Doug P. | MBA Coach

Doug P.

5.0

Education & Social Impact to Stanford MBA | Non-Traditional MBA Backgrounds

Studied at Stanford Graduate School of Business

Worked at KIPP DC

Available Tuesday at 12:00 AM UTC

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Available Tuesday at 12:00 AM UTC

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Doug’s MBA Qualifications

Doug has helped clients get into these schools:

Coaching others for their development is what I do best and the thread that runs throughout my entire career. As an educator, I coached students in developing & sharing their stories and supporting them in their personal growth, including coaching two high school clients to admission at the University of Pennsylvania and Georgia Tech, both clients' first choice schools. At the Stanford GSB, I spend most of my extracurricular time coaching others in personal narrative development as a TALK Coach, where I coach dozens of classmates on preparing and sharing their stories with the rest of their classmates. I coach for those who are in education & social impact and are considering pursuing an MBA to expand their impact or pivot. I earned admission to MBA programs at the Stanford GSB, Wharton, Chicago Booth, and Yale's SOM and would be thrilled to help you craft your personal narrative in a way that appeals to admissions officers.

Doug can help with:

Editing

Interviews

School Selection

Secondary Review

Application Strategy

Essays

Resume

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About Doug

Coached 50+ MBAs on shaping their narratives. 5-year K-12 educator. Coachees admitted to HBS, Wharton, Kellogg, Yale, & more. I will be ruthlessly honest & endlessly supportive in ensuring your success. -- Doug has spent his career as an educator building programs to center student belonging -- first directing an outdoor orientation program at Dartmouth, then for 5 years as a teacher in Washington DC with Teach for America. Now he's at Stanford's GSB to think about people-centered, community-led entrepreneurial approaches to educational equity. Doug is on Leland because he knows how hard important it can feel to work in social impact & education, but also how boxing in it can feel. If you book with Doug, he will help you build the narrative you need to get into a top tier MBA program or help you consider what next steps make the most sense for you.

Work Experience

Theater Arts Teacher & Director

KIPP DC

July 2018 - June 2023

• Leadership: Taught 150 students annually during day & directed casts of 40 after school. Built brave cultures in casts & classes. Earned 2021 Teacher-to-Teacher Award; nominated & selected by 100+ colleagues for excellence in teaching. 2018 Teach for America DC Corps Member; awarded TFA Community Champion award upon completion of the program. • Communication: Managed 5 assistant directors, producers, & choreographers to produce annual musical. Initiated & managed 18 partnerships with local theaters, non-profits, & contractors to support our work. • Operations: Created & managed 4-month long production calendars to meet creative & technical demands. Managed $29,000 annual budget & earned over $10,000 in supplemental grant funding. • Strategic Design: Designed theater group to emphasize student leadership & connection; created student executive board, pioneered inaugural student-written & directed One-Act Play festival. • Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion: Directed West Side Story in response to community-based violence; facilitated activities for students to heal through performance & connection.

Director, Dartmouth Outing Club First-Year Trips

Dartmouth

December 2016 - December 2017

Hiring Manager

• Leadership: Hired and supervised a 19-person leadership team; developed structures to facilitate strong communication & build culture within the team. Guided leadership team in facilitating the recruitment, selection, and training of 366 student volunteers. Managed $350,000 budget. • Partnership: Collaborated with 12 College offices to provide students a welcoming & smooth introduction to college life. • Strategy & Operation: Reimagined 82-year-old program finale to accommodate new location within 3 months due to construction delays in planned location. Exit survey results showed 90% satisfaction with programming at new location. Wrote 27-page Annual Report summarizing the program's impact. • Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion: Developed and executed an inclusive recruitment strategy that solicited 651 volunteer applications, a 30% increase from the prior year and the largest volunteer application pool in the program’s 80-year history. Emphasized outreach to folks from BIPOC communities, generating 15% increase in applications from students from such communities; met our goal of making Trips’ volunteer corps reflect the student body’s demographics.