Dates and location
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Dates and location
Pricing
Hours
Description
Today's CPAs are expected to do more than provide financial expertise. They must influence stakeholders, navigate organizational dynamics, drive strategic initiatives, and help their organizations adapt to disruption and change. This course CPAs participants develop strategic thinking, leadership, and influence skills needed to drive organizational performance, lead change, and align stakeholders around key business objectives.
Through real-world applications and practical frameworks such as the SEAL Model for organizational agility and the ADEPTT Model for strategic development and execution, participants will learn how to navigate organizational dynamics, build support for strategic initiatives, improve organizational agility, and respond effectively to disruption. The course also strengthens key CPA competencies in leadership, strategy and governance, communication, problem-solving, change management, and professional judgment.
Key Topics:
- Navigating Organizational Politics
- SEAL Approach to Building Organizational Agility
- Strategy Execution: Elements of a Sound Strategy
- Strategy Development and Execution: The ADEPTT Model
- Understanding Disruption and Preparing for Breakthrough Growth
Key Takeaways
By the end of this course, participants will have the knowledge and skills to:
- Lead strategic initiatives with greater confidence and effectiveness.
- Build stakeholder trust and gain support for recommendations and projects.
- Navigate organizational politics ethically and productively.
- Strengthen strategic thinking and business acumen.
- Improve organizational agility and responsiveness to change.
- Drive innovation and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Enhance leadership and communication skills required for senior roles.
- Increase their ability to create organizational value beyond traditional accounting and finance functions.
Who Will Benefit
This course is particularly valuable for CPAs whose roles require strategic decision-making, stakeholder management, organizational leadership, and driving change, including finance, strategy, advisory, risk, audit, operations, project management, consulting, and public accounting professionals, as well as individuals preparing for broader leadership responsibilities.
Disclaimer
Canadian Management Centre is CPA Ontario's content provider for this PD Course. As a condition of your participation, you acknowledge and agree that you will not:
- Copy, modify, adapt, translate, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer the Canadian Management Centre content, technology or software;
- Rent, lease or assign Canadian Management Centre to any third party;
- With the exception of any information or materials necessary to fulfill PD Course requirements or complete PD Course exercises, download any training tutorials or any other text, multimedia images (graphics, audio and video), data and other information provided in connection with the Canadian Management Centre; or
- Allow access to the Canadian Management Centre training solutions by any user other than yourself.
How to Access the Course
To access your course, visit the CPA Ontario Blackboard site and sign in using the same username and password used for the Registration Portal. You can also access your course through the Blackboard Learn app (iOS or Android).
Important: Course access begins on the date of purchase and remains available for the Access Time specified for the course under Dates and Location. Please review the access time before purchasing. Note that it may take up to 15 minutes after registration for the course to appear in Blackboard.
Registration, cancellation, withdrawal, and other CPA Ontario PD policies can be found here.
Speaker(s)
For more than 60 years, Canadian Management Centre (CMC) has helped professionals develop the knowledge, skills, and tools needed to achieve excellence, adapt to change, and thrive in an increasingly complex and competitive environment. Through practical and results-oriented learning and development solutions, CMC empowers individuals, teams, and organizations to enhance their performance and achieve their goals. Serving hundreds of clients across Canada each year, CMC works with organizations ranging from private sector businesses and government agencies at all levels to international organizations through its global network. Regardless of industry or sector, CMC’s clients share a common objective: to strengthen their impact, advance their careers, contribute more effectively to organizational success, and achieve greater personal and professional fulfillment.