The Future CFO Project aims to empower finance leaders to embrace AI for CFOs with clarity and confidence, rather than fear. We are cultivating a peer-led movement where CFOs can learn, share, and lead together — enhancing our financial leadership while broadening our influence in a rapidly evolving landscape.
AI for CFOs should strengthen the CFO’s role, not undermine it. We believe that financial leadership requires finance leaders to cut through vendor noise and focus on responsible, transparent adoption, especially in the context of any CFO project.
The real risk isn’t AI for CFOs itself — it’s confusion and inaction. When CFOs understand the tools, frameworks, and governance required for effective financial leadership, they gain the confidence to lead with authority in their CFO projects.
Strategy is a conversation, especially in the context of AI for CFOs. No CFO should navigate the AI transition alone. This CFO Project is peer-led for a reason: by sharing experiences, playbooks, and insights, we all enhance our financial leadership and move forward faster — and stronger.
AI for CFOs is reshaping finance — but not all CFOs will experience it the same way. Based on our research and conversations, we see four possible futures emerging. Each represents a different balance between automation, scope, and trust.
Some CFOs may find themselves boxed into narrow, compliance-heavy roles. Others may step forward as strategic interpreters, helping boards make sense of AI-driven insights. And a few will expand their remit dramatically through CFO projects, becoming enterprise leaders who co-own value creation.
Where you land isn’t predetermined. It’s a choice.
That’s why we built the Strategic Playbook — practical steps any CFO can take to tilt the future toward influence, trust, and financial leadership.