Workforce Readiness
Foundational education that develops essential professional, workplace, and career-readiness capabilities.
About the Center for Business Acceleration™
Education for a More Resilient Workforce
The Center for Business Acceleration prepares veterans, professionals, and organizations with practical education to anticipate risk, maintain continuity, strengthen resilience, and lead through change.
We turn complex workforce and organizational challenges into structured learning that people can apply in the real world.
Our Mission
To expand access to practical workforce education that prepares people and organizations to anticipate risk, maintain continuity, strengthen resilience, and lead through change.
CBA believes education should do more than transfer information. It should build capability — the knowledge, judgment, tools, and confidence people need to contribute in changing environments.
What CBA Does
CBA develops flexible education pathways that support individual career development and organizational capability.
Veteran Programs / VA Accelerator™
Education and career-development pathways that help veterans translate experience, discipline, and leadership into new professional opportunities.
Certificate Programs
Structured education in organizational resilience, enterprise risk management, risk analytics, business continuity and resilience, and resilience leadership.
Organizational Learning
Customized workforce education for employers, government, education, healthcare, nonprofits, and other organizations.
Professional Certification Preparation
Education and preparation for independent professional certifications administered separately by IRRCB.
Our Roots: Education, Veterans, and Opportunity
CBA's roots are connected to a longstanding commitment to veterans — including veterans with disabilities — who are transitioning to civilian careers, entrepreneurship, and new forms of professional service.
The VA Accelerator™ grew from earlier work focused on giving veterans access to practical business, career, and workforce education. That commitment helped shape CBA's broader belief that capable people should not be held back by a lack of access to relevant education.
As workforce needs evolved, CBA expanded into organizational resilience, enterprise risk management, business continuity, analytics, leadership, and other capabilities that help people and organizations navigate disruption.
The Veteran Proficiency Bench™ itself is built on the U.S. Department of Labor’s ETA Building Blocks Competency Model — the same framework the federal government uses to define foundational workplace readiness.
The subjects have evolved. The purpose has not: remove barriers to learning and help people build stronger futures.
Why Resilience?
Today's workforce operates in an environment shaped by cyber threats, artificial intelligence, supply-chain disruption, workforce shortages, safety concerns, natural hazards, regulatory change, and rapidly changing technology. CBA organizes its risk and resilience education around a simple idea: resilience is the destination.
Enterprise Risk Management
Provides a structured way to understand and manage uncertainty.
Business Continuity
Helps organizations maintain and restore critical operations.
Analytics
Supports better decisions.
Leadership
Turns those capabilities into coordinated action.
Who We Serve
Veterans
Career development and education for veterans building their next professional chapter.
People Facing Barriers to Opportunity
Accessible education for learners whose circumstances can make professional development harder to obtain.
Professionals
Practical education for people building skills in resilience, risk, continuity, analytics, and leadership.
Organizations
Workforce education for employers and public-service organizations that need stronger capability.
Communities
Education that strengthens the people and institutions communities depend on.
Education With Purpose
CBA programs are designed around defined learning outcomes, practical application, learner assessment, and continuous improvement.
- Measurable learning outcomes
- Structured instruction and applied practice
- Scenarios, cases, and workplace tools
- Knowledge checks and summative assessment
- Accessible learning and learner support
- Program evaluation and standards surveillance
Learn with CBA. Certify with IRRCB.
Learn with CBA
CBA provides education and professional-certification preparation.
Certify with IRRCB
The International Risk & Resilience Certification Board (IRRCB) independently administers professional certification.
Completion of a CBA program does not confer or guarantee IRRCB certification.
Build Capability. Strengthen Resilience.
Whether you are building your own career, strengthening a workforce, or helping expand access to education, CBA offers a way to contribute to a more capable and resilient future.
Support Access to Education
Your support helps expand access to education for veterans, professionals, and learners facing barriers to opportunity.