CFO Yeah!

“Keep true to yourself, and be authentic. Don't change yourself for an organization. Go find one that likes you just the way that you are. That’s the best piece of advice I could give.”

Heather Dixon has been inside finance functions for three decades - leading her teams with a unique, authentic leadership style. She has worked in healthcare since 2017, and joined Everside to keep delivering greater impact via her finance team.

In this episode of the CFO Yeah! podcast, Heather explains how finance has been transforming healthcare, and how CFOs are growing into a new, transversal role within their organization.

After 16 years at large building materials distributor Travis Perkins, Nick Rose took a leap of faith. He joined Enable, a fast-growing collaboration platform helping companies of all sizes improve financial transparency and operational efficiency. In less than 2 years, he’s led the company through two successful fundraising rounds, helped reshape its finance function, and forged a commitment to reaching carbon neutrality.

Our first CFO Connect event of 2022 focused on a topic far too neglected in the finance industry: impostor syndrome, and the toll it takes on finance professionals. To address this topic, we spoke with Catherine Clark, executive mentor and former CFO. After spending more than 20 years in organizations of all sizes, she shifted her attention and skills to professional mentoring. Catherine now helps finance leaders unlock their potential and excel in their roles. We dug deep into the roots of impostor syndrome, its consequences for finance professionals, and the ways to overcome it to express your full potential as a leader.

Anders Liu-Lindberg is a partner at the Business Partnering Institute, a board member at Born Capital, and spent 10 years in the finance team at A.P. Moller - Maersk. He’s also a thought leader on FP&A and the modern finance function. In this episode, he shares his vision for the future of finance with us. We discuss shifting your mindset, a new way to embrace risk, and what he calls finance’s “unfair advantage.”

Chad Martin has seen the finance world’s ongoing evolution first-hand. After 10 years in investment banking at Goldman Sachs, he became a CFO, a role he’s held for 17 years in healthcare, energy, and software companies. Currently driving finance at MeridianLink, he spearheaded the company’s successful IPO in 2020. We discussed the challenges occurring in the finance department when a company goes public. He also shared the changes he’s witnessed in the finance industry, led by the growing impact of data and digital tools.

After almost 20 years as an external advisor and finance leader, Dan Wells founded GrowCFO, a community dedicated to support finance leaders throughout their professional journey. In this episode, Dan discusses how the role of the modern-day CFO has changed over the past years. He shares a lot of tips for aspiring CFOs, the skill sets young professionals need to develop, and the main challenges they need to overcome early in their careers.

How can finance leaders become true strategic advisors to influence the long term visions of their firms? And how can you have true impact in an industry that’s been dramatically hit by the pandemic? Gerardo Adame is VP Finance North America at XP Power. In this episode of the CFO Yeah! podcast, we discussed with Gerardo about how finance leaders can lead their companies through difficult times, modern shakeups in traditional industries, and how executive finance roles have moved beyond data to strategic advice.

Jana is not only the VP Finance at omni:us, but she is also the inventor of the finance toolbox, a playbook to help startups create their finance processes from scratch. In this episode, we spoke with Jana about her experience building the finance team at omni:us, managing productivity on a four-day work week, investing in yourself through side projects, and the gender gap in finance.

Pedro Barros is VP of Finance at Remote, a global HR solution for distributed teams. He witnessed the company’s hypergrowth during the pandemic and helped lead its Series B in July 2021. In this episode, we explore Pedro’s journey up the finance ladder, his insights on how to be a good leader, and his vision for the future of finance and remote work.

From a very young age, Alka Tandan has been passionate about the IT industry. In this episode from the CFO Yeah! podcast, she shares her 20-year journey through the SaaS industry, plus her insights on how finance leaders can support their company’s scaling efforts and what qualities are required to make it to the unicorn stage.