While there’s been an increase in slack/professional groups among finance leaders these past few years, we have found them lacking in the most strategic areas of the finance job. It’s a massive missed opportunity when we can’t leverage our peers for critical decisions and strategic initiatives, especially if people are eager to help.
Most of us are not going to share issues about poor sales and an upcoming RIF in an open forum that immediately associates us and our companies. Most leaders will choose not to share in a large group when they are having serious issues with a board member, but would love to get thoughts on how to deal with these situations, or just get some empathy.
We have started a group to share challenges and get feedback from a community of top finance executives without having to disclose your name and company details.
There is no pressure to post anything if you want to just participate and see what others have to say.
We’re building this community for all of us, so please don’t hesitate to share any feedback!
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Who can sign up? To keep the community as relevant as possible, at this time it is invite-only and limiting to finance leaders reporting to the CEO (Director/VP/CFO) at companies of 50-1000 people.
There are two ways to post to the community:
(1) The first is to simply email me your question or comment, or
(2) There’s a google form to submit questions and comments anonymously. The form does not require email.
Several times a week, we will aggregate the questions received via email and google form and share them with the community via a new email. If you can’t wait to get the email, we’ll also keep a notion page updated real time with posts and replies (all anonymous unless you want to be revealed).
If you would like to reply to a post or share insights, there are also two ways:
(1) You can email me, and I’ll aggregate responses for each question.
(2) If you don’t feel comfortable emailing me, the anonymous google form collects responses to existing posts as well. The form does not require email.