Strategic Partnering Academy

Unlock the full potential of Your Strategic Partnerships with BDO’s Strategic Partnering Academy

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Companies enter partnerships for a variety of reasons: reaching new customers, expanding into new market segments, and co-developing a new product or solution. However, many partnerships (more than half according to BDO’s research) fall short of expectations. BDO’s Strategic Partnering Academy is designed to enable your partnership team to address the common pitfalls of partnership management, providing a comprehensive educational framework to help turn potential risks into successful outcomes.

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About the Academy

Companies enter partnerships for a variety of reasons: reaching new customers, expanding into new market segments, and co-developing a new product or solution. However, many partnerships (more than half according to BDO’s research ,) fall short of expectations. BDO’s Strategic Partnering Academy is designed to enable your partnership team to address the common pitfalls of partnership management, providing a comprehensive educational framework to help turn potential risks into successful outcomes.

Real-World Impact

Translate learning into measurable job performance improvements and tangible business outcomes.

Practical Job Aids

Provide participants with tools and templates to support the application of new knowledge.

Leadership Support

Enlist leadership support and reinforcement of learning, holding team members accountable for ongoing application of skills.

Metrics and Feedback Loop

Monitor the quality of learning, its application, and the overall impact on business performance.

Learning Topics

BDO's academy is dedicated to creating an impactful and enduring learning experience by integrating high-quality learning experiences into your professional practices. The curriculum can be customized to cover a wide – or focused – set of competencies across our Strategic Partnering Competency Model.

Strategic Partnering Disciplines:

Partnership Competency Model


Feedback from Strategic Partnering Academy Participants

The training was really geared toward actual issues we face on a day-to-day basis. This was quite a refreshing change from a standard training and actually felt like it would be able to be reused in my role.

Technical Consultant
Data Services company

Excellent engagement and interaction. Love the templates and they are very useful. I will apply these tools to my day-to-day work.

Partnership Manager
Major Telecommunications company

The Alliance Management education is like ‘Wow… I’ve been struggling with this… now I see it completely differently’…this is invaluable.

Relationship Manager
F500 Financial Services firm