Lead Your Business To High Performance

Apply all the productivity techniques of business agility and skip the consultants!

Higher business performance means improving business results, aligning priorities, and activating continuous improvement in the organization. This requires advanced business practices.

Learn how to focus the organization and achieve higher performance through five core areas:

Impact.
Within Reach.

During the first module, participants were identifying multi-million dollar gaps in their portfolio - I've never seen a program accomplish that!

Program Participant
These practices answer my hardest prioritization questions. I am finally clear about how to optimize for value in my company.

Startup Founder
MBA 3.0 creates exactly the business leadership and mindset we need. This program is now the foundation of our Digital Transformation initiative.
$35Bn Company Sponsor 

Why MBA 3.0? Why Now?

The Masters in Business Administration "1.0" was created during the Industrial Revolution to help businesses optimize manufacturing efficiency. Today, MBA "2.0" is still offered primarily as a degree program and focuses on optimizing business efficiency.

These programs are no longer sufficient. We still see major business issues such as missed promises, disengaged workers, dependency hell, and vanishing profits. 

MBA 3.0 focuses on helping a new generation of leaders to Master Business Agility.

The goal of MBA 3.0 is to optimize the rate of value
produced by the team you currently have, in your current business situation. It is offered in a modular program structure so leaders can get exactly what they need first.

Missed Promises

We can't keep our commitments
- and we don't know why!

Disengaged workers

Everyone does exactly what they are told - and only that!

Dependency Hell

It's all a big ball of yarn - and clarifying priorities does not help!

Vanishing Profits

Margins are down
- and getting lower!

The MBA 3.0 Program

Creating A Program

MBA 3.0 is my approach to consulting for CTOs and CPOs, packaged up into a modular VP/Director level program.

MBA 3.0 aims to level up the CxO-directs leadership team to keep their collective focus on value delivery, predictability and productivity - not just business efficiency.

Earning The Experience

This business agility core curriculum is the culmination of three decades of driving performance and value delivery across organizations.

About half of that was earned in leadership positions at big corporations. The other half was gained as a senior consultant across industries.

The $1Bn Trigger

After a few years of helping leaders generate more value in their organization, I delivered a whale. I showed my client a one-billion-dollar opportunity hiding in plain sight!

For over a decade since, I have continued to refine my approach to generating value, across industries.

A 1000x ROI

MBA 3.0 is now available as public training. Why? Every private program delivered in the last two years has seen multiple leaders who identify immediate value opportunities between $38M and $65M that they couldn’t even see before. That’s an immediate return of over 1000x!

Micro-Training Access

The program is designed with a total of ten days of instruction and five experience reports.

You can also pick and choose from the ten individual day-long micro-trainings and earn individual credentials in the topics that are most relevant to you.

A culmination of three decades of experience...

Modular Program Structure

The MBA 3.0 Program is completely modular so you can either take a Program level class covering all five topics, or choose the topic most relevant for you right now - and at the appropriate level for your situation.

Program level credentials

There are four Program level credentials. The MBA 3.0 Associate credential is awarded after completing all the individual Associate level modules. The MBA 3.0 Director credential is awarded after completing all the individual Director level modules. The MBA 3.0 Executive credential is earned by submitting an experience report for each of the modules for review and consideration. This credential must also be kept current by submitting new experience reports for each topic within three years.

Associate level topic credentials

The individual Associate level credentials are focused on establishing a solid foundation for an approach to business leadership. and management that will be new to most participants.

Director level topic credentials

The individual Director level credentials focus on implementation and require prior completion of the corresponding Associate level. Both of these levels are led by an instructor in a live class configuration.

Executive level topic credentials

There is no class requirement for the Executive level credentials. To earn these, you must demonstrate your command of each topic in a real-world situation by submitting an experience report for review and consideration. Note that to keep these credentials, you must submit a new experience report every three years, else they revert to the corresponding Director level.

MBA 3.0
Lead Your Business To High Performance

The goal of MBA 3.0 is to optimize the rate of value produced by the team you currently have, in your current business situation.

Higher business performance requires advanced business practices. Learn, practice and implement them with our signature program.

It is designed for leaders who want to improve business results, align priorities, and activate continuous improvement in the organization.
For individuals:
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Impact.
Within Reach.

During the first module, participants were identifying multi-million dollar gaps in their portfolio - I've never seen a program accomplish that!

Program Participant
These practices answer my hardest prioritization questions. I am finally clear about how to optimize for value in my company.

Startup Founder
MBA 3.0 creates exactly the business leadership and mindset we need. This program is now the foundation of our Digital Transformation initiative.
$35Bn Company Sponsor 

Program Topics

The program moves a group of self-directed leaders through a series of additive modules. The primary theme throughout the program is Business Value. Four additional modules add strategic context and incremental business impact. Each module supports direct application, each opening with expert-led workshops, and with optional support throughout by 1:1 coaching and group discussions.

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Upcoming MBA 3.0 Classes

Private Group Classes

Enroll to select and request your preferred start date - no deposit needed!

MBA 3.0 Academy

Mastering Business Agility through training means learning how to deal with hypotheses, uncertainty, value, options, feedback, flow, and more.

We are filling out the course catalog and already offering private and public classes in:

Meet your Instructors:

César Idrovo

Founder and CEO
MBA 3.0

Rik Dryfoos

Principal Consultant
MBA 3.0

Olga Kipnis

Instructor
MBA 3.0

Eric Rapin

Founder and CEO
Lucid Agile

Rob Myers

Founder and CEO
Agile Institute

Michael Thomas

Instructor
MBA 3.0

Hoz Rushdi

SAFe Coach & Trainer
Howza Inc.

Coming soon...

Expanding the team!

Featured Course

Test Driven Agility

Our three-part approach to continuous improvement mirrors the "Red-Green-Refactor" cadence of Test Driven Development (TDD.) Test Driven Agility helps teams learn to solve problems and improve business outcomes by...

  • assessing team fitness
  • aligning objectives
  • leadership coaching

...and refining it all through practice.

Our Learning Catalog

Transactional Competence™

Value Rate Optimization

Test Driven Agility

Kanban

Scrum

Technical Practices

Stakeholder-Product Alignment

Scaled Agile Framework

Upcoming Public Classes

Multi-Class Bundles and Discounts

Private Group Classes

The first step is free - Enroll to reserve your date!