For this two-part conversation, Chandler sits down with SBC Consultant Dawn Clare to discuss her "One Minute Method" for identifying underrecognized individual strengths.

As many of you know, Dawn is no stranger to the podcast and brings so much to this conversation. Dawn graduated as a PepsiCo Scholar from Harvard Business School with concentrations in finance and marketing. Dawn was also admitted to the Stanford GSB. Outside of her work in admissions consulting, Dawn has experience at a wide range of companies, including Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, Pepsi, the Carlyle Group and Warner Bros.

In part one of this conversation, Dawn shares her framework the "One Minute Method" for identifying individual strengths and how she uses it with her clients. This exercise focuses on taking one minute to focus on what they do that is AMAZING. This exercise sounds simple, but when done correctly a series of times is incredibly powerful.

This exercise is designed to be simple to support you with limited time. You can do it as many times as you would like and it is incredibly powerful. In this segment Dawn focuses specifically on:

• helping applicants who might be stuck on essay topics, potential interview questions, or other elements of the MBA application,
• focusing on your instinct and intuition for a brief time rather than over-analyzing or comparing yourself to others,
• centering who you are at core, clarifying your own internal intrinsic value, and harnessing that to make your application as strong as possible,
• offering specific and actionable tips on how to think about yourself in new ways or “break out of the box” that others might have put you in.

Numerous applicants have found this exercise to be especially useful, when “stuck” or during times of application stress and anxiety.

If you enjoy this conversation, we hope you will join us next week for part two of this series.