Learn to work smart. Boost your productivity. Work on exciting projects. Solve the toughest business problems. Build strong sponsorships. Secure your next promotion. Create a sustainable lifestyle. Finally, enjoy working in consulting.
Sounds too good to be true?
What if I told you it’s possible to achieve?
But first, let’s discuss for whom this coaching program is designed.
If you are…
- an active MBB consultant (generalist); - experienced hire in your 30s; - post-MBA or post-PhD; - a second-year consultant (>12 months tenure); - in good standing (no negative ratings).
…this program is for you.
You are not a newbie anymore.
You already know how to work well and can produce decent outputs.
But you struggle to achieve high performance. You have tried different things, but they haven’t materially changed your situation.
You are not happy with the status quo.
You are an ambitious person. You don’t like to be average. You want to become a high performer. You want to realize your full potential.
Basically, you want to get from Good to Great.
If this sounds like your case, I definitely can help you.
Hear me out…
I joined McKinsey at 34.
The first two years were extremely challenging.
Actually, I was an okay-ish consultant.
I consistently received average ratings. Occasionally, I even received higher ratings.
But deep down, I knew I wasn’t safe.
Any bad project could derail my case.
I wasn’t confident in my own abilities.
I was heavily dependent on external circumstances and luck.
“You must be proud of being average.”
Partners will tell you this lie misconception.
But why don’t you feel very proud?
What they don't tell you is that for average performance, you get: ↳ average treatment ↳ limited opportunities ↳ mediocre experiences ↳ flatter career trajectories
Here's the thing.
Being average is especially uncomfortable in MBB firms.
These firms are the ultimate meritocracies.
They are extremely competitive.
They disproportionately reward high performers.
Average performers feel like second-class citizens, scrapping for leftovers.
They are vulnerable to any random circumstances.
But breaking out from being average is extremely difficult.
Expectations grow very fast.
You can’t work any harder.
You already work at your full capacity.
You simply don’t have more hours in a day.
You run in a hamster wheel of never-ending mistakes, comments, and iterations.
No matter how hard you work, the wheel spins faster, generating more useless work.
It seems impossible to break this vicious cycle.
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Tanush Jagdish, Associate @ McKinsey & Co, Boston USA
I feel your pain.
As a consultant, I worked in a reactive way.
I didn't have a reliable working system.
I hoped that my leaders would like my work.
Having no system made me feel insecure.
Every new task caused lots of stress and anxiety.
I didn’t know how to improve my performance.
I tried to work on my development needs.
But generic feedback always confused me.
I didn’t know how to make it actionable.
I was under immense time pressure.
I had only two years to make it to a manager's promotion.
It was an extremely tight timeline.
I was worried that with average performance, I wouldn’t make it.
I remember thinking:
"How could I manage a team if I wasn’t capable as a consultant myself?"
On top of that,
The stakes for experienced hires are much higher.
If your situation is anything like mine was 10 years ago, you’re facing a difficult challenge.
You joined consulting at 30-35.
You had made a strategic bet, hoping to radically change your career. It was a very risky move that would take years to execute successfully.
Additionally, I’m sure you have significant obligations, such as family responsibilities, loans, and maybe even visa requirements.
Getting fired would have a devastating impact on your career.
This puts tremendous pressure on you—pressure that younger consultants have yet to experience.
That's why failure is not an option for you.
You combine all these problems, and you get
A perfect storm of stress, pain, and anxiety.
Your self-confidence is the first to get destroyed.
Insecurities take over.
You start doubting your intelligence and worth.
You can’t stop thinking about work.
Negative feelings creep into your personal life.
All these troubles poison your relationships with your loved ones.
This inevitably takes a toll on your physical and mental health.
Over time, you start realizing:
You can't win in consulting by brute force.
You must learn to work smarter.
You see, other superstar consultants can do that.
But you have no clue how to reach that level yourself.
Great coaching and mentorship can be your cheat code in this game.
The consulting game is very complex.
It can be a significant advantage if you have someone experienced to help you navigate this complex environment, avoid damaging mistakes, and tell you about unspoken rules and expectations.
But great coaches, mentors, and sponsors are not available to you.
Most leaders are preoccupied with their own survival.
The level of coaching you receive is underwhelming if you receive any.
On top of that, competition for leadership attention is fierce.
The best leaders like to invest time in only high performers.
But to become a high performer, you need to be heavily coached.
This is a paradox of apprenticeship.
You don’t know how to solve this problem.
In contrast,
Achieving high performance will resolve many of your issues.
The staffing problems will disappear for good.
Partners will want to be friends with you and offer many project opportunities. You will get to choose topics you are passionate about.
You will work with inspirational leaders and great mentors. They will invest more time in coaching you, and you will become even better.
You will feel confident and get used to constant winning. You will become a more ambitious and creative problem solver.
Then, it becomes much easier to work in favorable conditions with supporting people on great projects.
Over time, it all results in much better experiences, career trajectories, and exit options.
I know, from your vantage point, it feels that achieving high performance seems impossible.
But it’s much easier to do than you think.
It's more of a matter of the right coaching rather than unique talents and intrinsics.
The fastest way to achieve that is to seek help from experienced leaders who have gone through this journey and helped many others.
But how do you get that level of coaching and mentorship?
Introducing...
The Hero’s Journey!
The Coaching Program for MBB Consultants to transform
from struggling, stressed, and lost
to high-performing, confident, and fulfilled
The main goal of this program is to make you a high performer.
It will help you get from your Zero to Hero state and support you at every step of your consulting journey.
The coaching program will help you go through a 3-stage transformation.
I. STABILIZE
At this stage, you will stabilize your performance.
You will fix your operating model, avoid making basic mistakes, and stop hurting your productivity.
As a result, you learn to work well, create a positive impression on your leaders, and get staffed on your own.
For you, it will feel like you have taken painkillers and got rid of a very acute pain.
II. ACCELERATE
At this stage, you will learn to impress your leaders.
You will upgrade your problem-solving skills by doing a series of practical exercises.
That’s how you build stronger relationships with your partners, who will be more willing to advocate for you in evaluations and staffing conversations.
III. OUTPERFORM
At this stage, you learn to orchestrate your skills to achieve consistently high performance.
Additionally, you learn the manager toolkit and operate 2-3 steps ahead of your leaders. You become capable of leading your projects independently.
Coincidentally, that’s how you prepare for your manager's promotion.
How do I deliver impact for you?
I have four key components in the coaching program.
1. Playbook
Think of this as a collection of best practices and unspoken rules.
They are delivered in the form of video lectures. Now, there are 7 hours of video content.
2. Practical exercises
Practical exercises are necessary to help you apply theories in practice.
There are around 10 practical exercises to complete.
These exercises are real-life tasks you typically face in consulting work.
Each exercise is designed to help you demonstrate specific problem-solving skills, such as research, analysis, structuring, storylining, and modeling.
I must see you do the actual work through exercises so I can provide precise and tangible feedback on improving your problem-solving and slide-making.
If you want to learn more about how I coach problem-solving and how we do practical exercises, please read this post: How to learn problem-solving.
3. Community
Community is my secret weapon.
Currently, more than 50 consultants are in the program. This is a representative sample against which you can compare your performance.
You can calibrate and understand how good or bad you are. It will give you an evidence-based assessment of your current performance.
Additionally, you will learn from your fellow program members' best practices and mistakes.
4. Individual mentorship
Think of it as a ‘call-a-friend’ option.
In this case, a friendly AP (me) can help you answer all your tricky questions in a risk-free environment.
I am sure you will have dozens of difficult situations to resolve in your consulting journey. It’s extremely helpful to have an impartial mentor who knows you well and can give precise advice on what to do.
What do consultants say about the program?
I coached dozens of consultants in this program.
As a result, they have become extremely successful.
Most importantly, they have achieved their career goals, freed themselves from stress, and become confident.
Here, you can read what consultants say about the coaching program and their results.
The Hero’s Journey is an invitation-only program.
I specialize in a very narrow segment.
This narrow specialization helps me provide precise and tangible support to my clients. That’s how we accelerate the time to impact.
That is why I am very selective about whom I invite into the program.
If you feel this coaching program is relevant for you and you qualify for the target segment criteria, please BOOK A FREE 1-1 CONSULTATION.
We will discuss your current situation, challenges, and aspirations. Then, we mutually determine whether this program is suitable for you.
If you are an MBB consultant and want to achieve high performance, please Book a Free 1-1 Consultation to discuss how exactly I can help you. There is no commitment, and you can ask any burning questions in a risk-free environment.
You will move at a speed that is comfortable for you.
There will be no deadlines or expiration dates.
I understand that you are extremely busy.
But you also understand that to become better, you must invest time in your learning.
How long is the program?
Active learning takes 8-10 weeks, which is the time it takes to complete all practical exercises. The bulk of learning happens by doing practical exercises.
You will still have unlimited access to all the assets in the program and my individual mentorship.
You will have lifetime access to the program, and all future updates and improvements will be available at no additional cost. The program will grow with consultants and adapt to their new challenges.
What is the investment required to join the program?
This program is specifically targeted to a very narrow segment of people.
The program price is tightly linked to the value the program creates for these people.
I disclose the price only to potential clients who are a great fit for the program. Only then will the price make sense compared to the value and potential they can realize by joining the program. But you can imagine that it’s a high ticket price.
What are the practical exercises?
Practical exercises are real-life tasks I gave as an AP to consultants (sanitized).
Each exercise is designed to help you demonstrate specific problem-solving skills, such as research, analysis, structuring, storylining, and modeling.
There are 10 practical exercises you will complete in the program. These exercises are fairly difficult because I can only fully see your problem-solving skills and provide tangible feedback when you stretch yourself.
On average, each exercise takes one week to complete, so the full journey will take 8-10 weeks.
If you want to learn more about how exactly we run practical exercises, please read this post: How to learn problem-solving.
What is the cadence and frequency of interactions?
There are different types of interactions in the program.
Group calls happen weekly. On these calls, you will meet other program members, and we will discuss any questions you have.
Individual calls happen to work on practical exercises to role play accepting tasks, you presenting the outputs, and us discussing the feedback and calibration. The frequency of these calls will depend on your speed of completing practical exercises.
You can have individual mentorship calls to discuss any of your sensitive questions that you are not open to discussing in the group setting. These calls happen on your demand.
If you are an MBB consultant and want to achieve high performance, please Book a Free 1-1 Consultation to discuss how exactly I can help you. You can ask any burning questions that are on your mind.
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