#158: Navigating finance leadership and the current challenges we can’t ignore with Brad Eisenhuth

How do you get a ‘real’ sense of what are the main challenges facing finance leaders, how practically we can best deal with these and share these insights for free to thousands of finance professionals? Well how about you arrange a Virtual Worldwide Finance Summit and get 12 thought leaders from around the globe to contribute over two weeks to helping move our profession forward. Well that’s what today’s guest mentor, Brad Eisenhuth, founder & CEO of the multi-award winning The Outperformer did. Together on this week’s episode we deconstruct: • What’s on the minds of finance leaders following the success of his profession’s first world virtual finance summit; • Navigating the challenge of being busy and under pressure, while attempting to innovate and raise the performance of your function; • The misconception of the ‘band-aid’ education solutions that leaders are used to using, but not working in the modern and ever-changing business context; • Enablement vs Value Creation (where many accounting and finance professionals can get confused). If you enjoyed this episode, check out our time-stamped show notes, key quotes, resources and ways to connect with our guest mentor and more at sitnshow.com/podcast/158. #FinancialMentor #SITN #ValueCreation #Finance #modernfinance

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