Dylan Stafford
Assistant Dean & Director of Admissions
dylan.stafford@anderson.ucla.edu
310-206-3745
Dylan Stafford has been accountable for UCLA Anderson FEMBA program admissions since 2003. Dylan has overseen 70% program growth from a student body under 600 to now almost 1,000 part-time MBA students, making FEMBA the #2 graduate program student body in all of UCLA. Some of the programs that Dylan has created include SuperSaturday Admission Interviews (5,956 interviews to-date conducted by 1,603 volunteers), the FEMBAssador core of student leaders, and FEMBApalooza, an annual all-student, culture-building soiree. Since 1996, in Bloomberg BusinessWeek and US News & World Report, FEMBA has been ranked from #1 to #6 in the nation, never lower. FEMBA consistently earns top marks for Student Satisfaction, Caliber of Classmates and Teaching Quality.
Before UCLA, Dylan was a Change Management Consultant and International Human Resources Manager for Siemens AG, Europe’s largest engineering conglomerate and one of the world’s biggest companies. He began in the Silicon Valley, and was promoted to a three year assignment at the global headquarters in Munich, Germany, where he founded InterGreat!, a social-networking platform for high-potential European managers.
Dylan earned his MBA from the Chicago Booth School of Business, with concentrations in Finance and Marketing. He graduated with honors from Texas A&M University, where he was a member of the Corps of Cadets and served on the Ross Volunteers, the Honor Guard of the Governor of Texas. He speaks German and Spanish.
Currently, Dylan is writing his second book, Building a Winning Organization: Falling in Love with Leadership. In 2010, his first book Daddy Muscles: a First-Time Father’s Diary of Marriage, Pregnancy, Parenthood and a Second Chance to Become a Real Man was released.