WELCOME TO THE
SAGE HIGH-PERFORMANCE ACADEMY
Move from finance expert to strategic leader. Assess your leadership strengths, benchmark yourself against your peers, and follow a tailored learning path designed to grow your strategic impact.
CPE-accredited training
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The challenges facing today’s finance leaders are increasing
Finance leaders are under pressure to do more — shaping strategy, influencing decisions, and driving growth while navigating growing complexity.
The Sage High-Performance Academy helps you build the skills to lead with real impact.
- Personalized on-demand strategic training
- Learn from finance leadership experts
- 13 CPE credits available
- Included with your Sage Learning Membership
What our customers say
“The Academy takes you from a day-to-day executor to a high-level executive leader, and gives you practical tools to make that shift in your organization.”
Morgan Asir
Chief Systems Officer & Finance Director, Redemption Church
“The High-Performance Academy helped me grow my confidence in the fact that I know I’m going to be able to lead not only my accounting team but the company as a whole.”
Aubree Nash
Controller, Merete Hotels
Your path to high-performance finance leadership
Assess your finance
profile
Take a 5-minute assessment to understand your strengths across the core competencies that define high-performance finance leadership.
Pinpoint your growth
priorities
Receive a personalized report with peer benchmarking identifying your priority development opportunities.
Access tailored
training
Access on-demand, CPE-accredited strategic training built to advance finance leaders to the next level of leadership.
Backed by research with 1000+ CFOs, discover the five core competencies
that define high-performance finance leadership
Visionary Leader
Shape direction with confidence and clarity
Catalyst of Growth
Help drive business momentum and opportunity
Strategic Business Partner
Influence decisions beyond finance
Operational Driver
Strengthen performance through operational excellence
Influential Communicator
Lead with credibility, clarity and impact
90%
of finance leaders aspire to take on a greater strategic leadership role.*
2X
top-growth companies are 2x more likely to have high-performance finance leaders at the helm.**
*Edelman research 2025, based on 1700+ Finance Leaders globally (Apr 2025)
**Research of 1000+ CFOs across the UK and US, The Acuity Method (Apr 2025)
Ready to lead with greater strategic impact?
Start with the assessment, discover your priority growth areas, and access tailored training designed to help you move from finance expert to strategic leader.
Sage High-Performance Academy FAQs
The assessment takes about 5 minutes to complete and includes around 25 questions.
After completing the assessment, you’ll receive a personalized report highlighting your strengths, development priorities, peer benchmarking and recommended next steps.
No. The Academy is focused on strategic finance leadership development, not product training.
The Academy includes five on-demand learning courses built around the five high-performance finance leadership competencies. By completing the Academy’s on-demand training, you can earn up to 13 CPE credits.
The Academy is designed for growth-minded CFOs, aspiring CFOs, finance leaders and finance teams who want to build strategic leadership capability.
The Academy is currently available to Sage finance software customers in North America, including the US and Canada. From August 1, 2026, it is included for these customers with a Sage Learning Membership or equivalent, or to purchase per course. To learn more about learning memberships in North America, click here.