Event Description

When deadlines tighten and the stakes rise, technical expertise is only part of the equation. The quality of your decisions—and how you communicate them—can shape financial outcomes, team confidence, and stakeholder trust.

Join Doug Van Dyke, CEO of Leadership Simplified, for an engaging, practical program designed for CPAs, CFOs, and accounting professionals who make consequential decisions under pressure.

Discover how urgency, emotion, hierarchy, and confirmation bias can cloud judgment. Learn to separate facts from assumptions, interpretations, and predictions—and recognize when to act quickly or take time for deeper deliberation.

Explore practical tools, including pre-mortems, decision journals, and opposing-view exercises, to challenge blind spots before they become costly mistakes. Build your ability to communicate difficult decisions with clarity and conviction.

Sharpen your thinking. Strengthen your judgment. Lead with confidence when it matters most.

Objectives

Participants will learn to:
•  Recognize how urgency, emotion, hierarchy, and confirmation bias distort decisions.
•  Separate facts, assumptions, interpretations, and predictions.
•  Determine when to make a fast decision and when additional deliberation is warranted.
•  Use pre-mortems, decision journals, and opposing-view exercises.
•  Communicate difficult decisions in ways that strengthen confidence and execution.