I found Adam’s blog by chance as I was starting my business school process. His content clearly differentiates him from all the other MBA admissions blogs out there and I was eager to set up a preliminary chat with him.
Adam is truly a coach. He’s a strategic advisor that you’re glad to have on your side – he chooses his clients based on fit and he takes an incredibly pragmatic approach to the process. He’s candid, to the point, objective, and strategic. Being a natural skeptic, at first I felt compelled to defend my stances. After going through my arguments and realizing that they were not as strong as I thought they were, I realized that that he was not only knowledgeable but strategic and he quickly gained my trust.
On the personal side, Adam is honest and completely professional – during calls when we veered off course and started going in tangents about random current events (he’s a pleasure to hold a conversation with), he – without prompting – took those minutes off our “work hours.”
Adam is also flexible and unfazed by craziness. When I decided to not apply to a school I’d been working on after visiting the campus, he was glad that I valued fit as much as I did. When I decided mid-course to go with a Columbia j-term, he was unfazed and there when I had one weekend to pull it together for the deadline.
There’s much more I can say, but, simply, Adam is the epitome of a great coach. He knows when to push and how to do so in a manner that draws out the best, most driven, most thoughtful, and most unique version of you. And that’s what Ad Coms are looking for.
