Talita Ferreira
CA(SA), FACA,CDir, FIoD, MPSA
LDN, UKTalita is an experienced C-Suite executive, NED, Chair of Audit, Chartered Director, consultant, author, leadership trainer and international speaker. She has years of corporate experience with global brands, including KPMG, BMW, The IOD, Tandem Bank, Ford Credit Europe Bank Plc and Henry Boot PLC
Talita is an experienced C-Suite executive, non-executive director, entrepreneur, thought leader and international speaker with more than 24 years of corporate experience with global brands, including KPMG, Investec Bank; BMW, The Institute of Directors, Tandem Bank, Ford Credit Europe Bank Plc and Henry Boot PLC (http://bit.ly/TalitaL) She understands the financial language of business, strategy, and risk, as an experienced Chief Financial Officer and balances this with her experience as an Executive Board Director for human resources, helping organisations and leaders to transform. She has led and implemented award-winning cultural transformation programmes in multiple industries. Talita has worked in three countries and in two different industries: financial services and automotive. After leaving corporate life at the end of 2016, Talita published her first book, The Authenticity Dilemma Resolved®, and helped various organisations locally and internationally transform their leadership and cultural approaches.
Talita values ethics and socially responsible business and believes in:
• creating supportive organisational cultures;
• respecting difference, fear and vulnerability;
• focussing on authenticity as an enabler for a true diversity of thought and inclusion and
• fostering higher levels of acceptance for diversity and difference for the benefit of all.
Through her multicultural journey in the financial services and automotive industries, Talita demonstrates how she inspired and changed her technical mindset to a more humane approach, helping to transform organisations and growing, developing and inspiring her team to leave a lasting cultural legacy of authenticity, inspiration and collaboration. Talita shares practical tips on how to increase your impact without more effort along a journey of leadership inclusion, growth and change.
Talita is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a fellow of the Institute of Directors ("IOD"). She delivers strategy, finance and leadership training for directors at the IOD and has created "Finance Inspired 4 Success", a training platform for finance professionals to improve leadership and team dynamics. She has an excellent track record for delivering inspirational leadership to drive business through an organisation's human capital and back office, introducing strategic change, developing talent and organisational values, and establishing proper risk management and compliance structures.
Talita is an experienced C-Suite executive, non-executive director, entrepreneur, thought leader and international speaker with more than 24 years of corporate experience with global brands, including KPMG, Investec Bank; BMW, The Institute of Directors, Tandem Bank, Ford Credit Europe Bank Plc and Henry Boot PLC (http://bit.ly/TalitaL) She understands the financial language of business, strategy, and risk, as an experienced Chief Financial Officer and balances this with her experience as an Executive Board Director for human resources, helping organisations and leaders to transform. She has led and implemented award-winning cultural transformation programmes in multiple industries. Talita has worked in three countries and in two different industries: financial services and automotive. After leaving corporate life at the end of 2016, Talita published her first book, The Authenticity Dilemma Resolved®, and helped various organisations locally and internationally transform their leadership and cultural approaches.
Talita values ethics and socially responsible business and believes in:
• creating supportive organisational cultures;
• respecting difference, fear and vulnerability;
• focussing on authenticity as an enabler for a true diversity of thought and inclusion and
• fostering higher levels of acceptance for diversity and difference for the benefit of all.
Through her multicultural journey in the financial services and automotive industries, Talita demonstrates how she inspired and changed her technical mindset to a more humane approach, helping to transform organisations and growing, developing and inspiring her team to leave a lasting cultural legacy of authenticity, inspiration and collaboration. Talita shares practical tips on how to increase your impact without more effort along a journey of leadership inclusion, growth and change.
Talita is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a fellow of the Institute of Directors ("IOD"). She delivers strategy, finance and leadership training for directors at the IOD and has created "Finance Inspired 4 Success", a training platform for finance professionals to improve leadership and team dynamics. She has an excellent track record for delivering inspirational leadership to drive business through an organisation's human capital and back office, introducing strategic change, developing talent and organisational values, and establishing proper risk management and compliance structures.
The leadership differentiator in challenging times
• The World Economic Forum predicts a Fourth Industrial Revolution requiring different skillsets from leaders.
• The impact of Millennials and the longevity of the workforce will demand a new innovative approach.
• A higher level of adaptability and mental agility will be required from leaders to face this pace of change.
The new C-Suite POWER
- Most CEOs agree that their current business models are being disrupted.
- However, many CEOs believe they do not have the right team to focus on innovation for the future as opposed to business as usual.
- Culture is becoming increasingly important to provide organisations with a leading edge.
- 'Business being a force for good' is a term more frequently used now than ever before.
- This new approach to business is also what motivates employees to give...
My transformational journey; from analytical finance professional to inspirational leader
- The two pinnacles for organisational success and great business leadership are executing strategy effectively and creating engaged organisational cultures.
- Underlying both these pinnacles are individual and organisational purpose and a wider perspective on authenticity, cognitive diversity and respect for difference.
- Generally, CFOs don't struggle with the analytical perspective and support the strategy execution with relative ease.
- A greater challenge for...
A new mindset for effective change leadership
- Our legacy change story can be holding us back from transforming effectively.
- When we consider the current leading thinking on leadership challenges, it is time for a mindset change.
- By starting with ourselves and becoming more aware of our role in the change process, we can adapt more effectively and inspire other people to change.
- Organisational or individual change always commences from where we are now.
- Taking small incremental steps each day...
Authentic leaders; authentic cultures.
- Great leaders are no longer defined by command and control, or competitive behaviours.
- The Fourth Industrial Revolution requires leaders who are mentally agile, creative and relate well to other people.
- They form great, new partnerships and are emotionally intelligent.
- They understand themselves and how to unlock their inner authentic POWER, before they drive change and inspire other people.
- Authentic cultures allow individuals to bring more of...
Living and leading from our authentic POWER
- Authenticity, as redefined in Talita's book, The Authenticity Dilemma Resolved® can help individuals to: face the challenges of the future; become more self-aware; and connect with other people in a deeper, more meaningful way to create new partnerships.
- By applying our authentic POWER of: Presence; Overcoming fear; the Whole integrated being; Effortless flow; and Resonance, we can unlock our full potential and live our greatest passion and purpose every day.
- Talita...
Why Corporate Culture Matters
Topic outline:
- Most CEOs agree that their current business models are being disrupted.
- However, many CEOs believe they do not have the right team to focus on innovation for the future as opposed to business as usual.
- Culture is becoming increasingly important to provide organisations with a leading edge.
- Research has shown that organisations, which focus on people and purpose, are set to dominate future growth.
- It is time to extend the...
Leading for global diversity and inclusion
Talita will use her own career journey and breaking through the glass ceiling in a global German Automotive company to demonstrate what leading global inclusion and diversity means. She uses her C-Suite executive experiences as CFO and CHRO to engage the audience through relevant stories from her corporate interactions globally.
- She will demonstrate the key is to move away from traditional stereotypes to focus on individual and organisational purpose and a wider perspective on...
Virtual Presentation
My latest programmes are
Leading in a crisis to increase your impact and resilience
Leading remotely for greater engagement and team focus
A mindset to support agility, constant change, uncertainty and...
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