The Flagship Program — MD Market Insights
THE FLAGSHIP PROGRAM · TRADE FLOOR BUSINESS ANALYSIS

One program. Candidate to placed.

Not a course — a lifecycle. From onboarding through certification, brand rebuild, a real hands-on project, recruiter relationships and interview mastery, to the day you sign your desired role — and graduate. Then, for those who want the summit: two executive tracks.

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PHASES · V IS OPTIONAL
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MILESTONES
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INTERVIEW PREP SESSIONS INCLUDED
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EXECUTIVE TRACKS BEYOND
Trade Floor Business Analysis — flagship badge
BEGIN → TRANSFORM → MASTER → GRADUATE → ASCEND
/ 01THE FILM · SHOT AS A TELEVISION SPOT NOW SCREENING

The program, in one take.

Before you walk the fourteen milestones below, hear the whole arc the way it was meant to be told — a television-style spot, shot for the program. Sound on. It earns the full watch.

ACT I Why this is a lifecycle, not a course
ACT II The work: course, badge, brand, a shipped project
ACT III The close: recruiters, interviews, the signed role
/ 02THE LIFECYCLE · EVERY MILESTONE MAPPED

Fourteen milestones, run like a trade lifecycle. Then an optional fifth phase for the summit-bound.

Phase I BEGIN
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Join the program

Your seat is confirmed after the free Career Blueprint Call — we make sure the program fits your background and your target desk before any commitment.

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Onboarding — questionnaire & video call

A structured onboarding questionnaire followed by a 1:1 video call: your history, your gaps, your goals — turned into a personal roadmap through the program.

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Course access unlockedLEARNWORLDS LMS

Full access to Trade Floor Business Analysis — the flagship course — on our LearnWorlds learning platform.

Phase II TRANSFORM
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Complete the course — with office hours on callOFFICE HOURS ON DEMAND

Work through the curriculum at pace. Any question that blocks you — we set up office hours and clear it, one on one, for the duration of the course.

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Earn the Credly badgeCREDLY VERIFIED

On completion you receive the official Credly-issued badge — a verifiable credential recruiters and hiring managers can check in one click.

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Rebuild the brand — LinkedIn + three resumesHOW-TO RECORDINGS INCLUDED

Your LinkedIn profile is redesigned and three flavors of your resume are crafted — each targeting a different role profile — led by detailed step-by-step recordings you keep forever.

Phase III MASTER
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The hands-on project

Choose a real capital-markets project and deliver it to an agreed timeline with official touchpoints along the way. It ends with a formal evaluation — and ships publicly: placed as a project on your LinkedIn profile with an announcement post.

CHOSEN WITH YOU TIMELINED OFFICIAL TOUCHPOINTS EVALUATED · PUBLISHED ON LINKEDIN
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Professional branding & growthOPTIONAL TRACK

If you choose the branding track: a LinkedIn and social posting strategy built for you — content cadence, positioning, and audience growth that makes recruiters come to you.

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Build recruiter relationships

With the badge, the brand, and a shipped project behind you, we work the inbound: building relationships with recruiters for the roles you actually want.

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Land interviews

The pipeline converts: applications and recruiter relationships turn into interview loops at your target institutions.

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Interview prep — five 1:1 sessions5 × 1-HOUR INCLUDED

Five one-hour prep sessions are included — role-specific drills, case walkthroughs, and mock rounds. Need more? Additional sessions are available at $150 USD per hour.

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Land the desired role

Full-time or contract — the milestone the whole lifecycle points at. You sign; we pop the (metaphorical) champagne.

Phase IV GRADUATE
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Official graduation

Program completion, formally marked. You join the alumni wall — and your story becomes part of the program's record.

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OPTIONAL · PATH A
Continue into Phase V — the executive tracks

Chief Product Officer (Trading Technologies) and/or Chief Trade Floor Business Architect — in parallel, together, or one at a time.

OPTIONAL · PATH B
Keep Michael on retainer

Your professional capital-markets coach in your corner — ongoing counsel as you grow into the role and beyond.

/ 03PHASE V · ASCEND — THE EXECUTIVE TRACKS OPTIONAL CONTINUATION
Phase V ASCEND

After the desk, the summit.

Where the fourteen milestones end, two executive tracks begin — take one, take both in parallel, or pursue them together as a single dual mandate. Flagship graduates roll straight in; new candidates can enroll in either track on its own, no Phase I–IV prerequisite.

EXEC TRACK · V-A OPTIONAL · POST-PHASE IV OR DIRECT ENTRY
Chief Product Officer
SPECIALIZING IN TRADING TECHNOLOGIES

From analyst to owner of the platform itself: product strategy for OMS/EMS estates, build-vs-buy judgment, vendor and roadmap command, P&L accountability for trading technology — the seat where the desk’s tools are decided.

PRODUCT STRATEGY · OMS/EMSPLATFORM P&LBUILD VS BUYVENDOR COMMANDEXEC STAKEHOLDERS
Enroll in This Track
EXEC TRACK · V-B OPTIONAL · POST-PHASE IV OR DIRECT ENTRY
Chief Trade Floor Business Architect
FRONT-TO-BACK OPERATING MODEL AUTHORITY

The person who holds the whole floor in their head: target operating models, front-to-back process architecture, regulatory-driven redesign, integration blueprints — the discipline’s highest technical seat.

TARGET OPERATING MODELSFRONT-TO-BACK ARCHITECTUREREG-DRIVEN REDESIGNINTEGRATION BLUEPRINTSGOVERNANCE
Enroll in This Track
OR TAKE THEM TOGETHER
THE DUAL MANDATE · V-A + V-B IN CONCERT
One curriculum plan, two summits — product command and floor-wide architecture, sequenced so each track feeds the other.

Scoped with Michael at enrollment: shared foundations run once, track-specific depth runs in parallel, and the pace is set around your role.

SCOPE THE DUAL MANDATE →
NEW HERE? BOTH TRACKS ACCEPT DIRECT ENROLLMENT — THE BLUEPRINT CALL PLACES YOU ON THE RIGHT RUNG
MILESTONE 01 IS FREE

The lifecycle starts with one call.

The Career Blueprint Call is the program's entry gate — free, no commitment, and we both find out if this journey is yours.

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