5:30am wake-up calls. Three-hour case preps. A halftime show choreographed the morning of. This is what 36 hours at HR Sympo looks like.

For Shelby, it was surreal. Just a few years ago, she was just like any other JMSB student trying to find her place. Today, she just landed back in Montreal after representing JMSB at the Australian Undergraduate Business Case Competition (AUBCC). Here is how she got here!

When Nicholas Thibodeau joined the JMCC delegation in his second year at JMSB, he could build financial models in his sleep but struggled with presentations—like most beginning delegates. His coaches gave him three concrete techniques; within months, Nicholas went from nervous presenter to podiuming in Spain at internationals. Here are those techniques, built from 20 years of experience.