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#34 What Makes a Good Finance Leader? With Susana Serrano-Davey
Susana Serrano-Davey is an experienced finance leader, mentor and coach. She even ran her own business for a while. Susana is joining the mentoring team we have here at GrowCFO. On this podcast I catch up with Susana to find out more about her. I also asked her...
#33 What Does a Corporate Finance Advisor Do? With Abu Ali
Abu Ali is a partner in a Newcastle based corporate finance boutique, WilliamsAli. He provides strategic M&A and funding advice to business owners and investors. Abu joins Kevin Appleby on the GrowCFO Show to explain the role of a corporate finance...
#32 The Future of the High Street with Ajmal Mian
Ajmal Mian and Kevin Appleby discuss the future of the high street and the impact this will have on the CFO on the GrowCFO show
#31 How to Make a Difference in a New CFO Role
Paul McKoen is a very experienced CFO. His career has given him experience in a number of industries and includes just about every aspect of the CFO role. We talk through Paul’s career, and highlight a some interesting experiences of the CFO needing to make an...
#30 CFO Competency Framework with Dan Wells
GrowCFO have created a CFO Competency Framework that covers the key skills required to become an effective finance leader. This is rapidly becoming the global toolkit to help finance leaders benchmark your skills and competencies against your peer group. ...
#29 Digital Finance with Tanbir Jasimuddin
Tanbir Jasimuddin shares his experience of digital finance. Tanbir and his team at family law firm Vardags have recently won an award. Transformer of the year at the Generation CFO Digital Finance Function Awards. He is also an author of white papers for the FP&A...
#28 Business turnaround with Baz Bedrossian
Many businesses have struggled during the past 12 months and need to adapt to ever-changing circumstances. This may require significant adjustments to their business model and operations to help them survive. A business turnaround strategy can help with this. During...
#27 Launching GrowCFO’s 2021 Finance Systems Survey
GrowCFO are launching our 2021 finance systems survey to share technology insights from your community. This will help finance leaders to embed technology solutions into your business operations. In addition, this will help you to act as a catalyst for change across...
#26 How to Improve Your Soft Skills with Catherine Clark
Research shows that soft skills contribute towards 80% of your career achievements. Despite this, most people prioritise developing hard skills and do not have an action plan to improve your soft skills. This is particularly true of the finance leader community, who...
#25 Networking on LinkedIn with Mark Lee
Mark Lee has been described as the most networked accountant in the UK. Who better to talk to about building your professional network?! Networking on LinkedIn is a key part of this. Particularly at the moment when meeting up in person is so difficult. Mark is a man...
#24 Surviving Lockdown 3 with Russell Thackeray
Surviving lockdown was an issue raised in the last GrowCFO Situation Room networking group. I asked resilience specialist Russell Thackeray for some advice. Our finance leader community is affected by lockdown in a number of ways. Some are working solo, home alone....
#23 What is GrowCFO all about? Find out more
We publish the GrowCFO Show podcast every week, but its only a small part of GrowCFO. In this week’s show we take a look at how you, the finance leader, can benefit from the wider CFO community. Grow CFO is where Finance Leaders Grow Together. Join thousands of...
#22 Boards with Patrick Dunne
If you are a GrowCFO member you will most likely have come across Patrick Dunne already. When is comes to boards, and how they work, Patrick is pretty much the leading authority. Inside GrowCFO, Patrick frequently talks about the dynamics between the CEO, the CFO and...
#21 The Hidden Job Market with Tony Talbot
Tony Talbot is an experienced headhunter turned podcaster. He’s the host of the Career Move Secrets podcast and he joins me on The GrowCFO Show to talk about the hidden job market. He gives us the inside track on how most senior roles are filled and exactly how...
Future CFO Programme with Dan Wells
Is 2021 the year you aim to take on the top finance job? If so the Future CFO Programme can help you get there. Dan Wells, founder of GrowCFO explains how We have upgraded the GrowCFO Future CFO programme and moved to a new platform for 2021. We’ve made the...
#19 How to Achieve Your Objectives with Mark Channon
We’re all back at work after the festive break, refreshed and ready for whatever challenges 2021 will bring. Did you set yourself any new goals for 2021, or perhaps some new year resolutions? I caught up with Mark Channon for some help on turning those goals and...
#18 Goal Setting with Catherine Clark
Goal setting is something that should be very personal. As you move to senior finance roles you need to take charge of your own destiny. You set your own goals, independently. We believe that goal setting starts with understanding your why? Only once you understand...
#17 Review Your Finance Team with Andrew Waters
At the end of 2020 you may well find yourself reviewing your finance team. Its been a very unusual year. A test of character. Some of your team may have struggled while others have flourished. The team has adapted and survived, but the start of 2021 might be the time...
#16 Investor Communications with Andrew Seski
On this week’s podcast we talk about investor communications. Investor communications are an ever more demanding responsibility for the CFO. We take a look your responsibilities, how these can become a major distraction from other key business tasks, and how...
#15 Imposter Syndrome and the CFO with Catherine Clark
Catherine Clark joins the GrowCFO to talk about imposter syndrome. Its a problem that Catherine encounters with lots of her mentees. Its something quite common amongst first time CFOs and its something she suffered from herself in her first role as a CFO. In this...