Leadership
What does it take to lead through uncertainty and inspire others? Chartered Accountants Worldwide and our Member Institutes share key insights on the skills that define great leadership.
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Insights on Leadership
Women in Finance: Leading Teams Through Change
Our October 2025 “Women in Finance: Leading Teams Through Change” webinar delivered a clear message: leadership today is as much about human skills as it is about technical expertise.
Networking is now more important than ever. With remote working, our networks have shrunk; we must renew our existing networks and build new ones. Kingsley Aikins understands the transformative power of networking, the ‘glue’ that makes everything happen
The profession of accountancy is changing—and faster than ever before. Chartered Accountants Worldwide’s flagship series, Difference Makers Discuss, is back for its third season, bringing together six remarkable conversations with leaders who are shaping the future of our profession.
In today’s climate of economic uncertainty, digital disruption, and eroding institutional confidence, Chartered Accountants are recognised by finance and business decision makers as one of the world’s most trusted professions. According to the fifth wave of the Trust Survey conducted by Edelman DXI for Chartered Accountants Worldwide (CAW), the profession ranks third globally for trust, just behind doctors and engineers – and significantly ahead of other accountancy qualifications.
Online Events & Webinars
Online Events & Webinars
One clear way that Chartered Accountant Member Institutes are rising to this challenge is in the creation and hosting of online events and activities.
We are working with the Institutes to present the events that have a global perspective and are available to Chartered Accountants everywhere.

Webinars on demand
In 2019, a conference keynote about TikTok sent Ramis Ansari home to take the algorithm apart. Today, the Chartered Accountant in Sydney has close to a million followers across his platforms, a fashion label and an events business. Find out how he found his audience, and why he credits his commercial success to his training as a Chartered Accountant.
Aisling McCaffrey is clear that the seventeen year old choosing a university course could not have described where she is now. She works at the Impact Investing Institute in London on the question of why capital does not flow to the places that need it. Recent months have taken her to the Ethiopian border with Somalia alongside UNHCR and UNDP, and to India to look at the textile and apparel sector.
Difference Makers Discuss, season 5, episode 1. Sinead Donovan talks to Kingsley Aikins, founder of Diaspora Matters. This is the second of a two part conversation, the first of which closed season 4.

















