Strategy, Planning, Execution Package (Wharton focused)
Tier 1: Comprehensive Wharton MBA Application Coaching Focus: This package is designed exclusively to support your Wharton MBA application, offering a mix of live coaching sessions and asynchronous (offline) feedback. The plan is tailored to meet your individual needs while optimizing your application components to reflect your strongest candidacy. Services Included: In-Depth Consultation & Applicant Review (1 Hour, Live): A personalized session to understand your background, goals, and unique strengths, review of applicant components, including professional achievements, extracurriculars, and target themes for your application. Resume Review (1-2 Hours, Offline): Detailed feedback on your MBA resume, focusing on clarity, quantifiable impact, and alignment with Wharton’s values. Essay Brainstorming (1-2 Hours, Live): Interactive brainstorming sessions to generate compelling and authentic essay topics, guidance on structuring essays to align with Wharton’s expectations and your personal narrative. Essay Editing & Feedback (4 Hours, Live & Offline): Comprehensive support to refine your essays, ensuring clarity, cohesion, and originality, Includes feedback on tone, structure, and alignment with Wharton’s essay prompts and culture Recommendation Letter Support (1 Hour, Offline): Guidance for recommenders to craft impactful letters, with advice on themes to highlight, includes a review of drafted letters (if applicable). Holistic Application Review (1 Hour, Live & Offline): Final review of your near-complete application in the admissions portal, ensure consistency across all materials and readiness for submission. Optional Interview Preparation (1 Hour, Live): Guidance tailored to Wharton’s Team-Based Discussion (TBD) format, individual coaching on responses, delivery, and group collaboration strategies. Tier 2: Wharton + 2 Additional Schools Includes everything in Package 1 with added essay support for two additional schools. Essay brainstorming, editing, and feedback will be adjusted for these schools to ensure their unique requirements and culture are addressed effectively.
What's included
I believe the success of strong MBA applications is a mix of coaching to advise and challenge, applicant introspection through worksheets and offline preparation, and balancing live and asynchronous feedback to shape materials and strengthen applications. This means there isn't a one-size-fits-all approach. I like to meet applicants with where they're at, understand their approach to learning and feedback (e.g., whether offline or live brainstorming better maps to their learning style), and customize an approach.
- A polished, strategic, and standout application tailored for Wharton (and additional schools in Package 2).
- Confidence in showcasing your story authentically and compellingly.
Meet your expert
Steve B.
Break into M7 MBAs | MBB & Tech Strategy | Wharton MBA '26 Grad
I grew up in London and moved to the U.S. for college at the University of Chicago, where I studied Economics and English Literature. That combination still shapes how I approach MBA applications: I care about the logic of an applicant’s story, but just as much about whether it actually sounds like them. I have more than 10 years of experience in coaching and mentorship, including 2+ years specifically supporting MBA applicants, which is now where I focus my coaching exclusively. I’ve worked with 25+ clients across essay editing, interview prep, and full-application support, helping candidates gain admission to reach schools and earn substantial scholarships. I also went through the MBA process myself, attending Wharton (graduated in 2026), where I gained a much deeper appreciation for what makes candidates and their stories stand out beyond the basic markers of a strong application. While there, I served as a Leadership Fellow and Communications Fellow and graduated as a Palmer Scholar, an honor awarded to the top 5% of students in the class. Those experiences also gave me the chance to work closely with classmates across a huge range of backgrounds and career paths, something I draw on today when helping clients think through their own applications. Professionally, I’ve worked at both DoorDash and BCG. I joined DoorDash’s DashMart business early in its growth, starting as its first Operations Manager and helping scale the business as it expanded nationally. I later moved into management consulting at BCG, where I’ve worked with senior executives across retail, financial institutions, and technology. I know many of the career paths MBA applicants are coming from firsthand, particularly consulting, tech, operations, and strategy. I also think application writing has changed meaningfully with AI. Admissions readers are seeing more polished, generic prose than ever. Specificity matters more. So does having a point of view and stripping out the buzzwords and sentences that could have been written by anyone. I don’t think candidates should pretend AI doesn’t exist. It can be genuinely useful for brainstorming, managing word count, and refining ideas. I encourage clients to use it thoughtfully for those things. But deciding which story is worth telling and understanding what an admissions reader will actually take away from an application still require thoughtful human judgment. That also means I try to use our time carefully. I don’t want you paying me to do something you can easily do yourself. I’d rather focus our work on the questions where an experienced outside perspective can actually make your application better. I currently live in Brooklyn, New York. Outside of work and coaching, I’m usually watching international films, playing soccer, or going to concerts.
