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Instructor
Jim Lindell
Instructor
Jim Lindell is President of Thorsten Consulting, a strategic and financial consulting firm that offers professional speaking, training, and executive coaching. Over the past two decades, Jim has delivered over 5,000 hours of C-suite executive coaching. His professional experience includes Chief Financial Officer, VP-Finance, Corporate Controller, and Corporate Assistant Controller. Industries include manufacturing, healthcare, not-for-profit, distribution, and food processing.
Jim is a CPA and has received the Certified Speaking Professional designation, the highest earned designation from the National Speakers Association. Jim is a Vistage Chairman (Executive Coach and Facilitator) and responsible for two groups in the Milwaukee area.
Jim is the author of Controller as Business Manager, Controllers Annual Update (Best Seller,) Analytics and Big Data for Accountants, and many other courses on strategic and financial leadership. Jim has been published by the AICPA and Wiley.
Jim is a twelve-time recipient of the AICPA’s Outstanding Discussion Leader Award.
Also, Jim is a member of the Irish rock/folk music group “Deep Pool” and is unwilling to admit that he may have played his last rugby match.
Are you ready to take your role as controller to the next level while adding significant value to the organization? A successful Controller will go beyond financial statements, internal controls and general accounting to create new value for the organization. We’ll explore new additional roles that controllers are now accepting and outline a roadmap you can use to expand your role as a controller from simply internal process/transaction oriented to externally focused understanding of industry and macro trends. Topics Discussed • Leadership vs. Management
• Business and strategic planning processes
• Corporate culture
• Lean management techniques and processes
• Recruiting, retaining and developing employees
• Communications, listening and presentation skills
• Managing “up” and how to master it
• Business Strategy and the Controller
• The need for increased efficiency and the application of Lean techniques
• Application of best practices in the Accounting Department
Differentiate between the value of the traditional controller and the business oriented controller.~Apply the definition of controllership in your company by integrating controllership into the larger financial and organization leadership function.~Distinguish the importance of the planning process and the Controllers respective role.~Apply lean techniques to the accounting department and the organization.~Determine how Servant Leadership increases the success of the controller.
Experience in financial management of a medium or small company