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Get Comprehensive Career Support. Achieve New Leadership Milestones.

With the Wisconsin Executive MBA, you’ll gain so much more than a credential.

Beyond broadening your business perspective and growing your network, you’ll also get access to a variety of career services and a team of professionals dedicated to helping you reach the next level of leadership from day one of your program.

40
average salary increase Wisconsin part-time MBA students receive
(2020–2022)

Personalized Career Coaching

Work one-on-one with a career coach to map out your future and develop strategies to get where you want to go. Receive coaching throughout the program and as an alum.

Career support to level up your leadership

  • Gallup CliftonStrengths training and coaching: individual and teams
  • Leadership style self-assessment and 360° assessment, including coaching debrief session
  • Career, executive, and leadership coaching
  • Executive development on topics like executive presence, mentorship, sponsorship, and developing your personal career advisory board
  • In-person development during student residencies on executive communication—topics include senior leadership teams, boards of directors and investors, social media management, and evaluating and preparing presentations for large employee groups

Receive expert assistance with:

  • Visioning and career goals
  • Personal branding and marketing
  • Expanding your network
  • Job search strategies
  • Employer research
  • Interview preparation
  • Professional résumés and LinkedIn strategy
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Residencies

Your in-person residencies will have a heavy focus on strategic career management content: executive coaching, assessments and feedback, mentorship and sponsorship skill development, and executive presence and communication development.

Experience the Wisconsin Difference

Elsa Jacobson
“My career coach has helped me reflect on what I’m learning in class and apply it in my own leadership role. With a talented coach not affiliated with my own organization, I can share freely with her and can use her outside vantage point to make better decisions in my work and career.”
Elsa Jacobson (MBA ’20)
Senior Director at UW Health
Chris Feuille
“Learning what my strengths and weaknesses are, and doing the human synergistics and the 360 assessments and follow-up coaching have been some of the most impactful, instant put-into-motions tools that I’ve taken away. That’s been really beneficial.”
Chris Feuille (MBA ’22)
Vice President at Tribe-9 Foods
Pamela Petz
“Our 360 evaluation provided me with feedback on how I can immediately make changes to my management style and improve my team at work. The program’s career services staff is also available to continue the coaching based on this evaluation. I was hungry for this type of uncensored feedback and can already tell it’s improved my team dynamic.”
Pamela Petz (MBA ’18)
General Manager at Great Wolf Lodge

Our Students Lead at Top Companies

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Meet Your Team

Career Management Team

Work with a skilled team of career coaches to achieve your individual career goals.

Jean Sink

Jean Sink

Director of Career Management

Jean brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to executive and career coaching, leveraging a background in staffing and industry recruitment, higher education enrollment, and career management, as well as over 15 years of experience coaching teams, individual contributors, new managers, emerging leaders, and senior-level executives. She is passionate about the impact of executive and professional life coaching, specifically in working with leaders and teams who are striving to break through plateaus and reach the next level in their own development, achievement, and career trajectory.

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Deb Jahnke

Deb Jahnke

Assistant Director of Career Management

Deb coaches students in the executive MBA, professional MBA, and full-time MBA programs. She is passionate about helping individuals identify and achieve their highest aspirations, and reach their full potential. Her experience with SSM Health, General Motors, and other manufacturing firms spans diverse disciplines, including industrial engineering, quality, finance, operational excellence, data analytics, and continuous improvement. Deb enjoys supporting students as they navigate their career paths.

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Employer Relations Team

The experienced employer relations team connects you with companies and industries where you want to work. We partner with leading companies from across the nation and around the globe that recruit and hire our students, year after year.

Leslie Taylor

Leslie Taylor

Director of Employer and Corporate Relations
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Connor Grey Perkins

Connor Perkins

Operations and Communications Coordinator
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