MBA Applications: Build on Your Strengths
Includes the full CliftonStrengths Assessment + Reflected Best Self Exercise, plus your choice of 6 hours or 12 hours of live personal coaching. Your strongest MBA application will spotlight the qualities that make you most effective—backed by real stories and results. This package helps you dig deep to uncover and articulate your authentic strengths, then use those insights to craft standout application materials. Introspection is valuable. But for MBA admissions, it’s not enough—you need to connect self-awareness to action, impact, and future goals. That’s where this strengths-based coaching approach comes in. Here’s how it works: * CliftonStrengths themes help you identify the core abilities that power your leadership, collaboration, and decision-making. * The Reflected Best Self Exercise (RBSE) reveals how others have experienced you at your best—providing powerful, real-world stories of your positive impact. * Together, these tools shape a compelling narrative and inform essays, interviews, and your long-term career vision. This package is ideal whether you’re preparing to apply now or building toward a future MBA application. It works best when you have at least 12 weeks before your first application deadline. When you are planning on an MBA application at least 6 months into the future, we can identify how to leverage your strengths in your broader career and personal development, so that you can craft your future based on what you are truly great at doing. This sets you up for a remarkable MBA application, because your upcoming wins will align with the story you want to tell.
What's included
- CliftonStrengths Assessment + Personalized Report
- Reflected Best Self Exercise, including story collection platform and synthesis guide
- 6-12 Hours of 1:1 Coaching, covering Strengths discovery and reflection and Story selection and development
- For near-term MBA applications, coaching will support your essay & resume development
- For long-term MBA applications, coaching will support your professional development to help you identify new projects and opportunities at work and in the community that build on your strengths
Meet your expert
Jennifer P. D.
INSEAD, Oxford Saïd, LBS, HEC Paris? Let's Go!
I'm an American based in Berlin, Germany, where I've been living since 2015, following 3 years in Paris. My coaching practice enables motivated people to break through to their best performance, and ultimately achieve their goals. I do this through test prep coaching, admissions consulting, and mindset development programs. Since I started coaching candidates for the GMAT, GRE, and SAT in 2013, I've helped hundreds of motivated people achieve their goal test scores and present compelling applications to the world's top universities and business schools. My former students have gone on to INSEAD, London Business School, Oxford, Stanford, Cornell, HEC Paris, Sciences Po, and so many more. I have admissions committee experience as a member of the Alumni Advisory Board at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It was eye-opening to see how masters and MBA candidates presented themselves ... and how some otherwise talented individuals could miss the boat when telling their own stories. This experience informs my admissions coaching today. My GMAT expertise is world class: I know the test inside and out, thanks to tens of thousands of hours working one-on-one with candidates like you to solve the toughest problems. For years, I've attended insider meetings with the psychometricians who oversee the exam, giving me priceless insight into the scoring algorithm and best candidate strategies. I lived in the United States for 32 years; there, I worked in the management of arts and cultural institutions, and I later led a regional economic development agency. I was fortunate to start my career with four years at The Walt Disney Company in Florida, before working in public/private partnerships following my MBA. When I moved to France, I found that my decision-making lens was deeply foreign to the performing arts organizations there. While I went on to do graduate research in theatre and translate a book (Rodin and the Dance of Shiva, if you're curious), I ended up finding my new home in education. I've taught at smaller business schools in Paris and Berlin, but most enjoy working one-on-one or in small groups with GMAT and SAT candidates.
