854: Expecting the Unexpected | Shana Veale, CFO, PharmChem
Shana Veale had been working in the Albuquerque, New Mexico, office of Arthur Andersen for only about 8 months when the 88-year-old stalwart accounting house collapsed. Being a recent college graduat...
30 Nov 202226min
853: When the Fire Burns Brightest | Chip Zint, CFO, Deluxe
After Chip Zint jumped two levels in NCR Corp.’s retail division finance hierarchy, he couldn’t help but savor the moment while reflecting on the fact that his career years thus far—including nights a...
27 Nov 202247min
The Friday Elon Slept Late | A Workplace Champions Episode
Brett & Jack discuss the workforce rantings of Elon Musk and the new Twitter owner's November 16th deadline for employees to decide whether to leave or stay. Is Musk's leadership style solely responsi...
23 Nov 202248min
852: Thriving in the Deep End | Jonathan Carr, CFO, Armis
When Jonathan Carr first walked through the doors of the Stryker Inc. plant in Arroyo, Puerto Rico, the boyish newbie accountant no doubt turned the heads of a few managers. Having finished college o...
20 Nov 202235min
851: The Rudiments of Scale | Tony Tiscornia, CFO, Coupa
Few finance leaders have better revealed to us the career-transforming powers of IPOs than CFO Tony Tiscornia.Turn back the clock to 2015, and Tiscornia is the accounting-minded VP of finance for spen...
16 Nov 202234min
850: A CFO’s Ultimate Covid Test | Anat Ashkenazi, CFO, Eli Lilly
In March 2020, when Eli Lilly announced that it would begin providing drive-through COVID testing services to the state of Indiana’s healthcare workers, more than a few hospital administrators likely ...
13 Nov 20221h
849: Adding Value to an Academic City | Brett Powell, CFO, Baylor University
When Brett Powell is asked what distinguishes his day-to-day role as a finance leader inside the world of academia from that of his CFO peers residing within industry, Powell without hesitation says, ...
9 Nov 202243min
848: The People, the Mission & the Innovation | Evan Goldstein, CFO, Seismic
Evan Goldstein tells us that it was at the end of another long day—after a week of long days—as he was walking to the parking lot adjacent to Genentech’s offices that he received a “gut punch.”Becomin...
6 Nov 202259min
