CFO Talks 2025 - The Strategic CFO; Personality, Pressure and Performance

What will set you apart

By completing this course you will gain the following competencies

• One Morning. Real Behaviour. Strategic Impact.
• Your job title is CFO, but your real influence comes from how you lead under pressure. The 2025 CFO Talks is for finance leaders who want to go beyond technical skill and understand what truly shapes strategic performance.
• This is a focused session on the behavioural traits, tools, and decisions that separate technical experts from board-level influencers.
• 1. Strategies That Match the Pressure
• Practical insight on how to:
• Recognise when your strengths become risks under stress
• Use systems like Sage to avoid micromanagement and behavioural bottlenecks
• Delegate with accountability and scale leadership across your team
• Lead performance without defaulting to control
• No buzzwords. Just what works in high-stakes finance roles.
• 2. Recognition That Reflects Real Leadership
• We highlight what isn’t usually discussed:
• The behavioural cost of getting it right every time
• The silent pressure behind compliance-heavy, high-visibility roles
• The shift from technician to influencer, and how it’s perceived
• Because strategic leadership isn’t always visible, but it can be validated.
• 3. Support That Builds Capacity, Not Workload
• Ongoing support through:
• Strategic CPD and the CCFO designation from CIBA
• Sage tech tools that remove friction and free your focus
• A peer network facing the same behavioural expectations
• You can’t scale pressure. You can scale support.
• 4. Insight With Business Return
• You’ll hear from finance leaders who’ve:
• Recovered from derailers and rebuilt influence
• Redefined their leadership without losing performance
• Used behavioural insight to position themselves for bigger roles
• Not motivation. Actionable reflection from executives who’ve lived it.
• 5. Connection With Strategic Peers
• Use this time to:
• Engage in high-trust, high-value discussion
• Benchmark your leadership traits and pressure responses
• Recalibrate your growth path with people who understand the stakes
• It’s not a conference. It’s a strategic checkpoint.
• 6. Leave With More Than a Takeaway
• By the end of the morning, you’ll have:
• A behavioural lens to view your leadership strengths and risks
• Tools to lead with more trust and less control
• A clear path to the CCFO designation and what it proves to your board
• Seats are limited. Join us to lead with clarity, and with credentials that back it.