Stacy Blackman

Stacy Sukov Blackman, born in 1971, has been providing MBA Admissions Consulting since 2001. Blackman holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a BS from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Blackman has worked with the admissions committees at both schools, conducting alumni interviews and evaluating applicants.

After graduating from Wharton, Blackman began working in finance at the Prudential Capital Group in San Francisco. Following business school, she transitioned into a career in marketing and has since worked in marketing roles at companies such as Charles Schwab, idealab! and Häagen-Dazs. Blackman identified similarities between traditional marketing and admissions strategy. She developed an approach to marketing her clients successfully to top MBA programs and founded Stacy Blackman Consulting, one of the leading firms in MBA Admissions Consulting, in 2001.

In addition to private consulting, Blackman is a speaker on the topic of MBA admissions. She has taught groups from the YPO (Young Presidents' Organization) and coached alumni organizations from schools such as the Stanford, Penn and Williams College. She also runs workshops at companies including JPMorgan, Lehman Brothers, UBS and Credit Suisse First Boston.

Blackman has been profiled in several publications, including Fortune,     where she was on the cover , BusinessWeek ', CNN Money, Entrepreneur magazine, Business 2.0, The Economist, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times  and Wharton magazine.

Blackman has co-authored a book, The MBA Application Roadmap, and is the official blogger for the US News business school blog, Strictly Business.