Blythe McGarvie delivers instructive and entertaining speeches uniquely tailored for your organization. Half-day or full day sessions can be presented on a variety of topics, including:

• Leadership: Increasingly competitive business environments, ever-growing government oversight, and rapid changes in consumer tastes require today’s companies to employ innovative and aligned leaders. Blythe uses her FISO Factor (Fit In Stand Out) approach to help companies build and develop this type of leadership team.
  
  
• Best Practices: This program describes how to build shareholder value while staying ahead of the competition and retaining your best employees. In a five-year period as CFO at Hannaford Bros., Blythe oversaw the company’s share price increase from $16 to $73. As the CFO, she was also responsible for all Information Technology with more than 150 direct employees.
  
  
• International business: Seeing opportunities instead of risks: Making acquisitions and establishing partners to source products in countries like China, Japan or Finland can be challenging. McGarvie shares her experiences to help your management consider some of the pitfalls and opportunities.
  
  
• The Board of Directors Matters: McGarvie provides a compelling speech on how you can see signs that your board members are working well or are not effective when the company—or your team—confronts a crucible and critical decision point in the business.
  
  
• Investing for growth: Management has to deal with more uncertainty and complexity than ever before. McGarvie helps other executives explore how to assess and manage risk, validate priorities and move to successful implementation. She speaks on this topic using cutting edge examples from confidential sources.
  
  
• Transforming business performance management: McGarvie writes, speaks and consults about ways to energize management to improve business processes for the goal of financial success. Having confronted a negative cash position while CFO of BIC, Blythe recommended and received board approval to cut the dividend in half in her first six months on the job and turn performance around. She shares insights on how you can improve your business.
  
  
• Financial acuity for success: The shoemaker’s children never get a new pair of shoes. Learn ways to build a winning finance team. Blythe’s dynamic approach to leadership is described in Fit In, Stand Out: Mastering the FISO Factor for Success in Business and Life.

Other topics are available upon request. Please contact Blythe McGarvie at bmcgarvie@LIFgroup.com to discuss other possibilities for speaking engagements.