Brett & Jack discuss how hiring challenges have led certain organizations to be more tolerant of poor employee behaviors – a development that could be putting growing numbers of businesses at risk. Meanwhile, Brett points out that new hires continue to fetch bigger salaries creating an imbalance with existing employee salaries. Also, performance is not […]
842: Realizing the Potential of Data at Scale | Ross Muken, CFO, Sophia Genetics
It was after Ross Muken had been gainfully roaming the corridors of equity research for more than a dozen years that the acquisition of his firm administered a dose of operations insight that began to feed his aspirations to become a CFO. At the time, Muken was a top research analyst for ISI Group,…
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Why Data-Driven CFOs Lead Differently | Mike Taylor, CFO, Gusto
CFO Guest: Mike Taylor of Gusto Episode: #838 The Unseen Levers of Customer Impact
Ep 15: Let the Data do the Talking
Steve and Jack discuss the data tsunami that many organizations are now facing and what steps finance executives can take to replace their historical, backward-looking, “batch mode” thinking with more proactive approaches that will allow finance teams to achieve more predictive outcomes. This episode’s distinguished Planning Aces reveal the leadership mindsets and approaches now driving […]
837: The Hand in the Air | Rob Young, CFO, National Geographic Society
Rob Young remembers that back in 2001, when he joined the incoming class of newbie accountants at KPMG’s Short Hills, New Jersey, office, there was a 5- to 6-year age difference between his KPMG classmates and himself. “It was a situation where a 23-year-old was telling me what to do, but at the same time,…
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836: Building Consensus to Go Real-Time | Anna King, CFO, Mesh Payments
Several years ago, when CFO Anna King first began to champion the benefits of real-time data, she recalls that a sudden clamor around new customer activity afforded her the consensus-building moment for which she’d been waiting. At the time, King worked for Transactis, a payment processing company that she had first joined in 2011 as…
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835: Understanding Your Business | Andrew Gehrlein, CFO, Park Place Technologies
When Andrew Gehrlein is asked about experiences that prepared him for a finance leadership role, one week from his 25-year career climb quickly comes to mind. Back in 2008, Gehrlein was a controller with ERICO International Corp., a manufacturer of specialized electrical components engineered to better foster a building’s safety. “Construction companies used us…
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833: Keeping the House in Order | Aaron Hartwig, CFO, Edgewood Companies
Turn back the clock to the mid-1990s, and Aaron Hartwig is standing behind the front desk of a Las Vegas hotel, checking in guests and welcoming them to the always spirited city. “I always loved hospitality—I love the idea of having people come to your property to enjoy themselves,” reports Hartwig, who first landed in…
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832: Achieving a Holistic View | Kate Bueker, CFO, HubSpot
When Kate Bueker first left the world of investment banking for a corporate finance role, she was ready to savor the fabled congruity that a business finance career often offers. “I felt that what would be more interesting and motivating to me would be more consistent,” recalls Bueker, who shortly after joining Akamai Technologies in…
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Ep 21: The Employee Value Proposition
Brett & Jack discuss why organizations must have a value proposition for their employees. This episode each of our featured Workplace Champions gives us different perspectives on what they’ve done to help attract human capital to their organizations. Again, the question management teams need to be asking: What’s the value proposition that will help us […]
829: All Aboard for Accelerated Learning! | Jamie Britton, CFO, Texas Security Bank
The expression “accelerated learning” has been used by a number of our recent CFO guests to distinguish periods within their careers when circumstances demanded a hastened pace of knowledge gain. For Jamie Britton, this period of time began when an economist at SunTrust Bank pulled him into a conference room and offered him a position…
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Let the Data Tell the Story | Claire Bramley, CFO, Teradata
CFO Guest: Claire Bramley of Teradata Episode: #828: When Finance Talks to the Business