Steve Player serves as the Managing Director of Live Future Ready. He also leads the Beyond Budgeting Round Table North America (BBRTNA), working with companies to implement continuous planning processes. Steve has over 30 years of experience in improving performance management. He is the co-author of Future Ready: How to Master Business Forecasting and Beyond Performance Management and five other books. Steve interviews CFOs for the CFOThoughtLeaders.com website, discussing innovative finance and planning processes.

As a Principal and Owner of Torre Consulting, Mike works with companies to evolve strategy and achieve outcomes by improving processes and developing the teams that support them. Mike’s 25 years of experience include over 15 years of leadership experience in the corporate environment and over 12 years of experience bringing Lean principles to life in department and organizational processes and culture. Prior to starting his consulting practice, Mike served as Executive Director of Finance at Group Health Cooperative in Seattle, where he led the Lean transformation of his own department, evolved the role of the department to meet the changing needs of a Lean organization, and co-led the Lean transformation of the budgeting process across the enterprise. In his consulting practice, Mike has worked with companies on lean strategic planning and deployment, value stream mapping and improvement, and cross-functional process improvement in finance and operational areas such as revenue cycle.