Maximize your Data team's impact.

Transform your analytics function to communicate clearly, prioritize for impact, and influence action.

Building influential analysts at:

"Laura provides a practical toolkit for moving teams from reactive reporting to proactively driving business outcomes."

David Horgan, Senior Director of Business Insights at WP Engine

When your data teams lack business acumen, operations are broken.

Stakeholder frustration
Business leaders have difficulty understanding reports which are too technical.

Low data adoption
Stakeholders fail to use insights to make decisions despite having dedicated analytics support

Wasted resources
Your team wastes time on analysis that doesn’t influence decision-making.

Low perceived business value
Executives start comparing data teams to AI agents, undermining the value

70+

13

Years of experience

Students

Business acumen skills are important now more than ever.

Training covers all of the business acumen essentials:

✓Prioritization for impact
✓Clarifying requests before executing
✓Structuring results for clarity
✓Executive communication
✓Building visibility & recognition
✓Influencing without authority

Built for teams like yours:

Business Acumen training has benefited these teams the most:

Data & Systems Teams
Product Managers

PMs who present improvements, findings, and roadmaps to leadership.

Results: Product Managers learn how to use data to anchor on impact:

  • Increase visibility of Product improvements

  • Starting with “so what”, recommendations and insights

  • Quantifying outcomes into revenue, risk, and time costs

  • Clearly communicate ownership, requests and next steps

  • Frame objectives to focus on what leadership values

Analysts and engineers who build the tools stakeholders use to make decisions.

Results: Data professionals learn how to increase their visibility and value:

  • Ask the right questions before they start working

  • Build better systems to prioritize for impact

  • Take a proactive role in driving business outcomes

  • Influence stakeholders without authority

  • Communicate clearly for executive audiences

Lead Analysts

Solo analysts at growth-stage companies supporting the whole business.

Results: Lead Analysts learn leadership skills to increase their value and grow their team:

  • Increase the visibility of their role & the impact of data

  • Become a trusted advisor to the business

  • Build an intake process to prioritize for impact

  • Clearly communicate timelines, next steps and outcomes

  • Frame ideas to gain authentic buy-in from peers

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