Policing CFO Leadership Academy

AFEP II

Event summary

The AFEP CFO Leadership Academy is aimed at serving and aspiring CFOs across the public sector who want to strengthen their personal impact and leadership skills.


This course is open to AFEP IV subscribers only. One place for the course is included within the AFEP IV subscription.

Date

Starts:
18 Sep 2025 09:30
Ends:
17 Apr 2026 16:00

Location

77 Mansell Street
Website
London
Greater London
E1 8AN
[See map]CIPFA Mansell Street

Standard price

£0.00 excl VAT

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About this event

Who should attend?

The starting point for the AFEP CFO Leadership Academy is that attendees are already proven financial professionals and have a wide financial management experience. They are probably serving as policing CFOs or are actively looking to be promoted to the senior position in the next 12-18 months.

How will you benefits from attending?

The aim of the AFEP CFO Leadership Academy is to help them develop the thinking and behaviours necessary to have high personal impact in the role of CFO.

Course dates

The AFEP CFO Leadership Academy is completed over approximately six months. This includes three one-day workshops and five one-day, facilitated action learning meetings.

The course consists of three workshops and five action learning groups. The delegates are split into two action learning groups at the first workshop, Group A and Group B. You are only required to attend the dates for your confirmed group.

Workshop dates

  • Workshop one: 18 September 2025
  • Workshop two: 12 December 2025
  • Workshop three: 17 April 2026

Action Learning group dates

Group A dates

16 October 2025, 13 November 2025, 15 January 2026, 12 February 2026, 19 March 2026

Group B dates

17 October 2025, 14 November 2025, 16 January 2026, 13 February 2026, 20 March 2026

CPD hours

This course carries 56 CPD hours.

For any further information regarding the course please contact events@cipfa.org.

Topics

  • Leadership
  • / Police
  • / Professional development

Speaker - Brendan McCarron, Senior Consultant, CIPFA

Brendan is a senior leadership and professional consultant for CIPFA consultancy and training. He leads CIPFA’s CFO Leadership Academy in the UK and for the government of Canada. He is also heavily involved in CIPFA’s finance business partnering work and in change management assignments in the UK and in Europe. Email: brendan.mccarron@cipfa.org, Tel: 07810 547 226.