“Playing Profitopoly was not only a blast, it was an amazingly real and in-depth exercise in managing a fast moving business! The game really challenges the player to juggle real-life business choices and to understand multiple metrics for risk-taking to improve financial performance. I loved it!”
Dave Gooding, CEO, Juliska
“Profitopoly was presented to me and a peer group of CEOs. By the end of the morning’s game I was on my way to understanding cash flow and other key metrics. Not only is this crucial to my business, it was done in a fun and meaningful way.”
Bob Luther, CEO, Lex Products
“Ten of my CEO clients had the privilege of experiencing Profitopoly. Brilliantly disguised as a highly competitive, fun game, without knowing it, these CEO’s learned more about financial management in one day than most people learn in a two year masters program.”
Jim Neidhardt, CEO Chair, Renaissance Executive Forums
“The members of all 4 of my Executive Forums experienced Profitopoly, a business simulation game created by Steve & Jim Huff. This was by far one of our best learning experiences in the past 7 years I’ve been running Executive Forums! Members not only had lots of fun competing with each other, I witnessed an accelerated/intensified learning process as Steve facilitated discussion around competition, operational excellence, and financial strength. Nothing like a little healthy competition to make us stronger!”
Lee Self, CEO Chair, Renaissance Executive Forums
“We ask the members to rate the sessions on a scale of 1 (unsatisfactory) to 10 (excellent) and in this case, we asked them to rate each round. We received 12 evaluation forms. Nearly all of the ratings were “10” across the board, which is outstanding for a forum meeting. There was one with 8’s and one with 9’s, but nothing lower.
Many of the comments were about the value of the game making educational concepts fun. One member said it was so fun that “it exceeded my expectations”. Another said it was “one of the most memorable sessions ever”. There was a range of responses from “I really don’t know most financial metrics very well” to “I need to teach the staff some of the concepts discussed today”. Specific mention was made about billable utilization and gross margin being especially important. All in all, it was a very valuable session for the participants.
I thought the program was terrific and produced a great learning experience for all. In the two Key Executive groups, I overheard some great “peer advising” going on between those who understood all the financials and those who didn’t. It’s wonderful that they could have fun at the same time. I appreciate how hard you worked to incorporate the service measures and make it more relevant.”
Carin Gendell, CEO Chair, Renaissance Executive Forums
“As a CEO, you have to keep your eye on all the important things – Profitopoly showed me the risk related to the important things which I am not paying enough attention to. Also it helped me to recognize some areas of current “risk” today down lower in my organization.”
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