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Our guest this week is Devon Briggs, Director, Corporate Financial Reporting & Compliance at ATS Corporation; a global industrial automation company operating across more than 100 business units worldwide. The core of the conversation is “Compliance as Catalyst”: how SOX requirements across 100+ global business units became the forcing function for real, lasting automation and standardization...

The future of finance is building amore powerful team. What if your best people had digital teammates to handle the repetitive, manual work, freeing them to focus on strategy and insight? This week, we're joined by Amanda Roush, Director of Finance Transformation at RSM and a leader who has seen thisevolution from every angle. She started her career on the front lines of accounting, led major auto...

How do you turn a standard accounting team into a powerhouse of innovation for the entire business? This week, we're getting the playbook from Quest Diagnostics. Our guests are Michael Heeney, Controller, and Adam Dabbeekeh, Senior Manager of Centralized Accounting. They walk us through the incredible evolution of their team, from a cost-saving project to a strategic Center of Excellence. This...

This week, host  Emily Campbell, CMO at BlackLine,  sits down with  Craig Richey , the Americas Chief Financial Officer at Accenture. His career offers a powerful roadmap for any leader navigating the profound shifts in the finance profession. The core of our conversation is the journey of reinvention—how finance leaders can transform their teams from a traditional back-office function into a stra...

The better an automated system gets, the more it can degrade our skills and attention. Bestselling author and Financial Times columnist Tim Harford joins Emily Campbell to unpack this "Automation Paradox." We explore why a "good enough" AI with an engaged human might be safer than a state-of-the-art system with a complacent one, the danger of relying on "black box" al...

Mo Gawdat explains “AI Twins” and why their rapid progress challenges expertise and control in finance. We explore how to partner with black-box models, protect trust and accountability, and prepare teams to collaborate with their digital colleagues. Hosted by Emily Campbell, with practical mental frameworks for leaders.

Forecasting rewards prediction; accounting demands precision. Emily Campbell and Cheri Hewlett break down AI built on controls, not just flexibility, and what to do when AI exposes gaps in your data and processes. Learn how to build trust on your team and measure strategic impact beyond hours saved.

SAP’s CAO, Dr. Christopher Sessar, reveals the “gold-standard” record-to-report model powering SAP’s own books. We unpack trusted AI that delivers real ROI, the controls that matter, and how to future-proof your accounting team before 2026. Hosted by Emily Campbell, with candid insights you won’t find in case studies, including why SAP bets its own finance on BlackLine.

Pausing is Poison: Why Iteration Outperforms Inertia in Finance Transformation Transformation doesn’t stall because of bad ideas, it stalls because someone hit the pause button. In this punchy, no-fluff episode, Heather Vertin from Clearsulting and Joseph Voss unpack why waiting for “readiness” is actually a risk, not a strategy. Think of inertia as the silent killer of Finance progress, while you...

In this episode, we’re joined by Jeremy Ung, Chief Technology Officer, and Jill Knesek, Chief Information Security Officer at BlackLine, to explore how organizations can responsibly adopt AI without compromising on data integrity or security. We dive into the unique challenges finance and accounting leaders face when integrating AI, the trade-offs between speed and security, and why even small lap...

Is your finance team caught between reporting the numbers and turning them into strategic action? You're not alone. Many organizations face an execution gap between Record-To-Report (R2R) and Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) - and that disconnect is costing impact at the executive level. Join us LIVE as Joe sits down with renowned finance voice Anders Liu-Lindberg to unpack this cr...

Chris Barton, Founder of Shazam: HEAR ME OUT - The bold moves that built a tech revolution. “What if we could teach a computer to recognize music?” This bold question sparked the creation of Shazam, and the rest, as they say, is history—or is it? In this episode of Faces of the Future-Ready, Chris Barton, the visionary founder of Shazam, takes us behind the scenes of the groundbreaking AI innovati...

Calling all Finance & Accounting Teams! Tune into Episode 2 of our Faces of The Future Ready live series, with guest speaker Marc Ursick, Founder & CEO of Clearsulting. Join us as Marc shares game-changing insights on how CFOs can embrace automation, AI, and strategic transformation to unlock new opportunities & discover how Clearsulting is empowering the office of the CFO to become mo...

“The world doesn’t need another podcast about opinions onleadership.” The words from our pull-no-punches guest Russ Laraway show this isn’t your average leadership puff piece.   Russ Laraway, is the author of the critically acclaimed “When You Win, They Win”, a former Marine Corps Company Commander, and the co-founder of Candor, Inc., alongside Kim Scott.  In this first episode of Faces of The Fut...