Episode 29 - Liz Whitfield: Communication and Growth Plans for Business

In this episode, we have invited Liz Whitfield, a Chartered Accountant in 1992, before specializing in Corporate Finance. Her career has spanned Big 4 and mid-tier accountancy firms as well as the ABL industry. Liz is a high energy, high impact professional with 20+ years’ experience in the finance industry. A consummate professional, she is well known and well regarded, combining strong people skills with rigorous financial training. She brings a unique style to the Boardroom table. In more recent years, Liz has gained qualifications as a Licensed Practitioner of Insights Discovery, NLP Practitioner and Leadership Coach.

About Liz

[2:49]

Liz started her career as a chartered accountant. She loved going in and out of different businesses every other week or detailing and doing things called walkthrough testing, where you follow pieces of paper, and where goods traveled through the company from the shop floor to the accounts department and paid on the bank statement. She loved that variety of meeting all the different people understanding about other businesses. I then went into corporate finance. As she studied more about coaching, she learned that it's not about having all the advice or answers; it's about asking the right questions to help somebody unlock their thinking and find their answers. Even if she thinks she got answers, she thought they might not be the correct answers for her clients.

A Learning Coach

[5:54]

With a blend of experience, which is the complex numbers and the softer skills, it's great to bring that all together. Liz shared that she works with a variety of teams, and to resolve a particular situation, each of them will share their ideas as to how to solve the issue. With different experiences, or different perspectives, or other personalities or different industries, it will help pinpoint the best solution while getting to know your team. It will also raise your self-awareness and understand your impact and adapt to other people while valuing the difference that other people bring.

Broaden your Horizon

[9:40]

Liz encourages people to ask questions. Asking questions helps not only for you to understand but for others to understand better as well. Two brains are always going to be better than one. And the more brains that you ask, the more different views and perspectives you're going to get.

Disagreement

[12:17]

It's helping people understand that that's their elephant. Raising this awareness that everyone's elephants different enable you to understand communication. The whole world would be in such a better place if everybody communicated well together. And so, just helping everybody comprehend that our brains are all wired entirely differently practices our communication skills.

Resources Mentioned:

- LinkedIn Mini Course: https://www.impactforleads.com/

Find out more:

- Jason’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonaosborn/

- Liz’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizwhitfield/

- Liz’s Website: https://growth-plans.co.uk/

- Liz’s Email: [email protected]

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Jason