We have news!  The time has come to say goodbye to Presenting Finance, after a fantastic two years the show was voted No.8 in the Top 15 Presentation Podcasts on the Internet!  and a great place to say goodbye as we start the next new exciting podcast: Ambition to Impact  Subscribe on Apple Subscribe on Spotify   Join the free facebook group for access to monthly coaching and executive presence training  ..read more

Is there anything funny about finance? Robin Kiziak, Finance manager of Hotel Chocolat joins the show this week to share his experience of embracing his natural humour in a corporate world.  Discussed in the show: What does humour add to the finance function? How does storytelling increase connection to data?  How to bring your natural self to the table and still be professional  Links: Website - Nothing Funny About Finance - www.nfaf.co.uk LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/robinkiziak/ Twitter - @Humour4Finance ..read more

Today Alex speaks with Carl Reader who as a public speaker, three-time author, accountant, and regular commentator in the news as a lot to share about influence, finance and how he has found his own way of making an impact on the world.  In the interview we discuss:   How he won the postcode lottery and was gifted a grammar school education, but "pissed it away".  How after getting his first job in accountancy he HATED is, realised due his ADHD was an asset and carved out his own carved out my own career by going out and meeting with clients. That technical wizardry isn't ..read more

This week I'm going to share with you my method to help you start off strong when you speak.  One of the biggest issues that affects professional confidence, in meetings, presentations or just on a call... is that the energy is all wrong when starting. If you don't start the right way you end up losing energy, engagement and it's really difficult to recover. Starting out strongly (not loudly, not fast or slow, strongly) will set you up for success, alleviate mind blank and solve a great many problems for you when communicating.  In this episode, I cover my POW method; to get you to ..read more

Presenting Gary Turner, co-founder and MD of Xero joins me on the show, sharing his story of how far he's come, the start of Xero (a team of three with £50k TO) to the market leader it is today. I ask Gary about the values of Xero, and that they really mean to him and how they create that in side their culture.  Show notes to follow.  www.xero.com  Sponsored by Speaking Ambition www.speakingambition.com Take the Wavemaker Assessment ..read more

Today I’m presenting Kirsty McGregor chairman of the corporate finance network and accountant in residence for Capitalise. During 2020 Kirsty led a campaign called #leavenobusinessbehind championing accountants to be the guiding hand for SMEs during the pandemic. Kirsty shares with me what she saw in the accounting space; resilient conversations clients, being the SME therapist and how well accountants have been equipped to manage these high stakes conversations themselves and their teams ..read more

This week I'm failing all over the place. And loving it. Accountancy and finance is such a binary space living in a world of yes and no, fails and wins. In this episode I talk about what the finance space is missing out on - the value we talk from failure, and how powerful that can be for innovation and discovery.  ..read more

This week I'm speaking to Madeline Pratt, CEO and founder of Fearless Foundry and CEO and founder of Womxn Talk Money - a community of female speakers in finance. We talk about Madeline's experience working with accountants on their personal brand, and also her experience on the speaker circuit and how she came to create a network of women finance professionals who speak on stage.  Women Talk Money is your community where we collaborate for the advancement and empowerment of womxn in the accounting and finance space.  https://www.womxntalkmoney.com/ Fearless Foundry is a creative con ..read more

We all have our good days, and bad. Sometimes we are tired, or stressed and bring our B or C games to our meetings. Mindset affects not only your presence, but ability to make decisions and how you influence in the room.  Many things affect the way we 'show up' in accounting, but I have prepared a list of 5 ways that you can instantly use to help you be at your very best, to deliver high value work and make strong positive connections.  If you would like to find out more about yourself and how you make waves in accounting, take the influence in accounting scorecard ..read more

This week I'm following up on the popular public speaking episode, this week I talk about the three extra things you need to do (yes, even virtually) to take your speaking and influence from ok to outstanding.  1) How are you using you space to impact? 2) How do you make people feel? 3) How honest are you really being? As mentioned in the episode, you can test your ability to connect, influence and connect on the accountants communication scorecard and get your free report and ebook, Connect and Affect at www.speakingambition.scoreapp.com ..read more