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Xin L.

Xin Li

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Top Ex-McKinsey Coach | 100% Offer Rate | I Teach First-Principles Thinking

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    McKinsey & Company

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I teach the method that got me the highest mark on every McKinsey interview dimension, a result my interviewer called extremely rare. For cases, it is a procedure for thinking on your feet, whatever the prompt. For PEI, it is a story structure built to the interviewer’s evaluation form, so every criterion is covered. Today I have a large network of former students working across firms and offices. My coaching style differs from other coaches in three ways. 1. Efficient: you improve immediately, whatever level you start from 2. Direct and interactive: sessions run at McKinsey’s communication standard. You solve the case out loud. I prompt you to think and redirect you the moment you go off track, so the correction lands where the mistake happens. By the end we have solved it together. I push you to think rather than give you the answer or generic advice, because the thinking has to become yours 3. Practical and specific to you: advice you can act on, plus homework between sessions Other coaches may give you hope. Working with me gets you the offer.

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Xin’s Management Consulting Qualifications

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Experience level: Consultant

100+ Management Consulting clients

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Most case coaching teaches you tricks. I teach you how to think. The method got me the highest score on every dimension in my McKinsey interviews. Now it is what I teach. Frameworks are easy to memorize, and interviewers can tell. The candidates who get offers already think like consultants: they structure ambiguity on the fly, pressure test their own logic, and tell a personal story that lands. I specialize in what most coaches underserve. 1) PEI that feels real. 2) Case thinking that holds on a problem you have never seen. No canned frameworks. No tricks that collapse the moment an interviewer goes off script. Between sessions: homework, PEI and resume rewrites back in 48 hours, introductions to former students at the firms you target. I work with candidates who are serious about leveling up, not looking for shortcuts. Whether you're struggling to make your PEI stories compelling, hitting a wall on case math, or blanking when a case goes somewhere unexpected, I'll help you build the muscle, not just the motions.

Xin can help with:

Behavioral Interview Prep

Case Interview Prep

Cover Letters

Frameworks

LinkedIn Review

Networking Strategy

Presentations

Resume Review

Salary Negotiation

Skill Building

Why do I coach?

I remember the frustration. Months of prep, most of the materials on the market, a long list of coaches, and I still froze the moment a case went off script. What changed it was not another course. A friend, then an associate partner at Bain, sat down with me and showed me how a consultant actually thinks through a problem. I took that further and built my own method, and it worked. I did not plan to coach. Another friend preparing for McKinsey asked to borrow my notes and got the offer. That friend’s friends asked next. Somewhere in there I understood what the friend at Bain had given me: their time when I was stuck, and it changed the result. That is why I coach. I do the same for you.

Work Experience

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VP of Global Business Control

Hubexo

October 2025 - Present

Hiring Manager

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Associate

McKinsey & Company

October 2022 - October 2025

I got the highest score across all dimensions during the interview process, told by the interviewers

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Commercial Manager

Ericsson

August 2019 - September 2022

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M&A Analyst

EY

December 2018 - May 2019

Xin was also given offers to work at

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    Boston Consulting Group

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    Implement Consulting Group

Education

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Stockholm School of Economics

Master's degree, Finance

2016 - 2018

Chinese University of Hong Kong Logo

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Master's degree, Information and Systems

2014 - 2015

Xin was also personally admitted to

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    University of Southern California

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