Tag Archive: MBA

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Skip the business school loans: this 25-course bundle encompasses a complete MBA education, covering all the essential topics of managing and operating a business in today’s economic climate. With courses ranging from project management and accounting to marketing and culture, and everything in between, novice and seasoned business professionals alike can diversify their skill sets and increase their personal marketability with this immersive bundle.

• Access 25 comprehensive courses 24/7
• Explore ITIL & learn how IT & business coexist
• Learn how to use important programs like Intuit Quickbooks, the Microsoft Office Suite, & Google Analytics
• Get an introduction to social media marketing
• Understand accounting & business basics
• Test your progress w/ quizzes & exam simulators
• Interact & collaborate w/ other students & Vision Training Systems employees to form study groups & discussions

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Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: 1 year
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

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Books and preparation for the graduate business school exam, GMAT, can cost an arm and a leg, and may not even prepare you particularly well. With this online course you get lifetime access to these 150 high-quality problems that closely resemble the Critical Reasoning section of the GMAT Verbal. Get ready for to nail the GMAT the right way, in your own time.

• Access 151 lectures & 15 hours of content 24/7
• Study w/ 150 Critical Reasoning questions w/ a real GMAT feel
• Get 15 hours of step-by-step reasoning so you can learn to think like test-setters
• Receive visual highlights so that you really understand why answers are right or wrong
• Get feedback from instructors any time

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Loonycorn is comprised of four individuals—Janani Ravi, Vitthal Srinivasan, Swetha Kolalapudi and Navdeep Singh—who have honed their tech expertises at Google and Flipkart. The team believes it has distilled the instruction of complicated tech concepts into funny, practical, engaging courses, and is excited to be sharing its content with eager students. Together, their GMAT scores average over 760, and they hold MBAs from INSEAD, ISB, and IIM-Ahmedabad in India.

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The Sentence Correction portion of the GMAT is the easiest to “game” as long as you know the test mechanics. The English language is a funky one, and the GMAT tries to trip you up with uncommon rules and grammatical tricks. But after spending time with these 225 questions and explanations, you’ll be ready to master the game and dominate the Sentence Correction portion!

• Access 275 lectures & 15 hours of content 24/7
• Study w/ 225 high-quality sentence correction problems
• Get simple explanations for questions w/o any dense grammatical jargon
• Receive visual highlights so that you really understand why answers are right or wrong
• Get feedback from instructors any time

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Loonycorn is comprised of four individuals—Janani Ravi, Vitthal Srinivasan, Swetha Kolalapudi and Navdeep Singh—who have honed their tech expertises at Google and Flipkart. The team believes it has distilled the instruction of complicated tech concepts into funny, practical, engaging courses, and is excited to be sharing its content with eager students. Together, their GMAT scores average over 760, and they hold MBAs from INSEAD, ISB, and IIM-Ahmedabad in India.

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Data Sufficiency questions on the GMAT Math exam consist of a question followed by two statements. Your job is to decide whether the two statements give enough information are sufficient to answer the question. If this sounds tricky–that’s because it is. This course will teach you the traps to avoid while answering these questions, and provide you with plenty of practice to prepare for the Data Sufficiency portion.

• Access 51 lectures & 6 hours of content 24/7
• Study w/ 50 high-quality data sufficiency problems
• Learn how to avoid time-consuming & costly question traps
• Get simple, step-by-step reasoning so you can learn to think like test-setters
• Receive visual highlights so that you really understand why answers are right or wrong
• Get feedback from instructors any time

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Loonycorn is comprised of four individuals—Janani Ravi, Vitthal Srinivasan, Swetha Kolalapudi and Navdeep Singh—who have honed their tech expertises at Google and Flipkart. The team believes it has distilled the instruction of complicated tech concepts into funny, practical, engaging courses, and is excited to be sharing its content with eager students. Together, their GMAT scores average over 760, and they hold MBAs from INSEAD, ISB, and IIM-Ahmedabad in India.

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If you ever took the SAT or ACT, the Reading Comprehension portion of the GMAT Verbal may look familiar. However, as it’s a graduate school exam, the questions are a bit more difficult and better designed to trip you up. Over this massive prep course, you’ll get a better grasp of the Reading Comprehension portion of the GMAT, and learn all the test-taking tricks you need to ace it.

• Access 178 lectures & 10 hours of content 24/7
• Study w/ 150 high-quality reading comprehension problems
• Learn how to better interpret the meaning in passages on topics like science, history, to literary criticism & more
• Get 10 hours of simple, step-by-step reasoning so you can learn to think like test-setters
• Receive visual highlights so that you really understand why answers are right or wrong
• Get feedback from instructors any time

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Loonycorn is comprised of four individuals—Janani Ravi, Vitthal Srinivasan, Swetha Kolalapudi and Navdeep Singh—who have honed their tech expertises at Google and Flipkart. The team believes it has distilled the instruction of complicated tech concepts into funny, practical, engaging courses, and is excited to be sharing its content with eager students. Together, their GMAT scores average over 760, and they hold MBAs from INSEAD, ISB, and IIM-Ahmedabad in India.

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The Problem Solving portion of the GMAT Math exam is the most straightforward and, therefore, typically the easiest for most GMAT test takers. Still, being able to get through these problems fast and effectively is essential to a high score. This course will help you develop an efficient approach to this section of the exam and give you so much practice, you’ll be acing it in your sleep.

• Access 66 lectures & 5 hours of content 24/7
• Study w/ 65 high-quality reading comprehension problems
• Learn to avoid missing easy questions & suffering from the GMAT’s weighted scoring
• Develop a methodical approach to answering questions on the Problem Solving portion
• Discover mathematical shortcuts to march through questions quickly & accurately
• Get 5 hours of simple, step-by-step reasoning so you can learn to think like test-setters
• Receive visual highlights so that you really understand why answers are right or wrong
• Get feedback from instructors any time

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Loonycorn is comprised of four individuals—Janani Ravi, Vitthal Srinivasan, Swetha Kolalapudi and Navdeep Singh—who have honed their tech expertises at Google and Flipkart. The team believes it has distilled the instruction of complicated tech concepts into funny, practical, engaging courses, and is excited to be sharing its content with eager students. Together, their GMAT scores average over 760, and they hold MBAs from INSEAD, ISB, and IIM-Ahmedabad in India.

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Want to go to business school but don’t have the time or money to invest in a degree just yet? This immersive course, taught by an experienced former Goldman Sachs employee and venture capitalist, will dive into everything you need to know about business: from starting out, to going public. Based on real life experience, this course minimizes theory and uses concrete examples to give you all the business acumen you need to rise up the career ladder.

• Access 63 lectures & 7.5 hours of content
• Learn how to launch a company from scratch, network for customers, & raise money quickly
• Create financial models & analyze company financials
• Understand how investment banking firms work & how they can help your business
• Differentiate between macro & micro economics
• Discover the value of management consulting firms & venture capital firms
• Develop better presentations for investors & customers
• Analyze entire markets & companies from a qualitative & quantitative perspective
• Learn the essential ins & outs of taxes

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Chris Haroun is an award winning business school professor, venture capitalist, MBA graduate from Columbia University and former Goldman Sachs employee. He has raised/managed over $1bn in his career. He also has work experience at hedge fund giant Citadel, consulting firm Accenture, and several firms that he has started, including an investment firm that had a venture capital / private investment in Facebook several years before the Facebook IPO. He is currently a venture partner at a prominent San Francisco Bay Area technology venture capital firm and writes several articles per week in Inc. magazine

Chris is the author of “101 Crucial Lessons They Don’t Teach You In Business School. ” Forbes recently called this book ‘1 of 6 books that all entrepreneurs must read right now’.

He is also the author of “The Ultimate Practical Business Manual: Everything You Need to Know About Business (from Launching a Company to Taking it Public)”, and 6 other business books.

Chris is also a frequent guest lecturer at several Bay Area business schools including Berkeley and Stanford. He has written numerous articles and has been interviewed in Forbes, VentureBeat, Entrepreneur Magazine, Wired Magazine, AlleyWatch and Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) which is Hong Kong’s oldest and sole public service broadcaster. He has his own entrepreneurship column in Inc. magazine.

He has an MBA in Finance from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Commerce Degree with a major in Management Information Systems and International Business from McGill University where he is a McGill University Dobson Fellow. He has founded several companies, including his most recent company, BusinessCareerCoaching and he serves on the boards of several Bay Area technology companies and charities and he lives in Hillsborough, California. For more details on this course and instructor, click here.

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Applying for MBA programs is tough, time-consuming, and offers no guarantees you’ll actually get in anywhere. With this comprehensive guidance, however, you’ll improve your essays and resume, and learn all the expectations of MBA admissions committees. With all this knowledge under your belt, you’ll be ready to blow admissions officers away!

• Access 39 lectures & 3.5 hours of content 24/7
• Craft your essays to the expectations of MBA admissions committees
• Differentiate your application from the ocean of competitive applicants
• Use advice from leading experts to build a successful application strategy

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Sriram Emani is an alumnus of MIT Sloan School of Management, where he was a Siebel Scholar and Tata Fellow. Sriram has successfully helped hundreds of applicants from over 20 countries craft stellar applications to the Top 25 business school programs in the world. He specializes in helping applicants bring their unique story out to distinguish themselves.

Founder and CEO of award-winning arts education venture IndianRaga, Sriram has previously worked as a management consultant, strategy and bus dev fellow at Sony Music NYC and Lincoln Center, consultant with Disney Theatrical Group, and has been a guest speaker at NYU, KPMG, Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi, amongst others. Sriram is a Global Fellow with the International Society for the Performing Arts, a winner of the MIT IDEAS Global Challenge (Community Choice Award) and the US Creative Business Cup. For more details on this course and instructor, click here.

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Whether you’re a business professional or an entrepreneur, this course will have you tossing your outdated business models out the window and adapting new, more effective techniques. Learn to consider today’s complex issues when looking to launch or pivot your business plan, and gain the practical techniques to put ideas into action.

• Learn to think strategically using modern techniques w/ 15 hours of coursework
• Recognize, develop & execute successful strategy using business model frameworks
• Identify the drivers of Strategy formulation using Megatrend analysis
• Adopt a dynamic strategic approach to deal with 21st Century continuous change
• Turn your idea into a business model prototype
• Construct a value proposition that works
• Understand the importance of customer centrality in business models & value propositions
• Deliver better results in company brainstorming sessions

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: 1 year
• Access options: web streaming
• Certification of completion included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Anna Shaw is a Strategy and Innovation Consultant at Lucency, based in Sydney, Australia. She has 20 years experience appraising strategy, finance, and business models. This experience has been derived from working across multiple industries in the UK, Europe, New Zealand, and Australia, for globally based financial institutions, servicing some of the world’s leading corporations. Her broadly based skillset includes strategy and innovation, finance, risk governance, economics, general management and business development. Anna has an insatiable curiosity about how ingenious business models are created, executed, and evolve. Her core focus is on training people in all types of businesses (from start ups, new ventures and established firms), how to turn their sensational new growth ideas into value propositions that delight and business models that work.

For more details on this course and instructor, click here.

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Finance does not come easy to most of us who do not work directly in finance. Still, knowing financials, especially in terms of meeting objectives, is one of the most important skills a business professional can have. This course provides a fluent understanding of fundamental financial theory that will give you a leg up in any business-related industry, regardless of your place in it.

• Access 21 units of course material 24/7
• Combine written material, videos, screenshots & exercises to learn core financial skills
• Understand & use key financial statements: Profit & Loss Statements, Balance Sheets & Cash Flow Forecasts
• Discover budgeting & forecasting techniques to improve planning, control & decision-making
• Learn how to use key performance indicators (KPIs) effectively
• Apply important investment-appraisal techniques & understand how to develop a business plan

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: 1 year
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Dr. Janet Cole has over 20 years of finance experience. She trained as a chartered accountant with Hays Allen and worked in financial and management accounting roles as well as audit, information systems and business change. Dr. Cole worked for a range of firms during her finance career such as ARRI, Hoechst and Moss Chemists. She worked closely with managers and directors helping them to understand and make decisions based on key financial data.

Dr. Cole has been involved in providing finance and information systems training in her commercial roles and as an Associate Professor at Kingston University where she teaches on Finance, Information Systems and Business Change courses. She is the current chair of the Business Change special interest group for the British Computer society and contributed to the review of the Change Management Institutes body of knowledge. For more details on this course and instructor, click here.

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Whether you’re tasked with drafting an email or a lengthy report, producing quality content quickly is essential for career success. This course will teach you techniques for getting even the most technical of ideas clearly outlined for your readers without wasting a minute of your time.

• Study useful writing techniques w/ 15 hours of learning material
• Structure & plan your writing
• Write with style & confidence
• Edit effectively to improve readability
• Gain more readers
• Explore techniques & tricks from an expert

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: 1 year
• Access options: web streaming
• Certification of completion included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Andreas Loizou has run training course since 1999. His clients include governments and financial institutions around the world.
Andreas has also signed off research at BNP Paribas, worked in equity research at Goldman Sachs and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PWC. He has also served as Director of Training at FT Knowledge, and was the highest-rated speaker on the Financial Times Intro to the City program six years in succession.
Andreas has a first class degree in English Literature from Leeds and an M. Phil in English from the University of Cambridge. He is also a graduate of the Faber & Faber Novel Writing Academy. His first book, The Devil’s Deal, was published by FT Prentice Hall in 2012. It featured on the WH Smith Business Book Chart, was Pearson’s Business Book of the Month, and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean and six other languages.
Andreas is now a Leader in Residence at Leeds University Business School, where he talks to MBAs and Masters in Occupational Psychology about effective communication. He splits his time between London, Madrid and writing his next book – The Genius Guide to Modern Business Writing, which comes out in Spring 2015.

For more details on this course and instructor, click here.

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Lead your organization, department, or team to success with essential management skills. From managing performance to delivering stability to developing your own style, this is a must-take course for any current or future manager in today’s business world.

• Gain fundamental leadership skills w/ 15 hours of instruction
• Understand your organization in detail & put forth a strategy
• Make strategic decisions based on this strategy
• Build a set of core values & brand definition
• Promote these values & the brand across all teams at your company
• Develop staff skills across to deliver your objectives
• Lead & manage with charisma, integrity, conviction & support

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: 1 year
• Access options: web streaming
• Certification of completion included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Richard Pettinger is Principal Teaching Fellow (Reader) in Management Education at University College London (UCL), where he is the director of the undergraduate and graduate programmes in information management for business, in the UCL Department of Management Science and Innovation. Richard is the author of over fifty books and numerous papers on all parts of the subject of management. His research interests are privatization and restructuring, the effects of organization and human behavior on decision taking in organizations, and the development of a professional and agreed body of knowledge and expertise for the ‘profession of management’.

Richard is visiting professor of management at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. He continues to research write and consult with companies and organizations of all sizes and in many different sectors. He regularly is asked to join panels and conferences as keynote speaker, conference and session chair and expert contributor.

Chloe Daniel has run and helped set up a number of businesses – a specialized education consultancy, a network for high achieving graduates, an innovative online job referral platform and a publishing business. Her expertise lies in management, structuring start ups, and getting brilliant ideas off the ground. Her parallel focus right now is writing a series of education books and growing her publishing business. Chloë studied History and German at Oxford University and started her career at an internationally renowned literary agency.

For more details on this course and instructor, click here.

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Project management is a key component of reaching business goals, and this course will cover best practices from project start to finish. Study tools and techniques with the experts, and make sure all projects are planned, performed, and completed as intended.

• Learn to launch, manage & evaluate projects of all types w/ 15 hours of learning material
• Make sure projects are well-informed, efficient, flexible & effective
• Study tools, processes, and skills to monitor project progress
• Study techniques & tricks w/ project-management experts
• Receive video summaries, downloadable templates & exercises
• Participate in multiple-choice tests

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Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: 1 year
• Access options: web streaming
• Certification of completion included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Brett Topham has over 15 years of experience in contract and project management, and has been a Project Management Professional (PMP®) since 2004. He has worked in a variety of roles in project / program management, procurement, contract management, and portfolio management. Mr. Topham served as the Deputy Account Lead with responsibility for a +$70M (annual) portfolio of U.S. Federal contracts, capturing and reporting financial data from all operations and projects; providing oversight, review, and approval of proposals and change requests; consolidating and presenting financial performance reports for senior management.

Don A. Cox has been a Project Management Professional (PMP®) since 1999, and has more than thirty years experience in successful integration and implementation of large scale IT systems in both the public and private sectors. Mr. Cox has successfully managed multi-year programs and projects ranging from $70M to more than $650M.

For more details on this course and instructor, click here.

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Successful businesspeople make the most out of the numbers available to them. If you’re to succeed in the business world, you’re going to need how to crunch and effectively analyze data. This course will take you through a proven, structured process to improve your ability to collect, analyze, and forecast business and financial data in order to generate valuable, financially viable insights.

• Access 20 extensive units w/ exercises designed to hone your skills
• Learn how to report on business data & present information & analysis to clients & stakeholders
• Turn mass amounts of data into sound, well-supported business decisions
• Create practical charts to communicate business decisions
• Gain 60 professional spreadsheet models that can be adapted for your work

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: 1 year
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Harold Graycar is an experienced executive with a broad background in information technology, business development and general management.

His degrees are in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the University of Sydney, Australia. In addition to his numerate and analytic skills, Harold’s ability to communicate and work with personnel from non-technical backgrounds makes him a valuable contributor to multi-disciplinary projects, and an effective business trainer.

He has had over 25 years’ experience in technical, commercial and general management roles: advising corporate and government clients on project funding, models and strategies for business development, procurement of equipment and services and outsourcing of systems and operations — all based around business analysis and numerate skills.

Harold has been a “power user” and developer of Excel applications since the product was launched, and has developed a number of Excel modelling tools for financial applications, workforce planning, HR profile analysis and transaction logging.

Harold has presented executive-level Financial Analysis, Forecasting and Business Modelling sessions for public groups and individual client organisations in Australia, Brunei, China, Malaysia, Macao, Philippines and Singapore. The focus is always on how to increase productivity with better hands-on numerate and information presentation skills.

Note from Harold:
“My courses are all about the important numbers that drive business: I try to make learning about them interesting and to help participants discover the strengths of their own capabilities.”

For more details on this course and instructor, click here.

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Cultivate top-notch communication skills to augment your relationship with your staff and in turn, boost your business. As business moves faster and faster in today’s digital age, it’s essential to assure that clear communication exists across your organization–and this course explores the skills required to make that dream a reality.

• Learn to better understand people’s emotions w/ 15 hours of training
• Communicate according to people’s wants & needs
• Employ body language & active listening to communicate more effectively
• Communicate with introverts & extroverts
• Speak clearly & w/ authority
• Create excellent first impressions
• Cultivate power, empathy, rapport, consistency & credibility
• Apply a number of influence-building techniques
• Distinguish between different types of teams &team members
• Manage teams, including conflict within teams
• Communicate effectively as part of a team

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: 1 year
• Access options: web streaming
• Certification of completion included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Andreas Loizou has run training course since 1999. His clients include governments and financial institutions around the world. Andreas has also signed off research at BNP Paribas, worked in equity research at Goldman Sachs and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PWC. He has also served as Director of Training at FT Knowledge, and was the highest-rated speaker on the Financial Times Intro to the City program six years in succession. Andreas has a first class degree in English Literature from Leeds and an M. Phil in English from the University of Cambridge. He is also a graduate of the Faber & Faber Novel Writing Academy. His first book, The Devil’s Deal, was published by FT Prentice Hall in 2012. It featured on the WH Smith Business Book Chart, was Pearson’s Business Book of the Month, and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean and six other languages. Andreas is now a Leader in Residence at Leeds University Business School, where he talks to MBAs and Masters in Occupational Psychology about effective communication. He splits his time between London, Madrid and writing his next book – The Genius Guide to Modern Business Writing, which comes out in Spring 2015.

For more details on this course and instructor, click here.