Brendan Boler, PhD is an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia's (UVA) Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. He previously spent seven years as an award-winning professor at UVA’s School of Commerce. Dr. Boler has extensive experience in management consulting and banking, having worked at Accenture, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley. Throughout his career, he has been heavily involved in recruiting and has leveraged his experience to conduct research on decision-making, talent assessment and selection, and high-performance coaching.

For their doctoral dissertation, Dr. Boler and a colleague traveled to six top MBA programs where they recorded and analyzed over 230 case and behavioral mock interviews with candidates who had been invited to interview at top consulting firms. More about the project can be found here. At UVA, he has taught courses in management consulting and strategic thinking to students in PhD, MBA and commerce programs. Given his teaching and research interests, he also is passionate about coaching students to achieve peak performance in high-stakes employment assessments including behavioral interviews, case interviews, and case competitions. He coached thousands of MBA candidates preparing for case and behavioral interviews and helped them gain offers from firms including McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Deloitte, Accenture, and Kearney.

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