Leland+ Content Library

Master in Management (MiM) decision- What it is, What it takes, and What you get [10/1/2026] (Recording)

Most Master in Management (MiM) advice comes from school marketing or one stranger's forum post. This is the version I give paying clients. I did a Master in Management and have spent 8+ years in the field of strategy and finance across six countries. I have mentored clients on their Master in Management applications across the US, Europe and Asia. I have been on both sides of this decision, which means I can tell you what the brochures leave out. In 1 hour, I will cover whether you are still eligible, which is not about your age and is the question that catches most people out. How a MiM differs from an MBA and from a specialised master's, and which your situation actually calls for. Why programmes run anywhere from one to three years, and what a gap year really is. Where this degree is taught across the US and Europe, why almost no American programme is called a MiM, and how to read a ranking properly, including why most major US programmes are missing from the rankings table and why that has nothing to do with quality. What you actually do afterwards, named concretely rather than described aspirationally. What a strong CV, essay, letter and interview look like. And where AI helps you, where it quietly sinks you, and the completely honest mistake that gets applicants flagged as dishonest. This is for anyone considering a MiM in the US or Europe, whether you are a year out or midway through a shortlist. If you applied before and did not get in, come. Forty five minutes of content, then live Q&A, hands or chat. Everyone who attends gets the Profile Evaluation Workbook by email afterwards.

What's Next? Deciding Whether to Cancel your Score and/or Retake the LSAT [9/23/2026] (Recording)

Getting an LSAT score you're proud of is only part of the equation. Deciding whether to keep your score, cancel it, or retake can have a major impact on your application strategy, especially when you're already scoring in a competitive range. This session is for LSAT test takers who want to make a smart, informed decision about what to do next. You'll learn how to evaluate your current score, when a retake makes sense, and what factors should guide your decision. Join live to hear from an LSAT expert with 12,000 hours of tutoring experience helping clients reach scores between 170 and 175. The speaker will break down how to think through score cancellation and retakes, including the risks, potential upside, and common mistakes to avoid. Bring your questions and leave with a clearer plan for your next move.

Investment Banking Kickoff: Your Guide to Securing an Offer [10/12/2026] (Recording)

Investment banking recruiting can feel like a maze of applications, networking, technicals, and interviews, but there’s a clear strategy behind how successful candidates navigate it. This kickoff session is for students and professionals who want to understand what it takes to compete for IB roles and turn recruiting efforts into real opportunities. You’ll learn how to build a stronger recruiting strategy, position yourself for the process, and prepare for the key stages that can ultimately lead to an offer. Join live for a panel of IB experts who know what it takes to navigate investment banking recruiting. They’ll share practical strategies, firsthand lessons, and insights into what successful candidates do throughout the process. Bring your questions and leave with a clearer roadmap for approaching IB recruiting with confidence.

Management Consulting Kickoff: 5x Your Chances at Getting an Offer [10/6/2026] (Recording)

Thousands of smart candidates apply to top consulting firms every year, but only a fraction make it to the offer stage. The candidates who succeed know how to approach recruiting strategically, stand out throughout the process, and prepare for the interviews that can make or break their chances. This kickoff session is for aspiring consultants who want to build a stronger strategy for landing an offer at a top firm. You’ll learn how to position yourself for recruiting, build a more competitive candidacy, and prepare for the key stages of the interview process. Join live for a panel of consulting experts who have broken into some of the world’s most competitive firms. They’ll share firsthand lessons, practical recruiting strategies, and the patterns they’ve seen among candidates who successfully earn consulting offers. Bring your questions and leave with a clearer roadmap for navigating the consulting recruiting process.

How to Nail the “Why Us” & Other Supplemental Essays [9/13/2026] (Recording)

Your personal statement tells colleges who you are. Your supplements show them why you belong at their school. At selective colleges, the “Why Us” essay is one of your biggest opportunities to stand out—and one of the easiest places to blend in. Too many students write a generic essay: great academics, great location, great community, felt like home. That essay could have been written for any school. I’m a Stanford- and Columbia-educated writing coach, and in this livestream I’ll show you what a strong “Why Us” essay is actually asking you to do, the mistakes that can undermine an otherwise strong application, and how to write supplements that are so specific and personal that no other applicant could have written them. We’ll also tackle other supplemental prompts you’re likely to encounter, including community, identity, and extracurricular essays. Bring your college list—you’ll leave with a clear strategy for researching each school and turning what you discover into compelling, highly specific essays.

Home for Ambition #15 — Weekly Live Show [7/8/2026] (Recording)

Home for Ambition is a weekly live show, hosted by Leland CEO, John Koelliker, for people trying to stay ahead as work, learning, and opportunity keep changing. Each episode tackles a handful of timely, high-signal topics across AI, careers, education, and the future of work. We expect thoughtful debate, unique perspectives, and practical takeaways you can actually use. It is not a typical interview show or a generic news recap. It is a live roundtable built to help ambitious people make sense of what is changing, understand what matters, and leave with a sharper point of view on how to navigate what comes next.

Leading Teams in the Era of AI: Crucial Skills for 2026 and Beyond [9/16/2026] (Recording)

Teams and organizations, along with their managers, are working (or struggling) to 'adapt as they adopt' new AI-enabled processes and tools. First taught as a course at Stanford, 'Leading Teams in the Era of AI' explores key managerial challenges that AI transformation can catalyze, which include: - maintaining motivation and a strong team culture in the face of rapid change and fear - communicating effectively when info saturation is a reality - clarifying roles and rules as AI augmentation and agents blur traditional boundaries - understanding different high level organizational strategies for AI adoption and their associated tradeoffs - increasing the pace and depth of team and organizational learning - recognizing how and why generative AI technology in particular requires new mindsets This session will summarize and highlight key findings and takeaways from the course, while offering a few simple tools to help leaders manage change when technological change keeps accelerating.

Recommendation Letters: from Selection to Submission [9/25/2026] (Recording)

Part 4 of 6 — Build Your Best MBA Application: One Piece at a Time, a free series (5:00–5:45pm ET). Letters of rec are the one piece of your application you don't fully control — so start them first. This session covers the full arc, selection to submission: picking recommenders in the right priority order (your most recent direct supervisor beats the biggest title who barely knows you), asking early with a gratitude-first outreach that makes it easy to say yes, and prepping your recommenders with talking points and evidence so they write something specific and authentic instead of generic praise. We'll also go inside what recommenders actually fill out — the GMAC Common LOR's competency grid and free-text questions — and the ratings guidance most applicants get wrong: why all 5s can hurt you, and how "lower" ratings tied to real growth areas make a letter read as credible. You'll leave with a recommender plan you can put in motion the same week: who to ask, how to ask, how to follow up, and how to make sure every letter lands before the deadline.

Build Your First AI Agent: Put AI to Work on Real Tasks [7/13/2026] (Recording)

By the end of this session, you will have built a working AI agent that can handle a real task autonomously, not just generate text. We'll cover how to define an agent's goal and tools, how to connect it to external actions like browsing or sending data, and how to avoid the common setup mistakes that cause agents to loop or fail silently. Attending live means you can describe your specific use case and get a direct answer about whether your approach will work, something a recording cannot give you. The coach builds and deploys AI agents in production and will share the decision-making framework they use when scoping what an agent should and should not handle on its own.

How to Prep for Final Round Interviews with a Former McKinsey Associate Partner [9/15/2026] (Recording)

Final-round consulting interviews require a different level of preparation than earlier rounds. At this stage, firms are looking for candidates who can demonstrate sharp problem-solving, strong communication, and the confidence to perform under pressure. This session is for candidates preparing for final-round consulting interviews who want to know where to focus their time and how to make a strong final impression. You’ll learn how to approach the most challenging parts of the interview, sharpen your case and fit skills, and avoid common mistakes that can cost you an offer. Join live to hear from a consulting expert and former McKinsey Associate Partner who has firsthand experience evaluating candidates at the highest levels. The speaker will share practical strategies for final-round preparation, insights into what interviewers are really looking for, and advice for standing out when the stakes are highest.

Integer Properties for the GMAT: Factors, Multiples, and Divisibility [9/10/2026] (Recording)

After this session, you will know how to recognize and work through the integer property problems that appear most frequently on the GMAT. That means understanding how to identify factors and multiples quickly, applying divisibility rules under timed conditions, and spotting the structural patterns that distinguish trap answers from correct ones. Attending live lets you ask about the specific problem types you are getting wrong and hear how an experienced coach diagnoses the reasoning error in real time, context a recording cannot replicate. The coach works through these concepts with GMAT students regularly and will share the patterns that consistently separate students who struggle with number theory from those who handle it with confidence.

Maximizing Productivity and Building with Claude [7/20/2026] (Recording)

After this session, you will know how to use Claude to meaningfully increase your daily output, not just as a writing tool but as a thinking partner that shapes how you plan, prioritize, and build. Expect to walk away with a practical framework for prompting Claude effectively, a method for integrating it into an existing workflow without overhauling everything, and a clear sense of where it actually saves time versus where it creates more work. Attending live means you can bring your specific setup, your tools, your role, and get a direct response to what is actually slowing you down. This coach works with AI in a hands-on, applied way every day, and this session is a chance to see how that thinking works in practice.

IB Technicals 6: LBOs and Market Questions [10/1/2026] (Recording)

LBOs come last because they need everything before them, and the paper LBO is the question that proves it. An LBO is buying a rental property with a huge mortgage. Minimal equity down, the tenant's rent services the debt, sell the building later. Once that clicks, the mechanics follow: how much debt a business can carry, what a sponsor is, the three levers of return, and the lookup table that turns a multiple of money into an IRR. Two times in five years is about fifteen percent. Three times is about twenty-five. Then we do a paper LBO out loud, the way you would in the room. The last block of the series is the payoff. Where markets are right now, pitch me a stock, and tell me about a deal you have been following. One structure for each, and how a company, a deal, and a trend become one answer. What we'll cover: - What an LBO is, who the sponsor is, and what the goal of the deal actually is - The three levers of return, and why multiple expansion is the one you do not get credit for - IRR versus multiple of money, and the lookup table to memorize - The paper LBO, worked out loud - Why a strategic buyer can often pay more than a financial sponsor - Where are markets right now, pitch me a stock, and the deal you have been following Want the whole run checked in one sitting? I run a 90-minute mock interview, a full simulation and then rapid-fire technicals on whatever broke. Book a free 15-minute intro to see if it is a good fit. Part 6 of IB Technicals, a six part run on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Each night covers how the concept works and, more importantly, how to actually answer the questions on it, with the stories and details behind them. Each one stands alone, so jump in anywhere. I'm the founder of OFFERGOBLIN and ex-Centerview tech.

Ask me anything: Job Searching in a Challenging Job Market [7/29/2026] (Recording)

The job market is challenging right now. Job searches are taking longer and old approaches aren't working the way they used to. It's a long game. So having the right mindset and strategies are even more important. In this "Ask me anything," we'll be talking about: - Job search mindset - Finding purpose - Job search networking - Thoughts for career pivoters - Avoiding burnout - Interview prep ... and any other job search topics that come up.

HBS Deadline Clinic: Sharpening Your Story Before You Submit [9/2/2026] (Recording)

HBS's open-ended essay format is a gift and a trap — plenty of room to say the wrong thing well. This live session is for applicants with a near-final draft who want a sharper, more distinctive final version. We'll break down how readers evaluate narrative coherence across your essay, resume, and recommendations, why "impressive" often loses to "specific," and how to catch the generic phrasing that quietly weakens strong applications. Expect a practical session aimed at adjustments that move the needle in your last few days before submission.

Why Strong People Start Looking Weak in New Rooms — And How to Fix It [7/22/2026] (Recording)

It is a painful irony: you are technically excellent, you have a proven track record, and you’ve earned your seat, but the moment you enter an unfamiliar professional culture or a more senior global room, you start sounding less clear than you actually are. This is the phenomenon of being "Badly Translated." When high-performers move into global teams (like my clients at Netflix APAC) or competitive international interviews, they often default to tactical, deferential, or over-explanatory habits that make them appear more junior than they are. This livestream is about reclaiming your signal. We will break down why your experience isn't landing and how to shift from sharing information to demonstrating judgment. By the end of this livestream, you will be able to: 1. Spot the Deferential Trap: Identify the specific linguistic and behavioral habits that make you sound like an executor rather than a peer in senior meetings. 2. Master Recommendation Language: Move beyond just asking questions or providing updates to using the phrasing that senior leaders use to direct attention. 3. Shift from Biography to Positioning: Reframe your self-introduction so that it highlights your judgment and impact rather than just a list of tasks you’ve performed. 4. Audit Your Visibility: Understand the Invisible High-Performer pattern and how to enter a conversation early enough to help define the question, not just answer it. Outcomes 1. The Senior Signal Toolkit: A set of 5 specific entry-lines and phrases you can use in your next global meeting to sound more strategic. 2. Interview Re-Framing: A new way to answer "Tell me about yourself" that stops being a history lesson and starts being a value proposition. 3. Confidence Audit: A personal diagnostic to see where your meeting confidence is dropping and whether the gap is lack of knowledge or a habit of seeking permission.

Product Management Panel: Building a Standout Candidacy [9/30/2026] (Recording)

Breaking into product management can be challenging when you're competing with candidates from a wide range of backgrounds and trying to figure out what hiring teams actually value. This panel is designed for aspiring product managers and career switchers who want to understand how to build a strong, differentiated PM candidacy. You'll hear experts discuss how to develop relevant experience, demonstrate product thinking, position your background, and approach the recruiting process effectively. Attending live gives you the opportunity to hear multiple perspectives from product professionals who have helped candidates navigate the path into PM and ask questions about your own goals in real time. Our panelists will share practical strategies, common mistakes to avoid, and what they see successful candidates doing differently when building their candidacy. If you want a clearer strategy for standing out in product management recruiting, it's worth joining live.

BCG Fit Interview Explained: What Interviewers Look For [10/15/2026] (Recording)

Most candidates put their prep hours into cases and leave the fit interview to chance. This 30-minute session gives fit the attention it deserves. I'm an ex-BCG consultant who worked with BCG's recruiting team, so I'll walk you through what interviewers look for in the fit portion. You'll leave knowing: 1. What the fit interview is testing and where it sits in the BCG process 2. How to build a small set of stories that can answer most fit questions 3. How to structure an answer so it's easy to follow 4. The mistakes that sink otherwise strong answers I'll also answer a couple of real fit questions live, so you can hear what a strong answer sounds like. We'll finish with your questions. This is for anyone interviewing with BCG this fall or getting ready to.

Drop in Q&A Rnd 1 MBA- Know your story and uniqueness. Not cookie cutter advice [7/21/2026] (Recording)

Round 1 deadlines are coming. Your essay is probably a mess. Your story probably doesn't make sense yet. That's fine — that's exactly what we're going to fix. I'm Bryan, Wharton undergrad, MIT Sloan MBA, and I've spent 12 years helping people turn complicated, non-linear careers into applications that actually get read. I've seen the cookie-cutter essays. I've seen the AI-written ones. Adcoms have too. We're not doing that. In this session we'll talk about what Round 1 actually means for your chances, how to find the thread that connects your story, what schools are really asking when they say "why MBA, why now," and how to stop writing essays that sound like everyone else's. No fluff. No templates. Just the stuff that actually moves the needle. Bring your messy draft. Bring your confused career pivot. Bring your "I don't know how to explain what I do" problem. We'll figure it out together.

Mixture Problems Made Easy: The Number Line Trick and More [7/21/2026] (Recording)

Mixture problems don’t have to mean messy algebra and time-consuming calculations. This session is for GMAT test takers who want a faster, cleaner way to solve one of the most commonly tested quant question types. You’ll learn how to use the number line trick to simplify mixture problems, avoid common mistakes, and solve difficult questions with more speed and confidence. Join live to hear from a GMAT expert who scored a 790 on the GMAT and has helped students dramatically improve their quant performance. The speaker will walk through practical examples, break down when this technique works best, and share strategic shortcuts you can immediately apply in your own prep. Expect high-impact methods designed to help you save time and pick up valuable points on test day.