Programme Overview
Our CFO Programme is designed for passionate finance leaders who are keen to develop a well-respected finance function that provides vital support, influence and value creation across your business.
Alongside your peers, you will become the best version of yourself and act as a positive role model who challenges the status quo. You will learn how to develop a mindset for success, whilst living by your values and demonstrating a willingness to expand your perspectives.
All activities are led by an experienced CFO and professional mentor to help you to:
- Discover and work with your areas of strength and development objectives;
- Determine ways to overcome any barriers to your success;
- Provide different perspectives when thinking through issues; and
- Improve your knowledge and confidence to maximise your performance.
What will you achieve?
Who is this course for?
This programme is designed for people who are leading a finance function and reporting into the board (e.g. CFO, Head of Finance, Finance Director, VP of Finance).
You may be fairly new into the CFO role or still learning the traits of becoming a successful CFO. Participants understand the importance of investing time to help achieve your full potential.
Main Features
Nine group sessions lasting 2 hours covering our nine modules over a six-month period (6-8 people and delivered online):
- Run by an experienced CFO and professional mentor
- Group mentoring relevant to each session
- Experienced CEO/CFO input within three sessions
- Peer group connection and support
An option to include Six months of one-to-one executive mentoring support from an experienced CFO with flexible timing:
- A strategy session lasting 90 minutes
- Six 90-minute mentoring sessions
- Reasonable ad hoc support
- Strengths assessment
- Workbooks and tools to support the mentoring journey
Modules Overview
Our nine modules will help transform you from a back office function leader into the co-pilot to your CEO.
It has been a wonderful learning journey with a group of my peers. I enjoyed learning from the program lead as well as with my peers and gained many valuable insights into my own learning journey as a CFO.
I really enjoyed the CFO Programme and the programme leaders are great. Many thanks to the GrowCFO team for all of your fantastic help and support!
This is an amazing programme and I have hugely benefited from the quality discussions with the experienced finance leaders in my CFO Programme cohort group. The mentoring, coaching and teaching from the immensely experienced and knowledgeable professional mentor has made me much better-placed to succeed in my role. The ongoing access to excellent resources and exceptional peers also really helps. Thank you GrowCFO for making that difference!
The CFO Programme is an insightful and practical programme that facilities application throughout.
It has been an inspirational programme which gave me the chance to have time to reflect and think out of the box. It's been also important share our own professional experience for a technical and business perspective.
An insightful and thought provoking programme that will help you have a tangible impact in your organization as well as heighten awareness of the importance of relationships.
The course was a great opportunity to discuss and learn about the practical challenges of being a CFO from an experienced CFO and others in a similar position. The course covered a wide range of topics to help think through how to approach the day-to-day challenges.
I joined GrowCFO in December 2021. It’s been the best thing I’ve actually done so far. I highly recommend the CFO Programme to anyone in my position. The amount of knowledge I’ve obtained from this course is unbelievable and has hugely benefited me. It has been a breath of fresh air to work through it with other people in similar roles. The course outlines all the areas that I need to be focused on to reach my goals and also the areas I wasn't aware that I need to focus on.
I loved that it combined theory with perspectives from peers - we could all see other perspectives on similar problems. It created more awareness for me and allowed me to reflect on how I behave.
The CFO Programme provided a great framework of content and focused discussion, whilst offering a safe space to enable open conversation and encouraging people to share their biggest challenges. This is a good way of carving out time to prioritise additional learning and development as both a person and a CFO.
I really liked how the programme helped me to get clarity on what being a CFO entails and to gain awareness of my blindspots.
The course provided a good overall picture of what is expected of a CFO. It also gave participants the opportunity to interact and to learn from each other's situation.
An interesting and insightful course that helps to guide you through the highs and lows of being a CFO! I really enjoyed and benefited from Catherine's experience and hearing how others in the group tackled similar issues
The CFO Programme gave me the time and space to reflect on myself, my role, and how I could refocus the value I can bring to my organization.
I really enjoyed listening to the different perspectives. The programme forced me to step out of the day to day and allowed me some reflective thinking time away from the busyness of work life.
It has been really useful to sit with like-minded individuals and to understand that you are not alone in the difficulties of navigating a career as a CFO.
GrowCFO brings an outside perspective, challenging questions, and a lot of empathy for finance leaders. Managing a company is such a mental game and having someone to accompany you throughout this journey is gold!
The combination of the group workshops and the one-to-one professional mentoring complement one another really well and it is great to share perspectives with people working in other companies.
A great programme for new CFOs to help guide them on their journey and it was really good to connect with people in similar positions.
The group sessions were of great value to me, helping me to reflect and think more critically of myself and how I can add more value to our business. Spending time with like minded individuals was great and Catherine who led the course made everyone feel welcome and got everyone engaging in topics and conversation.
Catherine is an excellent and engaging mentor. The course was structured and delivered in a logical manner, addressing all high level pillars of the CFO role.
