Defend Your L&D Budget to the CFO

Situation Briefing

Your company is entering a cost-cutting cycle. The CFO has scheduled a 1:1 to review all "non-essential" spend, and your $2.4M leadership development budget is on the chopping block. You have 10 minutes to make your case. Rachel is data-driven, skeptical of soft ROI, and under pressure from the board to cut 15% across the organization. She respects directness and hates buzzwords.

Your Objectives

• 1

  Protect at least 70% of your L&D budget

• 2

  Connect leadership development to business outcomes Rachel cares about

• 3

  Propose a measurement framework she can take to the board

• 4

  Maintain the relationship for future budget conversations