The “Top 10” Tenets for Effective Executive Compensation Negotiation
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I recently spoke at The Womens Financial Summit 2022 (hosted by Woodruff Sawyer) on the topic of how women executives can better negotiate their compensation packages. While that talk was addressed to women financial executives, many of my negotiation tips apply to any CFO (and in fact any executive) who…Read More

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Looking Back and Looking Forward to 2022 – A New Year with New Opportunities
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As we all know, 2021 has been a challenging year for so many, and on so many fronts.  The continued pandemic, business disruptions, employee turnover, demand and supply imbalances, supply chain hiccups, creeping inflation, and ever-changing politics.   You name it, it’s happened somewhere, sometime over the past year.  But somehow,…Read More

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Emerging Trends in CFO Hiring
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At FLG Partners, we have been blessed with a robust late Spring in terms of the firm’s performance. Our partner utilization rate is at the highest in our firm’s history. As FLG’s new Managing Partner, I believe the reason for this is that our partners, each of whom have on…Read More

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How the Audit Committee Chair Helps a Company and Its Board Navigate Through A Crisis Such As COVID-19
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In my almost 40 years of working as a management and financial executive and serving as an Audit Committee Chair to public companies, I thought I had seen every crisis in the playbook:  multiple economic downturns, the 1989 earthquake and its impact on the Bay Area, Y2K, 9/11, and the…Read More

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