When I think of the culture of a company, the first thing that comes to mind is the picture inside the walls of that organization. Do they value each employee? Is leadership honest? Are goals transparent?
It seems as though, throughout this past year, everyone has been hyping their successful pivot from in-person to virtual training. Since early 2020, trainers and training companies alike have invested in technology they touted as being better than everyone else’s.
By 2030, every Baby Boomer on the planet will be 65 years of age or older. If every Boomer were to retire at 65, that would mean an entire generation has left the workforce. Of course, not every person in this generation will stop working; however, according to Pew Research, COVID greatly accelerated retirements in 2021.
The future of FP&A will not be slow and static. FP&A will borrow from many of the traditional planning and analysis processes and will make them more dynamic and accessible to companies of all sizes.
I did an interview with Jamila Souffrant pre-COVID (in 2018 to be exact) that I hadn’t previously shared. Jamila found me having stumbled upon my TEDx talk. Coincidentally, it turns out we were both featured by CBS as part of a series on financial independence they had done just weeks earlier.