Transform your role from financial manager to visionary leader by mastering the advanced strategic frameworks needed to drive sustainable enterprise growth.
Are you a financial professional who wants to move beyond the scorekeeper role and become a true strategic partner at the executive table? Do you find yourself in strategy conversations where you can quantify the numbers but struggle to challenge the strategic logic itself?
This course is designed to change that. Deepening the Strategic Mindset for the Financial Executive is a rigorous, practitioner-led course built around three enduring principles: that great strategy emerges from insight, choice, and disciplined execution — not from templates and goal lists.
Drawing on the most respected frameworks in modern strategy, the course equips financial leaders with both the conceptual vocabulary and the practical analytical tools to make a meaningful and differentiated contribution to their organization's strategic management process.
The course is organized around four pillars of modern strategy.
Learners leave equipped to facilitate a rigorous strategic conversation, recognize the hallmarks of good and bad strategy, evaluate alternatives using a financial lens, and help their organization align its people, processes, and systems to deliver on strategic commitments.
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.
