Eight sittings. Eight calls you have to make.
Not training in a subject — eight structured sittings of judgement inside it. Each Session gives you the pack, puts a decision in front of you, and asks what you would do and what it costs. MBA-level curriculum, delivered as the work rather than as a course.
The Executive Business Program opens when all twenty-three Programs have been written at this level. Enrolment is not open and nothing here is on sale yet.
“Eight sittings, eight calls, one position with your name on it.”
Why this one
What you are actually buying
The Board Review is sat with the material in front of you. Answering from memory of a 2x2 proves nothing; the question is what you decide with the pack open, which is the actual job.
A Judgement Call gives you a position to take and a cost to accept. There is no vocabulary test at this level and pretending otherwise would insult the audience.
Enrolment ends in eight dates, not a receipt — pre-filled a week apart, all editable, all skippable. Nothing is emailed and nothing counts down at you.
MBA-level curriculum. This is not an MBA, NLA Academy does not award degrees, and that sentence appears wherever the award is named rather than in a footnote.
How it works
From enrolment to executive certificate
- 1Book the eight sittings
Dates you choose, or none at all. The Program does not chase you.
- 2Read the pack
Each Session is a short set of Exhibits — the frameworks and the case, nothing padding it out.
- 3Make the Call
A decision with a stated cost. Passing means reaching a defensible position, not recalling a term.
- 4File the position paper
The Board Review closes the Program. The award is the certificate and the paper together.
The standard. Each Session ends in a Judgement Call. The Board Review is open-pack — the material is in front of you, because the question is what you decide with it.
What you hold at the end
Executive Certificate
An Executive Certificate issued by NLA Academy, alongside the position paper you filed. MBA-level curriculum — this is not an MBA and NLA Academy does not award degrees or academic credit. The certificate carries a number anyone can verify.
Every certificate is checkable at nlagroup.org/verify
The other academies
Same subjects, different product
All three carry the same twenty-three disciplines. They differ in who they are written for, how they are structured and what they ask of you — not in which subjects they cover.
Questions