The CFO Of 2030: Innovative, Emotionally Intelligent, Globally Aware
The CFO of the future will anticipate challenges and seize opportunities before they become apparent.
The CFO of the future will anticipate challenges and seize opportunities before they become apparent.
“Identifying the right talent early on has made a huge difference in our success because we have grown very rapidly through both acquisition and organically,” says James.
‘I think we, as humans, learn the most from our failures and things that we don’t succeed in versus the things we do succeed in,’ says Burdick.
‘I’m a firm believer that I work for my employees, not the other way around. In a perfect world, my job is simply to stay ahead of them and remove the obstacles they point out.’
‘We don’t have shareholders, but we are a public charity,’ says Denise Marks, CFO of the CareQuest Institute for Oral Health. “We have to be good stewards of our capital.”
‘The one thing that I wish I’d learned earlier was the idea of selling ideas,’ says Athwal. ‘It’s not innate to most CFOs or finance people.’