The BritishAmerican Business (BAB) Academy is a series of workshops covering different business skills for high potential individuals aspiring to be general mangers and who are rising stars in their organisations.
The Academy offers a unique snapshot of key business functions and provides skills to help young professionals grow into general management roles.
Who is the Academy for?
Limited to 30 places, the BAB Academy is designed for young professionals with about 5 years of professional experience who work for BAB member companies – transatlantic firms and organizations of all sizes, based on both sides of the Atlantic.
The programme provides a great chance to to gain experience and insight in areas outside your core function from a variety of industry leaders, and to make new professional relationships and contacts on both sides of the Atlantic.
We invite BAB members to nominate young professionals within their company to participate in the programme.
Email Emma Sherborne to put a colleague forward: esherborne@babinc.org.
What to expect?
The series will consist of 10 wide-ranging interactive hybrid workshop sessions, running from October to July, including interactive in-person and virtual sessions (in London & New York) presented by leading business experts and advisors from a selection of carefully chosen BAB companies.
Cost
The participation fee for all sessions, including pre-material and post-follow up is £1,500 (+ VAT) or $2,000.
2022-2023 Workshops
#1 Design Thinking
October 17th 2022 | 11am – 12:30pm EDT | 4:00pm – 5:30pm BST | Hybrid Session
Led by Experience Haus
#2 Understanding Financial Statements – What They Do & Don’t Tell You
November 17th 2022 | 11am – 12:30pm EDT | 4:00pm – 5:30pm BST | Virtual Session
Led by CliftonLarsonAllen (CLA)
#3 Held to Ransomware
December 6th 2022 | 11am – 12:30pm EDT | 4:00pm – 5:30pm BST | Virtual Session
Led by Decoded
#4 Organizational Health
January 17th 2023 | 11am – 12:30pm EDT | 4:00pm – 5:30pm BST | Hybrid Session
Led by Q5
#5 Performance Marketing
February 15th 2023 | 11am – 12:30pm EDT | 4:00pm – 5:30pm BST | Hybrid Session
Led by Novicell
#6 The Importance of Corporate Purpose
March 15th 2023 | 11am – 12:30pm EDT | 4:00pm – 5:30pm BST | Virtual Session
Led by Brandpie
#7 Global Mobility
Date & Time TBC
Led by Farkouh, Furman & Faccio
#8 Career Management & Progression
May 18th 2023 | 11am – 12:30pm EDT | 4:00pm – 5:30pm BST | Hybrid Session
Led by Page Executive Group
#9 What You Need to Know about Sustainability & Climate Change
June 21st 2023 | 11am – 12:30pm EDT | 4:00pm – 5:30pm BST | Virtual Session
Led by KPMG
#10 Financing Expansion
Date & Time TBC
2021-2022 Workshops
Click on the header below to learn more about each workshop in the Academy Program
Led by Sermelo
DATE: Thursday, October 14th 2021
TIME: 11am – 12:30pm EDT | 4:00pm – 5:30pm BST
PLATFORM: Zoom
There is a well-known saying that it takes a lifetime to build a good reputation but you can lose it in a minute. In this session you will explore the many faces of modern organisational crises and what actions organisations can take to protect their reputations and businesses. We will cover what constitutes a crisis, planning and preparing for a crisis, managing a crisis and communicating in a crisis. A guest speaker will share knowledge on business continuity management and managing the current workplace mental health crisis. You will then be invited to participate in a crisis simulation and put your learnings into action.
Led by Kingstree Group
DATE: Wednesday, November 17th 2021
TIME: 10:00am – 11:30am EDT | 3:00pm – 4:30pm
PLATFORM: Zoom
The aim of the Workshop is to enable participants to apply the Kingstree approach to preparation, structure and delivery, so that there is an increase in the effectiveness in both formal and informal meetings, presentations and competitive pitches, either ‘Live’ or using Zoom, Teams or any other online communication tool.
In this workshop, you will learn:
- How to be effective in all your critical spoken communications,
- How to use your own unique communication style even in the most formal or high stress environments,
- How to structure your ideas for maximum impact,
- How to best use virtual tools (Zooms, Teams etc.)
- How to incorporate ‘Visual Materials’ to reinforce / illustrate Key Messages
Led by Brandpie
DATE: Monday, January 24th 2021
TIME: 11:00am – 12:30pm EST | 4:00pm – 5.30pm GMT
Corporate purpose is an increasingly talked-about business concept. A recent survey* showed that 87% of CEO’s agree that purpose delivers competitive advantage, driving initiatives across their business. In this interactive session we’ll explore what purpose is (and importantly, what it isn’t). We’ll share the criteria for a good purpose statement and work through the steps to defining one. The session will be facilitated by Brandpie – a consultancy who specialise in purpose-driven transformation. Their clients include EY, TCS, Capgemini and AstraZeneca.
*Brandpie 2021 CEO survey
Led by CLA (CliftonLarson Allen LLP)
DATE: Wednesday, February 23rd 2022
TIME: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST | 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm GMT
Financial statements offer insights on the health of a company, which can be difficult to articulate by other means. While accountants and finance professionals are trained to read and understand these documents, entrepreneurs and business professionals are not. Understanding what financials statements tell and don’t tell will better equip entrepreneurs make the best decisions while working cross functionally with finance professionals. The meaningful interpretation and analysis of balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements to discern a company’s investment qualities is also the basis for smart investment choices.”
Led by Glasswall
DATE: Wednesday, March 30th 2022
TIME: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST | 11:00 am – 12:30 pm GMT
At a time of heightened awareness of cybersecurity threats, how do Board Members and Executives prepare for, what many consider, inevitable cyber-attacks.
In this session, we will uncover cybersecurity in the Boardroom and the challenges faced by Executives.
Led by Deloitte
Date: Wednesday, April 13th 2022
Time: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT | 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm BST
In this session, we will review the Global Financing Markets and expectations for the future. We’ll briefly discuss the differences in debt and equity financing, and what the consequences are for an investor before diving deeper into the aspects of debt financing and the tax aspects of obtaining and deploying the proceeds of funding in a multinational group.
From the commercial angle, we will discuss considerations in evaluating debt capital, including those around debt providers, products, and pricing as they relate to typical Corporate and Private Equity capital structures. We will dive into the changing face of debt providers and debt strategies as well as discuss what lenders are looking for from borrowers and what borrowers want from lenders. And finally, we will examine the strategy behind leveraged buyouts and why it is so ubiquitous in the industry of Private Equity, all through the lens of real world case study examples.
Once financing has been obtained by a multinational group, there is a question of how to deploy the financing globally in an efficient manner. This is often driven by the tax profile of the group, and the transfer pricing rules in the respective countries of the legal entities providing the funding, as well as those of the recipient company. We’ll discuss the options available to a multinational group for managing this internal financing, the impact it can have on their bottom line, and what the future may hold for cross border financing from a tax and transfer pricing angle.
This will all be pulled together in an interactive case study.
Led by Brands at Work
Date: Wednesday, May 25th 2022
Time: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT | 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm BST
Not all great storytellers are leaders. But all great leaders are storytellers.
What does storytelling really mean in business? Why is it such an important part of a leader’s arsenal? When will you need it most? And how do you go about crafting great stories anyway? This 90-minute, interactive session will demystify storytelling in the corporate world and provide practical tools to help improve your storytelling technique. From cultural theory and scientific evidence behind the power of stories, to illustrations of great business storytelling that have united behaviours, to a breakdown of how to bring your stories to life, this is a must-attend session for the budding corporate leader.
Led by KPMG
Date: Tuesday, June 21st 2022
Time: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT | 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm BST
KPMG’s presentation will cover the growing market attention on Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) issues, why it is happening now, and what business professionals should know about how ESG may impact their organization.
The workshop will look to decode the alphabet soup of ESG reporting frameworks and forthcoming SEC regulations, as well as provide an overview of ESG topics relating to: materiality, climate risk, Net Zero, supply chain, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Led by Charles Russell Speechlys and Barton LLP
Date: Tuesday, June 14th 2022
Time: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT | 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm BST
This module will consider the additional issues that an executive will need to consider when promoted within a business to the position of a director in the UK, or to the position of an officer (or less commonly to the position of a director) in the US. With the assistance of expert counsel from both the UK and the US, we will highlight the relevant additional responsibilities that such an executive will face and the additional skills that they will need to bring to bear, as well some of the differences between the relevant roles in the US and the UK.”
Led by Vistra
DATE: Thursday, June 30th 2022
TIME: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST | 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm GMT
PLATFORM: Zoom
Managing a global workforce might be the most essential – and the most challenging – aspect of operating internationally. Every jurisdiction has unique employer obligations related to hiring workers, managing work time and paid time off, terminating employees and more. Failing to understand and comply with these changing requirements in any one jurisdiction can result in substantial financial and legal liabilities, not to mention reputational damage that can affect your ability to attract and retain top employees. These risks only increase as your global footprint and workforce grow.
The bottom line is that you need to establish and maintain locally compliant HR practices that account for each of your workers in all jurisdictions throughout the employee lifecycle. In this session, we’ll:
- Discuss establishing and managing Employment Contracts in a new country
- Outline the three ways to hire workers when expanding internationally
- Examine what could trigger a permanent establishment risk – you might be surprised
- Review Global Mobility & why you need to understand it
Contact
Emma Sherborne
Senior Manager, Events and Marketing
+1 212 661 4060
esherborne@babinc.org
Alice Mount
Executive Director
+44 (0)20 7290 9873
amount@babinc.org