Finding the Leader Within
Lynn Fountain Overview:
This course will step beyond the traditional leadership styles and techniques and challenge you to identify your individual talents and the leader within. We will step into the psychology of what it takes to be a leader in today’s business world and discuss how you can evaluate your own individual skills and traits to determine your personal leadership path on your way to a successful career.
Why you should Attend:
We will use real life scenarios and examples of today’s leaders and evaluate how those successes/failures impacted their individual careers and futures. You will come away from this session with a method to help you identify your individual leadership aspirations and a path to success.
- Leadership in today’s business world - what it takes
- Defining the meaning of leadership and its application to individual roles
- How personalities, culture, organizational setting contribute to leadership styles
- Finding your passion and building it into a leadership profile
Areas Covered in the Session:
- Discover leadership in today’s business world and what it takes to be a leader
- Define the meaning of leadership and its application to individual roles
- Identify how personalities, culture, organizational setting contribute to leadership styles
- Discover your passion and building it into a leadership profile
Who Will Benefit:
- Finance
- Accounting
- Compliance
- Legal Professionals
- Internal and External Auditors
- Operational Companies
Speaker Profile
Lynn Fountain has over 45 years of experience spanning public accounting, corporate accounting and consulting. 20 years of her experience has been working in the areas of internal and external auditing and risk management. She is a subject matter expert in multiple fields including internal audit, ethics, fraud evaluations, Sarbanes-Oxley, enterprise risk management, governance, financial management and compliance. Lynn has held two Chief Audit Executive (CAE) positions for international companies. In one of her roles as CAE, she assisted in the investigation of a multi-million-dollar fraud scheme perpetrated by a vendor that spanned 7 years and implicated 20 employees. The fraud was formally investigation by the FBI and resulted in 5 indictments estimating a $13M fraud loss.
Ms. Fountain obtained her BSBA from Pittsburg State University and her MBA from Washburn University in Kansas. She has her CPA, CGMA, CRMA credentials.