Who We Are: The Full-Time mbaMission Team

How I Can Help You

My style is collaborative, inquisitive, and empathetic, with a steady dose of candid feedback throughout our work together. I am a strategic partner that brings out the best in you, encouraging self-reflection and authenticity to draw out your most compelling personal and professional stories, then conveying your strengths without there being too much ego. When it comes to our workflow and process, I offer structure and precision: A past client described working with me as “being a part of a well-oiled machine.”

Why Choose Me

As a lifelong language and culture enthusiast, I’ve lived and worked in Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Portugal, and the United States. I speak Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, and Portuguese.

I am a strategic communications consultant to my clients, born from my parallel journeys as a language lover and business professional. Before my dual MBA/MA at the University of Pennsylvania at Wharton and Lauder, I earned my dual BS/BA from UC Berkeley in Business Administration and Linguistics. Weaving language skills into business settings has long been my passion, and I’ve helped dozens of clients of diverse backgrounds gain admissions to MBA, MA, and MPA programs at Harvard Business School, Stanford GSB, Wharton, Lauder, Harvard Kennedy School, Kellogg, Haas, Sloan, Booth, Fuqua, Tuck, and more.

Before I attended business school at Wharton, I worked in sales and trading at Lehman Brothers and Nomura in Hong Kong. After my MBA, I moved to Latin America and joined Kearney as a management consultant, then moved on to Meta, where I was a sales strategy and operations leader. Later on, I led business development at a global nonprofit software company based in California. As someone who used my MBA to change everything about my professional path - industry, function, and geography - I can help clients with effective strategies and narratives that enable such career changes.

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