"Spreadsheets? Booorrrrinnnng." Not so! Financial and "impact" modeling is a critical tool for any actual or aspiring business executive, and it is both strategic and creative. Whether you are in product or business development or marketing, etc, having this skill will allow you to:

1. make better priorities and decisions

2. think through upside and risks more clearly

3. better align with stakeholders and peers

This class is about learning by doing. In the first class, I will lay a foundation. After that it's all about practice. Each week you will have an exercise to attempt before the next class. You will be given a set of assumptions and then you have to dive into a spreadsheet. In our live session, I will walk you through my solution and open things up for discussion, sharing tips and pointers along the way.

EXERCISES:

Pre-watch video and simple "starter" challenge

Exercise 1: model out a business development partnership and decide whether it's a good idea.

Exercise 2: you, the CMO, and CEO disagree on the timing of a marketing campaign around a big product launch. Project out the results and create a decision making tool.

Exercise 3: model out the impact of a potential acquisition your CEO is considering.

Exercise 4: model out the impact of investing in internal tools for your software engineers

All of our work will be in the "open" across the cohort so that you can see multiple approaches to solving the same problem.

NOTE: This class can be seen as a "partner" class with the Financial Fluency for Product Leaders class on Maven (https://maven.com/giff-constable/financial-fluency). It doesn't matter which one you take first.