Founder and director of MBA Spain, Candy Lee LaBalle has over eight years experience helping Spanish candidates gain access to the world’s best MBA programs. She has coached hundreds of MBA candidates from consulting, banking, engineering, and industrial backgrounds to write excellent application essays that gain admittance into top MBA programs in the United States and Europe. Her clients have entered MBA programs at Harvard, Kellogg, Wharton, Berkeley, Stanford, University of Chicago, MIT Sloan, Columbia, INSEAD, IESE, Instituto de Empresa, and London Business School.
Ms. LaBalle has intimate knowledge of the top B-schools, their MBA applicant profiles, and what they are looking for in top Spanish MBA candidates. Her approach to each client is highly individualized, focusing directly on the goals, skills, and background of her clients to help them meet the requirements of their desired school--whether that is entering a full-time MBA program in the United States, earning an executive MBA in Spain, or being admitted to one of the top one-year MBA programs in Europe.
In addition to extensive training in test preparation (MBA, TOEFL, SAT, GRE) from The Princeton Review and Kaplan, Ms. LaBalle, a former director of Kaplan Madrid, has an honors degree in anthropology from Wayne State University and a TEFL teaching certificate. She has served as an English consultant to Spanish political parties, law firms, the pharmaceutical industry, and the Spanish Ministry of Defense. Ms. LaBalle is also an accomplished author with experience in business, training, and travel writing. She is a resident of Madrid where she lives with her husband.
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