Training

Build the capability.Keep the practice.

Tony teaches portfolio management around the decisions your team actually faces. Workshops combine practical methods, working sessions, and tools your people can continue using after the training ends.

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Upcoming training.

Confirmed dates appear here first. Past training leaves the calendar automatically, so the schedule stays current.

Portfolio Analysis and Management Workshop, Amsterdam

DQ Europe 2026, Amsterdam

The abstract for Tony Kenck's workshop at the Decision Quality Europe 2026 Conference focuses on a four-hour intensive session dedicated to portfolio analysis and management.

Workshop overview

Topic: Portfolio analysis and management.
Core content: A comprehensive overview of different portfolio evaluation methods, specifying when and why to use them. It directly addresses how to handle real uncertainty and complexity when governing business units, projects, programs, and strategic investments.
Format: The session balances technical overview with hands-on exercises.
Key takeaway: Participants will walk away with practical skills to integrate strategy, finance, and risk into a cohesive “decision operating system” for their organization.

The session will build heavily on frameworks from his published work, Strategic Business Portfolio Management.

DQ Europe 2026 runs 9 to 12 November 2026 at the Shell Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam.

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Portfolio Basics student workshop at Mines

Golden, Colorado

A Portfolio Basics workshop for students at Mines, expected in September or October. Exact dates are being confirmed.

How to make your decisions become your destiny

How can you possibly know before you see the outcome whether your decision was good? SDP can help with that. The first step is to create a solid frame for the decision you are making.

In this meeting, we will cover the requirements and invite participants to work on the frame of a current decision. This approach works for your personal life, career, school, and any other decision you need to make.

Agenda

6:00 to 6:15 PM: Networking
6:15 to 6:45 PM: Overview of Framing and Decision Quality
6:45 to 7:15 PM: Framing Workshop
7:15 to 7:30 PM: Debrief, discussion of March Conference, SDP general

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Run on request

Training built around the work.

These capabilities run for teams, companies, universities, and professional groups. The scope follows the decisions the group needs to make, not a fixed software demo.

Tailored training

Tailored and customized training available.

Overview and basics

Four-hour portfolio analysis and management overview and basics.

Detailed workshop

Three-day detailed workshop with hands-on practice.

Optimization workshop

Four-hour optimization workshop.

Advanced optimization

One-day optimization workshop that includes more hands-on and advanced methods.

Online training

Online training coming soon.

Also on request

More training on request.

Training and Capability

Portfolio management is a practice, not a one-time model run. Sustainable capability requires common standards, practical tools, business understanding, leadership use, documentation, and succession.

Typical deliverables

Tailored curriculum
Workshops and working sessions
Exercises using fictional or approved client data
Templates and checklists
Model and visualization examples
Practitioner coaching
Capability and succession roadmap

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What stays with your team

The engagement ends. The capability does not.

Clearer decision framesAgree on purpose, scope, stakeholders, and criteria before modeling.

Fit-for-purpose analysisChoose the simplest method that can answer the real decision.

Defensible recommendationsMake alternatives, uncertainty, constraints, and trade-offs visible.

Repeatable internal practiceLeave with tools, language, and standards the organization can sustain.

Start with the decision

What does your team need to be able to do?

Bring Tony the work in front of you. He can help determine whether the right next step is a workshop, a working session, or a broader capability program.

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