Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 8 hours ago

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How do you bring an MIT engineer’s mind to one of life’s most important decisions: choosing a life partner?

In this live webcast from November 12, 2025, join Joyce Zhang ('16), MIT Engineer turned Dating Coach for High Performers, for an engaging session on how analytical frameworks can transform the way we approach connection, communication, and compatibility.

Joyce will start by sharing her personal story of leaving Stripe to become a full-time dating coach. She will then walk through two of her most popular frameworks to help exceptional leaders find an equally exceptional life partner:
• The 5 Levels of Communication: A framework from Stanford Business School's famous Interpersonal Dynamics course that helps navigate deeper emotional connection.
• The 4 Pillars of Compatibility: A framework to evaluate long-term partner potential across critical compatibility pillars (goals, physical, intellectual, emotional) instead of dating just based on "vibes."

This event offers fruitful lessons for people of all relationship statuses who want to improve their interpersonal and EQ skills.

Bio
Joyce Zhang is a Dating Coach for High Performers and a former MIT Engineer ('16), BCG Consultant, and Stripe Product Manager. With a deep understanding of the unique challenges ambitious professionals face in dating, she has coached graduates of MIT, Harvard, and Stanford, leaders from Google and Stripe, and founders backed by Y Combinator and Andreessen Horowitz. She runs Hot Feelings, a 200+ member community of ambitious daters, where she teaches relational empathy through consistently oversubscribed events. Her Substack, Joyce’s Dating Playbook, reaches 1,600+ weekly readers, and her work has been featured in The Washington Post, Business Insider, and The San Francisco Standard.
 
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