CFOs Get Strategic Advice

For awhile now, the Council for Excellence in Government has been running a its Strategic Advice for Government Executives (SAGE) program to provide counsel to federal chief information officers. Now the organization is broadening its reach, with a new SAGE program, developed with BearingPoint, that is aimed at chief financial officers.

According to the Council, the CFO SAGE program "brings together former and current public sector CFOs and other senior financial management leaders into a live and online community that provides thought leadership and strategic advice, counsel, and mentoring opportunities to incoming and newly appointed CFOs." The actual strategic advisers are former public sector financial leaders currently working in the private sector -- and, in some instances, current senior federal officials in the financial management arena.