Education/Upskill budget ideas

@Brian LaFaille Completely agree on Change Management as I think it is a vital but often overlook skill that CSMs need to have. How is your experience with the Cornell Change Management course? I was thinking of taking it in the Fall.

+1 for Project Management as the vast majority of CSM job description want that skill

Since you've mentioned math, I would also look at this Udemy course by Ed Powers: https://www.udemy.com/course/csmath-make-data-driven-decisions/

My personal educational path is Level 2 CSM Certification (through SuccessHacker) next week, then the above mentioned Udemy class, then Change Management certificate through Cornell, followed by CCXP certification and Digital Marketing certification and then, at some point Project Management certification (I hope).

Thanks for the suggestions (and keep them coming). @Brian LaFaille I haven't thought of a PM cert, but it makes sense. I appreciate the link too. 

I love negotiations and have taken a number of courses in it. I highly recommend working on your negotiation skill as well (if anyone has a team member looking for ideas).

+1 to negotiation 

+1 to a project management certification 

And one that I'm taking right now is the Cornell Change Management certification: 

https://www.ecornell.com/certificates/leadership-and-strategic-management/change-management/

Here's a few ideas

+1 Negotiation and Sales - Especially if your business model is land and expand and you routinely participate or support commercial conversations. I've taken a variety of sales leadership courses and developing these skills has been invaluable to virtually every CS role I've had.

Industry related certifications. For example, if your platform integrates into a large platform or ecosystem such as Salesforce, AWS, Netsuite, etc — obtaining more structured or comprehensive knowledge in your space is always beneficial and helps accelerate your path to becoming a trusted advisor with new customers.

Consider pooling your edu budget with colleagues to bring in someone to run or create more personalized professional development to address some specific gaps or challenges you're currently facing or anticipating.

Something that has stuck with me recently is Chris Voss Masterclass around Negotiation. I've heard from many at how valuable these concepts are, even outside of sales. 

https://www.masterclass.com/classes/chris-voss-teaches-the-art-of-negotiation

A teammate of mine joined Toastmasters to enhance her leadership & public speaking skills. It's also helping with her swagger!

Data Analytics. There are plenty of certificate programs from universities.

That would be a good one to do for a math class. Math doesn't get overly complicated in CS world. No calculus, no trigonometry. Algebra 2 and Statistics at most.