This report considers the challenges facing executive leadership in today’s environment, and explores how the science of mindfulness can lead to more effective leadership in today’s finance function. The ACCA has long been a proponent for finance transformation. There is a growing recognition that we are operating in a bewildering new environment with unprecedented pace of change, ambiguity, volatility and pressure. In the business world, enterprise transformation, and therein finance transformation, is here to stay.

Understanding the changing environment CFOs are operating in today, the implications for the C-Suite and the CFO role in particular is critical to developing the adaptive finance leadership skills that will thrive in the 21st century. This report examines these factors, and suggests a new approach for developing the leadership skills to not only adapt to this new reality, but to also be able to flourish in today’s and tomorrow’s environment.