Dreamers and do-ers, we are a Team of success stories ourselves. Just take a look at the bios of a few of our featured consultants, each of whom has something to offer you. Let’s Meet:
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Dawn
STATS: MBA, Harvard Business School, with concentrations in finance and marketing, BBA, Pace University, magna cum laude, scored in top 2% of program
Dawn has spent more than 10 years successfully advising clients in admission to top MBA programs.
Outside of her work in admissions consulting, Dawn has experience in financial services, management consulting, media and entrepreneurship. Previously, as a vice president at Warner Bros., she focused on mergers and acquisitions, business development, strategy, marketing, and new ventures. She has also worked in private equity for several global funds and as a management consultant in the entertainment group of Booz Allen Hamilton.
Dawn has assisted clients from a variety of backgrounds and industries attain their MBA dreams including: management consulting, finance, private equity, investment banking, entertainment, digital media, technology, engineering and entrepreneurship.
Be sure to ask Dawn to tell you about the time she was leading a $10 billion Mergers & Acquisition meeting and walked out with an offer for a movie. Or at least let her wow you with her incredible multiplication tables skills!
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Chandler
STATS: MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business.Undergrad, Harvard University (magna cum laude.)
Chandler’s vast experience working in the private sector for The Coca-Cola Company as well as for the Boston Consulting Group, makes him an excellent resource for all future CEO’s. He has also worked with First Book, an international non-profit bringing over 60 million books to low-income families and has served as the Executive Director of the First Book Marketplace, an award-winning social enterprise. His work with First Book has been highlighted in case studies at Harvard Business School, Columbia University and The Yale School Of Management. The First Book Marketplace was also recently named the “most innovative model” in the field by the Social Enterprise Alliance and the Case Foundation.
His unique ability to help clients see themselves and the value of their own experiences has helped Chandler’s clients create admisisons’s submissions that far exceeded even their own hopes.
When you speak to Chandler, don’t forget to ask him why he will never eat spicy food again.
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Erin
STATS: MBA, Harvard Business School, BS Wake Forest University, CFA Institute Charterholder
Erin earned her MBA from the Harvard Business School and her Bachelor of Science in Mathematical Economics (summa cum laude) from Wake Forest University. She received Wake Forest’s Prize in Economics for her honors thesis on wage gaps and demographics.
In addition to her work as an MBA application adviser, Erin has worked in finance, holding both advisory and investor roles. Most recently she provided financial capital to private equity-backed companies in a variety of industries, leading all aspects of underwriting and transaction execution.
Prior to business school, Erin worked in corporate development for a large financial institution, where she executed strategic projects related to the global financial crisis as part of a small team advising the company’s CFO. Outside of work, Erin is a leader in the Junior League of Chicago where she manages business aspects and fundraising initiatives for the organization.
Ask Erin about her experience many years ago as a former client of Stacy Blackman Consulting!
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Maureen
STATS: MBA, The Tuck School at Dartmouth College, BS Finance & Accounting Fairfield University, Admissions Committee The Tuck School
From 1990 to 2001, Maureen worked for several large media and Internet companies. She has a strong general management background and held positions in sales, marketing, finance and human resources while working her way up to a senior management level. All positions required excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills and the ability to embrace new challenges and deliver results.
Maureen has parlayed all of these skills into great success as an admissions consultant with SBC. She is known as our “miracle worker” at SBC – she has an exceptional success rate with all types of clients – non-traditional backgrounds, low GMATs, low GPAs and more. Maureen has successfully worked with clients on every top school.
Ask Maureen what it’s like to live in a household of soccer fanatics. Perhaps you can test her English Premier League Soccer trivia knowledge!
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Lisa
STATS: MBA, Texas Christian University, BBA Management from Texas A&M University, Director of Admissions at Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University
Lisa has over 15 years of professional experience recruiting, advising, coaching and placing both MBA students and graduates. In her role as Director of Admissions for the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University, she led the university’s admissions efforts for both the MBA and MBA for Professionals programs. Lisa chaired the admissions committee three out of six years and administered the program’s over $2 million in scholarship funds. She is a frequent speaker on the admissions process, recruiting strategies, and the MBA value proposition.
During Lisa’s tenure at Rice, she also served as the Associate Director of Career Planning in the Jones School’s career center working with recruiters, conducting career development seminars, and coaching MBA students on their career development and search strategies. Prior to joining Rice University, Lisa advised MBAs and masters students in career development and search strategies at the Mays School at Texas A&M University where she also evaluated applicants to the MBA program.
Lisa spent over five years in corporate human resources in the consulting, energy, and manufacturing industries. Her human resources experience includes university relations and recruiting and employee relations and programs.
Ask Lisa to share some scary stories from her HR and admissions days, and be sure to hear about her experience riding a rebellious horse in the Chilean mountains.
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Erika
STATS: MBA, Harvard Business School. Served as HBS Admissions Ambassador. BBA with high distinction at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, spent the first two years in University Of Michigan’s Honors College where she was named Angell Scholar.
Not only has Erika published a book (Zero-Sum Game: The Rise Of the World’s Largest Derivatives Exchange, Wiley-2010), she was also the Managing Director of Marketing at the Chicago Board of Trade. In that role, Erika was responsible for the exchange’s heavily trafficked web site, a multi-million dollar ad budget and all product marketing materials. Erika’s gift for written gab has helped her clients earn acceptances and scholarships from: Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, Kellogg, Chicago Booth, UC Berkeley Haas, and many more.
Erika loves traveling and has visited all seven continents. Be sure to ask her about the time her tour group helped rescue passengers from a sinking ship in Antarctica!
