Hogan

Certified Tutor

I am a graduate of the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville) with a B.S. in Finance. I also attended the Washington University School of Medicine's DPT program in St Louis briefly before withdrawing to begin my entrepreneurship career.
Currently I am in the process of earning my CMA (Certified Management Accountant) certification, and I also hope to be accepted to a graduate psych program next year.

In terms of my overall approach, I'm a big believer that meta-learning (the skill of learning how to learn) should be foundational to all education. A little knowledge about how your brain works and learns new things demystifies the learning process, which grows the student's confidence. Having the confidence that you can learn anything you choose is empowering to say the least. Having worked with under-privileged youth, I developed a passion for wanting to impart practical knowledge and skills to them.

The bulk of my experience in tutoring has been in the form of 1-on-1 in-person sessions. When I tutor, my main goal is to get the core of the message across in as simple terms as possible. This is usually accomplished through an analogy/metaphor to which the student can relate. Then once the foundation is established, we add in complexity through hands-on case studies and examples.

I am comfortable tutoring essentially any finance or business topic. Between my academic career and professional experience, there is little in that realm I am not at least proficient in. I feel being a practitioner not only adds to my credibility but also to my teaching ability, as it allows me to draw on real scenarios when communicating a particular concept.

Because of that, the subjects I am most enthusiastic about tutoring are the ones for which I have the most real-world experience - most of which comes from serving as the finance & accounting arm of small businesses and investment companies.