Leland+ Content Library

Product Case Interview Prep: Fav Product

After this session, you will know how to structure a compelling "favorite product" response that demonstrates product thinking, not just feature knowledge. We will cover how to choose the right product to talk about, how to articulate a clear problem and user insight, and how to walk through your reasoning in a way that signals PM maturity to interviewers.

Standing Out in PM Recruiting: AI Side Projects

AI side projects are everywhere. Most of them will not help you stand out in a competitive PM hiring process. In this session, you’ll learn how to build an AI side project that demonstrates real product thinking, not just technical curiosity. We’ll break down how to choose the right problem, scope a project around the PM skills hiring managers care about, and avoid creating an overbuilt demo with no clear user or purpose. You’ll also learn how to turn the project into a compelling story across your resume, LinkedIn, portfolio, and interviews. We’ll cover what separates projects that signal strong product judgment, customer insight, prioritization, experimentation, and execution from projects that recruiters and hiring managers quickly skip. You’ll leave with a practical framework for deciding: What to build and what not to build Which PM competencies your project should demonstrate How to scope the project so you can actually finish it How to position the work so its value is immediately clear Whether you already have a project underway or are starting from scratch, this session will help you create something that strengthens your product manager profile.

Back-of-the-Envelope Math: A System Design Cheat Sheet Guide Video

A guided tour of the Back-of-the-Envelope Math cheat sheet. We price a photo-sharing startup from scratch: traffic, bandwidth, storage, and the monthly bill, using the sheet one row at a time. Watch it once, then run your own estimate with the sheet beside you.

Back-of-the-Envelope Math: A System Design Cheat Sheet

The System Design estimation numbers that are worth memorizing. Current latency numbers, cloud costs, LLM inference speeds, QPS and storage shortcuts, and availability math, plus a five-step method and worked examples. Built for system design interviews and useful long after them.

Big-O Complexity: A Coding Interview Cheat Sheet

All the major Big-O complexity prep you need for a coding interview, on two pages. The growth ladder, what n fits in one second, data structures and sorting costs, graph algorithms, and a chart showing how the curves diverge. It ends with a five-step method for analyzing your solution out loud, with worked examples.

Failure Math: A Software Reliability Cheat Sheet

A useful guide to how often hardware, clouds, and deploys actually fail, with real fleet data. Annual failure rates, GPU failure math from the Llama 3 training run, availability tables, and the composition rules that set your uptime ceiling. For system design interviews and for on-call reality.

The Path to Your First Booking

New to Leland and wanting to level up? Learn 5 strategies to build your business on the platform and walk away with a 30 day calendar to get you going.

Real MBB Case Series: Live BCG Case Walkthrough

Are you gearing up for a management consulting interview and want to ace the case interview? Join me, Thabang, for a live BCG case walkthrough as part of our Real MBB Case Series. This session is designed to enhance your skills in case math, exhibit interpretation, frameworks, and overall case interview prep based off a Real BCG Case! With my background as an ex-MBB Consultant and having conducted over 1,000 coaching sessions, I have a proven track record of helping candidates secure their dream consulting roles. I was recognized as the Top Coach across Europe, Middle East & Africa in 2023 by an MBB, so I know exactly what it takes to succeed in MBB interviews.

Real MBB Case Series: Live McKinsey Case Walkthrough

Are you gearing up for a management consulting interview and want to ace the case interview? Join me, Thabang, for a live McKinsey case walkthrough as part of our Real MBB Case Series. This session is designed to enhance your skills in case math, exhibit interpretation, frameworks, and overall case interview prep based off a Real McKinsey Case! With my background as an ex-McKinsey Consultant and having conducted over 1,000 coaching sessions, I have a proven track record of helping candidates secure their dream consulting roles. I was recognized as the Top Coach across Europe, Middle East & Africa in 2023 by McKinsey, so I know exactly what it takes to succeed in MBB interviews.

Build a Personal AI That Schedules Your Life

SESSION GUIDE: https://www.lelandcourses.com/ai-builder/personal-ai-scheduler/ You text "dentist tomorrow 3 to 4pm, bring x-rays" and it's on your calendar before you put your phone down. ​Join Luca Tomasino, AI Automation Expert and n8n specialist who has coached over 100 professionals on building real AI workflows, for an exclusive AI Builder session where you'll create a Telegram bot that reads your messages, checks your Google Calendar for conflicts, and books your events automatically over text. ​You'll build the entire thing inside n8n from scratch, live, in under an hour. By the end of the session, you'll text your own bot and watch the event land on your calendar in real time, not in a demo, on your actual phone. ​This isn't a tutorial you'll finish later. Luca will walk you through every node, every connection, and every decision as you build, teaching you the core n8n concepts that unlock every other automation you'll ever want to build: triggers, AI agents with structured output, conditional logic, and multiple API integrations, all in one flow.

Cracking College Admission Week: Kickoff

The students who stand out in college admissions usually aren’t the ones doing everything, they’re the ones who know how to tell the right story. This kickoff session is designed to help you approach the application process with more clarity, strategy, and confidence from the very beginning. You’ll learn how to think about essays, extracurriculars, and overall positioning, along with the common patterns admissions professionals see across successful applicants.

Nailing the Activities Section of Your College App

The activities section is one of the most overlooked parts of the college application, yet it can strongly influence how admissions readers understand your impact and priorities. This session is for students who want to present their extracurricular experiences in a more strategic and compelling way. You’ll learn how to describe your involvement with clarity, prioritize activities effectively, and highlight leadership and initiative without sounding generic.

Practice cases

4 Practice McKinsey-style cases, written by someone who has given 100+ cases at McKinsey.

MBA Inteview Guide

How to prepare for IESE, INSEAD, LBS, IE, ESADE and other top European MBA programs A practical two-page preparation guide for MBA admissions interviews. MBA interviews are not just a final checkpoint. They are your chance to show who you are beyond your CV, essays and test scores— and to prove that your goals, values and personality fit the school. A strong interview helps the school understand: Why MBA? · Why this school? · Why now? · Why you?

Co-Thinking with AI: Prompts Companion Guide

This companion guide contains the five co-thinking prompts from the Co-Thinking with AI: Beyond the Hype, Into Your Edge session, each one built around a situation you are probably already in. These are not generic prompts pulled from a list. Each one is engineered to force a diagnostic conversation before AI produces any recommendation, which means what you get back reflects your specific situation, your actual experience, and your real context. The five prompts cover: navigating a career crossroads with competing professional identities, responding to job application questions in a way that is authentically yours, running a structured root cause analysis on a recurring business problem, analyzing your own presentation or meeting performance using a transcript, and building a brand voice document that makes everything you create with AI sound like you wrote it. Use one at a time. Give each prompt the context it asks for. Push back on the outputs. That is where the value lives, not in the prompt itself, but in the conversation it opens.

Winning Wharton Essays

Let's face it - Wharton's essay prompts are pretty dry. Check out how a tech consultant applicant nailed them by providing a vision for his career and what he wanted to gain/contribute to Wharton, while still showing personality and explaining what made him unique!

Acing the PM Interview: Every Interview Type and How to Prepare for Them [5/29/2026] (Recording)

PM interviews test a wide range of skills, and many candidates struggle to know how to prepare across different formats. This session is for aspiring product managers who want a clear, structured approach to every major interview type. You’ll learn how to tackle product sense, execution, and behavioral questions, how to adapt your approach for each format, and what strong answers consistently demonstrate to interviewers. Join live to ask questions about your own preparation and get guidance on where to focus your effort. The speaker is a senior product manager who regularly coaches candidates through PM interviews. They’ll share the patterns they see across successful applicants and the kinds of feedback typically given in 1:1 interview prep sessions.

Build an Investor-Level Pitch Deck with Claude, Excel & PowerPoint [5/29/2026] (Recording)

Build Anything Series · Event 03 · Free · Live Investor decks are a specific genre. They aren't "presentations." They're a tight argument backed by a defensible model, told in 12 slides. This event walks through how to build one with Claude, Excel, and PowerPoint working together — the way real founders actually do it now. What we'll build live: - The financial model — TAM/SAM/SOM, unit economics, P&L forecast, sensitivities, all in Excel/Sheets with Claude generating and reviewing the formulas - The story — problem, market, solution, traction, team, ask. Each slide does one job. We'll write them tight. - The slides — clean figures, charts that read in 3 seconds, narrative continuity. Polished and ready to send. Who it's for: - Founders fundraising (or about to) - Operators building internal pitches for new initiatives - Anyone who's stared at a blank deck for two weeks waiting for inspiration Not a fit if: - You don't have a real business or initiative to pitch - You want me to make a deck for you — this is a workshop, you build alongside We'll be honest about what investors actually look at (versus what advisors say they look at), and where AI helps versus where it gets in the way. Bring your data — even rough — and we'll build live.

Your Senior Summer Blueprint: What Top College Admits Do Differently

Are you ready to make the most of your senior summer and set yourself apart in the college admissions process? Join me for a practical session on crafting your Senior Summer Blueprint. As someone who has guided students to some of the most prestigious institutions in the country, including all eight Ivy League schools and Stanford, I know what it takes to stand out. And I know that the summer months before senior year can make all the difference. In this session, I'll share my recommendations for how to structure your summer—what to do and when—so you can head into fall feeling organized, confident, and ahead of the curve. In other words: less overwhelm, stronger applications.

Law School Week Kickoff [5/26/2026] (Recording)

Kick off your law school journey the right way: join us for an exclusive panel of law admissions experts who have been on both sides of the application process and know exactly what it takes to stand out. From crafting a compelling personal statement to navigating the LSAT and building your school list, they'll walk you through every stage with real, actionable advice you won't find anywhere else. This is the event that sets the tone for your entire application cycle, and you don't want to miss it.