The challenge facing CFOs isn’t a lack of ambition. It’s turning ambition into outcomes.
CFOs have never had a broader mandate—or greater confidence in the year ahead. Yet RGP’s latest CFO Perspectives research, surveying 400 CFOs, reveals a growing disconnect between what organizations are investing in and what they’re able to deliver.
The problem isn’t necessarily capital, technology or strategy. It’s what happens in the messy middle between a funded initiative and a measurable result.
Organizations are committing to more transformation than they can absorb. Initiatives lose momentum between implementation and adoption. And CFOs are increasingly accountable for outcomes that extend far beyond their direct control.
So how do finance leaders close the gap between what their organizations aspire to do and what they can actually achieve?
Join fellow CFOs and finance executives for an intimate, paneled discussion exploring the research findings, the realities behind them and the leadership decisions required to turn transformation investment into enterprise value.
This isn’t a conversation about setting bigger ambitions. It’s about making the ones we already have count.
What You’ll Take Away
- The Ambition Trap: why organizational throughput, not funding, is now the constraint that matters, and how to allocate capacity like capital
- The Cohesion Premium: what aligned organizations do differently to deliver more, faster, and get more from AI
- The Authority Gap: how CFOs gain influence through governance design, investment gating and shared metrics
- The 24-Month AI Promise: how to test AI business cases against execution capacity, not just financial return
- The Last Mile: why funding the change matters as much as funding the technology
Featured Panelists
Tom Curran, PhD | Founder & CEO, Mill Institute, LLC
Tom has provided more than 10,000 hours of strategic guidance and executive coaching to C-suite leaders at organizations including Boeing, T-Mobile, COUNTRY Financial and MultiCare. His work focuses on the human side of business growth, helping executive teams strengthen alignment, accountability and leadership effectiveness. He has also facilitated executive sessions for the national CFO Leadership Council.
Chris Boyle | AVP, Technology Finance, Cox Automotive
Chris leads technology finance initiatives at Cox Automotive, where he has held senior financial planning and analysis roles since 2013. Previously, he worked in M&A and strategy at Cox Communications. Beyond his corporate leadership roles, Chris served as board chair of Southface Institute and received the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Board Champion Award.
Alysa Carmichael | CFO, Best Lawyers
Alysa has been with Best Lawyers since 2012 and has served as CFO since 2021. Her responsibilities span finance, HR and strategy, and she has played a key role in the ownership transitions and acquisitions that have supported the company’s international growth. A CPA, she holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accounting from the University of Florida.
Anna Tiomina | Former CFO & Founder, Blend2Balance
Anna brings more than 15 years of experience building and leading finance operations for high-growth companies across the U.S. and Europe. As founder of Blend2Balance, she helps finance professionals put AI to work in reporting, financial close and FP&A, and has trained more than 1,000 professionals in practical AI applications.
Jennifer Garcia | Finance Transformation Practice Leader, RGP
Jennifer leads RGP’s Finance Transformation practice, helping organizations modernize finance operating models, optimize processes and advance shared services, GBS, ERP and EPM initiatives. She joined RGP through its 2024 acquisition of Reference Point, bringing experience from EY and J.P. Morgan’s Financial Institutions Group.
Moderator
Jennifer Jones | Chief Strategy & Experience Officer, RGP
Jennifer brings more than 28 years of experience leading business transformation, brand strategy and customer and employee experience for Fortune 500 organizations. As Chief Strategy & Experience Officer at RGP, she leads enterprise strategy, go-to-market, experience and global marketing, helping bridge the gap between strategic ambition and measurable business outcomes. Her work combines human-centered design, innovation and AI-enabled transformation to help organizations accelerate growth and turn change into lasting value.
Who Should Attend
CFOs, VPs of Finance, controllers, and C-suite leaders who own transformation, AI or enterprise performance outcomes.
Seats are limited. Register now and receive the full 2026 CFO Perspectives report, The Execution Ceiling.