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Agile Finance: Strategies for Streamlined Annual Budgeting and Planning | Dominic DiBernardo

Dominic DiBernardo shares how to incorporate agile strategies into a finance team’s annual budgeting and planning cycle.

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AI-Powered Finance: Developing Your Implementation Roadmap | Rishi Grover

Learn how finance leaders can implement generative AI to reduce repetitive, manual work across their teams and increase focus on strategy. 

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Mastering Finance Through Continuous Learning | Bryan Lapidus

Learn how CFOs and finance leaders can instill a culture of continuous learning, and how finance professionals can embrace a growth mindset to advance in their careers.

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Data Skills for the Modern Office of Finance | Thomas Ho

Thomas Ho discusses how data-gathering methods are revolutionizing finance roles, necessitating new skills that finance professionals need to master to keep pace with rapid change.

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Navigating the AI-Driven Future of Business with Microsoft | Ahmed Adel

In this episode, host Melissa Howatson talks to Ahmed Adel, the Director of Data, Apps & AI Cloud Solution Architecture at Microsoft to discuss Microsoft’s continuous investments in AI, and the implications these innovations could have for finance professionals and the potential impact of AI on the future of work.

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Soft Skills for the Modern Office of Finance | Meg Bear

Learn how CFOs and finance leaders can adapt their leadership styles and hiring standards to better fit the modern finance team. 

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Breaking Point: Fighting Burnout in Finance | Ruchi Kasliwal

Ruchi Kasliwal joins Melissa to share vital strategies to protect finance teams from burnout.

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The Hidden Power of CFO-CRO Collaboration | Puneet Arora

Puneet Aurora of Yellow.ai joins Melissa to discuss how CFOs can form strong business partnerships with their CROs.

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Navigating the Digital Financial Transformation Journey | Stacy Brown

Learn how finance can benefit from investing in digitization, and the role CFOs need to play in leading digital transformation within their organizations.

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Staying Sharp as a CFO: Insider Tips from Melissa Howatson

Thomas Krolak, Director of FP&A at Vena, has a front-row seat to how our CFO and show host, Melissa Howatson, handles this challenge. In this episode, Thomas and Melissa flip the script, with Thomas interviewing Melissa about how to stay sharp as a CFO.

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