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CFO Talk: The 8 Superpowers CFOs Use to Scale - with Michelle Kvello

Steve Rosvold

Welcome to CFO TALK, the podcast for finance leaders and aspiring CFOs. In this episode, titled “The 8 Superpowers CFOs Use to Scale,” our host Steve Rosvold has a fascinating conversation with Michelle Kvello, the Managing Director at Lantern Partners. Michelle shares her insights and expertise on how CFOs can better serve their SME customers and help entrepreneurs successfully scale their businesses.

Over the past twelve years, Michelle has identified eight crucial superpowers that CFOs need to possess, including the ability to see stories in the data, identifying key metrics for growth, establishing a single source of truth among others.

Tune in to CFO TALK and discover how these superpowers can elevate your role as a finance leader and drive growth at your organization.

CFO Talk: Process Mining - Revolutionizing Corporate Finance with Tariq Munir

Steve Rosvold

We are excited to release the latest episode of CFO Talk, where we deliver innovative practices and leading edge ideas to CFOs and other business leaders.

In this episode, Tariq Munir, a seasoned finance professional and artist, shares his insights into the fascinating world of process mining.

CFO Talk: Five CFO Learnings From 10X Growth in ARR with Mark Khavkin

CFO Talk: Five CFO Learnings From 10X Growth in ARR with Mark Khavkin

Steve Rosvold

Welcome to another episode of CFO Talk, the podcast where we dive deep into the world of finance and strategy. In today’s episode, titled “Five CFO Learnings From 10X Growth in ARR”, Steve sits down with special guest Mark Khavkin to discuss the ins and outs of CFOs and their team driving growth within a company.

CFO Talk: The Key Elements for Enterprise Risk Management with John Thackeray

John Thackeray and Steve Rosvold

In this episode of CFO Talk, host Steve Rosvold interviews John Thackeray, an expert in risk management. Thackeray discusses the seven key elements of effective enterprise risk management (ERM). He emphasizes that strategy plays a crucial role in determining risk appetite and suggests that open discussions and iterative processes can help achieve a common understanding among leaders.

CFO Talk: Pricing Excellence and the CFO with Lynn Guinn

Steve Rosvold

Welcome to CFO Talk, our podcast dedicated to bringing you insights and expertise from industry leaders for the finance world.

In this edition of CFO Talk Steve interviews a special guest from Wichita, Kansas, Lynn Guinn. Lynn is a seasoned business leader with a diverse background in accounting, operations, and trading. With his extensive academic background in finance, accounting, and agricultural economics, and advanced degrees in strategy and innovation, Lynn has built an impressive career.

CFO Talk: The CFO and Finance Transformation with Vineet Jain

Vineet Jain and Steve Rosvold

Welcome to CFO Talk, the podcast where we dive deep into the world of finance and leadership. In this episode, we have a special guest, Vineet Jain, a leading authority on finance transformation and a director at Genpact, sharing his insights and expertise on finance transformation.

CFO Talk: What it Takes to Build Winning Teams with Dan Crumb

Steve Rosvold

On this episode of CFO Talk, we welcome Dan Crumb, a CFO with 13 years of experience at the current Super Bowl champions, the Kansas City Chiefs. Dan shares his insights on building a winning team, drawing from his experience leading a team of skilled professionals in IT, finance, and accounting while being a key member of the Chiefs executive team.

CFO Talk - Data Management: The New Frontier with Prashanth Southekal

Prashanth Southekal and Steve Rosvold

Last year Prashanth’s FInEx Talk was on data management.

He shocked us all when he explained that data’s steady state is a liability. It must be crafted and managed to convert it to an asset.

Fortunately, he shared with us three attributes that must exist to make data an asset. He kicks things off in this CFO Talk by reviewing what those attributes are.

Enjoy the CFO-centric pearls on data and analytics that Prashanth readily delivers to our community. He is a globally renowned expert in this space.

CFO TALK - The CFO’s Role in Talent Management with Solange Charas

Solange Charas and Steve Rosvold

Solange Charas is leading the charge in the quickly growing space of talent measurement.

She recently published book, Humanizing Human Capital: Invest in Your People for Optimal Business Returns, which describes how data based decision making can augment current HR practices to improve the bottom line.

CFO Talk: Accelerating Finance Transformation with Andrew Codd

Andrew Codd and Steve Rosvold

Andrew Codd, a global expert who combines deep finance knowledge with data & analytics to accelerate finance transformations, tackles questions like these in his CFO Talk with Steve:

1. What does the traditional vs modern approach to a data & analytics transformation look like, and why should CFOs care?

2. What is so important about outside vs internal investments in this area?

3. On how to leverage our core skills to keep transformations on the rails

4. How is the diamond organizational structure and why does it better support finance teams today than the traditional pyramid structure?

5. Andrew reflects on how learning from a guild formed back in the 13th century can help us today.

6. Team. Talent. Leadership. Culture.

Visit Andrew’s library on CFO.University here:https://cfo.university/library/contributor/andrew-codd

CFO TALK - The Best Way to Choose Your KPIs - Bernie Smith

Bernie Smith and Steve Rosvold

Bernie responds to these questions in this CFO Talk episode:

What is the number one reason you urge your clients to use key performance indicators?

How important is it to experiment with your KPIs?

CFO Talk: The CEO/CFO Relationship with Tom Burke

CFO Talk: The CEO/CFO Relationship with Tom Burke

Tom Burke, a serial CEO in the pharmaceutical space, shares his experience with senior financial leaders and how their role and their relationship with the CEO has changed during his career.

CFO Talk: A Case Study in Digital Transformation

Steve Rosvold

In this CFO Talk with Tamer Abomosalam we explore Tamer’s digital transformation journey as the Global Services Supply Chain CFO at NCR. Tamer is responsible for the data aggregation and reporting for 86 countries. His frustration with legacy systems, disparate data and a fortuitous conversation with a friend were the catalysts behind his successful adventure.

CFO Talk: Improving the Bottom Line - Part II

CFO Talk: Improving the Bottom Line - Part II

Dileep Kulkarni and Steve Rosvold

Organizations strategically manage 80% of their spending that frequently fall with roughly 20% of their suppliers. The other 20% of spending falls in tail spend category. Frequently this area is overlooked and have potential savings in the range of 10-40%. Dileep addresses how to tackle tail spend, common expense categories that make it up and same case studies to help you visualize the potential for tail spend savings at your company.

CFO Talk: Improving the Bottom Line - Part I

Dileep Kulkarni and Steve Rosvold

Learn about the four keys to strengthening and improving your Supply Chain. Benchmark your supply chain procurement process against the activities of good, great and exceptional finance teams are doing. Dileep also shares steps you can take to capture improvements in the top categories ripe with opportunity.

CFO Talk: The CFOs Guide to Great KPIs with Bernie Smith

Bernie Smith and Steve Rosvold

In this episode of CFO Talk, Bernie Smith gets us up to speed on the 7 steps to KPI bliss, KPI trees and where CFOs can make an impact on these important measures.

CFO Talk: Management With No Management Experience with Andy Burrows

Andy Burrows and Steve Rosvold

Andy Burrows and Steve Rosvold discuss how to get management experience when many companies view it as a prerequisite.

Financial Management for Business Exit Strategies

Steve Rosvold

This video was produced as part of the Washington State University MAP Alliance program on Strategic Planning for Your Business Exit. It covers the role of financial management in creating a successful exit.

CFO Talk: HOT MESS? DUMPSTER FIRE? TRAIN WRECK? You Still Have to Conduct Year-End Reviews with Julie Winkle Giulioni

Steve Rosvold and Julie Winkle Giulioni

In this CFO Talk Julie Winkle Giulioni provides all kinds of great advice and even a Guide to help managers and employees navigate an important, but likely difficult, responsibility they have to one another.

CFO Talk: The CFOs Guide to Financial Modeling/Modeling in a Crisis

Giles Male Steve Rosvold Lance Rubin

In this CFO Talk guests Lance Rubin and Giles Male cover what CFOs need to know about modeling.

What is a CFO - An Interview with SurePayd

Steve Rosvold

SurePayd, a company driving the customer experience and mining customer intelligence from accounts receivable, asked me to answer some questions for their community about the CFO role.

Analytics Through the Lens of the CFO

Jesper Hybholt Sorensen Robert Zwerling Steve Rosvold

In his presentation, Analytics Through the Lens of the CFO, to a class at The Analytics Academy Steve describes how the convergence of data analytics, accounting and finance is creating excitement in the CFO suite.

The CFO’s historical role as chief fact officer coupled with their more recent responsibilities as chief future officer have put data analytics in the CFO’s bullseye.

CFO Talk: Learning from Crisis. Building a Robust Supply Chain with Dileep Kulkarni

Dileep Kulkarni and CFO.University

Dileep Kulkarni, a supply chain expert with a finance background joined us for the second time on CFO Talk. A few months ago Dileep shared his thoughts on How the Manage Your Supply Chain During a Crisis In this Talk he shares his perspective on how finance leaders can help Build a Robust Supply Chain as we exit a crisis. He defines the “critical supply chain”, what you should expect of your suppliers and how to evaluate supplier risk.

CFO Talk: Strategic Cost Control Without Killing Business Initiatives and Operations with Anand Soni

Anand Soni and CFO.University

Anand Soni, a serial CFO with broad experience in large, family owned businesses shares his insight on achieving strategic cost control without creating business havoc.

CFO Talk: The “Business CFO” with Anand Soni

Anand Soni shared a few of his insights regarding the changing role of the CFO in this CFO Talk – The “Business CFO”.

He explains the changes in the role over the past 5 years and how that change seems to be accelerating. The roles of compliance and reporting aren’t going away, while the strategic and commercial aspects of the role keep growing.

Fallback Plan Podcast - (53:52)

CFO.University

The more you think up front in business, the easier it is to adapt, change, and even pivot as necessary. Yet most of us don’t plan for what might happen when we begin implementation to achieve growth.

Forward Looking Financials

Steve Rosvold

How do we use our financials to look forward and make better guesses about our company’s ability to achieve growth goals? Purposeful action to grow requires a modern skill set of financial literacy and strategic thinking. Jess Dewell discusses the necessity of forward-looking financials with guest Steve Rosvold, Founder of CFO.University.

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How to Make a Difference with the 3 Languages of Finance

Andrew Codd

Steve discusses the languages of finance and how they can affect how you do business with Strength in the Numbers host Andrew Codd.

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CFO Ed Talk: Do You Know What the Income Trap Is? You’d Better.

Joe Connors

If you could increase your income, would it solve a lot of problems? Focusing solely on income is a trap and could put your business at risk. It’s not what you make, it’s what you keep. - Joe Connors, Vice President Relationship Banking Officer

The Link Between Leadership and Sustainable Success

Robert Baker

Come find out how to build long term sustainable success and a team that everyone will want to join! - Robert Baker, Operations Manager at Bagcraft

Finance: The Foundation of All Economies

Steve Rosvold

We are living longer! Addressing the critical role that financial professionals will play in the lifestyle of generations to come. - Steve Rosvold, CFO.University

Finding and Maximizing the True Value of Intellectual Property

Is intellectual property important? Does it have value? Learn how you as a financial professional can find and maximize the value of your company’s IP. - TJ Romano, Intellectual Property Attorney

Proactive vs. Reactive Approach to Risk Management

Nick Warren

Does the word insurance make you feel tense? Learn how to maximize your return on investment by using a proactive risk management strategy. - Nick Warren, Vice President at Parker, Smith & Feek

Without Change, the M&A Boom Will Stunt Economic Growth

Grant Jones

M&A is a statistical failure. Tune in for 3 ideas on how to improve the rationale for doing acquisitions as well as improve success rates. - Grant Jones, Investment Banker & Operations/ Finance Executive

Is Your Competitive Philosophy Building or Killing Your Culture?

Erik Gillam

How did you feel the last time you were really stressed out or discontent? Were you thinking about how productive you were or how to move your company forward? We’d like to share with you how to build a team culture that is happier and less stressed leading to increased productivity and profit. - Erik Gillam, Partner at Aldrich CPAs + Advisors

Recover $100K Every Year from Your Supplier Spending

Dileep Kulkarni

Are you interested in an extra $100K for free every year? The secret is knowing where to look. - Dileep Kulkarni, Director at Expense Reduction Analysts

What Every CFO Needs to Know About Tax

In many ways, the CFO is responsible for the tax function of your company. Listen in for helpful tips on how to ensure this functions success. - Craig Vagt, Partner Emeritus Talbot, Korvola & Warwick, LLP

System Implementations can be Successful

Some of America’s best run companies fail when implementing an ERP system. We want to talk to you about how 3 simple concepts, Lead, Limit, Organize, can make your system implementation a success. - Andrew Lee, VP of Finance at RealWear,Inc

Stop Using Lean to Cut Costs

Andrea Jones

A clear cut model, supported with real life case studies, to advise companies to start using lean to increase revenue and stop using lean to cut costs. - Andrea Jones, Andrea Jones Consulting

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