NOV 11 - 13, 2020
cfo leadership conference - Agenda
CFO LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE - SPEAKERS
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CFO LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE - CONTENT
Sessions for the 2020 CFO Leadership Conference will include "Ask the Expert" roundtables, inspiring keynotes, and expert-led interactive workshops moderated by CFOLC and MIT dignitaries crafted to dig deep into key leadership areas within the CFO MASTERCLASS™. On the heels of a global crisis which forces all of us, without exception, to rethink the new normal, the conference theme CFO Masterclass and sessions will subtly reflect this whole new urgency.
More about the 2020 Conference theme:
CFO Masterclass™ is designed to be about YOU the CFO.
The 10th Annual CFO Leadership Conference will provide specific take-aways that will give CFOs a jump start for entering the new decade. We will explore areas of what you will need to be a Masterclass CFO in today's fast-paced disruptive world:
More about the 2020 Conference theme:
CFO Masterclass™ is designed to be about YOU the CFO.
The 10th Annual CFO Leadership Conference will provide specific take-aways that will give CFOs a jump start for entering the new decade. We will explore areas of what you will need to be a Masterclass CFO in today's fast-paced disruptive world:
- Mastering the New Executive Leader: Understanding the Critical Competencies Needed for Tomorrow for Success
- Mastering Delivery of the Company’s Strategy and Success: The CFO’s role in Leading the Company to Deliver Its Strategy and Desired Performance
- Mastering Finance’s New Model: The Evolving People, Technology and Operational Capabilities Required of Finance to Support the CFO and Company to Succeed
- Mastering the “Self”: Key Take-aways for CFOs to Act on to Shape a Career Development Plan to Succeed Tomorrow
2020 CFO Leadership Conference Abstract:
Conference Abstract:
CFOs have always faced a level of uncertainty. It comes with the role. Their success has always been determined by how well prepared they are to lead through it. Today’s uncertainty is more immediate and profound. CFOs face new urgent challenges in how their companies operate, ensuring the well-being of their people, and responding to market-place disruption and financial solvency stress.
At the same time, CFOs need to maintain the long view. It’s well documented that executives who can maintain both an immediate and longer view are more successful in the long term.
Looking forward, CFOs face profound continuing shifts which are changing the nature of how business is conducted. They must be prepared to respond strategically now while focusing on their immediate challenges. Examples of needed strategic responses include responding to new competitors, rethinking business models, successfully innovating their services and products faster, making new investments in technologies, and adapting new work style arrangements. Join us for conversations delving into these issues during “CFO Masterclass™”.
Mastering Leadership During Today's Challenging Times - Plenary 1
>> Leadership - a look at the future; Personal implications for CFOs and the critical competencies for CFOs to start developing now to be relevant tomorrow
Learning Objectives:
Mastering Successful Business Transformation- Plenary 2
>> Mastering transformational leadership; The CFO as “Catalyst” in leading company initiatives and cultural change
Learning Objectives:
Mastering the Business Operator Mindset to Deliver Result- Plenary 3
>>Mastering the CFOs evolving role as business operator and leading the execution of strategy
Learning Objectives:
Mastering the Art of Influence - Plenary 4
>> Mastering the art of Influence; How to move executives, teams, boards, teams and key stakeholders through enhanced influence skills
Learning Objectives:
Mastering the CFO as Innovator and Change Agent - Plenary 5
>> Mastering your leadership style for results; Developing the adaptive, resilient, emotionally intelligent leadership style required for today’s executive leaders to succeed
Learning Objectives:
Mastering the Volatile Business of Sports - Plenary 6
>>2020 was an off-season no amount of practice could prepare us for. As professional sports slowly get back in “full swing,” it’s the innovative thinkers behind this multi-billion dollar industry that are drafting a brand new game plan. Our panel of experts will discuss the game-time decisions that power the unique world of sports, and how to stay ahead of the curve in a market that is everchanging.
Learning Objectives:
Mastering the Deployment of Today's New Technologies - Plenary 7
>> Mastering the new automated strategic planning tools to drive results - automated scenario analysis, business modeling, and predictive modeling.
Learning Objectives:
Creating and Leading Today's Digital Finance Team - Plenary 8
>> Mastering the digitalization of Finance – areas of opportunity, knowing the measurable benefits, and creating a strategic road map for success
Learning Objectives:
Mastering the CFO as Strategist - Plenary 9
>> The CFO as Strategist - Understanding and utilizing data-driven decision making and additional insights for shaping a multi-year strategy to position and support your company's changing needs. How to integrate data into decision-making across the organization. CFOs are frequently asked “how do I become more strategic” – some is around competition. Sports teams are driven to win and be competitive. Using this analogy with analytics and decision making - what do you have that your competitors don’t have is how you win.
Learning Objectives:
Mastering Continuous Reporting and Real Time Information Delivery - Plenary 10
>> Mastering today's evolving sales and revenue models; Implications and opportunities for CFOs.
Learning Objectives:
Mastering Employee Well-Being and Today's New Work Arrangements - Plenary 11
>> Mastering development of your finance team; Leading practices in developing a strategy to grow and build your team so they remain relevant.
Learning Objectives:
Understand how today’s business environment requires a rethinking of how CFOs attract, grow and build the capabilities of their teams
Mastering Diversity & Inclusion to Raise Finance's Impact - Plenary 12
>>For CFOs, the ability to articulate and champion the value of diversity and inclusion within their teams and across the organization will drive business value. Research shows that companies in the top quartile for gender, and ethnic, diversity respectively outperform their competitors by 15% and 35%. Make plans to join us for “Enhancing Diversity Awareness and Inclusion in Your Company”, where our speakers will share their experience on this topic and discuss how companies are working to build and support diverse teams and leaders internally.
Our speakers will discuss practical tips on fostering employee resource groups, implementing sponsorship and developing partnerships with customers. They will also discuss how they have used training on unconscious bias and prevention of discrimination to increase awareness of the importance of diversity - and inclusion.
Learning Objectives:
CFOs have always faced a level of uncertainty. It comes with the role. Their success has always been determined by how well prepared they are to lead through it. Today’s uncertainty is more immediate and profound. CFOs face new urgent challenges in how their companies operate, ensuring the well-being of their people, and responding to market-place disruption and financial solvency stress.
At the same time, CFOs need to maintain the long view. It’s well documented that executives who can maintain both an immediate and longer view are more successful in the long term.
Looking forward, CFOs face profound continuing shifts which are changing the nature of how business is conducted. They must be prepared to respond strategically now while focusing on their immediate challenges. Examples of needed strategic responses include responding to new competitors, rethinking business models, successfully innovating their services and products faster, making new investments in technologies, and adapting new work style arrangements. Join us for conversations delving into these issues during “CFO Masterclass™”.
Mastering Leadership During Today's Challenging Times - Plenary 1
>> Leadership - a look at the future; Personal implications for CFOs and the critical competencies for CFOs to start developing now to be relevant tomorrow
Learning Objectives:
- Gain an understanding of the disruptive trends organizations and CFO’s face
- Develop an understanding of the opportunities and risks these trends present
- Gain an understanding of how leaders and their organizations will need to change to succeed
- Gain insights for how CFO’s can best prepare their organizations and themselves to take advantage of these trends
Mastering Successful Business Transformation- Plenary 2
>> Mastering transformational leadership; The CFO as “Catalyst” in leading company initiatives and cultural change
Learning Objectives:
- Gain insights of why today’s dynamic business environment requires CFOs to become transformative leaders
- Learn the capabilities required of successful transformational leaders
- Learn how other CFO’s have successfully positioned themselves fulfill the transformational CFO role
- Understand the personal development path CFOs can apply to become an effective transformational leader
Mastering the Business Operator Mindset to Deliver Result- Plenary 3
>>Mastering the CFOs evolving role as business operator and leading the execution of strategy
Learning Objectives:
- Understand why today’s business environment requires CFOs to be effective business operators
- Understand why being a business operator starts with deeply knowing the business and be able to team with business leaders
- Learn the critical connection: good business operators influence development of the company’s strategy and how it will be executed by the business
- Gain insights on how other CFOs have developed and delivered operational insights to their CEO, Board and peer executives Understand how other CFOs have developed themselves and teams into effective business operators
Mastering the Art of Influence - Plenary 4
>> Mastering the art of Influence; How to move executives, teams, boards, teams and key stakeholders through enhanced influence skills
Learning Objectives:
- Understand how today’s changing business environment demands greater influencing skills
- Gain insights why effective CFOs understand that having influence is more important than their defined role
- Gain insights as to why influencing others is so challenging
- Develop an understanding of the elements of successful influencing
- Understand the personal strategies CFO’s can apply to enhance their influence capabilities
Mastering the CFO as Innovator and Change Agent - Plenary 5
>> Mastering your leadership style for results; Developing the adaptive, resilient, emotionally intelligent leadership style required for today’s executive leaders to succeed
Learning Objectives:
- Gain insights why today’s business environment demands CFOs to possess a richer set of leadership capabilities
- Learn the specific capabilities required of leadership styles to deliver results today
- Understand that developing one’s leadership style starts with understanding the organization’s culture, how you fit in and the plan for where you want to move it to
- Understand the personal development path other CFOs have applied to take their leadership style to the next level
Mastering the Volatile Business of Sports - Plenary 6
>>2020 was an off-season no amount of practice could prepare us for. As professional sports slowly get back in “full swing,” it’s the innovative thinkers behind this multi-billion dollar industry that are drafting a brand new game plan. Our panel of experts will discuss the game-time decisions that power the unique world of sports, and how to stay ahead of the curve in a market that is everchanging.
Learning Objectives:
- Lead the charge in adapting new processes and tools for the changing landscape
- Get the right people into the right roles
- Demonstrate awareness on all sides of a conflict and acknowledge other points of view
- Managing differences: What happens when objectives are not in alignment
- The high-impact communications tools and techniques for your leadership and business story with your employees, shareholders, and other important stakeholders
- Effectively manage your company's risk environment, assess the most critical risks and respond to exposures or control gaps
Mastering the Deployment of Today's New Technologies - Plenary 7
>> Mastering the new automated strategic planning tools to drive results - automated scenario analysis, business modeling, and predictive modeling.
Learning Objectives:
- Gain an understanding how today’s business environment is changing strategic planning approaches
- Develop an understanding of the attributes organizations require going forward for effective strategic planning
- Gain an understanding of leading strategic planning technologies organizations should consider and the measurable benefits they can deliver
- Gain an understanding of how organizations should plan and deploy these tools and technologies Understand how CFOs can do a high-level assessment of their current strategic planning approach and tools.
Creating and Leading Today's Digital Finance Team - Plenary 8
>> Mastering the digitalization of Finance – areas of opportunity, knowing the measurable benefits, and creating a strategic road map for success
Learning Objectives:
- Develop an understanding of what digitalization means and the tangible benefits it can provide
- Learn why digitization is more about “People” than it is about the underlying technology
- Gain an understanding of leading strategies and approaches organizations can apply to undertake a digitization initiative. Gain an understanding of the critical success factors for a digitization initiative
- Gain an understanding of how CFOs and their teams can get up to speed on digitalization
Mastering the CFO as Strategist - Plenary 9
>> The CFO as Strategist - Understanding and utilizing data-driven decision making and additional insights for shaping a multi-year strategy to position and support your company's changing needs. How to integrate data into decision-making across the organization. CFOs are frequently asked “how do I become more strategic” – some is around competition. Sports teams are driven to win and be competitive. Using this analogy with analytics and decision making - what do you have that your competitors don’t have is how you win.
Learning Objectives:
- Gain an understanding of the disconnect between data centralization and data-driven decision making
- Develop insight into the importance of data accessibility
- Understand the costliness of confusing data
- Learn how to align your team and create data-driven decisions
Mastering Continuous Reporting and Real Time Information Delivery - Plenary 10
>> Mastering today's evolving sales and revenue models; Implications and opportunities for CFOs.
Learning Objectives:
- Gain insights why and how revenue and sales models are rapidly changing
- Develop an understanding of the implications changing revenue models present to CFOs and their organizations
- Gain an understanding of leading strategies and approaches CFOs are applying to adapt their organizations
- Gain an understanding of the new people capabilities needed and approaches to develop them
Mastering Employee Well-Being and Today's New Work Arrangements - Plenary 11
>> Mastering development of your finance team; Leading practices in developing a strategy to grow and build your team so they remain relevant.
Learning Objectives:
Understand how today’s business environment requires a rethinking of how CFOs attract, grow and build the capabilities of their teams
- Gain insights of the varied expectations of different generations and how to manage across them.
- Understand how CFOs have successfully overcome organizational limitations to retain and develop their top talent
- Understand how CFO’s can conduct a high-level assessment of their team to understand strengths and gaps.
- Gain insights for developing a talent strategy that ensures that finance can deliver to the future needs of the company.
Mastering Diversity & Inclusion to Raise Finance's Impact - Plenary 12
>>For CFOs, the ability to articulate and champion the value of diversity and inclusion within their teams and across the organization will drive business value. Research shows that companies in the top quartile for gender, and ethnic, diversity respectively outperform their competitors by 15% and 35%. Make plans to join us for “Enhancing Diversity Awareness and Inclusion in Your Company”, where our speakers will share their experience on this topic and discuss how companies are working to build and support diverse teams and leaders internally.
Our speakers will discuss practical tips on fostering employee resource groups, implementing sponsorship and developing partnerships with customers. They will also discuss how they have used training on unconscious bias and prevention of discrimination to increase awareness of the importance of diversity - and inclusion.
Learning Objectives:
- How diversity and inclusion can drive revenue, motivate employees, and foster innovation
- Strategies to influence increased diversity and inclusion across the broader organization, including vendor and Board relationships
- The importance of building a diverse customer/client base
Approximately 16 hours of NASBA Certified CPE for the 2020 CFO Leadership Conference