The 12 Week MBA

An invaluable guide, providing the essential business acumen needed to confidently navigate the corporate world. * Roberta Pomponio, Customer Success Manager, GoGuardian *An excellent read for people considering entering management and leadership positions and a great refresher for those who have been there. * Scott Collins, PhD, CEO of Austin Innovation Group *An essential guide to practical business leadership that covers both the ‘numbers’ and the ‘people’ side of running a business. * Alex Davern, former CEO, National Instruments *The 12-Week MBA is transformational-it helped me lead the largest transaction in my company’s history. * Martin Jones, Head of Studios, Austin Film Society *The 12-Week MBA offers small, bite-sized insights essential to business covering both financial leadership and people leadership. * Ketan Patel, Senior Corporate Counsel, Envision Healthcare *The 12 Week MBA encapsulates 2-3 years of graduate level courses into easily digestible chapters anyone can understand. * Dave Bush, Engineer, Apple *The12-Week MBA distils an expensive degree into enduring leadership insights for a world that desperately needs a more diverse range of leaders. * Christine Looser, PhD, Senior Director, Minerva *The 12-Week MBA provides an introduction to the key quantitative and people-centered knowledge and skills that lie at the heart of successful strategic thinking. * Art Markman, author of Bring Your Brain to Work *

Bjorn Billhardt is CEO of Abilitie. Prior to launching Abilitie in 2015, Bjorn founded and bootstrapped Enspire Learning, Inc., an e-learning development company. Bjorn also worked as a corporate trainer for BAAN, a Dutch software company, and McKinsey & Company, a strategic management consulting firm. Bjorn holds a BA from the University of Texas and an MBA from Harvard Business School. A native of Hamburg, Germany, he lives in Austin, Texas.

Nathan Kracklauer is Chief Research Officer at Abilitie. Previously at Enspire Learning, he was the principal author on courses for organizations such Harvard Business School and the World Bank. Nathan has facilitated leadership seminars at organizations such as Bank of America, GE, Nokia, and at executive education programs at IMD Business School, London Business School, and the MIT Sloan School of Management. Nathan lives in Karlsruhe, Germany and is a native of Falls Church, VA, having worked in several cities across the US, Germany, and Finland.