Because the truth is simple:
When the CEO evolves,
If you aren't sharpening your thinking,
Stagnation stalls performance.
Because the truth is simple:
When the CEO evolves,
the business evolves.
And leadership is leverage.
If you aren't sharpening your thinking,
neither is your team.
Stagnation stalls performance.
You carry:
- growth pressure
- board expectations
- investor/stakeholder confidence
- organisational performance
- leadership culture
Many CEOs have advisors.
A shift in thinking at CEO level can influence these across the organisation:
- the current leadership dynamics within your executive team
- the strength of your strategic decision-making process
- the alignment between leadership behaviour and business outcomes
This includes examining:
- margin drivers
- capital efficiency
- organisational alignment
- the effectiveness of your executive team, including your CFO
- a clearer leadership lens
- sharper strategic priorities
- practical next steps for strengthening enterprise performance
- clarity around how your executive team can better support your vision
She is an executive mentor and high-performance leadership expert. As a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Chartered Accountant and Certified Management Accountant with international public practice and corporate experience, trained educator and published author, Alena is the go-to for founders and CEOs who want to make better decisions as complexity grows.
Obsessed with how people shape systems and how systems shape people, Alena is a speaker, author, mentor, facilitator and coach who loves to provoke the right conversation to create energy, excitement and action about issues that matter. She works with founders, CEOs, CFOs and their Boards to help them create businesses where people serve people and the math just works.
Passionate about empowering and enabling the CEOs' 2ICs, Alena runs The CFO BoardroomTM and was a co-founder, judge and major sponsor of the inaugural Australian CFO Awards in 2023. Alena is the author of the leadership books, "CFO of the Future: The trusted guide for CFOs to lead with impact and create value" written for Chief Financial Officers and "Meaning Matters: Results Beyond the Numbers", for women in finance.
Alena is also the author of "The CFO Annual Report" released each year since 2021 and is currently writing her next book, "Beyond People Leadership: Why the Real Math of Business is 100% math".
She is the host of the Real Math of Business with Alena Bennett podcast which has over 16,000 keen listeners. She is also the winner of several GOLD International Stevie Business Awards.
Her clients include C-suite leaders and their Boards within SMEs, corporate organisations, professional services practices, government services organisations and professional membership associations of varying sizes.
- lead medium to large organisations
- are responsible to boards or investors
- value strategic thinking and intelligent challenge
- want space to reflect on the bigger picture of the business
- believe leadership evolution drives business performance
This work is about sharpening the thinking that drives the business.
- clearer strategic thinking
- stronger executive leadership dynamics
- improved decision-making confidence
- sharper commercial focus
- renewed perspective on how leadership influences results
Better thinking at the top of the organisation.
Which inevitably influences performance throughout the business.
The right conversation at the right moment can shift how you see the business, your team, and your role within it.
This 1:1 coaching experience creates that space.
If you would like to explore whether this coaching experience is right for you, you can apply for a confidential CEO conversation.
From there, we can determine whether working together would be valuable.
We acknowledge the Darkinjung people, the traditional custodians of the land on which we live and work and pay our respects to the Elders both past, present & emerging.