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Executive Education / The MBA Mind®
The MBA Mind® — graduate-level business education delivered to your leadership team, taught against your own numbers and decisions.
Overview
Most executives in owner-managed businesses were promoted for being excellent at something specific — selling, building, operating. Few have been taught to think about the whole business: how capital works, how a market is sized, how strategy and finance constrain one another.
The MBA Mind® is ChurchillTerry's answer to that gap. It takes the substance of a graduate business education and delivers it against your company's own numbers and decisions, to your leadership group, without anyone leaving the business for two years.
Team
What we do
- The MBA Mind®
- A structured curriculum covering finance, strategy, markets and decision-making, taught in sessions built around your business.
- Financial fluency
- Reading and using financial statements, unit economics, working capital and return on investment.
- Strategy and markets
- Market sizing, competitive position, pricing logic and how to evaluate an opportunity before committing to it.
- Capital and investment
- How lenders and investors think, how deals are structured, and how capital decisions are actually made.
- Applied sessions
- Working sessions in which the group applies the material to a live decision in front of the company.
- Custom curricula
- Programmes shaped to a leadership team, an ownership group or a specific transition.
Engagement
Typical engagement models
- Programme seriesA sequence of sessions for a leadership group over a defined period.
- Single workshopA focused session on one topic, often alongside a retreat or planning cycle.
- Owner and successor trackA tailored track for owners and the people being prepared to succeed them.
(Engagement scope, hours, and pricing are defined in the Statement of Work.)
Our approach
Our approach — three focused phases
- Phase 1
Scope
Agree who attends, what they need to be able to do afterwards, and which decisions the programme should sharpen.
- Phase 2
Teach
Deliver the sessions using your financials and your market, with work between sessions.
- Phase 3
Apply
Put the group to work on a real decision and review how the thinking held up.
Fit
Who this is for
- Leadership teams strong technically but thin on commercial and financial grounding.
- Owners who want their managers arguing from evidence rather than instinct.
- Successors and next-generation family members being prepared for ownership.
FAQ
Here’s the Facts
- Who teaches it?
- ChurchillTerry advisors, including seventeen years of adjunct teaching in entrepreneurship, private equity and venture capital at a top-ranked business school.
- How long is a programme?
- It varies with scope and group size. Most run as a series of sessions across several months so people can apply the material between them.
- Is it delivered onsite?
- Usually, and it can be delivered remotely or at a retreat venue where that suits the group better.
Team
More Team services
- Leadership DevelopmentTailored coaching and capability programs that turn managers into leaders who run P&Ls and develop teams.
- Succession PlanningClear, executable succession roadmaps and transition plans that protect value and make ownership changes predictable.
- Incentive Compensation & Partner CompensationCompensation and incentives tied to measurable KPIs so managers and partners pull in the same direction.
Contact Us
Get the Support You Need
Tell us where your company is in its lifecycle and what’s keeping you up at night. One of us will run point and come back with a clear plan.
Located in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX
5068 W Plano Pkwy Ste 202
Plano, TX 75068
Located in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX
5068 W Plano Pkwy Ste 202
Plano, TX 75068