The CFO Agenda: What Top Finance Executives are Thinking – and Doing (E2504044)

John Goff is a senior manager in Deloitte's CFO Program and the editor of CFO Signals, a quarterly survey of chief financial officers. He also works on a number of other CFO Program offerings, including CFO Insights and the flagship CFO Vision conference. Goff has covered corporate finance and CFOs for more than three decades. In that time, he has served as editor or web editor for five publications, winning numerous business press awards.

Dr. Kalish is the Deloitte Global Chief Economist and also the Chief US Economist and Senior Managing Director, Deloitte Services LP. He is a specialist in global and US economic issues as well as the effects of economic, demographic, and social trends on the global business environment. As part of his US role, he advises Deloitte clients as well as Deloitte’s leadership on economic issues and their impact on business strategy. In addition, he has given numerous presentations to corporations and trade organizations on topics related to the global economy. He is widely traveled and has given presentations in 47 countries on six continents. He has been quoted by the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and The Financial Times. Dr. Kalish holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Vassar College and a PhD in international economics from Johns Hopkins University.

Fernanda Soares is a senior manager in the Human Capital Organization Transformation practice at Deloitte. Fernanda specializes in organizational strategies and change management\ and she works with clients in the Consumer and Automotive industries, assisting them with large scale finance transformation initiatives. Fernanda is a leader in Deloitte’s Human Capital Finance Transformation CoE and a Deloitte Finance Transformation Fellow. Fernanda holds an MBA with focus on Strategy and Management and Organizations from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

Sarah is a managing director in Deloitte’s Human Capital practice with nearly 20 years of consulting experience, focusing on the Life Sciences industry. Sarah is known for being able to effectively collaborate with Life Sciences executives to help them achieve their strategic business transformation goals through organization transformation solutions, including strategic change, organizational design, and culture change.

Sarah has assisted client transformations across multiple facets of the organization, including Finance. Specifically, she led the organizational change management required to help two global Life Sciences companies in achieving their finance transformation ambitions.