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Fast-track your finance career with free CPE/CPD courses and certifications—and learn how to master Vena with our self-paced product training.

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Professional Development

Professional Development

Endurance: Stretching Your Physical and Mental Limits

Find out the differences between perceived and actual limits, learn tactics for overcoming mental and physical discomfort and more.

Professional Development

The Science of Self-Motivation

From proven strategies for achieving goals to secrets for increasing patience, this course dives into the science of self-motivation.

Professional Development

How to Stay Relevant

In this course, you’ll learn about the psychological biases that trap us in old ways of thinking and tips to overcome them.

Professional Development

Financial Close: A Foundational Guide

Get a free month-end close checklist and find out how to overcome common challenges during the close process.

Professional Development

Become a Change Agent: Plan, Assess and Teach

Discover how to become an agent for change—and get three templates to help you plan for change, adapt to it and assess the impact of it.

Professional Development

Overcome Change Management Challenges

Determine when to use change management models, how to support people through change and tips for ensuring smooth transitions.

Professional Development

Accounting and Finance 101

This course will teach you the foundational concepts for accounting and finance. Learn about roles, responsibilities and financial reporting.

Professional Development

Vena's Change Management Playbook

This course will teach you proven methods for managing change and includes a checklist for your Vena roll-out.

Leadership

Leadership

5 Leadership Styles to Influence a Team

Discover five common leadership styles—and how to implement the styles that are right for you.

Leadership

How to Lead With Emotional Intelligence

Learn the five skills that make up emotional intelligence, and ways to improve your self-awareness, emotional responses and social skills.

Leadership

7 Principles of the Agile Finance Leader

Agility is key for modern finance teams. In this course you’ll learn how to forecast faster, increase collaboration and adapt to change.

Leadership

Transforming Finance as a Strategic Business Partner

Discover the four principles for positioning your team as a strategic business partner so you can plan with agility and resilience.

Leadership

A Guide to Good Business Ethics

Good ethics are good business. In this course, you’ll learn everything you need to know about good business ethics.

Leadership

Become a Change Agent: Plan, Assess and Teach

Discover how to become an agent for change—and get three templates to help you plan for change, adapt to it and assess the impact of it.

Leadership

Overcome Change Management Challenges

Determine when to use change management models, how to support people through change and tips for ensuring smooth transitions.

Leadership

Vena's Change Management Playbook

This course will teach you proven methods for managing change and includes a checklist for your Vena roll-out.

Vena Product Demos

Vena Product Demos

Vena 365 Connect: Ad Hoc Reporting

Learn how you can leverage the Quick Build feature in Vena to create and share reports in a snap.

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The Contributor Experience In Vena

After completing this course, you’ll understand the role of Contributors (or end users) and how they interact with the Vena platform.

Vena Product Demos

Introduction to Data Models and the Vena Modeler Role

In this course, you’ll learn about the role of a Vena Data Modeler and key concepts related to the data model.

Vena Product Demos

New Vena Data Model: Advanced

Discover how to get more out of your Vena Data Models through the use of alternate hierarchies, versioning and more.

FP&A strategy and business planning

FP&A strategy and business planning

How To Become an Analytical Organization

Discover how to prepare your finance team for the future of data—and learn three steps for becoming an analytical organization.

FP&A strategy and business planning

7 Principles of the Agile Finance Leader

Agility is key for modern finance teams. In this course you’ll learn how to forecast faster, increase collaboration and adapt to change.

FP&A strategy and business planning

Transforming Finance as a Strategic Business Partner

Discover the four principles for positioning your team as a strategic business partner so you can plan with agility and resilience.

FP&A strategy and business planning

How to Build a Long-Range Plan for Turbulent Times

Learn strategies for creating your long-term financial plan, from building benchmarks and setting targets to projecting financials.

FP&A strategy and business planning

A Guide to Workforce Planning

In this course, you’ll learn three considerations for planning HR costs, how to align HR strategy with business goals and more.

FP&A strategy and business planning

Workforce Planning With Vena

Learn how to master Vena’s workforce planning solution—from adding new employees and managing allocations and transfers to sharing reports.

FP&A strategy and business planning

Banking: How To Improve Profitability and Plan With Confidence

Finance experts and executives discuss transformative financial management for institutions, empowering confident decision-making

Technical Training

Technical Training

Get Started Building With Power BI

Learn how to visualize data and build reports in Power BI. Plus, see how Power BI can make your business more efficient.

Vena Product Training

Vena Product Training

Vena With Power BI Embedded: Foundation BI Dashboard

Find out how you can use Power BI within Vena to gain insights faster and share KPIs and dashboards with stakeholders.

Why Learn With Vena Academy?

Earn CPE/CPD Credits

Vena Academy courses are CPE/CPD accredited so you can earn credits while you learn new skills.

Access Vena Product Training

Learn shortcuts, best practices and how to get the most out of Vena with our free, self-paced product training courses.

Get Certifications and Badges

Keep track of your completed courses with badges—and boost your resume and online profile with certifications that show off your new knowledge.

Learn on Your Own Time

Our virtual courses are interactive and self-paced, so you can learn when it’s convenient for you.

Grow Smarter With the Vena Community

Join for free today to connect with the brightest minds in finance and get access to Excel templates, CPE/CPD courses, exclusive content and more.

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