How CFOs stay strategic in a world that constantly pulls them back into operations

Today’s CFO is expected to do both: keep the business running and help shape the future of the organization. In practice, however, operational demands often take over. Board meetings, urgent decisions, transformations, organizational changes and talent challenges all compete for attention.

Many finance leaders find themselves constantly reacting. Days fill up with operational issues, leaving little space to step back, think strategically and focus on the decisions that shape long-term direction.

In this interactive workshop, leadership advisor Frans van Loef introduces a practical framework for redesigning your Personal Operating Model: the way you structure your roles, focus your attention and organise how you lead.

Working through five drivers, Roles, Focus, Leadership Mode, Way of Working and Wellbeing, participants will reflect on their current operating model and identify where it supports their impact and where it quietly pulls them back into operational overload.

The session also offers a rare opportunity to step back and reflect with fellow CFOs on the question every senior leader eventually faces: what kind of leader you need to be in the next phase of your organization and what may need to change in the way you lead today?

Expect to leave with clear insights on what to stop, simplify or delegate, and how to create more space for strategic thinking, shifting your focus from running the business to building its future.