CFOs: Are you looking to improve your leadership effectiveness?

Senior leadership roles are increasingly challenging in our volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world. It can be enormously difficult to manage the functional and strategic demands of your role as well as your own well-being and family commitments. The CFO role can be particularly isolating and creating a space for your own personal and professional growth is essential.
 

Do you want to become a courageous and compassionate leader who can lead your organisation through times of change?

No doubt you have enjoyed great success in your career to date, which has brought you to the C-Suite (or close to it!), and now you recognise that something more is required of you to be truly effective in delivering great business performance. You may feel isolated or out of your depth as you lead through change, and the strengths which brought you to this point may no longer be working as you seek to broaden your influence and build the creative capacity in both yourself and your team to cope with increased complexity.

You have awesome technical capabilities and have been respected as an expert in your field, however the role of a contemporary, evolved CFO requires you to embrace a more right-brain, creative, and people focused approach than was historically necessary, and it can be challenging to balance this with the simultaneous need for data, analysis, and focus on the bottom line. 

The keys to building your authentic leadership capabilities are:

• Building your self-awareness so you understand where your strengths are propelling your forward and where your blind-spots are holding you back
• Exploring and articulating your leadership purpose so that you can truly lead a team or organisation
• Unpacking your own narratives around your identity, enabling you to gain new perspectives on who you are, how you live and how you lead
• Connecting your head and your heart through cultivating mindfulness and reflective practices
• Accepting feedback so that you understand how your colleagues experience your leadership

Leadership coaching can deliver the following:

• Enhanced leadership effectiveness, through understanding of underlying habits of thought
• Improved personal engagement
• Broader perspective on key business issues
• Improved relationship building with key stakeholders
• Better alignment between individual and organisational values and purpose
• Deeper understanding of strengths and leadership style
• Accelerated integration to a new role

Coaching provides a safe, ongoing learning forum where you will be both challenged and supported and have access to a confidential sounding board, as well as a safe haven for experiencing and experimenting with new mindsets and behaviours. This enables you to deal with issues which arise on a timely basis.

The CFO Coaching Program

Transformation of leadership doesn't happen overnight, it requires commitment and a genuine desire for change. Are you up for the challenge?

Designed for CFOs and other senior finance leaders this program provides support throughout a twelve month period, enabling the leader to identify beliefs and behaviours which are holding their progress back, opportunities to shift their stories about themselves and others so that they can create new possibilities, and make progress on their goals. The coach partners with the leader to challenge assumptions and promote new thinking, acts as a sounding board, a mirror to reflect what they are experiencing of the leader and also an accountability buddy.

Included in the program are the following:

• 90-minute kick-off goal setting session
• Development goal setting with leader and their organisational sponsor
• 14 x 1 hour coaching sessions 
• Reading lists and development exercises to enhance learning and support transformation during the year
• Quarterly business book
• Access to a quarterly CFO Virtual Roundtable - by invitation only
• Gallup strengths assessment: leverage your strengths
• Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument: increase your awareness of your thinking preferences
• Monthly 30 minute phone calls
• Midpoint review with leader and their organisational sponsor
• Feedback session at end of program
• Optional extra: The Leadership Circle Profile™, a powerful 360 degree assessment instrument
• Informal stakeholder feedback report

Every engagement is tailored around the needs of the individual and organisation.

Availability for this program is limited: I take a maximum of 15 clients into this 12 month program each year.

Testimonials

"Sue is incredibly good at getting you clear on how you can best contribute to an organisation's success. I learned how to achieve stronger results and become more influential with my peers." Director of Finance & Operations

"By asking powerful questions Sue helps me understand the stories I am telling myself and get to the bottom of my thinking." Head of Group Financial Control

"Working with Sue you will understand yourself better, enhance your leadership style and unlock your aspirations." CFO, Asia Pacific

"I recommend working with Sue to any senior leader looking to release anything which is holding them back in their leadership, and get more balance back in their life." CFO