Learn how to elevate your own executive presence and achieve high levels of influence, leadership & make a strategic contribution inside your organization.
Few financial professionals even consider the importance of building their executive presence and then they wonder why they don't have a seat or a voice at the executive boardroom table. In this series of 6 modules, you will learn how to elevate your own executive presence and achieve high levels of influence, leadership and make a strategic contribution inside your organization. They are as follows:
Session 1: Confidence
Many financial professionals suffer from a lack of confidence, not a lack of competency. This session is designed to grow the confidence, ambition, and strategic influencing skills of high potential financial professionals in the business. The desired outcome is to elevate your level of personal presence and confidence to deliver information with the executive command. To walk into any situation and deliver a performance that realizes and demonstrates the full extent of your capabilities.
Session 2: Relationship Building
Many financial professionals suffer are not confident at relationship building in their professional careers. This session is designed to grow the confidence, ambition, and strategic influencing skills of high potential financial professionals in the business. The desired outcome is to establish strategic people networks across the organization and externally through stronger, deeper relationship building.
Session 3: Communication Skills
Many financial professionals struggle with communicating in a way other non-financial people understand – one of the six traits of executive presence. This webinar is designed to grow the confidence, ambition, and strategic influencing skills of high potential financial professionals in the business. The desired outcome is to speak and write with precision, clarity, and persuasion to convey important financial insights to those able to act and respond.
Session 4: Resilience
Many financial professionals face a continuous barrage of challenges. Seeing your way through these challenges and succeeding in the face of adversity is resilience – one of the six traits of executive presence. This session is designed to grow the confidence, ambition, and strategic influencing skills of high potential financial professionals in the business. The desired outcome is to increase your level of perseverance and resilience enabling you to see through important, challenging long-term initiatives.
Session 5: Credible Leadership
Many financial professionals face a continuous barrage of challenges. Seeing your way through these challenges and succeeding in the face of adversity is resilience – one of the six traits of executive presence. This webinar is designed to grow the confidence, ambition, and strategic influencing skills of high potential financial professionals in the business. In this session, you will learn how to recruit, retain, and develop a strong team of financial professionals increasing the capabilities and capacity of the finance function to support the business. You will learn the approaches to raising and protecting the level of financial credibility, allowing conversations to focus on the implications of numbers and less on the numbers themselves.
Session 6: Personal Branding
Many financial professionals suffer from a weak presence, not from a lack of competence, but because the finance discipline is so complex and analytical in-nature. This session of the webinar is designed to grow the confidence, ambition, and strategic influencing skills of high potential financial professionals in the business. After taking this webinar, you will know how to strengthen your personal brand and consistently deliver on that brand promise each and every day.
Field of Study: Personal Development
CPA, CA Leadership
Blair is a seven-time CFO, a director, and an educator at Executive Finance Partners - a professional development and executive coaching firm for financial professionals and executives. He also serves as a corporate director and audit committee chair of publicly listed companies: Terravest Industries and Clarke Inc. He is also the Board Treasurer of the Devour Food & Film Festival and serves on various committees of CPA Nova Scotia. Blair is the author of The Illiterate Executive: An Executive’s Handbook for Mastering Financial Acumen.
