(from Forbes) Indepedent school CFOs may never shed responsibilities such as financial sustainability and risk management, but increasingly they must also learn how to persuasively tell the stories behind their actions and plans to a variety of constituents, from families to faculty to trustees. "The CFO is in a position where they have to make choices, and articulate their rationale to the CEO and board as to how they arrived at their recommendations," said Sandy Cockrell, leader of the Global CFO Program at Deloitte. "The CFO of today is the storyteller of where the company is and where it's going. That's an art as opposed to a science."
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