Episodes
#343 MM What’s The Difference Between Digitalization And Digital Transformation
“What’s the difference between Digitalization and Digital Transformation?” Is a question I had recently and given recent Gartner research points to the fact that 85% of finance teams are...
#342: Why We Need To Be More Like Financial Journalists with Michael Lengenfelder
Our Guest Mentor: Michael Lengenfelder is an experienced business leader who has had to wear many hats during his career as a Consultant, Business Unit Head, Finance Vice President and now in his current...
#339 MM Is Work – Life Balance The Right Goal
Work-life balance as a goal? That’s what someone asked me and whilst it seemed a very noble target to aim for it’s also probably a tricky question to answer.In...
#336: Closing Digital Finance Capability Gaps with Himashi Soriano
Our Guest Mentor: HIMASHI SORIANO is the Managing Director, APAC at Association for Financial Professionals (AFP), where she oversees operations, builds customer relationships and develops partnerships within the Asia-Pacific region. Her focus is on...
#334: Find Success And Prosperity by Focusing on Your Relationships with Alice Tang
Our Guest Mentor: ALICE TANG is a Vice President and Partner at a full-service multi-generational financial planning firm in Oregon. She started her financial advising career in 2000 as an...
#333 MM : Important Population Growth Trends And Myths
“We need to limit population growth to save the planet.” Was what my son said to me when doing a recent science project, however I wasn’t so sure. In...
#332: Getting Started with KPIs to Measure Anything with Bernie Smith
Our Guest Mentor: BERNIE SMITH is a KPI author, consultant, trainer, and the owner of Made to Measure KPIs and has worked with many major organisations including HSBC, Airbus, UBS, Barclays, Credit Suisse, Lloyds and...
#331 MM: A Dangerous Myth That’s Holding Back Financial Professionals
“You can’t measure everything!” Was what a senior finance executive said to me as I began to challenge her to help me understand how she assessed the performance of...
#330: The Advantages of Keeping An Ownership Mindset with Nima Motazed
Our Guest Mentor: NIMA MOTAZED is currently Assistant Vice President for Global Business Solutions at Swiss Re and has 25+ years of experience in the set-up, transformation, revitalization, and merger of major European and global...
#329: MM: 3 Key Lessons Jerry Maguire Teaches Us About Having A Successful Finance Career
“Show Me The Money” This is one of the most well-known lines from the movie Jerry Maguire, but there are other lessons in the movie which I share in...
#328: Translating Stories to Numbers to Create Business Value with Jing Zhang
Our Guest Mentor: JING ZHANG is global finance leader in the healthcare and manufacturing industry. As the CFO at 3D Medicines., a leading China biotech company with an ambition...
#327: MM: 5 Reasons Why Finance Teams Should Ask Your Developer
Ask Your Developer! That’s what Finance teams should be doing. In this bite-sized episode I share some three thoughts on how Finance teams and professionals can harness the power...
#326: Boosting Your In-Person & Virtual Presence with Katie Thomas
KATIE THOMAS has spent the past 10 years working in marketing, sales, accounting gaining a unique perspective on the intersection between positioning, selling, and running profitable businesses. Whilst working for one of the largest...
#324: Leading the Largest F&A Shared Service in the World with Stephen Sutcliffe
Our Guest Mentor: STEPHEN SUTCLIFFE is Director of Accounting at NHS Shared Services, the largest F&A Shared service in the world, with a drive to improved customer satisfaction and digital transformation. Stephen...
#323: MM: What’s A Cameraman & Helicopter & Drone Got To Do With Your Finance Career
What’s a Cameraman & Helicopter Got To Do With Your Finance Career? During the week I had a conversation helping a fellow finance professional through their career bone diagram...
#322: Mentoring And The Unconventional Accountant with Hiten Keshave
Our Guest Mentor: HITEN KESHAVE’S passion for Bottom Up and Mindshift Leadership (and implementation of) distinguishes him as an individual. His knowledge, guidance, mentoring and training to businesses and...
#321: MM: Finance Professionals Should Know Better When Making This Resource Allocation Mistake
How do you make sure that you’re implementing the right strategy you want to implement? You watch where your resources flow, what we call the resource allocation process. If...
#320: Should Finance Be Responsible For Pricing With Tom Fencl
TOM FENCL is CFO at Pricefx a leading SaaS-based price management, price optimization and Configure-Price-Quote (CPQ) business. Tom has over 20 years of experience in financial management and investment banking. Before joining Pricefx, he held CFO positions at...
#319: MM: Can The Finance Team Save The World?
Can Finance Save the World? This was the title of a book that came to my attention by Bertrand Badré and which I read over the Holidays. As much...
#318: How Finance Can Enable Innovation with Amy Radin
Our Guest Mentor: AMY RADIN is an Operating Executive, Advisor, Board Director and Author with C-suite experience in Fortune 500 financial services, payments and insurance businesses. She is...
#344: How To Invest Like The Best With Chris Belchamber
“It doesn't matter whether you're right or wrong,…