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VIP Strategy Day for CFOs and Senior Finance Leaders & Executives
A high-impact, personalised strategy experience designed to strengthen your leadership presence, sharpen your influence, and align your team and stakeholders around what matters most.
VIP Strategy Day for CFOs and Senior Finance Leaders & Executives
A high-impact, personalised strategy experience designed to strengthen your leadership presence, sharpen your influence, and align your team and stakeholders around what matters most.

Leadership gets lonelier the higher you go

If you are leading at the top and feeling the weight of complexity, expectations, and constant decision-making - this VIP Strategy Day gives you the space, clarity and strategic partnership to reset how you lead.

This is not operational problem-solving.
This is leadership, influence, and direction at the level your role demands.

CFOs and senior finance executives are expected to be confident, decisive and strategic while managing teams, boards, investors, regulators and shifting market pressures.

Yet many leaders privately ask themselves:

  • Am I leading at the level my role requires or just coping?
  • How do my team and stakeholders really experience me?
  • Is my leadership creating clarity... or quiet resistance?
  • Am I seen as a strategic leader or still defined by my function?

The VIP Strategy Day is designed for leaders who are technically strong, highly capable and ready to evolve how they show up, influence and lead.

A structured, confidential leadership reset built around you.

Get expert guidance on the leadership challenges that matter most at the top.

Your VIP Strategy Day is uniquely tailored to you, your role and the system you operate within.

Rather than working through a fixed agenda, we focus on the real leadership, strategic and relational challenges shaping your effectiveness right now.

This is senior, confidential work designed for CFOs and Senior Finance Leaders & Executives navigating complexity across the Board, CEO and Executive ecosystem.

Get expert guidance on things like:

  • Clarifying your executive leadership narrative, how you position yourself, communicate your value, and influence at board and enterprise level
  • Strengthening your strategic presence and authority across the Golden Triad™: Board, CEO and C-Suite
  • Repositioning how you are perceived, from functional leader to enterprise-level strategic partner
  • Navigating complex stakeholder dynamics, power structures and competing agendas
  • Elevating the quality of dialogue and trust between the Board, CEO and executive team
  • Translating strategy into clear leadership expectations and alignment across your team
  • Making high-stakes decisions with confidence, clarity and foresight
  • Identifying where leadership friction is occurring and how to resolve it constructively
  • Building influence without politics, defensiveness or over-reliance on authority
  • Leading transformation, change or growth while maintaining credibility and momentum
  • Preparing for critical conversations with boards, investors, regulators or senior stakeholders
  • Shaping your executive profile, CV and LinkedIn presence to reflect leadership impact not just functional achievement
  • Communicating beyond numbers: telling the strategic story behind performance, risk and opportunity
  • Defining your leadership priorities for the next quarter, year and beyond
  • Designing a leadership approach that is sustainable not reactive or exhausting

Your VIP Strategy Day can take any leadership challenge you're facing and turn it into a clear, strategic opportunity for growth, influence and impact.

The Leadership Framework:
The Golden Triad ™

At the core of your VIP Strategy Day is Alena's Golden Triad ™ framework - the critical relationship between:

The goal of your VIP Strategy Day is to strengthen how you operate within this triad ensuring alignment, influence and clarity across all three.

When The Golden Triad ™ is working well:

  • Strategy accelerates
  • Tension reduces
  • Leadership confidence increases
  • Organisations move forward with clarity and purpose

You'll leave with practical strategies to elevate your role within this system, not just survive it.

Working with Alena, you'll come away with elevated leadership strategies, grounded in reality, that help you lead with greater confidence, authority and impact than you may have thought possible.

What participants are saying about 'VIP Strategy Day'
"Working with Alena fundamentally shifted how I see myself as a leader. I gained clarity on my leadership style, how others experience me, and what I needed to change to increase my influence. The impact has been felt by my team, my stakeholders and at board level."
"The program provides a wealth of resources allowing you to learn, grow and develop into the senior finance leader you have always wanted to be!"
"Alena puts questions to you that really make you think. She provides you with the opportunity to reflect on what you want out of your career, who you are, your brand, and your achievements, something that we don't really do as we move from one task to the next or one month/ year-end to another."
"We wouldn't be anywhere near where we are without you and your leadership to guide us through. You've made my life a hell of a lot easier. Thank you Alena."
1:1 VIP Strategy Day
Designed for CFOs and Senior Finance Leaders & Executives who don't require a full 12-month coaching program, but do need focused, senior-level strategic guidance on a critical leadership or business challenge.
 
This is a private, high-trust strategy session that gives you space to step out of the day-to-day and work on your leadership, influence and direction, not just respond to what's urgent.
 
Whether you're navigating a complex stakeholder issue, redefining your role, preparing for a significant decision, or seeking clarity on your next strategic move, the VIP Strategy Day provides direct, experienced counsel grounded in commercial reality.
 
You'll gain:
  • Clear perspective on the issue that matters most right now
  • Strategic options and pathways forward
  • Language, framing and positioning to lead with confidence
  • Practical direction you can act on immediately
Sessions are tailored entirely to you and your context, and are delivered live online via Zoom.
 
Inclusions:
  • 4-hour 1:1 time
  • 12 months' access to Alena's Real Math of Business Bank valued at $5,000
Bonuses include:
  • behavioural and motivational assessments
  • detailed strategic collateral review
  • recording and summary of the session, so you can use the session on an ongoing basis as a reference tool
YOUR FACILITATOR
Expert in The Real Math of Business
Alena Bennett
Obsessed with delivering results beyond the numbers, Alena helps CFOs and Senior Leaders & Executives in finance unleash the power of their purpose, and brings that to life by teaching them the mindset, skills and behaviours they need to deliver results that inspire. As a Chartered Accountant with international public practice and corporate experience and a trained educator and published author, Alena is the go-to for leaders in finance looking for next-level success.
 
Alena's life work is dedicated to elevating performance and creating possibilities through purpose, presence and people. She understands that purpose integration is the missing link when leaders in finance start to feel their career stagnate or when they feel frustrated that their effort is no longer delivering results, being valued or recognised. Along with purpose integration, she believes executive presence and an active powerbase are the keys to elevating leadership and moving from authority to mastery.
 
Alena is a wife and proud mum of two daughters. The radiant energy she brings to her clients is the same as the sunshine and 'cheek' she brings to her family. Never one to shy away from a conversation, however, she'll respectfully provide you with feedback if she feels it will serve you and in doing so will take your learning experience to levels that it may not otherwise have gone. One thing you'll be sure of is that Alena always has your back.
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2023 Stevie Winner Women In Business alongside Globee Award
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Are you ready to lead with greater clarity, confidence and impact?

VIP Strategy Days are limited to ensure depth, focus and discretion.

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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.