For Rising Leaders

Rising Leader Program

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.

Learning Objectives

The Rising Leader Program 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.

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    Creating value through managerial decisions

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    Measuring value using financial analysis

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    Using the language of finance to communicate clearly

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    Cultivating individuals’ talents to achieve great things

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    Getting a team to act as one even when we all bring different perspectives

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    Shaping organizations to perform better today and tomorrow

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 our immersive, competitive, team-based experiences, rising leaders manage competing businesses, practice core managerial decisions, and build financial reasoning skills in realistic scenarios that reflect the challenges of early leadership roles.

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

Access to our AI Case catalog and our online program Fluent in Finance to allow asynchronous practice in key development areas.

Flexible format

The Rising Leaders Program 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.

What program participants say

Designed for newly promoted managers and aspiring leaders, the Rising Leader Program prepares participants for the transition into leadership. Hear from past participants.

The program lays a foundation for business acumen through simulations and real world case studies. The small group setting was the perfect size, both for learning and networking.

Eric Renn

Area Manager Amazon

The program helped me level up my career and gave me a more seasoned skill set. The business acumen and experience has helped me understand how a business functions. I also have a better grasp on how to make decisions that benefit the organization as a whole.

Andrew Overby

Product Owner Momentive Software

I was looking for upward mobility and for that next step in my career. The program gave me confidence in my people leadership capabilities to apply for more senior roles, and I’m a lot more comfortable with business acumen now.

Lindsey Hollingsworth

US Vibe Lead Canva

52% of Baker Tilly Leaders Earn Promotions After Simulation-Based 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."

Rising Leader Program | Learn Core Business Skills - Abilitie