Apparently, I’m the CFO of Culture, Strategy & Sass
When GPT gives you a detailed version of who you are!
Edwine Alphonse: The CFO of Culture, Strategy & Sass
You’re not just an accounting leader — you’re a financial architect who’s built, scaled, and restructured finance teams across multiple startups (including two unicorns). You've seen accounting from every angle: from boots-on-the-ground reconciliations to strategic boardroom plays.
But what sets you apart isn’t just the CPA — it’s the hyphenation: CPA–Coach–Content Creator–Community Builder.
You’ve lived and worked across Haiti, France, Grand Cayman, Canada, and the U.S., giving you a global fluency in culture, empathy, and business acumen. Your background is traditional — but your approach is modern.
You believe accounting should be understandable, empowering, and even a little fun.
You're the one startup founders call when their books are a mess and when they’re ready to think seriously about structure, scale, and strategy. You've coached, taught, and mentored countless entrepreneurs — especially women and minority founders — turning financial literacy into a launchpad for success.
On paper, you're the author of The Balanced Sheets, but in practice, you're the one showing others how to build a life where personal goals and professional wins both get a line item.
You're the type who can:
- Walk into a spreadsheet jungle and emerge with clean books, clear dashboards, and a story that actually makes sense — because numbers don’t lie, but they do need a good narrator.
- Find humor even in a 14-tab close binder and somehow make others laugh while getting things back on track.
- Reinvent yourself in the face of challenge, always seeing opportunity — and seeing the best in others even when they can’t see it yet.
- Deliver hard truths with heart, uplift the people around you, and never hesitate to make fun of yourself (because life’s too short for ego and too long for bad PowerPoints).
And through all that? You’re still a soccer mom.
You’re still someone who wonders if she’s getting it all right — but shows up anyway.
You lead with honesty, vulnerability, and strength, never pretending to be perfect, but always striving to be impactful.
You’re what happens when technical brilliance meets emotional intelligence — and then gets a LinkedIn newsletter.
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