What do you wish someone had told you at the start of your CFO career? “When you take on a leadership role in finance, whether you’re controller or CFO, finding and utilizing your voice is very important. There is an authority built into the position and there’s an authority that you create out of your […]
290: The CFO Work Ethic: Six Finance Leaders Explain Why There Is No Substitute for Hard Work
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289: Gaining Influence | Lars Sudmann, Finance Thought Leader
The former CFO of Procter & Gamble Belgium traces his steps back in time and shares advice for CFOs who are tasked with driving change within their organizations. Book Recommendations on Leadership and Management True North by Bill George The One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard The Rules of Management by Richard Templar Lars's Site:…
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Widening Your Business Lens | Carol Lowe, CFO, Sealed Air Corp.
What do you wish someone had told you at the start of your finance career? “My first job out of college was with Ernst & Young, now EY, in audit, and I progressed to become an audit manager. One key thing I learned as I would go from client to client, conducting those audits, working […]
288: The Big Year | Jack Callicutt, CFO, Galectin Therapeutics
To span the realm of opportunities in biotech is to gaze down an infinite loop of possibilities with no beginning or end—a place seemingly at odds with the environs of more practical-minded finance leaders, who find comfort in the finite. Yet few CFOs likely wield greater influence than those who set down roots in the…
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Place Trust in Others | Dan Crumb, CFO, Kansas City Chiefs
What do you wish someone had told you at the start of your CFO career? “For me, there has never been a time when I wished that someone had told me this or that, because I’ve always looked at every opportunity as sort of a blank canvas. As soon as I get started in a […]
286: Mastering the On Demand Talent Model | Nick Vandergrift, CFO, MS Companies
MS Companies has created a way for more than 600 manufacturers, including 20 Fortune 500 companies, to instantly fill open jobs and reduce workforce costs by calculating exactly how many on-demand workers are needed to meet their demands. Join us when Nick Vandergrift, CFO, MS Companies explains how he first joined the firm as a financial…
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284: The Leadership Talent Continuum: Four CFOs Ponder The Roots of Leadership
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283: From Finance Leader to Chief Executive | Ken Østreng, CFO, Confirmit
As a CFO, Ken Østreng has been highly visible across his Nordic-based firm’s multinational operations. Whether he was identifying international acquisition targets or new incentives to help drive sales, he became one of Confirmit's "go-to" leaders, and in the minds of management the natural successor to Confirmit's CEO Henning Hansen. And, so when Henning recently…
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281: The Expat Life | Six CFOs Share Tales of Innocents Abroad
Very often the opportunity to work abroad arrives early in a finance professional's career, but not all executives are prepared to take the leap. Still, overseas assignments populate the resumes of many finance leaders, who often look back on their days abroad and ponder the sizeable influence they have had on their view on business…
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275: Building a Biotech Wonder | Sara Bonstein, CFO, Advaxis
While Sara Bonstein's finance career roots run deep inside a number of New Jersey's healthcare behemoths (Eli Lilly & Company, Johnson & Johnson), her goal was to someday build and lead a finance team inside one of the much smaller and more entrepreneurial biotech firms that today populate New Jersey's business topography. Join us when,…
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274: Adopting Finance’s New Talent Mind-set
It’s no secret that the mix of skills and experience demanded by successful finance teams is quickly evolving, and at no time has the need to attract, grow, and retain talent competencies inside the finance function been more critical to finance leaders. As all too many CFOs have learned, the quickest way to lose…
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