CFO - Master Certificate in Financial Strategy and Leadership
Course Highlight -
Today, financial rigor and strategic insight must be tightly linked, since strategic financial leadership is in high demand. Increasingly, CFOs are being called upon not only to drive cost efficiencies but also to identify profitable sources of revenue growth. They work closely with CEOs to creatively design future growth opportunities. Successful CFO leadership requires a deeper understanding of strategy, increased leadership skills, and an ability to effectively communicate financial acumen and knowledge to nonfinancial colleagues. In The CFO: Master Certificate in Enterprise Strategies and Leadership, you will not only learn and adopt those critical skills, but also use them to elevate your leadership role. At the end you will obtain a master certificate in enterprise strategies and leadership.
Who Should Attend?
The CFO: Master Certificate in Enterprise Strategies and Leadership is a one week intensive program designed for Financial Managers, Directors and Executives responsible for developing and implementing strategy as part of their leadership roles. Participants may include chief financial officers, vice presidents, managing directors, GM Finance, controllers, and other senior financial executives with strategic and financial responsibilities. Participants in this program are a diverse group of finance leaders from varied industries, backgrounds, and geographies who share their biggest challenges with the class. Faculty tailor the program content to address these issues, so participants enjoy a learning experience that truly resonates with them and meets their learning needs. Participants leave the program with an expanded peer network, plus specific tools and frameworks they can use to make a meaningful strategic impact within their companies or organizations.
The Key Learning Outcomes and Benefits
In The CFO: Enterprise Strategies and Leadership, you will:
Keynote Experience & Impact
Increasingly, CFOs are expected to be more strategic decision makers in the business, as noted by the growing trend of promoting chief financial officers to the CEO role, which has occurred in recent years at companies like UPS, PepsiCo, and Siemens AG in recent years. The program elevates the CFO role to one of a “value integrator,” a term coined by IBM in its Global CEO Study to describe the best-performing CFOs. These leaders excel at taking highly unstructured and somewhat ambiguous situations and putting structure around them by integrating information from numerous internal sources. You will enhance your ability to forecast, measure, and monitor business performance; manage risk; and generate predictive insights. IEMA faculty apply their field-based research and the latest strategic insights to help you broaden your perspective on how to make your organization more competitive. The program offers a strategic toolbox to help you be a better advisor to and decision maker for your company. IEMA creates a live lab where you and your peers, also seasoned CFOs, learn from real-life case examples and apply frameworks to different situations that go beyond the profit and loss statement — enabling you to drive strategic investments for the future. You will leave the program better equipped to handle internal and external pressures, including the growing role of activist shareholders. In sum, this program enables you to focus more externally on the fast-paced changes that are redefining your business and be viewed as key member of the executive leadership team.
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Delivery Methodology
Through highly interactive lectures, exercises, and case studies, both in the classroom and in smaller work groups, this deep dive into strategy will examine how CFOs have created competitive advantage in a global context.
