
Adam B
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I help high-potential candidates turn complex backgrounds into the story that gets them the offer.

London Business School

Citigroup
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About
I help high-potential candidates turn complex backgrounds into the story that gets them the offer. Whether you're targeting a top MBA or Master's programme, breaking into consulting, banking or private equity, or making a difficult career transition, I help you make sense of your experience — and turn it into a clear, credible narrative that interviewers and admissions teams can believe in. My approach goes beyond templates and interview frameworks. We stress-test the decisions behind your story: Why this career? Why this school or firm? Why now? What makes you different? Then we build a narrative that is coherent, specific and genuinely yours — one you can defend with confidence under pressure. I've spent seven years at Citi in EMEA, progressed to AVP, and later went to London Business School as a Merit Scholar, with an Executive Leadership Programme at Oxford's Blavatnik School along the way. I subsequently cleared the case interviews and interned at BCG, reached advanced rounds at other leading consulting firms, and now work in post-merger integration at Accenture following a live M&A deal. This gives me current, hands-on exposure to both strategy and execution — not just knowledge from a previous career. I also know what it is like to take a non-traditional route. I studied Natural Sciences at UCL before moving into banking, business school and consulting. That experience shapes how I coach: your unconventional background doesn't need to be explained away. Done properly, it can become one of the strongest parts of your story. I work with candidates worldwide, with particular experience supporting international applicants and professionals from the Gulf and emerging markets. I speak Arabic and have spent years working with individuals from the GCC. If you have a strong background but struggle to articulate why it adds up to the opportunity you want next, that's where I can help.
Why do I coach?
My edge isn't drilling templates. It's helping you stress-test why you actually want this school, role, or career — the question most candidates never sit with — and then turning the answer into a narrative that is grounded, coherent, and unmistakably yours. I don't believe the strongest candidates are necessarily the ones with the most conventional backgrounds. Often, they're the ones who can make a complex or non-linear path feel intentional. That's the work I enjoy most: finding the thread that connects your experiences, pressure-testing it, and turning it into a story that stands up when the interviewer pushes back. One client came to me after being rejected by two top European universities. We rebuilt her story from the ground up, and she is now interviewing at a top-10 business school with a scholarship on the table. Technique gets you to competent. Clarity and conviction get you the offer.
Work Experience

Strategy Consultant
Accenture
2025 - Present
Strategy Consultant (Post Merger Integration)

Associate / Senior Associate
Boston Consulting Group
2022 - 2022

Assistant Vice President
Citigroup
2014 - 2021

Associate / Senior Associate
PwC
2013 - 2014
Adam was also given offers to work at

UK Civil Service
Education

London Business School
Master of Business Administration (Merit Scholar)

University College London, University of London
MSci, Natural Sciences
Adam was also personally admitted to

Said Business School (Oxford)

INSEAD
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