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Experiential Leadership Development

Manager/Director Level Programs

  • Rising Leader Program

    Challenging mini-MBA for aspiring leaders

  • Becoming an Effective Manager

    Essential management skills for new managers

  • Building Business & Financial Acumen

    Real-world practice in value creation and analysis

  • Executing in Cross-Functional Environments

    Leadership and influencing skills for decision-making

VP/Senior Level Programs

  • Senior Leader Program

    Practice-based learning for executive leaders

  • Creating Strategic Business Value

    Financial impact and investment analysis skill-building

  • Leading Organizational Change

    Executive-level leadership and enterprise-thinking

For Individuals

  • Open Enrollment Invited MBA

    Learn about our 12-week mini-MBA

Manager/Director Level Simulations

  • Management Challenge

    Build critical people management skills in your people leaders

  • Business Challenge

    Expand the business acumen of your nonfinancial managers

  • Enterprise Challenge

    Develop cross-functional communication skills in a dynamic environment

VP/Senior Level Simulations

  • Finance Challenge

    Hone the strategic financial acumen skills of your executives

  • Executive Challenge

    Offer a world-class leadership simulation to your senior executives

  • Virtual Program Design

    Create virtual training that sticks

  • Certifications

    Extend the reach of our programs and simulations to a global audience using your internal L&D facilitation talent

  • Design Workshops

    Tailor our simulation-based leadership programs to your needs

  • Fluent in Finance

    Offer a comprehensive business acumen primer for nonfinancial managers

  • Enterprise & Executive Summits

    Offer intensive strategy off-sites

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  • Learn to Lead Podcast

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Programs

  • Rising Leader Program

  • Senior Leader Program

  • Becoming an Effective Manager

  • Creating Strategic Business Value

  • Building Business & Financial Acumen

  • Leading Organizational Change

  • Executing in Cross-Functional Environments

  • Open Enrollment Invited MBA

Simulations

  • Management Challenge

  • Business Challenge

  • Enterprise Challenge

  • Finance Challenge

  • Executive Challenge

Resources

  • Virtual Program Design

  • Fluent in Finance

  • Certifications

  • Enterprise & Executive Summits

  • Design Workshops

  • Client Successes

  • Awards & Recognition

  • Learn to Lead Podcast

  • Who We Are

  • Events

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Business Challenge

Expand the business acumen of your nonfinancial managers and empower them to drive business value.

Understanding Business Through Competition

Put your nonfinancial managers in the driver’s seat of business. Let them balance variables and feel the pressure of making economic trade-offs. They will put their skills to the test and learn from their successes and failures. Through facilitated debriefs and an immersive learn-by-doing environment, nonfinancial managers will more confidently understand financial data and make decisions that drive business value.

The challenge had a strong impact. Instead of remembering financial terms, I had the chance to make mistakes and learn from it.

Participant, Kohler Power Group

The details

Objectives

Use the language of business and finance to communicate cross-functionally

Connect day-to-day decisions to three key business value drivers: growth, profitability, and risk

Understand the connection between company strategy and financial performance indicators

Audience

Individual contributors, managers, and new directors without a financial background

Participants in cross-functional leadership development programs

Nonfinancial managers in function-specific programs

Format

Facilitated 8 hour experience (shortened formats available)

In-person or virtual classroom

Ideal capstone for leadership programs

Employees engaged in cohort-based business simulation

Online or Classroom Options

Why Business Challenge?

People across the enterprise need to communicate effectively about business metrics and evaluate financial data to make informed business decisions. Business Challenge gives them the practice environment to more confidently use financial data to make decisions that drive business value.

The simulation was excellent, made you consider factors like risk, competitors, growth strategies but in a fun and engaging way.

Participant, Dell Technologies

How Does it Work?

  • Participants compete in a dynamic business simulation and manage the complete value creation cycle — from sales and operations to launching new business units.
  • Participants work in small cohorts to practice interpreting financial data using targeted practice exercises.
  • The experience incorporates lessons in strategic planning, financial statement analysis, cost structure analysis, evaluating financial levers, and understanding the drivers of business value.
  • Certified faculty with extensive finance and training experience debrief the learning and provide coaching insights.
  • Facilitator certification for client-internal trainers is available.
  • Ask about online access to Fluent in Finance, an interactive self-paced pre-work curriculum designed to supplement the Business Challenge experience.

I feel that I now have the knowledge to understand CFO-level financial discussions at a basic level.

Participant, GE DTLP Program
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Case Study

Business Acumen for Leaders

Southwest Airlines invests significantly in leadership development through a variety of learning experiences. Business acumen is an imperative concept for leaders to develop as they focus on meeting the company’s fiscal and operational goals. Recognizing this, Southwest identified the need to include a module on financial acumen in their high-potential leadership development program.

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  • Rising Leader
  • Senior Leader
  • Becoming An Effective Manager
  • Building Business & Financial Acumen
  • Executing In Cross-Functional Environments
  • Creating Strategic Business Value
  • Leading Organizational Change

Simulations

  • Management Challenge
  • Business Challenge
  • Enterprise Challenge
  • Finance Challenge
  • Executive Challenge

Resources

  • Virtual Program Design
  • Certifications
  • Design Workshops
  • Fluent In Finance
  • Enterprise & Executive Summits

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