Coaching Model

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MLT Coaches

MLT's Coaches are full-time staff members with career advising expertise and industry experience. They provide students with one-on-one coaching and guidance throughout the Career Prep program. Coaches start by guiding each student through a thorough self-assessment, which helps them target relevant industries and jobs. They create a comprehensive and unique action plan for each student based on a gap analysis between the student's profile and the requirements of their target industries. The coach is responsible for driving students' progress through the program and ensuring that each student is an exceptional candidate for fast-track entry-level positions.

Coaching Staff

Rosalie Schraut-Rosalie
Career Prep Program Associate Director & Coach

Rosalie graduated from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana in Business Administration. Before coming to MLT, Rosalie held recruiting positions at two consulting firms and was an Associate Manager of Staffing and Diversity at Kraft Foods for 3 years. Rosalie started with MLT as a Career Prep Coach in February 2004. Over the past 3 years, Rosalie has worked with over 120 students. In September of 2006, Rosalie was promoted to Associate Director of Career Prep.

Rosalie is an avid reader, loves to cook, travel, and sew, while being a mother of 2 in the Chicago Burbs. Rosalie believes that there is no such thing as useless knowledge. You just don’t know when you are going to use it.

Angie Temming
Career Prep Coach

Angie joined MLT as a Career Prep Coach in 2004. Originally from Cincinnati, Angie earned a liberal arts degree from Miami University and an MA in Higher Education from New York University. After 2 years at a Chicago-based financial PR firm, Angie interned in NYU’s Career Services Office and then advised MBA’s for 5 years, and taught a career management course, at St. John’s University. With 10 years of experience, she has coached 5 classes of MLT fellows and hundreds via career services.

Angie is also a professional resume consultant, fitness instructor and globe trotter – exploring Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and South America. Angie believes that destiny won’t find you! Take one small step today to guarantee you reach your next great leap tomorrow.

Lakshmi Ramathan
Career Prep Coach

Lakshmi holds dual degrees- a Masters in Counseling Psychology from Northwestern University and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. She has extensive experience in financial services in India where her last assignment was in Corporate Finance. Before coming to MLT, Lakshmi worked for 7+ years at INROADS where her responsibilities included intern coaching and corporate relationship management. During her tenure with INROADS and MLT, Lakshmi has worked with over 500 students.

Lakshmi lives in Manhattan. She has an intense love of the performing arts- and attends the opera and theater regularly. Her more than intense passion is for soccer.

Valerie Griffin
Career Prep Coach

Valerie received an accounting degree from Roosevelt University and a MBA (finance) from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.  Prior to MLT, Valerie worked in financial services in sales, new business development and as a client manager. At GE, she marketed their finance capabilities and priced, structured and negotiated terms and conditions. At Goldman Sachs, she sold equity, fixed income and special investments products to investment managers, insurance companies, nonprofit institutions and individuals. As a financial analyst at CBS News, she managed a $110 million operating budget for their foreign-service bureaus. Valerie also obtained a 7, 63 and 3 securities license, completed a formal bank credit-training program and worked in public accounting as an auditor.

Valerie lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband and children.  She enjoys running, reading and relaxing on the beach.

Margo Wright
Career Prep Coach

Margo graduated from Harvard College with a degree in Economics and also earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. For the past five years, she has served as the Executive Director of Bodanna, a New York City based social enterprise dedicated to using business as a platform to enable at-risk young adults to develop work skills. She has also worked in marketing at About.com, and was an assistant buyer at Macys and Barneys New York.

Margo is originally from Ghana and loves to experiment with different recipes. She also currently serves as trustee at Brown Memorial Baptist Church.

Other Advisors

MLT's advisors are industry professionals who volunteer to provide students industry- and company-specific counsel. Since advisors span several industries and business functions, they are able to offer both diverse and focused insight. MLT Coaches connect students with advisors on a case-by-case basis as specific students' needs or questions arise. Advisors also participate in MLT events, meeting students one-on-one to coach and guide them as they prepare for the recruiting process.