The Finance Gem 💎 #117: If You Can’t Speak Finance You Can’t Lead

Hi there,

Most CEOs and CFOs rely on financial reports that track performance. But tracking is not leadership.

If you can’t connect your financial insight and foresight to the strategic outcomes you want to achieve - cash flow, capital plans, valuation targets, you won’t be able to discharge your duties as CEO.

And if you’re a CFO, you and your team will sadly remain a cost center, not a profit center.

This is the line that separates those who report on performance from those who drive enterprise value.

In today’s issue, I’ll show you how top-performing leaders can use a single integrated model link their decisions and capital spending and funding strategies to their ultimate objective - enterprise (and shareholder) value creation.

And you’ll see how you can master those same simple skills too - over a short 6 weeks - inside the CEO Financial Intelligence Program which kicks off in just 2 days.

Here’s what we’re covering this week:

• The LAST live executive session for 2025 I’m hosting this week - The CEO/CXO Financial Intelligence Masterclass

• I got featured in Forbes - because Financial Intelligence is the next leadership advantage

• The 16-in-1 Financial Intelligence Model - your literal business finance cheat sheet

• The CEO Financial Intelligence Program Final Cohort of 2025 - changing how CEOs lead one leader at a time: 100+ leaders, 4 cohorts, 20+ countries, 6 weeks - starts Nov 12

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