Wassia Kamon

I sat down with William Washington III, Global CFO of Baker McKenzie. He oversees $3 billion in revenue across 45 countries. His CFO told him he would be ready in five years. He said give me one. A year later, he had the job. We talked about the coaching session that made it happen, how he leads as ...

In this episode, Fabian Ferrada, Senior Solutions Engineer at Insight Software, joins to reveal why traditional board reports take weeks to prepare and barely survive a single number change. They compare ideal board presentations with common flawed ones, explore the hidden costs of broken reporting,...

Most finance teams stay on Excel longer than they should. In this episode, I sit down with Paul Barnhurst, also known as The FP&A Guy. We break down when Excel stops being enough and how to know it is time to move to a real FP&A tool. The biggest mistakes companies make when buying FP&A software, in...

In this episode, I sit down with Julianne Averill, a healthcare AI CFO, board director, and fractional CFO with over 20 years of experience helping life science and digital health companies scale through fundraising, M&A, and IPOs. She has been through over 50 transactions on both the buy and sell s...

In this episode of The Diary of a CFO Podcast, host Wassia Kamon sits down with Jennifer Warawa, President of insightsoftware and a seven-time honoree as one of the top 25 most powerful women in accounting, to explore what CFOs must fix before implementing AI.

In this episode of The Diary of a CFO, we examine what it actually takes to build a 30-year career at a Fortune 50 company and reach the Group CFO seat. Dave DeFreitas, retired Group CFO of Caterpillar Inc., shares the career moves, leadership frameworks, and operational mindset shifts that shaped o...

In this episode of The Diary of a CFO Podcast, host Wassia Kamon sits down with Tariq Munir, digital transformation advisor and author of Reimagine Finance, to explore what it actually takes to build an AI-ready finance team.

In this episode of The Diary of a CFO, we explore what truly separates a good finance team from a great one and what it takes to grow into the full scope of the CFO role. Kevin Appleby, Head of Partnerships at GrowCFO and host of the GrowCFO Show, brings 25 years of management consulting experience ...

In this episode of The Diary of a CFO Podcast, host Wassia Kamon sits down with Teri Kozub, a three-time CFO with more than 33 years of experience in nonprofit finance and current CFO at Community Legal Services of Mid Florida. Teri shares how her non-linear career shaped her leadership style, why ...

Executive presence is often cited as the reason leaders don’t get promoted, but rarely explained. In this episode of The Diary of a CFO, Wassia Kamon sits down with executive coach Jill Avey to unpack what executive presence actually means, why high performers get stuck at the Director or VP level,...