
The role of the Chief Financial Officer has fundamentally evolved. No longer defined solely by financial stewardship and reporting, today’s CFO is expected to shape strategy, drive enterprise transformation, manage risk, harness emerging technologies, and create sustainable value across the organisation. Finance has become a strategic catalyst for growth, resilience, and long-term competitive advantage.
The Executive Leadership Programme for CFOs is an immersive executive experience designed to prepare senior finance leaders to lead confidently in an increasingly complex and technology-driven business landscape. Participants will develop the strategic perspective, leadership capability, and financial insight required to position the finance function as a driver of organisational performance and enterprise-wide value creation.
Aligned with the evolving global finance agenda, the programme explores the strategic priorities shaping the future of finance, including digital transformation, artificial intelligence, corporate finance, enterprise risk, governance, sustainable finance, treasury, and executive influence. Through expert-led discussions, practical case studies, and executive-level learning, participants will examine how finance leaders can navigate disruption, lead transformation, and influence strategic decision-making at the highest levels of the organisation.
A distinguishing feature of the programme is its dual-track approach, bringing together finance executives from both the corporate sector and the public sector, including state-owned enterprises. While participants share common leadership experiences, dedicated streamed sessions address the unique governance, regulatory, and operational realities of each sector. The programme also incorporates the perspective of small open economies, exploring strategies for financial resilience, capital allocation, treasury management, and sustainable growth within rapidly changing regional and global markets.
Upon completion of this programme, participants will be able to:
October 26 - 28, 2026
Times:Monday - Wednesday 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM AST
Certificate Awarded:Professional Development Certificate of Completion
Cost:US $4,500.00
Modality:
In Person
Location: SCHSBM, Barbados
Registration Deadline:October 12, 2026
Programme Curriculum
The Strategic CFO: Driving Enterprise Performance
Position finance as a strategic driver of organisational performance by exploring enterprise leadership, capital allocation, treasury strategy, and executive influence.
Leading the AI-Enabled Finance Function
Discover how leading finance organisations are leveraging AI, data, governance, and people strategies to modernise the finance function.
Building Financial Resilience for Small Open Economies
Develop strategies to strengthen organisational resilience while exploring specialised finance challenges through dedicated learning streams.
How You Will Learn
This highly interactive programme combines executive discussion with practical application, ensuring every participant leaves with insights they can immediately apply within their organisation. Throughout the programme, you will engage in:
What Makes this Programme Different?
A Distinctive Executive Learning Experience
Unlike traditional CFO programmes, you will join one of two dedicated leadership streams:
✔ Corporate Finance Leadership
✔ Public Sector & State-Owned Enterprise Finance Leadership
Each stream explores the strategic finance challenges unique to its operating environment while allowing participants to reconnect for shared discussions on resilience, sustainability, and executive leadership.
Benefits for the Organisation
What you and your organisation gain:
Assessment and Certification
As a non-credit executive programme, assessment is formative rather than examined. Recognition of completion is based on full attendance, active participation in sessions and clinics, and completion of the Executive CFO Leadership Challenge. Participants who meet these requirements will be awarded a Professional Development Certificate of Completion.
Who Should Attend?
This programme is for senior finance leaders across the private, public and state-owned-enterprise sectors who lead, or are preparing to lead, the modern finance function. It is especially valuable for:
All notification of cancellations, deferrals, and substitutions must be received in writing. Please submit your request via e-mail to schsbmopen@cavehill.uwi.edu
CANCELLATIONS
REFUNDS
Due to the costs incurred for program preparation and administration any cancellations received 30 days or less from the program start date are subject to fees as described below. For programs with a virtual component, the start date will be considered the first day of live learning.
| Written notice of cancellation received by SCHSBM | Refund |
| 30 days or more before the start of the specific course | 100% of course fees. |
| 29 to 15 days before the start of the specific course | 50% of course fees. |
| 14 days or less before the start of the specific course | No refund |