HeyJaredFEI Podcast
Financial Executives International presents the FEI Podcast: an audio digest focusing on the ideas and strategies in finance and accounting.
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Leading Transformation: Mark Dendle on Acquisitions, Prioritization, and AI (opens the original)
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CFO and Member of FEI Dallas Mark Dendle joins the FEI Podcast to discuss the frameworks that have guided his career leading financial transformations across public companies, private equity-backed businesses, and family-owned enterprises. Dendle shares his approach to acquisition integration, his ABC method for prioritizing competing initiatives, why compensation must align with the outcomes an organization wants, and how AI tools like Claude are turning days of work into minutes for finance te
From Call Center to CFO: How Jill Nelson Uses Art to Build Braver Teams (opens the original)
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Recorded live at the FEI Financial Leaders Forum in San Antonio, this episode features Jill Nelson, CFO of Texas811, who went from call center representative to the C-suite. Nelson discusses how she blends art and finance through her Wander Workshop program, the neuroscience behind creative practice, and how clear vision and change management help teams move past fear, resistance, and manual work as the profession prepares for AI. Special Guest: Jill Nelson.
The Reaction Tax: Why Finding Out Too Late Is Costing Your Company (opens the original)
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This episode explores the reaction tax, a concept describing the hidden costs businesses pay when decision windows close before leadership sees the warning signs. Thomas DeFabrizio, CFO of Impellam Group Americas, walks through the KPIs, shared definitions, and compensation strategies financial leaders can use to move from reactive firefighting to proactive, future-focused leadership, along with how AI and outcome-based business models are reshaping finance. Special Guest: Thomas DeFabrizio.
Raised to Never Quit: Mentorship, Belonging, and Building Your Network with Dolly Lalvani (opens the original)
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Dolly Lalvani, a CPA and FEI Central Pennsylvania Chapter Leader, joins the FEI Podcast to share how a promise to her father shaped her path to the CPA license, why she treats mentorship as a two-way commitment rather than a transaction, and what active involvement in FEI Chapters, state boards, and NASBA has taught her about belonging to a profession. The conversation closes with her perspective on staying grounded and building relationships as AI reshapes the way financial leaders work. Specia
Why AI Alone Won’t Fix Your Finance Function’s Biggest Problem – with Alex Curran (opens the original)
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What if your AI strategy is already at risk, not because your team is behind on AI, but because finance is trying to run the future on systems built for the past? In this episode, Alex Curran, CEO of Aptitude Software, discusses why AI success in finance is an architecture issue, a data issue, and a leadership issue. Curran shares her SCALE framework for assessing whether a finance function is ready to support AI, explains the emerging finance ERP category, and offers guidance for financial lead
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