Business Acumen

Business Challenge

Managerial decisions can create value for all stakeholders: customers, employees, and investors. But only if managers understand how their decisions drive growth, profitability, and risk in a competitive marketplace.

Learning Objectives

Abilitie’s Business Challenge program provides experienced leaders with an environment to practice using the essential tools of financial analysis, enabling greater confidence in making decisions that drive business value.

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    Interpret financial information to assess organizational health and diagnose performance issues

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    Evaluate investments and initiatives using quantitative tools such as NPV, IRR, breakeven, and payback

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    Analyze tradeoffs across growth, profitability, cash flow, and risk to support stronger decisions

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    Formulate and communicate data-driven recommendations aligned to long-term value creation

The power of practice

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

In these immersive, competitive, team-based experiences, leaders make real business decisions around growth, profitability, and risk, using data to evaluate tradeoffs and communicate recommendations in realistic scenarios.

Expert faculty

Abilitie’s expert faculty brings real-world business experience and helps learners make sense of successes and challenges in the simulation and cases. They introduce new ideas and tools to put into practice in the program and on the job.

Interactive self-study materials

Abilitie's online program Fluent in Finance allows non-financial managers to fill in the gaps in their finance knowledge.

Flexible format

Our programs range from 2-hour live sessions centered on our Case Challenges to multi-week learning journeys. We deliver face-to-face and virtual experiences.

Partnering to grow tomorrow’s leaders

Abilitie's global partners have won industry awards for the quality of our shared programs and their positive impact on business outcomes.

Holcim, a global leader in building materials with over 70,000 employees across 70 countries, partnered with Abilitie to enhance the business acumen skills of its early-career talent through world-class learning experiences delivered at scale.

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Abilitie doesn’t have a ‘one-size fits all’ offering. Their ability (pun intended) to adapt to our needs in such a short amount of time highlights the flexible nature of their product design and construct. As a client, that’s a highly valuable attribute of their offering.

Ursula Stocker

Global Learning and Development Partner, Holcim

52% of Baker Tilly Leaders earned promotions after completing Abilitie's 12-Week MBA curriculum (including Business Challenge).

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At Baker Tilly, we believe in providing the right development for employees at all levels of our organization. Offering the Rising Leader Program to our high-potential managers has helped build our pipeline for future leadership roles and has allowed our participants to enhance necessary leadership skills while building their internal networks.

Liz Poeschl

Learning and Development Manager, Baker Tilly