In this course, we are going to look at getting started in a new CFO role.
Stepping into a new CFO role is both exciting and challenging—whether it’s your first appointment or a transition to a new organization. This course provides a strategic roadmap for your first 100 days, beginning with an overview of the modern CFO’s evolving responsibilities and the key traits you need to succeed.
You’ll explore team-building strategies, tools to assess the current finance function, and ways to align finance with broader organizational goals. By the end of the course, you'll be equipped to define a clear mission for finance, structure your team effectively, and lead your first major change initiative with confidence.
CPA, CA Leadership
Blair is a seven-time CFO, a director, and an educator at Executive Finance Partners - a professional development and executive coaching firm for financial professionals and executives. He also serves as a corporate director and audit committee chair of publicly listed companies: Terravest Industries and Clarke Inc. He is also the Board Treasurer of the Devour Food & Film Festival and serves on various committees of CPA Nova Scotia. Blair is the author of The Illiterate Executive: An Executive’s Handbook for Mastering Financial Acumen.
Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.
Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.
