Decision-Grade Data: Turning Sustainability Silos into Strategic Assets
How do leaders turn messy data into something they can trust? Global C-suite executive Amina Razvi joins us to explain why decision-grade data is the foundation of modern CFO risk management. She brea...
9 Feb 26min
When Congress Rewrites the Rules for FPIs
Is your team ready for foreign private issuer (FPI) Section 16 reporting? Congress recently passed the Holding Foreign Insiders Accountable Act, which fundamentally changes how international insiders ...
26 Jan 21min
Stability, Agility, and Clarity: What 2026 Will Demand from Leaders
https://www.workiva.com/What does leadership look like when volatility becomes the norm? Workiva CEO Julie Iskow joins Steve Soder and Alyssa Zucker to unpack what 2025 taught executives and how to pr...
12 Jan 21min
The Pre-Read Takes a Break: See You in 2026
Steve and Alyssa are taking a well-earned break, but the challenges facing the office of the CFO are not slowing down. In this short episode, producer Mike Gravagno looks back on a year where AI moved...
22 Dec 20251min
Efficiency vs. Risk: The Semiannual Reporting Debate Continues
Semiannual Reporting: Will doing "less" actually create more work? Finance and accounting leaders are split on whether moving from quarterly to semiannual SEC reporting will simplify processes or com...
15 Dec 202518min
Total Organizational Intelligence: Why AI and Integrated Data are a Survival Imperative
Jacob Andra, CEO of Talbot West, joins to discuss the urgent imperative for companies to move beyond siloed, ad hoc growth and embrace an integrated, tech-forward future. What you will learn in this e...
8 Dec 202520min
What Leaders Really Think About Quarterly vs. Semiannual Reporting
Could U.S. public companies shift from quarterly to semiannual reporting? Jonathan Johnson, former chairman and CEO of Overstock and current member of various boards, joins the show to unpack one of t...
1 Dec 202520min
How the Texas Stock Exchange is Changing Capital Markets
The Texas Stock Exchange (TXSE) is challenging long-held assumptions about what it means to go public in the U.S. Jeff Karcher joins The Pre-Read to share how the TXSE is rethinking the public company...
24 Nov 202525min
