briefing Packet: Turn a Good Letter Into a Great One

Your recommenders are busy, and vague praise doesn't move admissions committees. This template makes it easy to equip them: a one-page timeline of the only dates that matter, your goals and story condensed so the letter matches your essays, and a quality-by-quality evidence table that jogs their memory with specific, dated examples. It also coaches recommenders directly on the four traits of a strong MBA letter, specific stories, honest comparison, a genuine development arc, and their own voice, so you never have to have that awkward conversation yourself.

Building a Successful Law School Application

The strongest law school applications are built long before the application is submitted. This session is for aspiring law students who want to understand how to position themselves effectively throughout the admissions process. You’ll learn what admissions committees look for, how the different components of your application work together, and the strategies successful applicants use to stand out in a competitive pool.

Product Management Week Kickoff

Product managers sit at the center of some of the world’s most impactful products, shaping what gets built, why it matters, and how millions of people experience technology. This kickoff session is for anyone exploring a future in product management and looking for a clearer roadmap into the field. You’ll learn what PMs do day to day, the skills that matter most, and how successful candidates position themselves for opportunities in an increasingly competitive market.

Wharton MBA Essay Question Successful Response Sample

Successful essay for Wharton MBA Application Question - Taking into consideration your background – personal, professional, and/or academic – how do you plan to make specific, meaningful contributions to the Wharton community? (400 words)

GMAT Guide: Strategies to Control Your Score

A comprehensive GMAT guide written by test-takers who earned scores that got them into top business schools. Covers how the GMAT fits into your MBA application, when to start preparing, how to build a study plan, ways to take control of your score, and section-by-section test-taking strategies — all designed to reduce test anxiety and help you perform your best. Editable Word version attached.