Leland+ Content Library

Ask Me Anything: Excelling in PE Interviews

​​​Join us for an interactive AMA with a John C., a seasoned private equity professional who has successfully navigated the industry’s most competitive recruiting processes. In this session, you’ll get insider insights on how to stand out in both technical and behavioral interviews, master case studies and modeling tests, and convey your fit for a PE role with confidence. Whether you’re preparing for your first interview or looking to refine your approach, this is your chance to get your most pressing questions answered directly by an expert.

Wharton MBA Essay - Professional Impact Through Consulting

Explore how this essay answers: "What do you hope to gain professionally from the Wharton MBA?" through an education and sports lens.

MBA Resume Template – Fillable Format for Customization

A clean, structured Word template designed to help applicants craft an MBA-ready resume, with prompts for quantifiable achievements and leadership highlights.

Example Resume: A Consulting Job at Oliver Wyman

An example resume that landed a student a job at a top consulting firm, with a breakdown of key sections and strategies.

Still no referral? Here’s your final play

Learn when to make your move, how much notice to give, and how to turn a good relationship into an actual referral.

The Wharton Resume for Top Firms

Get an inside look at a successful resume from a Wharton undergrad. Learn how to highlight your consulting experience and stand out!

CBS Example Essay: Impact Investing & Community

Learn how this applicant plans to leverage an MBA for social impact, inspired by personal experiences and a drive for community change.

TOEFL Writing Test Sample

This is an example of a TOEFL Integrated Writing answer. It shows you a good example of essay structure, length, and logic.

You Are Sitting on Your Next Big Project Right Now. Find It With AI [7/7/2026] (Recording)

Your next big idea may already be hiding in the data, workflows, and problems you interact with every day. This session is for anyone who wants to use AI to uncover high-potential opportunities and turn overlooked insights into meaningful projects. You’ll learn how to use AI systems to identify patterns, surface valuable problems worth solving, and validate ideas faster than traditional approaches. Join live to hear from an expert in AI systems and explore how powerful AI workflows can help you think bigger and execute smarter. The speaker will share practical frameworks for spotting opportunities, refining ideas, and using AI as a thought partner throughout the discovery process. Expect actionable insights and fresh perspectives you can immediately apply to your own work.

MBA Interview Prep: 3 Questions You Can't Afford to Get Wrong [10/1/2026] (Recording)

MBA interview season is here! You've submitted a strong application, but can you bring your story to life in an interview? Join Loubna Bouamane, former Director of MBA Admissions and founder of The Admission Concierge, for a practical session on three critical MBA interview questions, what admissions committees are really looking for, and how to deliver answers that are authentic, specific, and memorable. Key Takeaways: - Identify the 3 MBA interview questions you need to prepare for and understand what interviewers are evaluating. - Learn how to structure compelling answers using your personal and professional experiences without sounding rehearsed. - Discover common interview mistakes and how to avoid them. You'll leave with a clear framework to prepare your answers and approach your MBA interviews with confidence.

MBA Interview Prep: 3 Questions You Can't Afford to Get Wrong [10/29/2026] (Recording)

MBA interview season is here! You've submitted a strong application, but can you bring your story to life in an interview? Join Loubna Bouamane, former Director of MBA Admissions and founder of The Admission Concierge, for a practical session on three critical MBA interview questions, what admissions committees are really looking for, and how to deliver answers that are authentic, specific, and memorable. Key Takeaways: - Identify the 3 MBA interview questions you need to prepare for and understand what interviewers are evaluating. - Learn how to structure compelling answers using your personal and professional experiences without sounding rehearsed. - Discover common interview mistakes and how to avoid them. You'll leave with a clear framework to prepare your answers and approach your MBA interviews with confidence.

LSAT Logical Reasoning: The Most Important Strategies for a Higher Score [10/14/2026] (Recording)

Want to improve your LSAT Logical Reasoning performance? Join Matt Doyle for a practical livestream on the strategies that help you understand arguments, evaluate answer choices, and solve questions with greater accuracy and confidence. Through worked examples, you’ll learn how to: - Identify an argument’s conclusion, supporting premises, and underlying assumptions. - Recognize common reasoning flaws and understand how they shape the correct answer. - Distinguish sufficient from necessary conditions and use conditional reasoning correctly. - Approach major question types, including Strengthen, Weaken, Necessary Assumption, Sufficient Assumption, and Inference. - Review practice questions effectively so you understand your mistakes and can apply what you learn to new problems. You’ll leave with a more systematic approach to Logical Reasoning and a clearer plan for making your practice productive. Whether you’re beginning your LSAT preparation or trying to break through a score plateau, this session will give you practical tools for tackling challenging questions. Bring your questions and a notebook. No advance preparation is required. Matt Doyle has more than 25 years of standardized-test tutoring experience and holds degrees from Duke, Stanford, and Northwestern’s JD/MBA program.

Personal Statement Office Hours — Ask a Stanford & Columbia Writing Expert [8/30/2026] (Recording)

Have a personal statement topic but don't know if it's the right one? Stuck on your opening? Worried your essay sounds cliché—or simply doesn't sound like you? Bring your questions, ideas, or draft to this live office-hours session. I'll answer your questions and offer practical, personalized guidance on the spot. We'll talk about what makes a personal statement memorable, how to find the deeper story beneath an obvious topic, how to avoid the most common essay traps, and how to make your writing sound authentic rather than “admissions-y.” You can come with a question, a rough idea, a partial draft, or a completed essay. You don't need to submit anything in advance. By the end, you'll have a clearer sense of what is—and isn't—working in your essay, along with concrete next steps for making it stronger. This is an interactive session, so come ready to participate!

5 AI productivity tips that save me hours each week [4/2/2026] (Recording)

This session walks through five specific AI tips that reduce repetitive, time-consuming work across writing, research, and task management, with enough detail that you can adapt them to your own role that week. You'll see the thinking and logic behind each one, where most people set them up incorrectly, and how to sequence them so they compound rather than add friction. Join like to ask about how a specific workflow might apply to your job function or tool stack. I use these systems in my own work every day and am sharing the versions that actually stuck, not a curated highlight reel.

Top 5 Tips for Your Law School Apps by Indrani, Former SLS Admissions Officer! [7/20/2026] (Recording)

Join Indrani, former Associate Director of Admissions at Stanford Law School, as she goes over her top 5 tips to help you put your best foot forward as you apply to law school! A great law school application requires research, authenticity and hard work, and Indrani will help you strategize. She will go over the importance of the LSAT, putting together a thoughtful school list, who should submit letters of recommendation, how to go about writing your essays and the optimal timeline for getting it all done! The session will end with ample time for questions and answers.

Top 5 Tips for Your Law School Apps by Indrani, Former SLS Admissions Officer! [8/26/2026] (Recording)

Join Indrani, former Associate Director of Admissions at Stanford Law School, as she goes over her top 5 tips to help you put your best foot forward as you apply to law school! A great law school application requires research, authenticity and hard work, and Indrani will help you strategize. She will go over the importance of the LSAT, putting together a thoughtful school list, who should submit letters of recommendation, how to go about writing your essays and the optimal timeline for getting it all done! The session will end with ample time for questions and answers.

Meet, Greet, Repeat. Networking Skills to Build Real Connections in Tech

Networking in tech is about more than just collecting LinkedIn connections—it’s about building genuine relationships that open doors. In this session, expert Leland coach and Netflix Senior Software Engineer Michelle B. will break down how to network with authenticity, confidence, and purpose in the fast-moving world of tech. ​You’ll learn how to make a strong first impression, turn casual conversations into real opportunities, and follow up effectively without feeling transactional. By the end, you’ll have practical strategies to expand your network, strengthen your personal brand, and build connections that actually move your career forward.

Top 5 Tips for Your Law School Apps by Indrani, Former SLS Admissions Officer! [6/8/2026] (Recording)

Join Indrani, former Associate Director of Admissions at Stanford Law School, as she goes over her top 5 tips to help you put your best foot forward as you apply to law school! A great law school application requires research, authenticity and hard work, and Indrani will help you strategize. She will go over the importance of the LSAT, putting together a thoughtful school list, who should submit letters of recommendation, how to go about writing your essays and the optimal timeline for getting it all done! The session will end with ample time for questions and answers.

Part 2: Identify Your Target Organizations

Are you tired of applying to 100 jobs and not hearing back? Maybe you’re nervous about reaching out to other people and talking about yourself. Perhaps you’ve heard about networking from a lot of people, but you’re skeptical about the way it can actually work for you. This workshop series is for you! As a career coach, I have distilled the targeted networking approach of finding jobs into a five-step process, each of which I will guide you through. Every three weeks, we will address another piece of the puzzle through an interactive workshop. In Part 1, we reflected on what exactly you want out of your next job and why, and learned how to tell your story in an elevator pitch and rehearse it so you are comfortable sharing your story with others in as little as one minute. In Part 2, we will: - Identify 5-10 orgs/companies that you want to be in using LinkedIn, Internet search, and in-person events, now that you know what you want to do next. - Track what you learn about these companies to start building a picture of what opportunities exist in this space/ market - Change your mindset from a job seeker to a professional’s. Stay confident, not needy. Part 3: Build Your Network to Learn (June 19) Part 4: Maintain Your Network (July 10) Part 5: Use Your Network to Apply (July 31) By the end of the process, you will be fully prepared to use the targeted networking approach to find a job, and more importantly, you will be closer to a chosen job and career that helps you live a purposeful, fulfilling life. Each workshop will include exercises that we will work through together, and I will answer questions. While you can attend any workshop as a one-off, it can be very powerful to attend the entire five-workshop sequence. If you want more personalized support as you go through the job search process, sign up for 1-on-1 coaching sessions with me! This workshop is appropriate for: - Students and early-career professionals who are not sure how to get started with the internship or full-time job search - Mid-career professionals who are looking to pivot into another industry or find a job after a career gap - Anyone who wants to become more adept at networking and use it strategically