Interpreting Financial Performance: Read Your Business More Deeply

Help leaders connect decisions, tradeoffs, and financial results to develop a more complete understanding of how the business operates and performs.

Financial Statements Tell a Story. Can You See How the Pieces Connect?

Organizations ask leaders to make decisions that influence growth, performance, investments, and resources every day. Yet many leaders have never been formally taught how financial performance connects to the broader business.

Drawing on more than 30 years of leadership experience, including leading commercial operations for AT&T's $35 billion business organization, Alicia Dietsch developed Enterprise Thinking to help leaders better understand how organizations create value, navigate tradeoffs, and drive results across functions.

In this live introductory session, participants will explore how the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement work together, what financial performance can reveal about organizational effectiveness, and why decisions made in one area of the business often create consequences somewhere else.

Designed for organizations that want to strengthen business acumen and enterprise-level thinking, this session provides an accessible introduction to the concepts leaders need to better understand the business beyond their individual roles.

Who Should Consider Sending Leaders?

This session is designed for organizations that want to help leaders develop a stronger understanding of business performance, financial outcomes, and cross-functional decision making.

Participants may include:

• Executives and emerging leaders
• Department and functional leaders
• Operations professionals
• HR, talent, and learning leaders
• Sales, marketing, and technology leaders
• Program managers, consultants, and advisors

No finance or accounting background is required.