Transitioning from CFO to CEO: top tips from the inside track
What does it take to move from CFO to CEO? Four top executives share candid lessons on leadership, risk, growth, and redefining the finance role....
Jean-François Manzoni (JFM) is Professor of Leadership, Organizational Development and Corporate Governance at IMD, where he served as President and Nestlé Professor from 2017 to 2024. His research, teaching, and consulting activities are focused on leadership, the development of high-performance organizations and corporate governance. In recent years JFM has also been increasingly focused on finding ways to ensure leadership development interventions have lasting impact, particularly through the use of technology-mediated approaches, and on closing the growing managerial “knowing-doing gap”, i.e., the gap between what managers kind of know they should be doing and the extent to which they actually behave that way in practice.
July 14, 2025 • by Jean-François Manzoni in CFO Horizons • 6 min read
What does it take to move from CFO to CEO? Four top executives share candid lessons on leadership, risk, growth, and redefining the finance role....
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