So, you made it to the dream company, what now? How do you leverage your experience and craft your story to impact organizational goals and objectives. When you go through design school, you are taught to approach everything through design thinking and the iterative process. Often, there are few lessons on how a business operates, as a result, young professionals are led to acquire this knowledge through professional experience or pursuing further education. Building business acumen is a necessary step in becoming a successful professional, it informs the decision-making process to drive results that ideally will define the success of the organization. Through the exploration of a few different use cases, we will discuss setting objective goals, gaining key stakeholder confidence, and quantifying measurable results. We will demonstrate how the design process we learned in studio can also apply in the development of one's career and set the stage for advancement.