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By working with our diverse and experienced team at MBA Link, you'll be able to leverage the expertise of former MBA admissions deans, bankers, consultants and international business executives from top MBA programs who can effectively help guide you in achieving your MBA Admission goals.

Our team at MBA Link is united by our commitment to coaching, mentoring and supporting your professional goals using our unique MBA coaching model. Our comprehensive approach draws insights from Executive Coaches, MBA Admissions Officers from top schools, Human Resources professionals and elite MBA alumni working at the most competitive companies in the world. Using our method, MBA applicants who work with us on a 4-school package or more, experience an unprecedented 100% success rate.

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FRAMEWORK FOR MBA ADMISSIONS SUCCESS

Our 5-Dimensional Coaching Process

The admissions process can be overwhelming, but our team can help you navigate it with ease. Using a uniquely structured model, a team of designated MBA coaches will employ their rich experience and effective coaching techniques to help you prepare for each component of the MBA application process.

Your project manager, confidante and guide throughout your engagement, from your official launch session through to your acceptance. As former Admissions Deans at highly selective business schools, they have valuable insight into the MBA application process and how MBA admissions committees function across the board.

These are Executive Coaches who specialize in Leadership Development. They lead you through a uniquely designed self-discovery process centered around four themes: Fit, Abilities, Motivations & Experiences. This lays the groundwork for the rest of your engagement with us at MBA Link, and positions you to craft a compelling MBA application.

Our MBA Resume Coaches have been on both sides of the fence, as MBA candidates seeking admission into business schools, and then later as managers hiring MBAs for jobs. Your Resume Coach will help you present an MBA-ready resume that highlights your accomplishments and ability for continued professional success.

Essay Coaches are alumni from top MBA programs that have a passion for writing, and years of experience teaching MBA applicants how to write compelling essays. They will help you craft your narrative throughout your MBA admissions process, as well as effectively communicate your value proposition to those who make the final decision on your acceptance.

Interview Coaches have extensive experience interviewing MBA applicants and helping them prepare for a variety of formats (i.e.: traditional one-on-one, group interview, video, etc.). We try to match you up with an Interview Coach who attended the school you are targeting, or who otherwise has insight into that school's interview process for MBA applications.

We’ve Built A High-Calibre MBA Admissions Team Of Experts That Are 100% Committed To Your Success

Our comprehensive coaching model is so successful because of the quality, diversity and experience of the MBA Link team. Our 100% success rate with applicants applying to at least four schools, means that every single one of our clients gets admitted to at least one of their top four schools. This stems from our team's ability to help clients identify their strengths and present themselves in the best way possible to the MBA admissions committee. Our team is a group of people who could be doing just about anything they want in the business world, yet they choose to work with MBA Link because they love helping our clients succeed.

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Helping Tomorrow’s Business Leaders Get A Top-Tier MBA. We’re Stratically Positioned To Help You:

Improve your GMAT scores, and as a result, broaden your MBA school options.

Determine the best programs based on your professional and personal goals.

Exhibit the executive presence and gravitas that top MBA programs expect to see.

Positioning yourself for MBA programs that are aligned with your career aspirations.

Learn how to leverage a strong network throughout your MBA admissions process.

OUR MBA Admissions TEAM

MBA Admissions Consultants Ready To Help

Discover more about our Admissions Consultants (MBA Admissions Directors, F.A.M.E. Coaches, Resume Coaches, Essay Coaches and Interview Coaches).
See how each consultant helps meet the needs of our diverse clients from around the world.

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Melissa
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Shawn
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Leslie
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Vaibhav
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Venus
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Li-Anne
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Melissa
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Bryna
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Vaibhav
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Leslie
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Shawn
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Venus
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Li-Anne
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Our Experienced GMAT Instructors

Meet our GMAT instructors and learn about how they help clients both individually or in a classroom setting and develop the tools needed to maximize performance on the exam, whether it's a first attempt or a retake.

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Carolyn
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Knowing how to prepare and what the MBA admissions committees is actually looking for in your GMAT score is paramount to your success. We’ll help you understand the most effective ways to learn the concepts and strategies needed to ace the GMAT.

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Ann‍

Ann comes to us from the MBA Admission office at Cornell University’s SC Johnson Graduate School of Business where she spent almost 30 years. Her passion is working with a wide variety of candidates to help them realize their potential through an MBA. Ann’s time in MBA admissions allowed her to travel throughout the world and connect with candidates from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.

Ann has a real soft spot for women, first generation college students and anyone with an atypical background – often they don’t have the family or social support to put an MBA on their goal list. They may need a little boost to help them frame their experiences and contributions in a way that strengthens their confidence and their profile. While working in MBA admissions, she also participated in organizations such as Management Leadership for Tomorrow and the Forte Organization which focus on helping underrepresented students prepare for business school. Ann is excited to continue her career helping MBA applicants achieve their dreams.

Outside of work Ann loves travel, spending time with her husband and their dogs. When they’re not traveling, they live in a beautiful part of Upstate New York with great access to lakes, hiking and biking trails. Their newest interest is kayaking and they look forward to taking several kayaking trips on the Erie Canal soon.

How Ann’s Experience Benefits You:

30 year career of evaluating MBA candidates provide insight into the important elements of your profile.
Personal experience connecting non-traditional experience into career related skills that help set you apart as an MBA candidate.
As a coach, I am supportive, but want you to do the work to make your application as authentic as possible.

Vaibhav
MBA, INSEAD Business School

Vaibhav has over 10 years of experience in senior commercial and management roles in various industries including consulting, audit, tech, education and not-for-profit across India, Mexico and Singapore. This allows him to understand our clients experiences' and guide them better. He now works for a Southeast-Asian tech company in Singapore.

Having started his journey in a small university in an Indian city, he managed to get himself exposure to work and travel around the world. He developed a passion for helping candidates inch closer to their dream business schools when he managed to get into top schools with a relatively low GMAT score, which is particularly difficult for an Indian male applicant, and is a strong advocate of how compelling personal stories can make an immense impact on applications and interviews.

He recently authored a book called "Happiness Project" and in his free time, plays tennis and coaches young professionals to crack interviews and get jobs abroad. Vaibhav has a deep passion for both coaching and interviewing and has coached many MBA applicants successfully.

How Can Vaibhav's Experience Benefit You:

No one knows our stories better than we do, but we often do not know how to structure it and share it in the best possible way. Vaibhav has the ability to draw out the best life experiences and transform your raw, unstructured thoughts to well thought out, compelling stories. He asks just the right questions to help you realise what it is that you really want and to co-create a picture of your future. All these conversations fit into our FAME model really well and allow you to leave your sessions with great stories and with an understanding of what you really want and where you really want to go.

Vaibhav has an insanely high rate of conversion based on his interviews. Be it for business schools in the past or in the corporate world now, he has been successful in clearing interviews with ease. He will be very helpful to anyone who wants to be ready for interviews, not just getting into business schools but also in the future once you are trying to land relevant internships and jobs.

Russell
BA, Trinity College
American, based in the US

Russell was the Associate Director of Admissions at Duke University Fuqua School of Business for 11 years. While some may not be as familiar with Fuqua, this program is consistently highly ranked, rating as high as #1 globally by Bloomberg in 2014.

Apple CEO Tim Cook and Gates Foundation cofounder Melinda Gates are some of Fuqua’s many distinguished alumni.

Russell is a globally recognized expert on recruitment strategies for international MBA programs recruiting from Asia. He led the Asia recruitment strategy for Duke Fuqua, which is well known as one of the most international US MBA programs, and has consulted with other schools on their Asia recruitment strategy.

Russell has been traveling to Asia for 10+ years and maintains high-level connections in the major cities throughout Asia.

How Russell’s Experience Helps You:

The sheer volume of experience he’s had in making decisions on thousand of MBA applicants over the years means you’ll have the best odds of making the cut in a competitive school.
If you are an Asian student, Russell understands better than anyone what US and international programs are looking for in Asian candidates since consulted on many of their Asian recruiting strategies.
Russell’s infectious personality outs him immediately as a people person. His warmth, encouragement, and heartfelt connection with our clients always earn him rave reviews during the often stressful application process.

Lawrence
Founder, CEO of MBA Link
BsBa, Georgetown University
MBA, Cornell University

After working as an admissions consultant for three years, Lawrence founded MBA Link because he didn’t think any other MBA admissions consulting firm was doing enough to support applicants in producing truly outstanding applications. Before working in MBA admissions, Lawrence worked in private wealth management and private equity.

In addition to managing MBA Link, Lawrence supports the MBA students at INSEAD as a career adviser based on the Singapore campus. Lawrence is passionate about entrepreneurship and education and volunteer teaches classes on entrepreneurship in public schools for Junior Achievement Singapore. Lawrence is an American with ethnic origins in the Caribbean and Eastern Europe and spent much of his childhood in Kenya.

How Lawrence’s Experience Benefits You:

Lawrence is a serial entrepreneur who is passionate about developing people and making breakthroughs in their professional lives. Anyone who’s spoken to Lawrence knows he has a way of pulling out their best.
Lawrence has lived on 3 separate continents for 5 years or longer, so he knows what it takes to integrate and succeed in a new country.
His father is a celebrated authority on creative problem solving in mathematics, and considering Lawrence’s success in finance and investing, the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree.

Melissa
BA, Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business (dual-degree program from The Wharton School and College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania)
MBA, Wharton School of Business
MA, Arts Administration, Columbia University

In her early career, Melissa successfully revived flagging Baileys sales in North America, and cracked marketing strategy challenges for the likes of American Express, British Telecom, and Frito-Lay as a marketing strategy consultant with Vivaldi Partners in New York.

Prior to that, Melissa began her career in investment banking and distressed debt, and has cut her teeth at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and JP Morgan.

An investigator at heart and a natural storyteller, Melissa loves digging deep to surface unarticulated motivations and unique opportunities for organizations or individuals, and weaving them into a compelling narrative to bring their story to life.

She has done this in various capacities: as an innovation strategist in NYC and London with ?What If!, a boutique innovation consultancy, and as an opera performer and dramatic coach that is constantly looking for new angles to interpret text and unearth new insight into the stories and characters in her music.

Passionate about coaching and empowering individuals to realize their fullest potential, Melissa loves bringing her unique coaching approach to business school admissions to others as an admissions coach.In her spare time, Melissa enjoys little adventures with her toddler and working with arts non-profits to grow the opera audience in Asia for wonderful music that she believes still has the power to move and inspire us in magical ways.

How Melissa’s Experience Benefits You:

If you don’t know how to position yourself, rely on Melissa’s artsy and perceptive way of thinking combined with her exceptional academic experience to craft a compelling story about yourself.
After many years of admissions consulting experience, Melissa has honed a supportive yet firm hand in guiding candidates through the process.

If you are an MBA candidate with an artistic side, Melissa will show you how to merge your two worlds into one unbeatable combination.

Leslie
BA, Communications, Mississippi State University
IMBA, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
DBA, SDA Bocconi School of Management
Harvard University, Certificate in Higher Education Teaching

Leslie has a rich and varied career that cuts across multiple industries including; advertising, hospitality, QSR (quick service restaurants) and higher education, specifically business schools. She has held management roles conducting sales, marketing, business development, financial analysis, relationship management, strategic career advising, fund raising and, since 2017, academic research. Leslie has lived and worked in the United States, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan and travelled professionally to more than 50 countries.

Since 2009 Leslie has held leadership roles in two world-class business schools and through 2020 is a doctoral student at a third. Her work for and affiliations with The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Lee Kong Chian School of Business (Singapore Management University) and SDA Bocconi School of Management (Bocconi University) provide her with a truly unique lens through which to teach and counsel prospective business school students, current students, and alumni on topics including; strategic career readiness and development; career management; and employability. Leslie has deep experience working amid the complexities of cross border career planning and management, specifically between the U.S. and Asia-Pacific. To deepen her knowledge in this area, in 2017 she began researching self-perceptions of employability of Chinese post-graduate returnees educated in the U.S. Through this research, Leslie is collaborating with over ten highly ranked U.S. business schools, MBA and Masters students, and employers in China with a goal of exploring if self-perceptions of employability actually match reality.

Leslie and her husband have two children, two dogs, and one bossy cat. They all reside in Hong Kong’s quaint and breathtaking New Territories.

Shawn
BA, Economics, University of Pennsylvania
MBA, Harvard Business School

Shawn has over 15 years of investment banking experience, including time spent with Credit Suisse and Bank of Montreal. He has participated in dozens of corporate finance transactions, including mergers & acquisitions, corporate divestitures, leveraged buyouts and the sale of private and family-held businesses.

Additionally, Shawn has advised and consulted with several start-ups and middle market organizations.

He has significant experience developing and implementing strategies and solutions that achieve consensus among key stakeholders across organizations. Shawn also has 7 years of experience as an Alumni Interviewer for the University of Pennsylvania.

How Shawn’s Experience Benefits You:

If your career goals lean toward finance, Shawn is the expert you need.
Shawn is the kind of person who can take a big picture goal and implement it through minute detail.
As a resume coach, Shawn knows how to present you in the best light.