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Next Live Workshop Dates
Workshop: Understanding Commercial Finance
- Breakout: what are your commercial finance challenges:
- Why do we measure ROI? Analyzing Investment Opportunities
- How do we measure ROI – tools
- Portfolio theory and enabling innovation
đź“… Wednesday, 11 June 2025
⏰ 9:00 am – 11:00 am BST (4:00 am – 6:00 am EDT)
Field of Study: Finance (2 CPE Credits) 2 CPD Hours
Workshop: Strategically Measuring ROI
- How does ROI fit into strategy planning
- Framing opportunities using the 10 Steps of a VC pitch deck
- Making decisions by applying a unit economic framework
- Using optionality, incrementality and synergies to improve analysis
đź“… Wednesday , 18 June 2025
⏰ 9:00 am – 11:00 am BST (4:00 am – 6:00 am EDT)
Field of Study: Finance (2 CPE Credits) 2 CPD Hours
Workshop: Preparing Analysis and Influencing Decisions
- What makes good analysis
- Framing your analysis (excel)
- Defining the problem and opportunity (5 whys)
- Sensitivity analysis
- Building credibility to generate influence
- Understanding the customer
- Marketing funnel
- 4Ps of marketing
- Knowing your audience and selling your ideas
- Types of influence
- Selling framework and powerful language
đź“… Wednesday, 25 June 2025
⏰ 9:00 am – 11:00 am BST (4:00 am – 6:00 am EDT)
Field of Study: Finance (2 CPE Credits) 2 CPD Hours
Course Overview
What we Cover:
Developing Business Acumen, Analyzing Investment Opportunities, Measuring Commercial ROI, Enhancing Company Performance
The challenges:
Determining commercial impact of decisions, complex data, integrating non-financial data, mitigating risks, measuring ROI.
The Barriers:
Data overload, time constraints, insufficient tools, not seeing the big picture, knowledge gaps, stakeholders lack knowledge of finance.
Learning Outcomes:
Using ROI to influence commercial decisions, how to think commercially, framing plus solving strategic and commercial opportunities.
Business Benefits:
Scalable Growth, Value Creation, Improved Accuracy, Greater Collaboration, Performance Improvement, Risk Reduction, Competitive Advantage
Course Facilitators
Oliver Deacon
Course Facilitator
Oliver, a former Microsoft Finance Director and qualified PCC Executive Coach, offers a modern, inspiring perspective on finance. He helps teams manage change by integrating next-generation finance skills.
Prerequisites: No Prerequisite knowledge is required to be successful in this course
Advanced Preparation: No advanced preparation is required
Program Level: Basic
Delivery Method: Group Live
Module Content
Commercial Finance and ROI
Module Includes
- 1 Topic
- 1 Lesson
