Joseph White

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Helping non-traditional applicants get into M7s | CBS MBA | Ex-McKinsey

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About

Hi! I'm a Columbia MBA, former McKinsey consultant, and current Head of Partner Strategy & Operations at Salsa. I started my career in the agent training program at United Talent Agency, and was a non-traditional MBA applicant. I like to drum, play golf, see as many movies as possible, and have recently gotten addicted to Peleton...

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Joseph’s MBA Qualifications

Coaches professionally

Joseph has helped clients get into these schools:

Hot take: Getting into a business school is easier than you think, but you can’t do it alone. I've coached 100+ applicants, and more importantly, I think coaching should be fun and stress-free. Let’s chat!

Joseph can help with:

Application Strategy

Cover Letters

Ding Analysis

Editing

Essays

Financial Aid & Scholarships

General Exploration

Interviews

Networking Strategy

Recommendations

Resume

School Selection

Secondary Review

Supplementary Materials

Testing & Assessments

Waitlist Strategy

Why do I coach?

If it hadn't been for the amazing coaches and mentors I've had throughout my career, I wouldn’t have been able to achieve my goals. I love to pay it forward and help others do the same.

Work Experience

Head of Partner Strategy & Operations

Salsa

2025 - Present

Senior Associate

McKinsey & Company

August 2022 - October 2024

Enterprise Sales

Frame.io

May 2018 - November 2019

Video collaboration startup (acquired by Adobe for $1.3B)

Original Series Development

NBCUniversal

February 2017 - April 2018

Agent Trainee

United Talent Agency

September 2014 - February 2017

Education

Columbia Business School

MBA

Claremont McKenna College

BA, Economics & International Relations

Thesis: The Performance of Global Film Franchises: Installment Effects & Extension Decisions (published in the Journal of Cultural Economics, January 2018)

Joseph was also personally admitted to

Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern)

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