For Rising Leaders
The 12-Week MBA
Becoming a leader is about more than just acquiring knowledge and skills. It’s about adopting new mindsets, beliefs, and values. Abilitie accelerates that transformation by taking cohorts of ambitious professionals on shared learning journeys that focus on the timeless and universal core of business management.
Open Enrollment Available
Interested in The 12-Week MBA for yourself or for a small team? Learn more about how to apply to our open enrollment program.
Learning Objectives
The 12-Week MBA teaches the core set of business skills that all rising business leaders need regardless of their industry, function, or level. Our comprehensive program integrates the four core capabilities of business acumen, influence, strategic thinking and decision-making.
Creating value through managerial decisions
Measuring value using financial analysis
Using the language of finance to communicate clearly
Cultivating individuals’ talents to achieve great things
Getting a team to act as one even when we all bring different perspectives
Shaping organizations to perform better today and tomorrow
Reimagining leadership development
Why do leaders from the world’s most admired brands choose us to level up their top talent? They value our unmatched curriculum & methodology.
Live simulations & AI Cases
In our team-based, competitive simulations, learners manage competing companies. AI Cases let learners practice high-stakes managerial conversations and financial reasoning.
Expert faculty
Abilitie’s expert faculty brings real-world experience and helps learners make sense of successes and challenges throughout the program's simulations and cases. They introduce new ideas and tools to put into practice in the program and on the job.
Interactive self-study materials
Our online program Fluent in Finance allows non-financial managers to fill in the gaps in their finance knowledge.
Flexible format
The 12-Week MBA is designed for delivery across 12 weeks, with a time commitment of approximately 8 hours per week. It can be accelerated or stretched to accommodate the needs and schedules of your target audience.
Meet our alumni
The 12-Week MBA is ideal for rising leaders who have been recently promoted into management and leadership positions or are looking to prepare for these types of roles in the near future. Our alumni are entrepreneurs, lifelong learners, people managers, veterans, teachers, and more.
Paige Montemayor The “CEO” Simulation
Jacob Powell Climbing the Ladder
Brent Newsom Librettos to Leadership
52% of Baker Tilly Leaders Earn Promotions After Simulation-Based Mini-MBA Training
Baker Tilly created a robust leadership pipeline by training employees on business acumen and leadership skills. It leveraged Abilitie’s immersive learning programs to sharpen employees’ management skills and ensure sustained employee engagement, with 52% of participants earning promotions following the program.
Recommended reading
Based on The 12-Week MBA curriculum designed by Abilitie and experienced by professionals at more than 100 Fortune Global 500 companies, this book offers an alternative way to learn business essentials.
"For the thousands of managers we’ve had the privilege of training, the limiting factor is rarely their functional expertise. The limiting factor is the ability to see the forest for the trees and to see it both as a collection of measurable resources—the numbers—and as a web of relationships—the people—at one and the same time."
