Ken Fick
Founder - FPAexperts.com
Curious, entrepreneurial and innovative finance leader, with the ability to communicate from big picture to small detail. With over 20 + years of finance experience, he has led critical business and financial planning, forecasting, and complex decision support analysis initiatives for companies of all sizes. Ken does this by moving ideas from concept to execution through the people, process, and technology that business today.
Specialties:
• Budget/Forecasting
• FP&A and CFO Solutions
• Solution Strategies & Roadmaps
• Business Process Optimization
• M&A Transaction & Integration Support
• Risk Analysis & Financial Modelling
I am a frequent speaker and writer for various financial publications including the Argyle Group, CFO Dive, and CFO.com, among other media outlets.
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Manoj Garg
CEO and Consulting Chief Information Officer
Manoj Garg is the Founder and Managing Partner of Virtual Information Executives, a consulting firm that specializes in helping clients achieve breakthrough business results through IT leadership. Manoj brings over thirty years of senior executive leadership skills and technology management experience with domestic and international operations to VIE’s clients.
Manoj’s Information Technology (IT) experience covers a broad array of skills, including Large Scale Technology Infrastructure Management, Outsourcing Management, Information Security Management, Program Management and Enterprise Resource Planning. Manoj served as the Founding CIO at WebEx Communications.
He holds an MBA in Finance from University of Rochester and an MS in Computer Science from University of Pittsburgh. He also enjoys angel investing, assisting non-profits, teaching, playing music and spending time with his wife and three children.
Don’t miss Manoj’s course:
Information Technology: A Case Study on Key Information Technology Themes and More
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Erik Gillam
Partner at Aldrich CPAs + Advisors
Erik joined Aldrich (Formerly AKT) in 2004 and has spent all of his career focused on providing assurance audits, reviews and compilations to a variety of companies in the Agricultural industry. Erik has worked with many small to mid-sized companies on improving internal controls and process to improve security and efficiency.
Erik is the niche leader for Agribusiness at Aldrich. As a niche leader he has taken special interest in learning and teaching leadership skills to financial professionals.
- Financial Beginnings, Teacher
- National Society of Accountants for Cooperatives, Director
- Corban University Graduate (Formerly Western Baptist College)
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Julie Winkle Giulioni
Bestselling Author, Speaker and Expert on Leadership and Career Development
Julie Winkle Giulioni is a champion for workplace growth and development and helps executives and leaders optimize talent and potential within their organizations. One of Inc. Magazine’s Top 100 speakers, she’s the co-author of the international bestseller, Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go, translated into seven languages and coming out in its third edition in September. Her latest book, Promotions Are So Yesterday: Redefine Career Development. Help Employees Thrive, has been recognized with Nautilus and Axiom Business Book Awards.
Julie works with clients domestically and internationally, offering keynote addresses, facilitated workshops, custom webinars, elearning and microlearning solutions that deliver measurable results. She is a regular contributor to Fast Company, The Economist, SmartBrief, and a variety of publications and offers thoughts on leadership, career development, and more via her blog at www.juliewinklegiulioni.com.
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Susan Goldberg
Leadership Consultant, Susan Goldberg Leadership
With over 25 years of experience in executive search consulting, I have researched and studied behavior around developing and retaining talent within an organization. My work with young leaders enables a company to maximize the abilities of every employee - and build stronger relationships between seasoned staff, new talent and the company. Ultimately, my expertise in building stronger bonds results in a better return on talent that impacts current and future P&L.
I’ve been hiring and coaching young senior professionals and those who hire them since the 1990’s. I understand how difficult it is today to keep this talent at an organization for the long term. I am aware that as of 2020, those born in the Millennial years (1981-1996) will be the largest percentage of the workforce (49%). You need their voice in order to stay relevant and profitable.
Having worked with today’s emerging leaders, I understand they want more than diverse incentives and flexible workstyles to stay committed to an organization. They want an environment that embraces their unique insight and expertise, inspires, motivates and offers career options combined with learning opportunities. I work with companies/teams/departments to create this engagement and community environment in which these talented professionals can not only thrive but want to remain and contribute to the success of the organization for the long-term.
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Jim Grew
The Grew Company
Since 1993, Jim Grew has been assisting mid-size organizations to improve effectiveness and performance, delivering these building blocks for success:
Strategic company plans that inform daily operations
Goals-driven team cultures that hang on to improvements
Effective Key Executive Teams
Systematic process improvement
Consistent sustained performance growth
Jim, a Stanford MBA works closely with you and your key executives to give you a competitive edge. Together you will:
Clarify current problems and opportunities company-wide
Build an improvement plan that the business can afford
Mentor your executives to assure execution of the plan
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Paul Gundersen
Vice President North American Sales and Partnerships at Attain Insight
Paul has worked in a variety of strategy, analytics, corporate, and entrepreneurial roles. He has a broad background, is an excellent communicator, has directed complex efforts, and enjoys bridging the gap between business and technical communities. He adds value in many aspects of running a business/operation.
Seasoned business leader:
- Career Focus | Most of my career has focused on aligning people on strategic priorities
- Complex Challenges | Expert at bringing order to chaos and driving managed change
- Compliments | Business background is complimented by a deep background in technology
- Company exposure | Startup to Enterprise
- Aligning Stakeholders | Skilled at interfacing at all levels of the organization
- Subject Matter Expertise | Subject matter expert in Business Intelligence and Planning
Paul has:
- driven sales and strategy in various entrepreneurial ventures
- worked with Accenture in delivery and deal shaping
- built/sold FirstQuarter (an entrepreneurial startup)
- served as CIO for Right Management Consultants and Strategic Distribution
- worked in various leadership capacities for Cognos, Microsoft, and Du Pont
- performed extensive research on the US Stock Market and built a real-time trading system
