Strategic Financial Leadership
In the Strategic Financial Leadership podcast, finance expert and former CFO, Steve Coughran, covers the latest in business strategy, corporate finance, and economics. This weekly podcast is a forum for candid conversations with leading voices to discuss the trends, approaches, and innovations shaping the future of business and the finance function. Increasingly, CFOs are mired in detail and complexity at the risk of neglecting true value creation activities – analysis and strategic improvement. Irrelevant data, complex planning and budgeting systems, and impertinent measures keep finance and operation managers from focusing on the true levers of value. As the engine of an organization, the strategic financial leader is called to shift the organizational mindset, moving a company and its employees towards a culture founded on growth, innovation, and resilience. Through interviews with CFOs, entrepreneurs, and top business executives, Steve takes listeners inside the world of corporate finance to uncover the essential strategies that business leaders can follow to drive successful business transformation and profitability. In this podcast, Steve and guests share stories and steps to help companies shift from transactional to strategic, responsive to proactive, and from setting goals to exceeding them.
Strategic Financial Leadership
31: Innovation Despite Rogue Waves With Jonathan Brill
When it comes to building a strategy for our organization, we tend to base it off of the fact that history repeats itself. But stopping there can still leave many of us blindsided. Because let’s face it, if we’ve learned anything from this past year, it's that planning for the totally unexpected is what separates the ill-prepared from the truly innovative and resilient.
But how do you plan and pivot for these surprise trials and tribulations? Our guest today, Jonathan Brill, is an innovation executive who through his new book, Rogue Waves, presents his ABC’s of resilient growth. His method allows insight into how the success of an organization can prevail in times of uncertainty with the skills and team already acquired, even when coming into the fight generally unprepared. Or better yet, avoiding the scramble altogether by building a muscle memory of identifying and preparing for the problem before it ever takes place.
Holding a degree in Industrial Design from Pratt Institute, Jonathan has trained tens of thousands of executives in innovation, strategy, and decision-making techniques. Formerly the Global Futurist and Research Director at Hewlett Packard, he has also served as managing partner of innovation consultancies that developed over 350 products for clients like Samsung, Microsoft, Verizon, PepsiCo and the US government.
He is currently a board member and advisor to the Chairman at Frost & Sullivan, a market intelligence firm that operates in 46 countries, as well as the managing director of Resilient Growth Partners.
Additionally, he serves as a speaker and contributor for TED, Singularity University, Korn Ferry, J.P. Morgan, Forbes and the Harvard Business Review.
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