Stephanie Roberts, CFO (Old Navy, Specialized, Rothy’s) on Building a Career Without Losing What Matters

Stephanie Roberts is an experienced financial executive and partner at FLG Partners, where she provides CEO and CFO consultation and coaching. She is the former CFO of major brands like Old Navy, Rothy’s, goop, Specialized, and ThirdLove. Her extensive background as an executive leader across the e-commerce, retail, and consumer sectors informs her unique leadership style, as well as the deep operating knowledge that she brings to her work at FLG. Stephanie and Roy dig into the ways in which her work ethic and values were shaped by her childhood, the challenges of contending with work pressure and burnout, the importance of building long-term relationships with direct reports, the true value of time, and much more. Highlights from our conversation include: - How Stephanie’s upbringing shaped her career (1:54) - The three segments of Stephanie’s career (6:31) - How her life experience informed her empathetic leadership style (9:31) - Believing she had to outwork everyone and how that affected her (11:11) - How being “full light, no dimmer” ended up being unsustainable for Stephanie (13:50) - What she would tell the younger, over-worked version of herself (16:45) - What the term ‘time affluence’ means to Stephanie (17:33) - Her consultation and coaching work with FLG Partners (19:34) - The point in her career when she felt her leadership style had fully evolved (21:56) - Stephanie’s leadership philosophy (26:12) - Things she might change about the past if she could go back in time (28:39) - What Stephanie’s most excited about looking ahead to the future (29:43)