Business Acumen
Training
When employees have Business Acumen, productivity accelerates, engagement improves, and solutions come together as individuals, teams, and executives align around common objectives.
Building Business Acumen® – Our customized Business Acumen Training course, will help any professional from any industry, understand the big picture of their business, align decisions to corporate strategy, break down communication barriers, take advantage of opportunities to grow, and much more. Training to improve performance, make bolder more profitable decisions, and outperform the competition.
Interested in learning how Acumen Learning can help your business? Just fill out the form below:
Business Acumen
Training
When employees have Business Acumen, productivity accelerates, engagement improves, and solutions come together as individuals, teams, and executives align around common objectives.
Building Business Acumen® – Our customized Business Acumen Training course, will help any professional from any industry, understand the big picture of their business, align decisions to corporate strategy, break down communication barriers, take advantage of opportunities to grow, and much more. Training to improve performance, make bolder more profitable decisions, and outperform the competition.
Interested in learning how Acumen Learning can help your business? Fill out the form below:
Turn Your Leaders Into Business Leaders
CEOs need more business-savvy leaders who make faster and better financial decisions that align with their strategy. So, most of our engagements focus on leadership development, financial savviness, executive alignment, and strategy execution.


Turn Your Leaders Into Business Leaders
CEOs need more business-savvy leaders who make faster and better financial decisions that align with their strategy. So, most of our engagements focus on leadership development, financial savviness, executive alignment, and strategy execution.

Business Acumen is Being a Well-Informed Business Parter
It is being financially knowledgeable, knowing what levers to pull to increase profitability and effectiveness, and being able to articulate which strategies impact the company. It is a lot of education that should have been taught in your MBA programs, however, Business Acumen can be taught specifically for your industry, your role, or your company. This is why simulations are becoming irrelevant, and the customized training that Acumen Learning provides is so impactful.

Business Acumen is Being a Well-Informed Business Partner
It is being financially knowledgeable, knowing what levers to pull to increase profitability and effectiveness, and being able to articulate which strategies impact the company. It is a lot of education that should have been taught in your MBA programs, however, Business Acumen can be taught specifically for your industry, your role, or your company. This is why simulations are becoming irrelevant, and the customized training that Acumen Learning provides is so impactful.
Is Your Team's Lack of Business Acumen Costing You?
Is Your Team's Lack of
Business Acumen Costing You?

Here’s the reality – 95% of employees don’t understand their company’s strategy
Can every team member explain your company's money-making process in such a way that inspires and engages people? If not, you’re losing money.
How many decisions are made too quickly or not quick enough? How many of your employees don’t understand what your CEO talked about on your last earnings call — because they didn't listen to it? How many of your leaders are faking it when it comes to finance?
Fortunately, Business Acumen can be taught.

Here’s the reality – 95% of employees don’t understand
their company’s strategy
Can every team member explain your company's money-making process in such a way that inspires and engages people? If not, you’re losing money.
How many decisions are made too quickly or not quick enough? How many of your employees don’t understand what your CEO talked about on your last earnings call — because they didn't listen to it? How many of your leaders are faking it when it comes to finance?
Fortunately, Business Acumen can be taught.
Help your employee's become experts
of your business
Acumen Learning’s Building Business Acumen® course can help any professional, from any department, understand the business of our business. Using real-world examples and focusing on issues important to your work, you’ll learn a simple framework to quickly cut through business complexities, gain a satellite view of the business, improve your track record of success, align decisions to corporate strategy, fix present problems and prevent new ones, break down communication barriers, take advantage of opportunities to grow, and much more.
An easy solution in 3 simple steps:


Help your employee's become experts of your business
Acumen Learning’s Building Business Acumen® course can help any professional, from any department, understand the business of our business. Using real-world examples and focusing on issues important to your work, you’ll learn a simple framework to quickly cut through business complexities, gain a satellite view of the business, improve your track record of success, align decisions to corporate strategy, fix present problems and prevent new ones, break down communication barriers, take advantage of opportunities to grow, and much more.
An easy solution in 3 simple steps:
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Choose Your Delivery
Whether it's a 1-, 2-, 4-day, virtual, or online, we can customize our deliveries to best suit your needs.
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Customize Your Course
Together we'll customize your course to cover the concepts, key metrics, and strategies that are important to your CEO.
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Schedule Your Course
Let's have a conversation about how our Building Business Acumen® training course can help your corporation.
What are you waiting for?
Lectures from your finance department aren't going to cut it. And don't even get us started on board games and generic simulations – your people deserve better. You need to follow a process that not only develops new skills but reinforces those skills and holds people accountable for using them.
Not understanding business is costing you business.
What are you waiting for?
Lectures from your finance department aren't going to cut it. And don't even get us started on board games and generic simulations – your people deserve better. You need to follow a process that not only develops new skills but reinforces those skills and holds people accountable for using them.
Not understanding business is costing you business.
Our Partners Include 34 Fortune 50 Companies
Our Partners Include 34
Fortune 50 Companies
We wrote the book on
Business Acumen
There's only one #1 Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestseller dedicated to the subject of business acumen — we wrote it. Called an MBA in under 180 pages, Seeing the Big Picture captures the basic principles of our customized business acumen training.
"Many of us (myself included!) work hard to equip leaders and employees with the essentials for business vitality – no one has done so with more fidelity, clarity, and precision than Kevin Cope. The wonderfully accessible tools in this book are the first investment any leader must make to build a sustainably competitive enterprise."
Joseph Grenny
New York Times bestselling coauthor of Crucial Conversations and Change Anything
We wrote the book on
Business Acumen
There's only one #1 Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestseller dedicated to the subject of business acumen — we wrote it. Called an MBA in under 180 pages, Seeing the Big Picture captures the basic principles of our customized business acumen training.
"Many of us (myself included!) work hard to equip leaders and employees with the essentials for business vitality – no one has done so with more fidelity, clarity, and precision than Kevin Cope. The wonderfully accessible tools in this book are the first investment any leader must make to build a sustainably competitive enterprise."
Joseph Grenny
New York Times bestselling coauthor of Crucial Conversations and Change Anything
“I can't say enough about Acumen Learning… They are the kind of vendor everyone loves not just because of the product they deliver, but because of how they partner with their customers to ensure a great experience for everyone.”
Scott Knutson
Leadership & Organizational Development
“I would highly recommend this training. The presenters were amazing, easy to follow, and quite engaging. The content was clear and relevant. The course was modified to meet our business needs and I'm pleased with what was delivered. Great job!”
Melissa Anderson
Executive Director
“Kevin and the team did an outstanding job with us for the Business Acumen training. Very insightful and at a good pace. …we did it virtually and it went off without a hitch. Highly recommended and thanks to Kevin again!”
DeWayne Addison
Enterprise Account Executive
“I can't say enough about Acumen Learning… They are the kind of vendor everyone loves not just because of the product they deliver, but because of how they partner with their customers to ensure a great experience for everyone.”
Scott Knutson
Leadership & Organizational Development
“I would highly recommend this training. The presenters were amazing, easy to follow, and quite engaging. The content was clear and relevant. The course was modified to meet our business needs and I'm pleased with what was delivered. Great job!”
Melissa Anderson
Executive Director
“Kevin and the team did an outstanding job with us for the Business Acumen training. Very insightful and at a good pace. …we did it virtually and it went off without a hitch. Highly recommended and thanks to Kevin again!”
DeWayne Addison
Enterprise Account Executive



