Greatland Consulting provides highly customized college planning and application guidance to high school students around the globe.

Greatland Consulting is dedicated to getting to know all our students individually, understanding their personalities, interests, learning preferences, strengths, weaknesses. To guarantee the quality of our services, we work with a small number of students every year.

Toward the end of my years in the audit and risk management field, I started a family and began raising my children. It was then that my interest in consulting began to shift toward educational consulting. As I transitioned into that field, I spent six years helping immigrants in Singapore navigate the K-12 school application process there. Looking to continue to challenge myself and learn more, I started guiding high school students through the college planning and application process. I found that work to be very fulfilling. I enjoyed utilizing all of the work experience I had acquired leading up to it to get to know my students at a deeper level and hone in on their unique attributes and strengths, allowing me to provide them with highly personalized academic guidance.

As a graduate of the University of California, Irvine’s Independent Education Consultant program and an associate member of the Independent Education Consultant Association (IECA), I am deeply committed to the field of education consulting. My expertise is further enriched by my certification as a Wow Writing Workshop Certified Essay Coach and my active engagement in professional development. I stay at the forefront of college admissions trends by attending monthly workshops and conferences, and by visiting approximately 15 colleges each year, ensuring that I provide the most current and effective guidance to my clients.


Carmen Liao, Founder

After earning a Bachelor of Arts in English from Sun Yat-Sen University, China, and a Master of Science in Management from Lancaster University, United Kingdom, I worked as an audit and risk management consultant at Ernst & Young and Deloitte, amongst other companies, for nine years. During those years, I developed solid research and analysis skills and became very detail-oriented.

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Email: carmenliao@greatlandconsulting.org

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