Join us for an exclusive half-day workshop for CFOs at high-growth companies during San Francisco Tech Week.Â
Annual planning gives CFOs something rarer than a budget approval: sustained, structured time with the board. Most of the calendar year runs on quarterly updates and crisis management. Planning season runs differently, and few finance leaders treat it as the asset it actually is.
This session reframes the planning cycle as a relationship lever. We will explore how CFOs use planning conversations to communicate priorities early, invite board input before decisions harden and build enough trust during a low-stakes cycle to navigate the high-stakes ones later. The premise is direct: boards engage well when they are given room to engage, and planning season offers the widest room of the year.
Expect a practical look at how finance leaders turn a required process into their strongest board relationship of the year.
In this 90-minute working session, CFOs will map how they engage their board throughout the planning cycle and identify where earlier input can build greater trust and alignment. Through peer collaboration and expert guidance, participants will pressure-test their approach to key board conversations and design a practical engagement plan for the moments that matter most.
Every CFO leaves with a clear blueprint for using planning season to strengthen the board relationship before higher-stakes decisions arise.
At the close of the workshop, our subject-matter experts synthesize the room in real time, surfacing the strongest approaches to board engagement, the common friction points, and the strategies CFOs are using to build trust throughout the planning cycle.
The result is signal, not recap. Clear, practical takeaways CFOs can apply to their next board conversation.
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