The Bar Keeps Rising. We're Helping You Clear It
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PwC just confirmed that business, financial and strategic acumen is no longer a senior-level expectation. But no one is saying so out loud. And we have a fix.
Coming soon: Your Business Savvy Coach
We’ve been building something.
A business savvy coach available to you 24/7.
It’s a coaching tool that builds your understanding of how business works, what the numbers mean, and how to speak about it in the Language of Power.
It’s not ready yet. But the need for it just got seven times more urgent.
Here’s why.
BI reports that PwC just released its 2026 AI Jobs Barometer. It’s an analysis of over one billion job advertisements globally. The headline finding:
AI-exposed entry-level roles are now seven times more likely to require skills that were previously considered senior-level than they were in 2019.
Seven times.
The skills now showing up in entry-level postings include motivational leadership, team building, stakeholder management, mentorship, and data-driven decision-making.
That last item? That’s Business Savvy. And where do women learn those skills?
Not in most women’s leadership programs. We’ve done that analysis. Across the top programs, genuine business, financial and strategic acumen content represents about 13% of the curriculum (and that’s being exceedingly generous). The rest covers the other stuff mentioned above. Important? Yes. Sufficient? Not ever.
The skills they named without naming
Let’s look further into what data-driven decision-making actually requires.
It requires understanding:
How a business generates return.
How cash flows through an organization.
How strategic priorities connect to financial outcomes.
How to read the story the numbers are telling -- and translate it fluently
That’s business, financial and strategic acumen. And PwC didn’t use those words once.
They named the output - data-driven decisions - without naming the foundation required to produce them.
Which means the employers posting these jobs are raising the bar without anyone clearly telling early-career women what they actually need to clear it.
Nor have they been telling you.
That is a gap we are closing in a new way.
Stay tuned.
Lead ON!
Susan
P.S. Speaking of what’s coming - BBS is moving to $8/month on July 1. If you’ve been thinking about subscribing, now is the moment to lock in the current rate. Your Business Savvy Coach is will be a paid subscriber benefit.
We hear it all the time. Women need to be fixed. You are not the problem. You are working inside a system that withheld something from you. I’m not here to fix the system. I’m here to make your life in it easier by offering you what it can’t or won’t.
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Susan