Amara Okafor
first in my family with a degree, five years learning the unwritten rules of Big Four consulting
$40/hour , set by Amara Okafor.
My parents came from Enugu and cleaned offices in Houston so I could sit in classrooms they never saw the inside of. I got to UT Austin on scholarships and into Deloitte without knowing what a case interview was until three weeks before mine.
My first year I nearly washed out. Not because of the work. Because of the unwritten stuff. I didn't know you were supposed to get coffee with partners, that 'interesting idea' meant no, or that visibility was a job of its own. At my first review my counselor called me 'quietly competent,' and it was not a compliment.
I made manager last year, and I keep a running doc of every rule I learned the hard way. In sessions we go through your actual week, your actual emails, your actual review language, and I translate what's really being said.
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What I can teach you: the unwritten rules of consulting and corporate professional services, first-gen and immigrant-family dynamics around money and career, performance review language and how to respond to it, finding sponsors instead of just mentors, negotiating early promotions, and case interview prep for candidates from non-target schools.
I'm best for first-gen professionals in years zero to five of consulting, banking, law, or corporate jobs who feel like everyone else got a handbook they didn't. Also college seniors headed that way.
I'm not the right person if you're a partner-track veteran wanting executive coaching, or if you want validation that office politics don't matter. They do. We work with that reality, not around it.
Between sessions I review one document a week: a self-review draft, an email to a partner, a promotion packet. I book evenings and Saturday mornings, Central time, and I go quiet during our busy season close in late January.