Jessica Thomas
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MBA / EMBA / DMBA Expert | 500+ Clients at HSW & M7 | 20+ Years Coaching
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About
For over two decades, I have guided my clients to gain admission to their dream programs, including Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, and more. My experience can help you to navigate the MBA admissions process, from creating a winning narrative out of the many moments of your life, through building the career strategy that's right for you, to tackling every aspect of the application process - together. Time and again, what I see clients need most is to understand how to differentiate themselves from the rest of the applicant pool. That's where my background as a journalist, marketing professional and award-winning creative writer comes in. Together, we'll discover the best possible way to bring your unique qualities and potential to light. Whether you are applying to full-time, executive MBA, or dual-degree programs, or any other graduate degree, I'm here to be your partner and to help you submit an outstanding MBA application.
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Jessica’s MBA Qualifications
Coaches professionally
100+ MBA clients
Jessica has helped clients get into these schools:
Welcome to my profile! With over two decades of experience as an MBA Admissions Consultant, I have guided over 500 clients to gain admission to their dream programs, including Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, and more. My background in marketing and as an award-winning creative writer allows me to help clients craft compelling narratives that bring their unique qualities and potential to light. My experience as a professional journalist helps me to ferret out your unique stories and find the best way to bring all the elements of your profile together. Whether you are applying to full-time, executive MBA, or dual-degree programs, or any other graduate degree, I'm here to be your partner in this journey. Let's work together to make your MBA dreams a reality!
Jessica 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
Waitlist Strategy
Why do I coach?
Over the past 20 years, some of the greatest moments in my life have happened while coaching. There is truly nothing that compares with helping someone to find what drives them to do what they do. Or to understand what they truly want to do in life. Or to see how all the pieces of their life actually come together and make total sense. My clients come to me with a story. Sometimes, it's a diamond in the rough. At other times, it's bits and pieces, a jigsaw puzzle full of pieces that if they could somehow assemble, they know would tell the story of their life. We both know it's there. Together, teasing out that narrative, and then finding the best way to put it down in words so that anyone reading it will understand the applicant, their dreams and motivations, and how they’ve become who they are today – well, those moments are worth everything.
Work Experience
Founder
JP Coaching
October 2025 - Present
Hiring Manager
I've helped hundreds of young and mid-career professionals gain admission to the world's top MBA and EMBA programs, including Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, all the M7 schools and the top programs throughout Europe and Asia. I work with applicants from every industry, and my articles on MBA admissions have been published in Business Because and industry blogs, and I have been interviewed as an industry expert by Fortune.com for their special series of MBA admissions.
Director & Sr. Consultant
Menlo Coaching
April 2022 - October 2025
Serving as an MBA Admissions Consultant since 2005, I have seen the admissions landscape change drastically. One thing however has remained constant: the amazing caliber of professionals I get to work with on a daily basis. I'm proud to have helped so many dedicated, innovative, and goal-oriented people throughout my tenure, and to have had the chance to share a pivotal moment in their lives, helping them to realize their dreams. With so much riding on business school applications, it’s important to have an experienced and invested coach by your side. I see myself as more than a service provider: I am a partner in your application journey. I understand the challenges and pitfalls of MBA admissions, and work tirelessly to help my clients successfully navigate the process. Often what determines acceptance or rejection to an MBA program is one’s ability to differentiate oneself. I work in a holistic manner, leveraging my experience as a professional journalist and award-winning creative writer to identify what is important in any story. I then coach my clients to express their truth in a way that will captivate the admissions committee. In that process, as we identify, shape, and hone the client's best and most significant stories, we often reveal a thematic narrative thread that even the applicant was not aware ran through their life.
Owner
Word Up! Language Enterprises
March 2005 - Present
Hiring Manager
For two decades, Word Up! has provided unforgettable copy that moves, excites and ignites the reader. With content geared to multiple media forms, we delight in capturing our target audience by delivering messages in the simplest and most memorable way. As founder, my articles, stories and creative content have appeared in magazines, newspapers and journals across the globe and my award-winning short stories have been published in book collections and featured in online magazines. I am the former deputy editor of the Herzliyan magazine, published by Reichman University, and the former assistant editor of Women’s International Net magazine. As a freelance writer, nearest and dearest to my heart are stories that involve healthcare and patient rights, new discoveries in the world of oncology and the stories uncovered in the realms of big pharma; social and behavioral science and and anything and everything that can contribute to making the world a better place to live in.
Senior Admissions Consultant
ARINGO MBA Admissions Consulting
March 2005 - April 2022
As the most experienced MBA consultant in Israel, my clients at Aringo were admitted to HSW, all the M7s, and the top schools of Europe and Asia. I worked with full-time and executive MBA clients, as well as those applying to a host of additional programs, including undergraduate programs in every discipline from the arts to legal studies, master's degree and PhD programs; as well as medical school studies. My articles on MBA admissions have been published in Business Because and on other industry blogs, and I have been interviewed as an industry expert by Fortune.com for their special series of MBA admissions.
Education
New York University
BFA
1985 - 1989
Jessica was also personally admitted to
Brandeis University
Vassar College
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