The BLI Concept
The Business Learning Institute (BLI), is a center to facilitate networking, develop competencies and share strategic knowledge to help businesses manage change. Organizational and executive leadership - Businesses, government, non-profit organizations and other entities in search of strategic, executive leadership should turn to BLI. Participation of managers and executives from various business disciplines is central to enriching the BLI learning process and helping individuals build a base of strategic knowledge - a key competitive advantage in business today.


BLI Mission Statement
The Business Learning Institute (BLI) will deliver competency-based curriculum, courses, content and community to enhance learning and grow intellectual capital for organizational and executive leadership.


Our Partners
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants is the national professional organization for all certified public accountants. The AICPA provides its members with the resources, information and leadership that enables them to provide valuable services in the highest professional manner to benefit the public as well as employers and clients. The AICPA works with state CPA organizations and gives priority to those areas where public reliance on CPA skills is most significant.

The Commons is a research and education institute focused on solving the challenges of building sustained high-performance, collaborative businesses and organizations using a whole systems/design science approach. The Commons’ research conclusions are that financial and business literacy are the most critical leadership skills for any citizen, businessperson or social entrepreneur. The Commons works in partnerships with an extensive national network to aggregate best practices into distance learning systems and toolkits, organized to assist businesspeople and other civic leaders to be more financially literate, procedurally literate, systems literate, ethically literate and emotionally literate.

DeLeon & Stang, Certified Public Accountants and Advisors  is one of the Mid-Atlantic's premier accounting firms providing the highest quality accounting, tax, audit, advisory, financial, business and professional services to both individuals and organizations. DeLeon & Stang is dedicated to providing Business Services, Individual Services, as well as Advisory Services. The firm also sustains industry expertise in a number of areas such as credit unions, common interest realty associations (CIRA's), not-for-profits, hospitality organizations, individuals and small- to medium-sized businesses.

Good Ground Consulting LLC helps financial and professional services organizations, teams, leaders, bankers and brokers increase their revenues by discovering and defending their Good Ground -- the fertile market niche where their productivity peaks. Good Ground Consulting enhances sales productivity by combining proven marketing and organizational development techniques to help you focus your business, package your services, and leverage your resources.

The Grove Consultants International is a process-consulting firm committed to advancing the art and practice of collaboration through the use of graphics to show a variety of ways to enrich communication, capture the input of many stakeholders, and convey whole-system perspectives.

Growth Engine Group, a consulting and executive coaching firm specializing in "Go-to-Market" Growth Strategies. This unique methodology integrates an optimized business planning process with all aspects of marketing, branding, and sales strategy. The Company’s leadership experience spans both ends of the business spectrum from corporate officer in Fortune 100 corporations to CEO of small and mid-size companies.

Harvard Business School Publishing creates products and services to improve the practice of management and its impact on a changing world.  HBSP is committed to seeking out, nurturing and publishing those significant ideas that will have an impact on business for a decade or more.

Maryland Associations of CPA's having a membership of nearly 10,000, the Maryland Association of CPAs is the largest professional organization serving the exclusive needs of Maryland CPAs.

MISKE & Associates, Inc. Richard M. Miske is an internationally recognized trainer and consultant specializing in strategic and operational planning, business and operational modeling, re-engineering, total quality management, productivity, cost improvement and activity-based management.

PWD Consulting, Inc.helps employees--leaders and followers, shape the environment they will live in so that they own the change and produce the desired business results. P.W.D. helps the organization's people define opportunities and challenges and then use their wisdom, knowledge, and skills to partner and collaborate on developing and implementing effective responses--to maintain and improve corporate performance, to minimize loss of productivity.

Skill Track, Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based management consulting firm specializing in organizational development, Skill Track helps clients achieve stronger operational, financial, and client service results by strengthening workplace effectiveness. Skill Track's emphasis upon high-quality customized performance consulting, Skill Track guides executives, managers and professionals from top-industry leading firms and associations.

Strategy Arts  is a strategy consulting firm based in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Strategy Arts helps clients in collaborative leadership approaches to the creation and execution of strategy. By blending creative, analytical and graphical process approaches, Strategy Arts helps leadership teams focus on what’s important, align on creative solutions, and engage their organizations in committed action.

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