Business Acumen

Income Challenge

Everyday business decisions can create value for companies, investors, and customers, but only if leaders understand how those choices flow through to profitability. Income Challenge gives rising leaders a practical, confidence-building way to connect the work they do to the results their businesses need.

Learning Objectives

Abilitie’s Income Challenge program provides rising leaders with an environment to practice foundational business and financial thinking, building confidence in the decisions that drive profitability.

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    Connect financial data to business decisions to understand what truly drives performance

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    Analyze revenue streams and cost structures to uncover profit drivers and risks

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    Interpret income statements to surface patterns, questions, and opportunities

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    Translate financial insight into strategy leaders can act on with confidence

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 simulation experience

In immersive, competitive, team-based experiences, leaders make operating and investment decisions aligned to profitability drivers, see the impact of their choices, and reflect on what to apply in their own roles.

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