Certificate in Strategic Business Acumen

Course Overview

The Certificate in Strategic Business Acumen equips you with the insight, mindset, and practical frameworks needed to understand how businesses really work and how to lead them effectively. This programme connects business acumen, leadership, strategy, and execution, helping you make better commercial decisions in complex, fast-changing environments.

Through real-world case studies, workshops, and applied discussions, you’ll strengthen your ability to think strategically, lead people, and drive sustainable organisational performance.

What You Will Gain

By attending this course, you will gain the confidence to analyse business challenges holistically and translate strategy into measurable results. You’ll enhance your commercial awareness, emotional intelligence, and leadership effectiveness, enabling you to influence decisions, manage change, and improve organisational outcomes.

You will leave with practical tools to strengthen financial understanding, align people and processes, and apply business acumen directly to your role and organisation.

You Will Learn

You will learn how to develop strong business acumen by integrating strategic thinking, leadership behaviour, and commercial decision-making. You’ll explore how mindset, emotional intelligence, and business behaviour influence performance, and how to apply analytical and creative thinking to planning and implementation.

Through case studies and workshops, you’ll build skills in financial literacy, performance improvement, customer-focused strategy, innovation, and people leadership culminating in a personal action plan to apply your learning for long-term success.

Who Should Attend

• Directors and managers with high competence and commitment , and those who have high potential in the organisation and wish to strengthen and focus their business acumen
• Fast-tracked leaders with growing responsibility who wish to strengthen their business acumen, strategic thinking, and decision-making skills
• Managers of a functional area who are preparing for advancement into positions where a business wide perspective is required

Course Methodology

Presented in several modules over four days, the programme maintains the balance between personal skills, leadership and business planning and organisational success throughout. It is informative and includes several highly interactive comparative case studies and workshops for all the participants.

In addition there is the opportunity to learn, discuss, and present in that case study format how other companies have been successful and identify through a series of video interviews how business leaders present their leadership styles.

Certification Criteria

You must meet two criteria to be eligible for an Informa Connect Academy Certificate of Completion:

• Satisfactory attendance: You must attend all sessions of the course. If, for any reason, you miss more than 2 hours of the course sessions, you will not be eligible to sit the course assessment
• Successful completion of the course assessment: Assessments will be ongoing and based on in-class participation and activities

Delivered by John

John brings extensive expertise as a strategy consultant, leadership coach, and facilitator with decades of international experience in markets across Europe, the Middle East, and beyond.

Certified by CPD UK

The CPD Certification Service is an independent accreditation centre working across all sectors, disciplines and further learning applications and supports policies of institutional and professional organisations globally.

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