Join FEI TWC for this month's Career Development Session : The Focus Advantage: How Financial Leaders Design Systems for Strategic Work
Financial leaders face a unique paradox: the higher you climb, the more your time fragments. Strategic thinking gets crowded out by urgent requests, your calendar fills with meetings about meetings, and you end most days wondering where your time actually went. The problem isn't your schedule; it's the system.
This session reveals how high-performing finance teams redesign their work environments to protect the cognitive bandwidth necessary for complex analysis, strategic planning, and the deep thinking that drives business value. Drawing from organizational psychology and workplace focus research showing that 92% of employers identify lost focus as an alarming problem, you'll discover the operational changes that distinguish teams who do high-value work from teams who stay perpetually busy.
Whether you're leading a finance function or managing your own career transition, you'll walk away with practical frameworks for reclaiming your attention, establishing team agreements that protect focused work time, and creating the conditions where strategic thinking can actually happen.
CPE Learning Objectives:
- Identify the systemic factors that fragment executive attention and explain how these factors undermine strategic thinking, deep analysis, and high-value financial leadership.
- Analyze research-backed focus and workflow design principles to determine which operational changes help finance teams protect cognitive bandwidth and reduce low-value busyness.
- Apply practical frameworks for designing team agreements and work systems that safeguard focused work time, improve strategic capacity, and enable finance leaders to consistently prioritize high-impact work.
Agenda:
| 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM | Networking & Registration |
| 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Program and Q & A |
| 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | Networking |
| 10:00 AM | Departure |
Free parking is available. Light pastries, coffee and tea are provided.
Earn 1 CPE credit while exploring timely, relevant content designed for today’s finance professionals.
This is a joint meeting with FEI and FENG. Members, prospective Members, and guests are welcome.
If you would like additional information, please feel free to contact Career Development Chair Eric Mitchellette at emitchellette@sbciusa.com or (612)-532-9284
*Individuals who register as a Qualified Prospective Member must meet FEI's Membership Qualifications.
This event offers 1 CPE credit(s) to all eligible attendees. Financial Executives International (FEI) is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org.
For FEI CPE credits, one credit hour equals 50 minutes according to NASBA guidelines. Some state boards may differ on how many minutes constitute a credit hour. Contact your state board for more information. Questions or comments? Contact FEI at cpe@financialexecutives.org.