Making the Leap From CFO to CEO
As a CFO, you may have focused on risk management and cost control; as a CEO, you’ll have to balance those priorities with the demand for innovation and growth.
As a CFO, you may have focused on risk management and cost control; as a CEO, you’ll have to balance those priorities with the demand for innovation and growth.
“If you’re talking about generating belief and followership as a leader, presenting people with clear logic isn’t how you get them excited about a strategy,” says Sam Kemp, CFO of Built Technologies.
Bolanle Williams-Olley shares her journey to leadership as CFO of NYC’s Mancini Duffy and founder of non-profit SheBuildsLives.
“The challenge is creating the universal framework that lets systems communicate, alleviating data inconsistencies caused by human error and achieving a single source of truth,” says Qu CFO Peter “Reyn” Holden.
“Is a senior leader making the best decisions when they’re mentally overwhelmed, lonely or depressed? Probably not,” says the IMA’s Sunil S. Deshmukh.
“CFOs should already be demonstrating their competency level in their daily role if they want to transition seamlessly to CEO when the time comes,” says Arun Dhingra of Egon Zehnder.