Zack Doherty

Zack Doherty is an admissions consultant and career coach. He helps clients with MBA applications, college applications and career pivots. He turns each client's experiences into a clear story. Zack is a Marine Corps officer with a Stanford MBA and a philosophy degree from Dartmouth. He captained the Dartmouth swimming and diving team and later served as Chief Revenue Officer at a startup. He focuses on people with nontraditional paths.

What Zack helps with

Zack helps clients present unusual backgrounds in a way that admissions committees and employers understand. He works on school applications and job moves.

• MBA applications
• College applications
• Career pivots
• Turning unconventional experience into a clear story
• Translating military service into business terms
• Moving into Chief of Staff roles
• Standing out to admissions committees

Who Zack works with

Zack works with people from diverse and nontraditional paths. This includes veterans moving into business school and civilian jobs. His clients apply to MBA programs, college, and roles such as Chief of Staff.

Background and qualifications

Zack is an officer in the United States Marine Corps, serving since January 2016. He earned a Bachelor of Arts at Dartmouth, where he majored in Philosophy modified with Government and minored in English. He captained the varsity swimming and diving team and wrote for the school newspaper. He later earned an MBA at Stanford, where he led the View From The Top Speaker Series and received a fellowship from the Center for Social Innovation. He moved into an AI startup without a technical background and served as Chief Revenue Officer in 2025.

Zack Doherty pricing

Programs and services

• One-on-one coaching
• Chat with Zack before booking

Zack Doherty reviews

Zack Doherty has a 5.0 out of 5 rating from 15 reviews on Leland, as of September 2026.

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