Empathetic and honest professional MBA admission coach with 10yrs of experience with top 10 programs. Poets&Quants Feature, HBS Podcast. Successfully navigated this year's new HBS essays (round 1 interviews secured). Admissions network, consulting/tech/founder professional experience, and creativity provide you with a unique blend of tools to better understand what admissions look for. I apply my superpower as a professional storyteller to walk clients through a framework that helps connect the dots of past experiences and future aspirations in a way that is exciting and leaves a lasting impression. We get to your “aha” moment and get you excited (and less anxious) about your own fantastic and bold story - this in turn elevates your competitiveness in MBA applications. Optional Gen AI writing acceleration tools in line with admissions guidelines. Capacity for 3 more clients Round 2 2024-25, and a few deferred admissions. ***Poets&Quants Article: https://poetsandquants.com/2024/08/07/tips-to-nail-new-harvard-mba-essays/?pq-category=sbc&pq-category-2=sponsored-blogs ***Reviews: "“skilled in pointing out areas for improvement, but not being prescriptive…admitted to every MBA program I applied to, including HBS and GSB” “Yvette is the go to person to help form your story. I was so worried I would be competing against similar profiles, she helped see the difference and connect the dots. Really, really thankful for all the help” See more online: https://poetsandquants.com/consultant/yvette/?pq-directory-type=consultant *** Advised professionals across 20 countries in complex industries including tech, finance, consulting, government, healthcare, biotech, entrepreneurship, renewable energy, and telco. Experience spans product, strategy, operations, analytics, finance, sales, and marketing. Experienced with top 17 MBAs worldwide: Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, Kellogg, MIT, Booth, Columbia, Tuck, Haas, Yale, NYU, UCLA, Ross, Duke, Fuqua, London Business School, Insead; and dual degrees MBA/MPP(A) or MBA/MA product, design or engineering, lastly education dual degrees. MBA, EMBA, PT MBA, &deferred admissions. I know your time is constrained, thus I accelerate the process by avoiding sugar coating, instead guiding toward a better story quickly using examples and frameworks. You have the choice to elect to buy package with access to ethical AI tools to accelerate writing and correct grammar/spelling. As both a technical product person and MBA admissions subject matter expert, I have been able to train a Gen AI model to provide solid feedback that will help you implement the strategy and stories we formulate together. Personality traits: Applying to competitive MBAs (H/S/W or T15) is a serious process on top of a competitive full time job. I inject my naturally open and humorous personality to make the process feel a little less like work. Nimble and grounded are other core strengths, I know when to guide to create urgency and when to give you room to explore.