Who We Are.

Atlanta Finance Leaders is an association of innovative finance professionals who meet monthly to focus on excellence. We share top ideas, best practices, and are committed to each other's success. Exchange best practices with a peer group of professionals dedicated to each other's top performance. Confidentially exchange what is working, what is not, key strategies and top ideas.


Meetings and Formats.


Members have access to 32 events per year (4 General Meetings, 12 monthly lunch meetups, 12 monthly webconferences, and 4 quarterly seminars/workshops).

  • Monthly Lunch Meetups.   Have lunch once a month with other finance professionals. These are informal meetups rotated among popular Atlanta restaurants often with a best practices theme to discuss challenges and solutions with those at your table.
  • Quarterly General Meetings.   We meet at the Westin Atlanta four (4) times yearly with a top executive speaker on finance best practices and the yearly CFO of the Year banquet.
  • Quarterly Seminars.   Usually held just prior to our general meetings, the topics of these finance seminars included in your membership are always timely and interesting.
  • Monthly Webconferences.   Hear from top CFOs and finance executives globally on problems and innovative solutions to ensure that you are kept current on key trends and innovative ideas.

Qualifications.

To join Atlanta Finance Leaders you must either be a full-time finance professional with plans to eventually rise up to the executive level or already be an executive interested in sharing best practices with peers and helping develop the next generation of rising stars.


Primary Benefits.

1) Exchange what is working, what is not, strategies and top ideas.
2) Build a powerful network of peers committed to each other's success.
3) Learn how to Outperform from respected and successful leaders.
4) Exchange best practices with others focused on innovation and results.



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"Talking to peers, kibbutzing and sharing best practices -- it's very powerful. Even at my level of experience, I still learn new things when I go to these."
- Michael Frankel, LexisNexis Group

"When you can get a glimpse of what is going on in the market, even a tiny glimmer of what can happen, you'll be able to jump on a new trend and get ahead of your competition."
- Kerry Desberg, Owens Corning

"I think networking outside your industry is critical to keep the flow of new ideas coming into your mind, and your organization."
- Jim McComb, Bank of America

"The network of relationships between people, whether the old fashioned kind or via new modern social networks, is absolutely critical to operate with speed across geographies and business silos."
- Polly Pearson, EMC Corporation

"Networking is a lifeline to being successful and to helping your group achieve your goals. You have to have a fresh perspective."
- Eric Thomas, Novell

"I find it very invigorating to learn from others and adapt ideas from others, rather than always assuming our way is the best way. Sometimes others have better ideas than we do."
- Larry Quinlan, Deloitte

"It's very valuable to go outside your own industry to look at the skills and value-added processes from other areas, to see what people in other industries are doing, and how they're doing it, to apply to your own industry."
- Dennis Deering, Diebold

"Networking inside the company and outside the company is equally important. We've hired a lot of great talent because of networking."
- Ed Smith, Equifax

"Networking helps me review business issues with peers. And of course, by networking, I am able to hire some of the best people to join the Go Daddy family."
- Michael Zimmerman, GoDaddy