CEO, Leadership for International Finance
Blythe J. McGarvie has operated profitable business units and managed employees in business endeavors from China to Chile, France to Finland. An accomplished author and business thought leader, she was also a pioneering CFO, and in 1995, was one of only ten female CFOs in the Fortune 500. Renowned for her perspective on leadership, consumer markets, and worldwide economic trends, she brings energy and enthusiasm to her speeches, giving her audiences courage to thrive in trying times and to achieve financial success.
Raising the Courage Quotient. McGarvie's new book, Shaking the Globe: Courageous Decision-Makers in a Changing World offers a framework for identifying an individual's courage quotient, which provides a foundation in financial realities to understand the factors that will prepare business executives and their teams to succeed on the global stage. In this book, she explains that western business leaders must develop the courage to enter new cultures not as people holding an attitude of cultural or moral superiority, but with a perspective of common interest and mutual success.
McGarvie is also the author of Fit In Stand Out, subtitled Mastering the FISO Factor: The Key to Leadership Effectiveness in Business and Life, a book which is available in English, Spanish, Indian and Russian. Booklist called it "A fundamental guide to choosing a path in the maze of corporate culture--from someone who has been there and done it."
Facing the Global Competition. Since January 2003, McGarvie has been CEO and founder of LIF Group, offering a global perspective for clients seeking profitable growth and providing leadership seminars for corporate and academic groups. She has a pulse on developing leaders and responding effectively to changing situations as a result of her extensive corporate experience and her service on several boards, including Accenture, Pepsi Bottling Group, The Travelers Companies, and Viacom.
From 1999 through December 2002, McGarvie was executive vice president and chief financial officer of BIC Group, a French company traded on the Euronext and one of the world's leading manufacturers of convenient disposable products. For five years prior to joining BIC, she was senior vice president and chief financial officer of Hannaford Bros. Co., a $3.6 billion supermarket retailer. Internationally experienced, she was also chief administrative officer for the Pacific Rim region of Sara Lee Corporation, where she was responsible for the finance, strategy, information systems, and human resources functions for the personal product business in Asia, Australia, and South America, growing the division from $124 million to $600 million in sales over a three-year period ending in 1994. McGarvie was also appointed senior fellow for Northwestern University"s Kellogg Innovation Network.
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Global Citizenship: Succeeding in a New Culture. Two-thirds of the world's purchasing power and 95% of the world's consumers reside outside US national borders. The top 25 US companies made 43% of their revenues abroad in 2004. Leaders must learn how to take advantage of this increasing globalization. Understanding the truth about American jobs and who are the business winners and losers will allow executives to navigate their careers and their company. Blythe McGarvie shows business leaders:
Financial Acuity Matters. Finance is the language of business, in any industry. You can turn opportunity into strategic insight if you have financial acuity. Clearly, this is an under-developed skill given the financial scandals and disruptions of recent times. Keying into Google the phrase "financial scandals" yields 175,000 hits; the word "bankruptcies" yields 500,000 hits; and "accounting fraud" yields nearly 1 million hits. You must know what attributes define a company that will sustain profitable growth and be a great place to invest your time or your money. You must develop your own financial acuity even if your job is in marketing, operations, sales, or human resources if you want to thrive in business today. At this seminar, McGarvie describes:
Courageous Decision-Making. Many Americans fear that the global economy will cost them their jobs and purchasing power and that, in turn, will force a reconsideration of American values. It is one thing to lose jobs to Indochina because employers located there can hire 14-year old children and women cheaply, provide no health care, avoid safe workplace standards, hire and fire at will, and face no liability for environmental depredation. Yet, it is another to consider a twenty-first century America that must scale back its labor practices and deregulate to make America competitive once again. These fears are based on legitimate concerns but McGarvie's goal is to lessen them and the reactionary protectionist policies they engender, by demonstrating that global business changes offers opportunities to Americans. At this seminar, McGarvie shows the six stops to connect the globe in a changing world; illustrates how business can redefine success in an interconnected world; and how to make better decisions by using untapped resources and fostering the entrepreneurial spirit in organizations of any size.
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