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The Finance Leader Podcast
The Finance Leader Podcast
What separates finance professionals who influence strategy from those who only report the numbers? The answer isn't better spreadsheets. It's developing the judgment, leadership, and business acumen to become a trusted strategic advisor. The Finance Leader Podcast helps finance and accounting professionals, FP&A teams, controllers, CFOs, business owners, and executive leaders strengthen the connection between finance, operations, and strategy. Episodes provide practical insights, proven frameworks, and real-world lessons to help you improve decision making, develop executive presence, build stronger partnerships across the organization, and create measurable business value. Hosted by Stephen McLain, a retired U.S. Army Finance Officer and corporate FP&A and accounting consultant, the podcast combines military leadership experience with practical corporate finance expertise to help finance professionals lead with greater confidence and strategic impact. Start with the trailer, then subscribe so you never miss an episode. Thank you!
July 28, 2020

Impacts of Leadership Revisited - Leading Positive Change

Impacts of Leadership Revisited - Leading Positive Change

Send us Fan Mail Bonus episode #9: You can have a great Impact as a Leader in your organization. In this episode, I talk about why I love to lead, and the positive impacts we get to make in our organization. While we perform our Finance and Accounting duties, we can get overwhelmed while delivering financial projections, completing our journal entries, and conducting monthly close procedures, but we also have a great responsibility to create an environment where our team can grow and t...

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Bonus episode #9: You can have a great Impact as a Leader in your organization. In this episode, I talk about why I love to lead, and the positive impacts we get to make in our organization.

While we perform our Finance and Accounting duties, we can get overwhelmed while delivering financial projections, completing our journal entries, and conducting monthly close procedures, but we also have a great responsibility to create an environment where our team can grow and thrive. As leaders, here are a few significant ways we can impact our teams:

  • We get to grow and develop our people,
  • We can create positive change, and
  • We have the great opportunity to communicate a shared purpose and vision for our team.

We lead so we can make our team better and bring about positive change for our organization.

Note: the show notes are no longer available for this episode.


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