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    Erica Olsen & Dino Beslic, Topic: “Strategic Planning”

    en-usMay 20, 2022
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    About this Episode

    Every year, the AP management team comes together for strategic planning, presenting it to the whole organization in an effort to connect purpose with direction.

    In the newest episode of AP Podcast, a special guest and friend of AP, Erica Olsen, CEO and Founder of OnStrategy, joined Dino Beslic, CFO at AP, to talk about strategic planning and why your organization should do it. In this episode, Erica and Dino cover the dos and don’ts of strategy to guide you through the journey of planning and execution.

    Erica and her team have been AP partners for five years, guiding our teams through our own strategic planning journey and supporting us through planning, strategic reviews and check-ins, ensuring we stay on track. Our CFO, Dino Beslic, brings over a decade of finance experience in private equity and investment banking to the table.

    Disclaimer: The views expressed in this podcast are the speaker’s own and do not reflect the opinion of Authority Partners.

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