We are hosting a private AI-ready CFO Masterclass on Wednesday, September 9, at 11:00 AM ET.
This is not a demo.
This is a 60-minute walkthrough of the sequence a finance function must follow to get started with AI, from a CFO who has run it with real companies this year.
Live. Ask questions. Challenge what works and what does not.
The AI-Ready CFO: Assess, Govern, Enable, Pilot, Go (LIVE)
Most CFOs start in the wrong place.
They start with the tool. They buy the licenses, run a few experiments, and wait for something to happen. Gartner found that 84% of finance organizations have deployed AI, and only 7% report high impact.
Everyone bought the same models.
Almost nobody followed a sequence.
Glenn’s argument is that the order matters more than the technology, and he has the engagements to prove it.
Glenn Hopper is the real AI CFO leading this session.
Decades in finance leadership, running AI-powered workflows inside his actual planning process today. He is the author of AI Mastery for Finance Professionals, and he advises finance teams on AI deployment through his consulting practice.
What Glenn will cover
Assess. Identify the use cases with the best mix of impact and feasibility before anyone talks about tools. Most teams pick the exciting use case rather than the achievable one and stall six weeks later.
Govern. Put simple guardrails in place early. Not a policy document nobody reads. The specific controls that let you move fast without creating an audit problem.
Enable. Train the team and identify champions across the business. The people who actually carry this are rarely the ones you expect.
Pilot. Run a disciplined 90-day pilot with a clear decision point at the end. What you measure, what you ignore, and what counts as a pass.
Go. Scale what worked and drop what did not. This is where most programs die, because nobody wants to kill a pilot that senior people championed.
Where companies fail
Glenn will walk through examples from CFO engagements he has run this year, and the two places‘ programs consistently break down. Governance and the decision to scale.
Who this is for
CFOs, VPs of Finance, FP&A leaders, and controllers. Anyone running a finance function has to be ready for what comes next.
What to expect
A 60-minute live masterclass with Glenn, joined by Wouter Born on the strategic CFO layer. Open Q&A throughout. Honest discussion of what works and what breaks.
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