Excellent Job.

"Brent did an excellent job covering material and answering questions. Clearly very knowledgeable."

Looking Forward to our next Encounter.

"Thank you Kevin and Jeff for an incredible, insightful, and infinitely useful day…looking forward to our next encounter!"

By far the best.

"By far, the best training that I have received."

"Best Continuing Education I’ve Ever Taken!"

Course personal to Freeport.

"I appreciated that the instructor taught as if he was a Freeport employee - he used "we" and "our"... it made the course personal to Freeport and how we do business."

I Can Interpret a P&L.

"I can proudly say that I can interpret a P&L statement!"

Infinitely Useful.

"Thank you Kevin and Jeff for an incredible, insightful, and infinitely useful day."

"By far the best training that I have received."

Awesome!

"Ryan Stirland was absolutely awesome!! This was a great course with very high feedback scores. We believe this will have a significant impact on our business."

Fantastic and Engaging.

"Leroy, I want to once again express my appreciation for a fantastic and engaging presentation. I shared with my manager as well as the Business Unit Manager, the benefits of all personnel, PMs and division managers, taking this class. So often, individuals do not realize that the value of their positive efforts can play a vital role in the outcome of our business performance. We are all parts of the wheel that turns this business and when one cog is missing or askew, the wheel may wobble more than we would like it to."

Already Started Sharing What I Learned.

"Leroy, Thank you for the email and for your leadership in the class. Wanted to share that I have already started sharing what I learned. I did that immediately upon returning to the office Monday morning with a team of 31 acquisition professionals that I lead."

"I have to say that your class has given me an entirely new insight to our company, and how I will do my job in the future."

Better Than My MBA.

"Hi Kevin, I thoroughly enjoyed the Building Business Acumen class you presented on March 3rd. The way you presented the financial statements in class made more sense to me in 8 hours than my whole 2 years of my MBA program. That's not to take anything away from my MBA program, but your method of explaining gave meaning and added substance to something that I previously looked at from a purely contextual point of view. Thanks for the enlightenment! P.S. Thanks for helping me to better understand Goodwill."

Effective.

"This has been one of my best training classes ever! Every part of the course was effective. It gave me a better understanding of financials and how we as managers can have an impact."

Very relevant.

"Building Business Acumen was an interesting and a very relevant session. The entire flow and articulation was perfect."

Thank you for making finance fun.

"I would first like to thank you for making FINANCE, fun!!! Very few people are able to connect and pass on information in such a clear and simple manner with examples so they stick in your memory!"

"Thanks for the extraordinary training. You managed to keep me engaged even though it was a remote web based training."

I actually understood it.

"I read about our company's results on our internal website… and I actually understood it."

On target.

"This was a very commonsensical approach to understanding cash, and improving my ability to communicate in financial terms. The session was on target. I have been struggling in my role with understanding and being able to speak in - and understand - financial terms. This has helped significantly."

Cool!

"I now understand how to read, interpret, and calculate the key information from a financial statement. Cool!"

"This was one of the best training sessions I have ever participated in."

5.97 out of 6!

"Ryan, a big thank you for your great efforts. The feedback was again amazing for your Business Acumen course, and especially your training methods. I will send you the summary of the feedback forms soon. The figures are amazing: 5.97 out of 6!"

Kept me engaged.

"Great class! Thanks for the energy - often these types of courses are boring. This one kept me engaged."

The best training & the best trainer.

"Your commonsense approach and real-life examples make this the best training and the best trainer I have had in my MDT career."

"I have worked here for 21 years and have a better understanding of our financials than I ever have!"

Now I can understand our VP!

"Breaking down our financial statements into easy to understand terms and learning how Medtronic performs in each area was a great experience. Now I can finally understand our VP!"

I have been raving about the class.

"I'd like to thank you so much for such an amazing training session. Both Jeff and Ryan are clearly subject matter experts and made the class so much fun and very interesting! I have been raving about the class to everyone and anyone who will listen!"

Intimate familiarity.

"Over my 15 years at GE I have enjoyed many training seminars. However, Kevin's Business Acumen lecture was as good, if not better, than any I've had an opportunity to attend. Kevin conducted our training with intimate familiarity of GE plus in a style that kept me fully engaged from 8am-5:30pm. I was very lucky to have him as my instructor' and I know the time I spent in the classroom with Kevin will pay many dividends."

Complex concepts in simple ways.

"I really liked the linkage between Baxter's performance, competitors, examples, and benchmarks. Ben explained complex concepts in simple ways and with good examples."

"Finance is not my strong suit, but this was presented in an easy to understand way."

I have never made this comment before.

"I have been with Baxter for 35 years. This is the best session I have attended. I have never made this comment before. I truly appreciated the way the course was presented - respectful of time and truly interesting."

Best I've been to in years.

"Ben was fantastic, he knew more about CIGNA and our competitors than 2/3 of the employees at CIGNA. Building Business Acumen was the best training session that I've been to in years."

I understand more.

"Thanks for the training today. After leaving tonight I realized I knew very little about our company's standings. After today's training I understand more about VZW then I have ever known before. I plan to use this in my next interview and will be able to confidently communicate a message of how one district can impact our company!"

"I think I can speak for the class by saying, today's class was amazing!"

Will certainly make a difference.

"Thank you Kevin for a great course, and one that will certainly make a difference in how I make a contribution in my role. I would recommend this to all my colleagues and business clients."

Absolutely essential.

"Business Acumen was one of the best courses I've ever been to at Rolls Royce, so thank you very much. I would say it's absolutely essential for all human resource leaders."

Enthusiasm and insight.

"I have always found an annual report analysis a daunting prospect before, but now I will do a similar exercise myself on the next report. I think this course was excellent, delivered with great enthusiasm and insight."

"I actually thought you were a Rolls Royce employee!"

Clear picture and a big insight.

"Let me thank you first for the wonderful session you had with us! It was really useful and informative and gone beyond my expectations. I never knew finance could be handled in such a simple and enjoyable way in a class. I will remember the class as one of the best trainings I have ever attended. This has given me a clear picture and a big insight on how I can contribute to the organization in my own way."

My knowledge has been greatly enhanced.

"I wanted to say thanks again for coming to Atlanta and teaching the group of college hires about business acumen. I can personally say that my knowledge has been greatly enhanced. Everything from the five business drivers to understanding how I can impact AT&T really added to my professional skill set as a business account manager. I can also speak on behalf of my peers when noticing how much improvement in skills and understanding existed during this past Friday. Being a newly graduated professional just entering the workplace, your seminar will remain one of the most important tools in developing qualities that will assist me for the rest of my time in the business world."

I had at least 15 people thank me.

"I had at least 15 people come up to me last night to thank me for bringing you in the training program. I believe they have internalized what you taught them. The energy you bring to this presentation is amazing especially since you do this so many times. It is obvious that you love what you do and the team felt it!"

"I was unsure as to how the instructor would be able to make a topic like this very interesting. I was very surprised."

Real and concrete.

"Ryan was one of the best trainers that I have experienced. His knowledge is vast and he's able to articulate financial principles in real and concrete terms to bring it alive."

Really the best.

"Business acumen is not the first program on financials that I've attended, but this one was really the best."

Just super.

"The facilitator was just super. He kept complex concepts simple with his examples."

One of the best.

"Business acumen was one of the best trainings I have ever took part in."

Very useful.

"Business acumen was a great course lead by a fantastic facilitator. It was fun and very useful."

"Business acumen will help us make some real commitments."

I gained confidence.

"To really be able to understand how the things we do impact the bottom-line was most valuable. I gained confidence"

Important to middle-management.

"Business acumen is important to middle-management. Especially to gain buy-in and proactively impact the measures."

Absolutely valuable.

"Business acumen is an absolutely valuable course."

Flows very well.

"Considering how hard it can be to teach this subject, it was really well thought out and flows very well. Learning the key items of the financials reports and the five elements was my favorite part of the experience."

Great interactivity.

"Great interactivity, discovery, and learning."

"Even our hourly employees should understand this info."

Apply what I've learned.

"I really enjoyed this course. The class materials really reinforced the lessons, and the interactive technique using our own company's financials will help me apply what I've learned."

Intimidated.

"I was originally intimidate, but now I have a better understanding."

Keep doing what you're doing.

"Learning how to navigate and better understand financial reports wasn't nearly as valuable as learning how I can personally effect company goals. Keep doing what you're doing."

I can finally read and understand the quarterly results.

"I am so glad I can finally read and understand the quarterly results email that comes out!"

Gave me greater insight.

"Instructor did a great job of energizing the participants throughout the course. Good focus simplified the subject matter and related the content to Disney. Business acumen gave me greater insight into how the company and the investment community measure our success. It was a great day."

"I loved doing the case study simulations. I didn't expect this course to be fun."

Easy to understand.

"I like how important principles were taught in an easy to understand manner. Business acumen is an excellent course, in fact it's one of the best I have attended in a while."

I came into the experience wondering how this was relevant.

"For me, this was one of the best training experiences I've had, and I came into the experience wondering how this was relevant to my position within the company. I will encourage others like me to attend."

Understandable.

"I valued the insight into business aspects, and the fact that the content was made understandable."

Knowledge and energy.

"Ben's knowledge and energy make what could be a painful experience very engaging. This was the best class I have taken internally at Medtronic."

- Medtronic

"Best internal course I have attended in 10 years at Medtronic."

Better results.

"I'm excited to share this with my team. This course was extremely beneficial - looking at the bigger picture will give us better results."

Experts.

"It was great to have these experts walk us through the financial statements of MetLife as well as our competitors."

Down to earth.

"The complete breakdown of all the elements and the down to earth terms helped explain the process."

Active participation.

"Kevin Cope and business acumen taught me how to articulate how what I do impacts (positively!)the financial strength of MetLife. The active participation was key to internalizing the learning. We need to continue to use this "active participation" model in our meetings."

More confidence.

"Becoming familiar with the language of finance will help me ask more intelligent questions with more confidence. This was a great overall session."

"There's nothing to improve upon. Business Acumen is a great course!"

No financial knowledge.

"Having no financial knowledge, this course was beneficial to me. It helps having a trainer/teacher who enjoys their work!"

Sharpened my finance skills.

"Business acumen sharpened my finance skills tremendously."

Took a dull subject and made it really interesting.

"Great instructor and class. You took a dull subject and made it really interesting. The table exercises and case studies were very valuable."

Course was topnotch.

"Course was topnotch. The instructor covered a lot of material in an easy to learn format. I walk away having learned the elements of business and how to understand a company's financial strength."

All employee should go through this course.

"All employees should go through this course so that they understand how their position affects the bottom line."

"Business acumen helped me to take a look at my role from a different angle."

I can impact the key business elements.

"I have a better understanding of how I can impact the key business elements that the CEO focuses on. This would be a good course for everyone to go through!!"

Put into perspective.

"Building Business Acumen put into perspective [layman terms] what CEO's are thinking on a daily basis."

I'll coach my team.

"Thanks Keith! I'm going to coach my team that the CEO is not focused on projects or solutions, but rather the results of those actions."

I would like more training like this.

"I would like more training like this, and less of the fuzzy "leadership" or "mentoring" focus. Business acumen training is very good for sales people."

Before today, I never really cared to understand.

"I better understand how what I do on a daily basis impacts the business. I also understand the annual report… before today, I never really cared to understand."

"I think this is one of the best trainings offered."

One of the best courses offered.

"I enjoyed talking and learning from my colleagues that have different roles and functions. This is a great course - one of the best offered."

Extremely positive experience.

"The varied activities, hands on approach, and good pacing made this workshop extremely useful. The instructor's style and tone all contributed to an extremely positive experience."

Very enlightening.

"The 5 business elements have always been a part of my merchandising life at Home Depot. It was very enlightening to have them come together and not seem so foreign."

Great class.

"Really great class and overview of the financials."