About This Event
Financial Storytelling: Engage Boards and Prove Your Impact
April 9, 2026 from 12-1pm
- Your financial statements are much more than compliance documents; they're chapters in your association's strategic story. This interactive session teaches you how to take your balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow reports and turn them into compelling narratives that 1. engage boards, 2. inspire staff, and 3. demonstrate mission impact.
- Through our three-part framework, you'll learn to interpret financial statements as storytelling tools, actually practice turning data into impact narratives using real examples, and master contextual framing techniques that give your numbers meaning in front of non-finance stakeholders.
- Walk away with practical tools including a Financial Storytelling Framework worksheet and data visualization guide. Whether you're presenting to your board, communicating with members, or reporting to funders, you'll gain immediately applicable skills to connect financial performance to mission outcomes.
Speaker Bio:
Jackie McLaughlin is a CPA with over 35 years of accounting experience, including 18 years dedicated to nonprofit organizations. Starting her career at KPMG auditing tech startups, she advanced to audit leadership roles in Fortune 500 companies before transitioning to nonprofit financial management.
At Chazin, Jackie oversees technical reviews, training, and financial reviews, ensuring nonprofits meet the highest standards of fiscal responsibility. An accomplished educator, Jackie spent 10 years as a top-rated instructor for the nation’s largest CPA review provider and has taught financial tools and strategies to small business owners and CPAs.
Her sessions empower association professionals to innovate, lead with confidence, and drive positive change through strong financial foundations.
About This Event
Financial Storytelling: Engage Boards and Prove Your Impact
April 9, 2026 from 12-1pm
- Your financial statements are much more than compliance documents; they're chapters in your association's strategic story. This interactive session teaches you how to take your balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow reports and turn them into compelling narratives that 1. engage boards, 2. inspire staff, and 3. demonstrate mission impact.
- Through our three-part framework, you'll learn to interpret financial statements as storytelling tools, actually practice turning data into impact narratives using real examples, and master contextual framing techniques that give your numbers meaning in front of non-finance stakeholders.
- Walk away with practical tools including a Financial Storytelling Framework worksheet and data visualization guide. Whether you're presenting to your board, communicating with members, or reporting to funders, you'll gain immediately applicable skills to connect financial performance to mission outcomes.
Speaker Bio:
Jackie McLaughlin is a CPA with over 35 years of accounting experience, including 18 years dedicated to nonprofit organizations. Starting her career at KPMG auditing tech startups, she advanced to audit leadership roles in Fortune 500 companies before transitioning to nonprofit financial management.
At Chazin, Jackie oversees technical reviews, training, and financial reviews, ensuring nonprofits meet the highest standards of fiscal responsibility. An accomplished educator, Jackie spent 10 years as a top-rated instructor for the nation’s largest CPA review provider and has taught financial tools and strategies to small business owners and CPAs.
Her sessions empower association professionals to innovate, lead with confidence, and drive positive change through strong financial foundations.