OUR STORY

After graduating from Yale, StoryCrafters founder, Joel Maguen, moved to Moscow and taught Russian businessmen and businesswomen how to acculturate to the western marketplace. He also worked for Steven Spielberg on a war testimonies project and won awards on the festival circuit for his films. 

He expanded StoryCrafters in 2017 with a classic business mission: to solve a problem. He saw a number of MBA candidates who were frustrated after working with older consulting firms that touted ex-admissions staff and former MBA student consultants. These firms talked a big game but delivered inconsistent results. 

With the goal of improving the MBA consulting process, he developed a totally unique story-driven method, drawing upon elements from creative writing, marketing, screenwriting and advertising. 

StoryCrafters soon became the best kept secret among a network of MBA's from New York's finance world. Word-of-mouth spread like wildfire, as clients consistently gained admission to the country's most prestigious business schools and MBA programs, including Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, MIT and Columbia. 

OUR TEAM

When putting our team together, we targeted consultants with highly specialized backgrounds and skill sets.

We wanted creative, strategic, and big-picture thinkers. 

They're super-bright graduates from Ivy-League schools. 

And they studied the MBA admissions process backwards and forwards. 

But most importantly, they're master-storytellers.

That's why they all come from the following backgrounds: journalism, screenwriting, creative writing, marketing and advertising.

Yes, it's an unconventional recipe for an MBA Admissions Consulting Firm, but that's precisely why our unique story-driven approach has led to such consistently successful results for our clients. 

The key has been to help each person we work with transcend the simple facts, numbers, stats and names of the admissions game. Telling unforgettable human stories that demonstrate passion, tenacity and unique vision, is the common thread that binds these future business leaders.