SPEAKING & EVENTS
Keynotes and talks for CFO forums, executive leadership events, banking and financial services conferences, and executive education programmes across the Caribbean, Africa, and Latin America.
Gavin Jordan speaks from 25 years of operational experience as a Group CFO, COO, and Deputy CEO — not from a consulting engagement. His talks address the specific, uncomfortable truths about why finance functions fail to lead and what it actually takes to change that. He has spoken at the Caribbean CFO Summit and delivers across Caribbean, African, and Latin American markets.
Each talk is built from lived operational experience — not research or theory.
KEYNOTE · 30–45 MINUTES
The Finance Function That Leads
CFO Forums · Finance Leadership Events · Board Retreats
The foundational distinction between operational and strategic finance — and why most finance functions are excellent at the wrong one. What it actually takes to move finance from reporting what happened to shaping what comes next. Built from lived operational experience across Caribbean and international multi-entity groups.
KEYNOTE · 20–30 MINUTES
The Three Questions Every CFO Should Be Able to Answer
CFO Summits · Executive Conferences · Industry Forums
Three diagnostic questions that reveal whether a finance function is genuinely strategic or structurally incapable of being so. Where is value leaking. What should finance become. How should it be structured. Most CFOs have never been asked all three at once.
KEYNOTE · 30–40 MINUTES
Why Finance Transformation Fails — And the Sequence That Works
Executive Education · Leadership Forums · MBA Programmes
Four failure patterns that account for most finance transformation failures — and the specific sequence that prevents all four. Built from proprietary frameworks deployed across Caribbean and emerging market multi-entity groups.
KEYNOTE · 20–30 MINUTES
The Tech-Forward CFO — Finance Leadership in an AI-First World
Technology Conferences · CEO Forums · General Business Leadership
What the CFO role looks like when operational finance is automated and strategic finance is elevated. How AI changes what finance functions need to do — and what they need to stop doing.
Caribbean CFO Summit 2026 — Fireside Chat
Architecting the Modern Enterprise: Innovation and Global Scale
Moderated by Renate McDonald, LearnGrowInvest
For keynote and named talk slots at conferences, executive education programmes, and corporate events.