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Kelly Stelbasky ('16) was promoted from Director to Vice President of Touring at Live Nation, just one year after graduating from the FEMBA program.
She is currently SVP, Global Touring at AEG Presents.

Immediate Impact

61% Increase in Salary 4 months post grad,
FEMBA Class of 2022

Incoming salary: $95,208
4 months post grad: $156,834
Average Sign on bonus: $35,584

75% of 2022 FEMBAs responded with salary data; data excludes self-employed and unemployed; Compensation Report To Be Provided

Wherever you want your career to go, we'll help you get there.

 
Enhance Your Career
Change Careers
Be an Entrepreneur

Be a Better Entrepreneur

"As a business owner and a manager of a small team, after going through Organizational Behavior with Professor Corinne Bendersky I've already made changes to the way I manage my own little team and added things that she's recommended. The class has already made an impact in my daily life that translates directly to my pocket as an entrepreneur."

Diego Benitez (FEMBA '19)
Founder|Owner|Brewer, Progress Brewing

Dedicated Career Services

 
FEMBA students benefit from their own dedicated Career Services team designed to help mid-career professionals develop lifelong career-management skills and optimize their potential.
Career Coaching

Students have access to a dedicated FEMBA career coach available for confidential, one-on-one career counseling.

Executives In-Residence

UCLA Anderson’s Executives-in-Residence offer high-level, expert advice in their respective fields, including banking, finance, engineering, technology and more.

On-Campus Recruiting

Second-year students for internships and third-year students for full-time opportunities

Web-Based Resources

FEMBA students have full access to UCLA Anderson's proprietary web-based career-management resources. 

Career Coaching

 
FEMBA career coaches help you reach higher by:
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  • Assisting with self-assessment exercises.
  • Providing a suite of tools to research industries and job-functions.
  • Coaching students on how to develop an effective career-management strategy.
  • Developing necessary career skills (e.g., resume writing, networking).
  • Teaching interpersonal presentation strategies through mock interviews.
  • Evaluating job offers and teaching negotiation techniques.
  • Providing strategies for leveraging your MBA to advance in your current organization.

Career Coaching

“I do feel that career choice is a very significant part of our decision to attend UCLA Anderson but it's also who you have become and how the job fits you — making you a perfect match. (Executive Coach) Pam Schulz would help me to really see all the pros and cons but she always comes back to me: "What do you want to do? What kind of environment do you want to be in? What do you want to be in your next step of your career?" She makes me think in that way — to really make me make the right decision.”

Sophie Gao (FEMBA '20)
Senior Financial Analyst, Finance Leadership Development Program — Amazon

Our Career Coaches

 
FEMBA has a dedicated team of coaches to guide you on your current trajectory or your career switch. From guidance with your résumé to suggesting important recruiting events in your field, they’ll make sure you present yourself as the most attractive candidate to recruiters. They also help with pre-interview preparation, while showing you best practices and successful interviewing tactics. When offer letters come, our coaches can help with the negotiation and counteroffer process. Best of all, they’re some of the friendliest people you’ll ever meet!
Susan Cowell
Director & Executive Career Coach

SUSAN COWELL

Director & FEMBA Career Coach

Susan Cowell, Director & FEMBA Career Coach, brings over 20 years experience in the field of career management and leadership to UCLA.

In her most recent position with Lee Hecht Harrison, she managed the consultants and coached executives in the Southern California Region. She is proud to have led a team that delivered the highest quality in the company. Prior to joining Lee Hecht Harrison, Susan spent 18 years with Drake Beam Morin, where she held positions of increasing responsibility. Drake Beam Morin and Lee Hecht Harrison are leading international career management firms who work with mid-career business professionals and executives from Fortune 500 companies.

During her tenure with Drake Beam Morin, Susan held a variety of positions in counseling, coaching, sales, marketing and leadership. She is an experienced counselor and coach, and has had the opportunity to work with individuals from all industries and functions. In her most recent position as Senior Vice President for North American Operations Support, she managed 5 teams and over 120 employees and was responsible for Quality, Project Management, Internal Sales and Web-learning. In these roles, she had the opportunity to develop strategic initiatives within the organization that improved quality, leadership, profit and revenue while improving employee morale.

Susan’s background also includes entrepreneurial experience as owner of Executive Career Services, a career management firm. She helped to build this small company into a $3 million business with offices throughout southern California in less than 1 year. The firm specialized in providing individual career counseling and executive coaching to business professionals and executives. Early in her career, Susan worked at Humboldt State University, in the Student Employment Office, assisting students in the early stages of their education and career.

Susan received her Bachelors of Arts Degree in Social Ecology from the University of California, Irvine and also holds a California teaching credential. She was past president of the International Association of Career Management Professionals and a member of ASTD.

Pam Schulz
Associate Director & Executive Career Coach

PAM SCHULZ

Associate Director & FEMBA Career Coach

Pam Schulz has held corporate and leadership positions in consulting, technology, consumer durables and entertainment. She began her business career as a systems consultant with Arthur Andersen (now Accenture), working with small business clients as both an individual contributor and project team leader. This technical role was a solid foundation for later career positions in product management and marketing for technology companies in industries ranging from wireless and software to e-commerce and electronics. Pam spearheaded revenue growth from new products for divisions of large publicly-traded companies and smaller entrepreneurial enterprises. With the founders of a wireless startup, she participated in 51 new venture pitches, resulting in VC financing and a later successful exit via acquisition. This diverse experience proved useful when she oversaw marketing and product management at Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment for its consumer software and online digital video-sharing service for user-created content—before YouTube! As a consultant advising executive management teams at Epson, Belkin and others, Pam has provided the “know-how” and the "know-why" to guide decisions about growth options, strategy and execution.

Pam has hired, developed and coached members of the product management and marketing teams she’s led, as well as provided ad hoc career coaching to students at UCLA and Anderson. She started a job search accountability team for executives in transition modeled on the ACT methodology developed by UCLA Anderson for its alumni seeking new opportunities. Pam earned her B.S. from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and M.B.A. from UCLA. She enjoys sculling in the Marina at the UCLA Aquatic Center and lives in Culver City with her husband and two rambunctious rescue dogs.

Jackee McNitt-Engles
FEMBA Career Coach

JACKEE MCNITT-ENGLES

Career Coach

Jackee McNitt Engles provides executive coaching to the FEMBA and EMBA students at Anderson and teaches leadership in the EMBA program. In addition, she serves as Lead Faculty in the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program, an initiative created through a partnership with Goldman Sachs, Babson College, and designated U.S. cities to provide instruction and support to small business owners on the cusp of growth. In her spare time, she teaches in the University of La Verne’s MBA and Masters in Leadership degree programs, and in the Cal State San Bernardino MBA program. In the past, she served as the Senior Director of Executive Management and Outreach Programs for the Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, and as faculty in Claremont Graduate University’s (CGU) Community College Professional Leadership Certificate Program and UCI’s certificate programs in Human Resources and Business Management.

Her deep corporate experience stems from 15 years managing training and communication functions for Bank of America and Wells Fargo Bank. As Vice President of Employee Communications for Wells Fargo, she served as a communication strategist and manager for eight acquisitions and a variety of other large scale corporate changes including diversity programs, reorganizations, and major human resources and benefits redesigns.

Jackee holds an Executive MBA from the Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University and graduated from California Lutheran University with a BA and teaching credential in Theatre Arts. She serves on the Advisory Board for Vanguard University’s Organizational Psychology degree programs and is a member of the International Leadership Association (ILA), Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the Association for Talent Development (ATD). Over the years, she has been published in magazines, newsletters, and professional journals and her work has been highlighted in Managing Workforce 2000, 1001 Ways to Reward Employees, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and France’s Le Tribune. She is a past recipient of the annual Award of Excellence from the Orange County Chapter of the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD – now ATD).

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Marge Ang
FEMBA Career & Leadership Coach

Marge Ang

FEMBA Career & Leadership Coach

Marge Ang is an executive coach and consultant specializing in technology (Fortune 500 and startups), marketing, product management, digital media & entertainment, general management and leadership development.

She is super passionate about helping business professionals build and sustain rewarding careers, or successfully pivot and adapt to a fast-changing world. Marge has coached and mentored teams and executives at all levels throughout her 20+ years of tech corporate experience in Los Angeles and the Silicon Valley. Her coaching practice is largely influenced by her own career pivots – from engineering to marketing, and within tech industries (semiconductors to consumer products, medical devices, and software services).

Having lived in 3 countries and worked with 6 global multinational companies, Marge particularly enjoys coaching teams and individuals to collaborate successfully across cultures. Previously, she held senior marketing management roles and worked with clients at Fortune 500 tech companies and startups including Intel, Samsung, Epson, iRobot/Evolution Robotics, Thinfilm, Tivic Health, and Plutora.

Marge is a Certified Professional Coach (CPCC, ACC) and received an MBA from the Chicago Booth School of Business, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Executives-in-Residence

 
UCLA Anderson’s Executives-in-Residence offer high-level, expert advice in their respective fields, including banking, finance, engineering, technology and more. These industry leaders are available to meet with FEMBA students in a one-on-one setting to share their personal insights and knowledge about the real-world dynamics of their respective areas of expertise. Executives-in-Residence also provide coaching and constructive criticism to students who want to advance in their current fields or embark into new ones.
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Sasha Strauss
Managing Director & Chief Strategist, Innovation Protocol

SASHA STRAUSS

Managing Director & Chief Strategist

Innovation Protocol

Clients, agencies, media and academic institutions call upon Sasha Strauss' award-winning forums worldwide; from Romania to China, Switzerland to Mexico. Media channels like National Public Radio (NPR), Forbes and The Wall Street Journal seek his expertise on branding everything from presidential candidates to innovative start-ups and Fortune 500s. He has keynoted with notable speakers such as Magic Johnson, Tony Hsieh, Frank Gehry, Biz Stone and Simon Sinek.

With nearly two decades in strategic brand development, Mr. Strauss has built brands at the world’s leading advertising, PR, marketing and branding agencies.

In 2006, Mr. Strauss founded Innovation Protocol, a brand strategy consulting firm that exclusively serves innovators. As the Managing Director, Mr. Strauss leads a team of strategy consultants that serve clients such as Warner Bros, Johnson & Johnson, Korn/Ferry International, ADP, Evite and PayPal. Innovation Protocol also allocates 10% of the company's brand development services to non-profits, with millions of dollars in philanthropic work being delivered since the firm’s founding.

When not supporting Innovation Protocol’s international clientele, Mr. Strauss teaches graduate brand strategy at USC’s Marshall School of Business. His courses have a year waiting list and remain the most impacted courses in the program. On the other side of town at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, Mr. Strauss is an Executive in Residence, coaching the part-time and executive MBA students in corporate and professional brand development. Via these professorial roles, Mr. Strauss also teaches at preeminent graduate programs such as MIT Sloan and The Johnson School at Cornell.

Mr. Strauss holds a bachelor’s degree from UC Irvine, a masters in strategic corporate communication management from USC and an executive business management certificate from UCLA's Anderson Graduate School of Management. Mr. Strauss is a certified Toastmaster, an Entrepreneur’s Organization leader, a Big Brother (mentor), and an Eagle Scout.

Alumni-in-Residence

 
Alumni-in-Residence are UCLA Anderson FEMBA Alumni and experts in their industries including management consulting, digital marketing, and brand strategy, and are available to meet with EMBA and FEMBA students individually. These alumni share industry insight and knowledge, provide students opportunities to engage in conversations specific to their industries of interest, give coaching to those students already in their fields who want to advance, and in some cases, reality checks to those students targeting their particular fields or industries.
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Tony Davidson
Head of CS Operations & Transformation
ServiceTitan
Focus:
Investment Banking

TONY DAVIDSON

Head of CS Operations & Transformation, ServiceTitan
Focus: Investment Banking

STony currently serves as the Director of Business Operations at ServiceTitan. He was previously with Citigroup's Technology Investment Banking team in San Francisco after a career transition from engineering with Northrop Grumman. Tony grew up in Saudi Arabia and received his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of California, San Diego, M.S. in Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles and M.B.A. from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management.

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Amirali Ghasemipour ('17)
Director, Strategy & Transactions
EY Parthenon
Focus:
Management Consulting

AMIRALI GHASEMIPOUR ('17)

Director, Strategy & Transactions
EY Parthenon
Focus: Management Consulting

Amirali Ghasemipour began his professional career working for a small print and packaging company in the tumultuous and challenging region of Middle-East. With demonstrated leadership, management, and communication skills, he pursued his MBA at Anderson in the hopes of a career shift where he successfully recruited for a roles in management consulting. During his time at Anderson, Amirali worked in various teaching assistant, tutor, and recruiting coach positions and helped the class of 2018 in their professional and academic endeavors. Amirali was part of Alvarez & Marsal’s Corporate Performance Improvement practice in Los Angeles where he has worked on eight different projects in a span of 12 months ranging from commercial due diligence to bankruptcy. Amirali is now Director of Strategy & Transactions at EY-Parthenon.

Jacqui Polk ('13)
Focus:
Entertainment Martketing

JACQUI POLK ('13)

Alumni-in-Residence
Focus: Entertainment Marketing

Jacqui Polk graduated from UCLA Anderson in 2013. Prior to business school, Jacqui was an actor and performed on Broadway in Hairspray and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. While on Broadway, Jacqui started an initiative dedicated to making theatre a more sustainable art form. Through that experience she transitioned to working for a US Senator focusing on entertainment, environmental and tech issues. While at Anderson, Jacqui shifted from politics back to entertainment, however this time in a marketing capacity. She has since worked for large corporations such as Sony Pictures Entertainment, startups like the YouTube dance influencer network, DanceOn, and is currently on the marketing team at Hulu.

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Pawan Tahiliani ('20)
Senior Program Manager
Microsoft
Focus:
Product Management

PAWAN TAHILIANI ('20)

Senior Program Manager, Microsoft
Focus: Product Marketing

Pawan Tahiliani is a 2020 graduate from UCLA Anderson. With an undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Pawan's professional career began as a software engineer at Qualcomm Technologies Inc. At Qualcomm Pawan worked on Windows Phone and Windows Desktop on Snapdragon. With a desire to pivot into a PM position, Pawan pursued an MBA at Anderson with a dual specialization in Marketing and Global Management. He left Qualcomm to pursue an internship in Amazon's Alexa division which he attained through OCR. Desiring a PM role that combined both his engineering interests as well as his continued passion to be a PM, Pawan networked his way into Microsoft's Surface Division during his internship and received a full-time offer. While waiting to start his new role at Microsoft, Pawan leveraged his strong relationship with Qualcomm HR and returned to his former company as an HR talent acquisition specialist. In his short-lived role, he hired over a hundred summer interns and designed workshops to introduce college graduates to the world of software and electrical engineering.

On-Campus Recruiting

UCLA Anderson FEMBA students who have satisfied eligibility requirements may participate in the following on-campus recruiting (OCR) programs:

  • Full-Time Positions: Third-year FEMBA students
  • Summer Internships: Second-year FEMBA students (program will go beyond standard 27-months)

A Reflection of Success

 
They say you can judge people by the company they keep. These are just a few of the organizations that seek out UCLA Anderson when they need the perfect fit.

Learn about the breadth of resources that make the Parker Career Management Center so successful in helping students achieve their career aspirations.

Web-Based Resources

 
FEMBA students have full access to UCLA Anderson’s proprietary web-based career-management resources.

These online repositories provide a wealth of content specifically targeted to the needs of Fully Employed MBA students, including:

Comprehensive practical information

Workshops

Articles

Databases

Online Guides

Relevant Links

Utilize the Anderson Network

"FEMBA classmates, faculty and alumni have really broadened my global business perspective. I have had countless opportunities to learn about new industries, career paths and business models. I am truly amazed at all the alumni who come back to Anderson to stay connected and find new talent for their firms."

Francisco Alejo (FEMBA '15)
Senior Consultant, Infosys Consulting

The Anderson Network

FEMBA students and alumni enjoy full access to UCLA Anderson's online alumni directory for both job searches and for connecting with local and international alumni. The directory provides a number of customizable search options to help FEMBA students take full advantage of this important networking resource.