SFLP helps senior financial executives understand the nexus of finance, leadership, communication and finance. You will become a partner in the formulation of the company’s strategy and help in its execution. You will leave the program with the tools to become a trusted strategic advisor who not only ensures that finance flows from, informs and fits strategy, but also to lead it.
- The Role of Financial Leadership
- Recasting Financial Statements for Value Creation
- Developing a Strategic Mindset
- Strategic Challenges in Top Management Teams
- Strategic Decision-Making
- Why Smart Executives Fail
- Discovering the Unique Added Value of Leaders
- Evaluating Leadership Styles/Situational Leadership
- Leading Up/Leading Across
- Communicating Strategically
- Using Corporate Communications to Enhance Reputation
- Leadership and Personal Responsibility
- Leading in a Crisis
- Assessing and Managing Risk
- Measuring Strategic Performance
- Team Action Learning Projects
Senior financial leaders and their high-potential staff who are involved in developing strategy. SFLP is designed as a consortium that brings together finance teams from leading companies. This intercompany peer learning accelerates and leverages knowledge, experience and best practices. Company teams consist of 3-5 high-potential financial professionals. SFLP is also open to individual participants.
ACTION LEArNING/APPLY WHAT YOU LEARN
As part of their learning experience, teams and individuals will collaborate on an action learning project of strategic relevance to the company. These hands-on projects are designed around company-specific issues and focus on real challenges that are at the nexus between strategy and finance.
Applying the concepts to real issues provides an ROI on the learning experience and delivers a payoff to improve business performance for the company. Action learning also unleashes the team’s creative thinking and encourages the development of a common internal language around strategy, finance and leadership.
Tuck faculty have extensive experience in integrating and supporting action learning projects as part of the overall learning experience. Prof. Robert Howell is actively involved in the process to help shape the projects and ensure a linkage between finance, strategy and leadership.
Robert Howell A Distinguished Visiting Professor of Business Administration at Tuck, Professor Howell specializes
in accounting and finance and is a leading authority on corporate governance and financial measurement, analysis, reporting, and control practices. He has consulted for such companies as General Electric, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, Caterpillar, Boeing, Hallmark, AT&T, and Nestlé.
Joining Professor Howell are Tuck faculty:
Sydney Finkelstein An authority on strategy, strategic leadership, and top management teams. His best-selling books – Think Again: Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions and How to Keep It from Happening to You and Why Smart Executives Fail are considered definitive works in the field of business leadership.
Pino Audia An expert on leadership, organizational change, team dynamics, and strategy implementation, Professor Audia has helped managers at major global firms increase their leadership effectiveness.
Paul Argenti, professor of management and corporate communication at Tuck, he is an expert in corporate communication strategies. He has provided management, strategy, and corporate communication consulting and training for more than 50 organizations.
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The educational rationale of the program is to provide senior financial executives with the tools – both financial and strategic – to link strategy, leadership, and financial decision-making to long term value creation. We believe that, too often, this linkage is not strong enough, and potential value creation is missed.