Rewire Your Brain to Reset Burnout and Stress
AFP Conversations
In this podcast, Pat Culkin talks with Dr. Aditi Nerurkar about her upcoming closing keynote at the , "Rewire Your Brain to Reset Burnout and Stress." Dr. Nerurkar shares practical, science-backed strategies to combat stress and burnout, such as using a healthy media diet, prioritizing sleep as a tool, monotasking for focus and cognitive reframing to enhance resilience. Her insights provide a clear, step-by-step approach to help FP&A professionals protect their mental health and boost productivity.
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Make Better, Faster Decisions
AFP Conversations
During this podcast, Bryan Lapidus talks with Paul Epstein about his opening keynote session at the . Paul shares his three-step "Head-Heart-Hands" process, a practical framework designed to help leaders make better, faster decisions on key issues like strategy, hiring and prioritization. Attendees will gain confidence and clarity to drive action and results for their teams and organizations.
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Rise Up: Finding Strength & Conquering Challenges in Tough Times with Alison Levine
AFP Conversations
Alison Levine, the Tuesday Keynote at AFP 2024, knows what it’s like to survive (and thrive) in the world’s toughest environments. She served as team captain of the first American Women's Everest Expedition, scaled the "Seven Summits," and skied to the North and South Poles. In her New York Times bestseller, On the Edge: Leadership Lessons from Everest and Other Extreme Environments, Levine asserts that the principles that apply to the world of extreme adventure also apply to demanding business environments. A former adjunct professor at West Point, Levine understands what it takes to lead...
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Revenge of the Tipping Point with Malcom Gladwell
AFP Conversations
Malcolm Gladwell, the Sunday Keynote at AFP 2024, is the author of six New York Times bestsellers, has been named one of the 100 most influential people by TIME magazine and one of the Foreign Policy’s Top Global Thinkers. Gladwell has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996 and has won a national magazine award and been honored by the American Psychological Society and the American Sociological Society. He is also the host of the Revisionist History podcast, where he re-examines overlooked or misunderstood aspects of past events. In this episode of AFP Conversations,...
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All About Nashville with Local Expert Heather Middleton
AFP Conversations
AFP 2024 is headed to Nashville this October 20-23. To give us a preview of the city, we invited Heather Middleton, Chief Marketing Officer for the Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp., onto the AFP Conversations podcast. During the podcast, Heather shared what makes Nashville such a popular destination, her must-visit spots within the city, and where to get the best Nashville eats.
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The Impact of Instant Payments and Real-Time Processing on Business Processes
AFP Conversations
Adam Kruis, Senior Vice President, Manager, Working Capital Consulting, at U.S. Bank, and Anu Somani, Head of Global Payables and Embedded Payments, at U.S. Bank, discuss why real-time payments are becoming important, common use cases for real-time payments, and how to stay current on developments in the real-time payments space. This episode is sponsored by U.S. Bank.
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Reimagination in a Time of Change with Erica Orange
AFP Conversations
Erica Orange, speaker for the , sponsored by Capital One, is the Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of The Future Hunters, one of the world’s leading futurist consulting firms. She analyzes emerging sociocultural, technological, economic, geopolitical and environmental trends and identifies the strategic implications (the “So what?”) of those trends for several of the most influential Fortune 500 companies, trade associations and public sector clients. In this episode of AFP Conversations, Erica explains what a futurist is and how she became one, shares her...
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Negotiation Techniques with Fotini Iconomopoulos
AFP Conversations
Fotini Iconomopoulos, the speaker for the , sponsored by PNC, is an expert communicator with a passion for helping organizations and individuals get what they want. For over a decade, she has been helping Fortune 500 clients and their teams achieve their business goals, increase profitability, and create a competitive advantage. She is also the author of the best-selling book Say Less, Get More: Unconventional Negotiation Techniques to Get What You Want. In this episode of AFP Conversations, Fotini shares what to do — and not to do — when negotiating and how people with a risk minimization...
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The Science of Charisma with Olivia Fox Cabane
AFP Conversations
Olivia Fox Cabane, the speaker for the , sponsored by PNC, is an expert in charisma and leadership. In addition to co-founding KindEarth.Tech, Olivia Fox Cabane has taught at Harvard, Yale, MIT and the United Nations and has spoken to countless leaders in Fortune 500 companies. Her best-selling books, The Charisma Myth and The Net and the Butterfly, have been translated into 32 languages. In this episode of AFP Conversations, Olivia talks about what led her to study charisma and leadership, what it means to be charismatic and the biggest inhibitor to charisma.
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Understanding the Geopolitical Risks We Face with Ian Bremmer
AFP Conversations
speaker Ian Bremmer is a political scientist who helps business leaders, policymakers and the general public make sense of the world around them. He is president and founder of Eurasia Group, the world’s leading political risk research and consulting firm, and GZERO Media, a company dedicated to providing intelligent and engaging coverage of international affairs. In this episode of AFP Conversations, Ian talks about geopolitical trends to watch for and how treasury and finance professionals should account for geopolitical risks in their work.
info_outlineTreasury departments grapple with RTP, or Real-time Payments, every day. How are your fellow treasury professionals dealing with RTP now, and what will the landscape look like in the future?
In this episode of AFP Conversations, Tom Hunt, AFP’s director of Treasury and Payments Services, speaks with payments industry expert Steve Ledford from The Clearing House.
Steve has advised leading banks, financial services firms, and payment organizations in the US and globally for more than 30 years. His work has focused on payments, advising clients on business strategy, product development, IT and infrastructure planning, operations and the deployment of new payment systems.
Listen in as Steven and Tom discuss use cases, volume, and Request for Payment, to get a full picture of the current RTP landscape.