Inside the Mentoring Round, CFO Karen Williams of American Express Global Business Travel showcases a growth mindset, turning career hurdles into invaluable learning experiences. Her journey from networking struggles at Mars to recognizing its significance underscores the power of building essential professional relationships. Williams’s emphasis on “connecting the dots” to glean insights from past missteps […]
The Mentoring Round | Emma Brown, CFO, Medius
CFO Emma Brown’s pivotal career theme is simplification. In a high-pressure turnaround, she realized that complexity hindered understanding. Stripping back to basics, she rebuilt a cash flow, cutting through complexities to identify and solve underlying business problems. This approach, simplifying structures and focusing on essentials, transformed a $40 million loss into a $15 million profit. […]
Ep 18: Dragon Slayer of the Budgeting World | A Tribute to Steve Player
When consultant Steve Player died last week at the age of 64, the business function that he had tormented, ridiculed, and war-hammered for more than two decades stood quivering in the shadows. Still breathing, the beast of a business process known as budgetary control had withstood its most notorious assailant’s heaviest blows—in itself a resounding […]
848: The People, the Mission, and the Innovation | Evan Goldstein, CFO, Seismic
Evan Goldstein tells us that it was at the end of another long day—after a week of long days—as he was walking to the parking lot adjacent to Genentech's offices that he received a “gut punch.” Becoming more self-aware of others is something that many finance leaders have told us that they have needed to…
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Evolving KPIs to Meet Strategic Objectives | Gillian Sheeran, CFO, Pricefx
CFO GUEST: Gillian Sheeran of Pricefx EPISODE: 844: Work, Sleep, and Success Machine Generated Transcript (unedited) CFOTL: You mentioned customer lifetime value, clearly, we talk about it a lot with finance leaders. Since your arrival, how is it calculated? Or has the formula they’ve traditionally used, do you see the world the same way? Is […]
801: The Founder and the Future | Ryan Van Hatten, CFO, Prophix Software
Perhaps few CFO career paths better reveal the advantages a founder-led firm may offer career-minded executives than that of Prophix CFO Ryan Van Hatten. Back in 2016—when the firm's previous CFO exited the company—Prophix's founder and CEO, the late Paul Barber, asked Van Hatten, an 11-year company veteran, to step into the CFO office until…
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309: Keeping Watch on Your KPIs | Five CFOs Identify Their Metrics of Choice
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