How do you become a strategic financial leader? How do you stay current on emerging techniques and trends? And how can you secure a key seat at the table? Today's global CFOs require more than just financial expertise. Which is why The Emerging CFO: Strategic Financial Leadership Program combines finance with strategic thinking, leadership skills, and one-on-one coaching. This comprehensive, two-module program also includes enhanced content and coaching over the course of six months, giving you a unique opportunity to affect true change in yourself and your organization.
Professor of Finance; Director of The Emerging CFO: Strategic Financial Leadership Executive Program; Dhirubhai Ambani Faculty Fellow in Entrepreneurship for 2014-2015 is an expert in corporate finance and credit risk. His current research explores dynamic financial decision making, financial innovation, and financial structure of corporations. His work has been published in major finance journals and his research has received prestigious academic awards, including the Brattle Award, the Trefftzs Award, and the DFA-Fama Prize. He has also been awarded the MBA Distinguished Teaching Award at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, as well as the Inaugural Masters in Management Best Teacher Award at the London Business School.
Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Business Leadership, Strategy, and Organizations; Affiliated Faculty, Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford; Codirector of the Executive Program in Strategy and Organization
Paul E. Holden Professor of Organizational Behavior; Codirector of the Executive Leadership Development: Analysis to Action Program
Adams Distinguished Professor of Management; Director of the Managing Teams for Innovation and Success Executive Program; Director of the Influence and Negotiation Strategies Executive Program; Codirector of the Executive Program for Women Leaders
The Emerging CFO program will help you:
PERSONAL LEADERSHIP COACHING
This is the only program of its kind to include one-on-one leadership coaching to help you assess and hone your individual leadership skills. Your personal coach will help you apply the program content to your specific business challenges; analyze your pre and post 360-degree feedback assessments and help you apply it to your on-the-job performance; and communicate with you following the program to track your ongoing progress and re-administer the 360.
LEADING SUCCESS
As innovative, upstart companies transform industry after industry, many of the leading firms of just a few years ago are now seen as laggards. For business leaders, this upheaval is especially a concern because they often rely on the lessons of the past when making plans for the future. This session explores the underlying reasons for the success and failure of businesses—especially those that relate to a firm’s leadership team—and why some firms are more competitive than others. You will discuss and analyze the reasons behind your own firms’ success, and learn how you can continue to develop as effective, successful leaders.
MOTIVATING OTHERS TO PERFORM
As you look for more effective ways to inspire their employees to work harder and smarter, most managers rely on financial “carrots” as motivators. This session will explore alternative “psychological levers”—tools that truly motivate people to perform without excess spending. Examples from successful firms that have unlocked their employees’ true potential by providing meaning in their work will also be presented and discussed.
CHALLENGE OF CHANGE
In this session, you'll learn how managers can use the cultures in their organizations as competitive advantage, with an emphasis on thinking about culture as a social control system defined by norms that are linked to critical strategic objectives and can be managed through executive leadership.
The Emerging CFO Program is ideal for those who aspire to become strategic CFOs. It’s specifically designed for:
This is the only program of its kind to include one-on-one leadership coaching to help you assess and hone your individual leadership skills. Your personal coach will:
• Help you apply the program content to your specific business challenges
• Analyze your 360-degree feedback assessment and help you apply it to your on-the-job performance
• Communicate with you for 45 days post-program to track your ongoing progress
