Offered by Mike H.

Joined June 2024

Former Stanford Admissions + Leadership Center Director | UC, Stanford alum

For over two decades, I've worked at the intersection of admissions and leadership development — including a decade as an admissions director at Stanford Business School, and five years as Executive Director of the school's Center for Leadership Development, where I studied and taught leadership to Stanford MBAs. The two roles showed me the same lesson from different angles: students who thrive, in the application process and afterward, are the ones who've done real self-reflection, not just résumé-building. That's the perspective I bring to undergraduate coaching. With 20+ years in leadership development alongside my admissions background, I help students figure out what they really need before we worry about how to get it. I believe how you approach this process matters — it's often the first time a young person has had to articulate their own story under institutional scrutiny, and learning to do that effectively and with integrity sets the tone for how they'll approach everything that comes next, including college itself. None of that means I lose sight of the goal. I know why you're here: to get into your dream school, ideally with options and leverage when decisions come in. My job is to make sure the structured and serious work we do together serves both — a process that builds real self-understanding, and an application that reflects it in a way admissions committees respond to. If you're looking for a coach who's not only read applications at a top school, but developed admissions criteria and evaluation processes, and who takes an applicant's growth as seriously as their outcomes, I'd be glad to talk. Let's start with a conversation about where you are and what you're hoping for.