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College Application Essays -- Top 10 Mistakes to Avoid

Top colleges routinely reject applicants with perfect GPAs and test scores. The application essay can serve as not only as a tie breaker but also a kind of "equalizer," making applicants more competitive than they otherwise would be relative to those with stronger profiles. In this video, Daniel K. Berman (Harvard graduate, PhD, former college teacher) draws on 30-plus years of experience coaching countless applicants—garnering hundreds of five-star reviews—to alert you to 10 critical mistakes that could negatively affect your admissions outcomes. Though written primarily for applicants to colleges, most of the principles described here also apply to essays at the level of graduate and professional school. For detailed information about this coach, including his profile video and a link to request a free discovery call, go to: https://www.joinleland.com/daniel-berman

Kellogg Full-Time MBA Interview Preparation Guide

A question bank and coaching framework built specifically around Kellogg’s resume-based, behavioral interview style.

Performance Comparison Tool

Are you confused at where you stand with your performance? Use this tool to assess your performance against role expectations and compare your assessment with your manager’s assessment. Your weekly performance record supplies the evidence for this conversation.

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360 Degree Consulting Recruiting Course

131 lessons and 26+ hours covering the complete consulting recruiting journey, from applications and screening tests to case interviews, behavioral interviews, offers, and succeeding on the job. Includes templates, trackers, frameworks, exercises, and practical guides.

Using AI Tools for Masters / MBA Applications

What schools actually say about AI tools, the five legitimate uses, and the failure modes that catch honest applicants, including the translation trap that gets genuine work flagged as machine-written.

The Year In Between: A Planning Workbook for Reapplicants

For anyone going again next cycle. Built backwards from one question: what will make the difference essay writable in twelve months. Includes an honest test of whether you should reapply at all.

Choosing Your Destination

The four variables that decide where you should study: language, cost, post-study stay rights, and the market itself. Walks the main destinations in Europe, the US and Asia against all four.

Masters Application Decision- What's Next?

Why the decisions arrive staggered and what that does to you. Handling a rejection, converting a waitlist through the admissions call almost nobody asks for, comparing offers against purpose rather than ranking, and how reapplication actually works.

Know Yourself Before You Apply

The profile work that has to happen before you write anything. Why remembering and writing are two different jobs, and the five categories of experience people wrongly dismiss.

How many schools for Masters/MBA and Which Test (GMAT/GRE)?

How many schools, in what tiers, and why there is no such thing as a safe school. Plus choosing between the GMAT and the GRE on percentiles rather than on how the questions felt.

Master in Management vs MBA Dissected

What the Master in Management (MiM) degree is for, how it differs from an MBA and from a specialised master's, and the five reasons people actually do it. Includes the eligibility window most applicants discover too late, and how to read a school's employment report.

Build your first AI employee

BUILD YOUR FIRST AI EMPLOYEE Turn one recurring job into a repeatable AI workflow.

The 4-Part Case Interview Framework

Stop memorizing frameworks. Start thinking like a consultant. Watch this video to learn the exact 4-part structure used in every McKinsey, BCG, and Bain case interview, and why skipping even one part costs you the offer.

Crack Any Exhibit in 60 Seconds. Land Your MBB Offer

In this video, I’ll share the exact 60-second system I teach my MBB mentees to crack even the most complex chart exhibits with speed, structure, and clarity.

Investment Banking Behavioral Interview Guide

A comprehensive guide to investment banking behavioral interviews covering Tell Me About Yourself, Why IB, Why Firm/Group, strengths and weaknesses, leadership, teamwork, conflict, failure, adversity, prioritization, and deal walkthroughs. Includes answer frameworks, a 3–4 story behavioral bank, timing guidance, pressure tests, a comprehensive question bank, and a final interview prep checklist.

AI chief of staff

BUILD YOUR AI CHIEF OF STAFF Turn meetings, commitments and recurring work into a system that runs before you open your laptop.

Land Your Job or Study in ... Denmark (Sept. 2026 edition)

Denmark does not make much noise. It does not need to. Novo Nordisk alone accounts for roughly 4% of the entire Danish GDP. Vestas leads the world in wind energy. Danfoss sets the standard in industrial automation. These are not household names to most non-EU professionals, and that is precisely the point: the competition for roles here is lower than the quality of the companies would suggest. The labour market is tight and the skills shortage is real, which works in your favour. English is the default language in most professional environments. The workforce is genuinely multicultural, and Danish workplace culture is notably flat: titles matter less than contribution. This session covers both paths in: studying at world-class institutions like Copenhagen Business School and the Technical University of Denmark, and entering the job market directly. We go through visa options, the Danish approach to work-life integration, living costs, and what international candidates consistently get wrong in their applications. Two real cases show what a successful move to Denmark actually looks like. Denmark is smaller than its neighbours and more selective. This Thursday, we show you exactly how to qualify. New episodes in this series cover a different European country every Tuesday.

3 Patterns Unlock 80% of McKinsey, BCG & Bain Cases

In this video, I’ll break down the three patterns behind 80% of MBB cases, so you can recognize them instantly, cut your prep time in half, and walk into interviews with twice the confidence.

Steal My 5-Step M&A Approach That Got Me Into Bain

In this video, I’ll reveal the 5-step M&A system used by McKinsey, BCG & Bain to crack any deal from growth to transformation.