Introductions

Stacey is both a ManhattanGMAT Instructor and the firm’s Director of Corporate Development (Northern California). She also runs her own management consulting business in the Bay Area, specializing in corporate strategy. Over the past ten years, she has gotten quite good at telling other people what to do, including such clients as Intel, various European banks and AT&T (are there any consultants left who haven’t worked for AT&T?). She has also helped companies raise millions of dollars and go public – always a fun but nerve-wracking experience. She especially enjoys guiding promising start-ups through the rapid growth and expansion stage, so her corporate development role for ManhattanGMAT is a perfect fit.

Stacey earned a biology degree from the University of Michigan, where she began her teaching career as the first undergraduate organic chemistry lab assistant. Post-degree, she moved to Boston without a job and promptly began working for Another Test Prep Company when her rent was due. She helped that Other Company launch its medical board preparation programs and began her long and varied history with standardized test instruction.

Over the ensuing years, while pursuing her “day-job” career as a consultant, Stacey maintained her ties to standardized testing because she loves to teach and is simply fascinated by standardized tests. If you can think of the standardized test, she has probably taught it – including, of course, the GMAT, which she has been teaching for more than a decade (and on which she earned a score of 780). Her former students have gone on to such institutions as Columbia, Haas (Berkeley) and HBS; her highest-scoring student (so far!) earned a 770 on the GMAT.

Stacey’s favorite thing about teaching is that moment when she sees the answering sparks in her students’ eyes because they thoroughly comprehend a difficult concept.