Impactful Leadership for High Potentials
SFNet Members-Only Program
The Secured Finance Foundation, in partnership with NYU Stern Executive Education, is offering a multi-faceted learning experience taught by NYU faculty coupled with real-world secured finance applications.
Tailored for those with 3-15 years
of secured finance experience who aspire to leadership roles, this intensive two-day program immerses participants in diverse analytical frameworks and practical strategies. Focused on honing leadership capabilities, it blends lectures, case studies
and group exercises to illustrate effective leadership approaches. The experience will culminate in a group dinner with SFNet's CEO and an online debrief with senior industry executives sharing relevant insights on the subject matter.
Employees of SFNet member companies are invited to register for this program. Not sure if your company is a member? Click here to confirm.
Dates: June 24-25, 2025
Location: In person at NYU Stern in New York City
We strongly encourage you to register early to secure your spot.
What Do Past Participants Say?
“The whole curriculum was really useful and very insightful. I found it most enjoyable [that] everyone in class were so engaged and were all willing participants.”
Charisma Lohony, J D Factors LLC
"...I had the pleasure of learning alongside my peers in the #Leadership
TrainingforHigh
Potentials at #NYUStern. I learned a whole lot and met some really amazing people. Special thanks go out to Richard Gumbrecht from the Secured Finance Network for organizing this and Nate Pettit for sharing your knowledge."
Angelica Ly-Duarte, REV Capital
“It was a fun enjoyable class on Leadership. Multiple breakout groups and games made the time fly by.”
Celina Rambaran, JPalmer Collective
Fee: $3,800
Program Takeaways:
- Perspective – examine the meaning of leadership from many perspectives
- Action – develop a personalized path towards translating leadership into effective action
- Organization Dynamics – learn about power spheres and how influence, collaboration, teamwork and networking all play a part in becoming a quality leader
Sample Agenda
In-Person Date and Time:
- June 24-25 from 9:00 am - 4:30 pm, in-person class at NYU
- Instructor Nathan Pettit, Vice Dean for MBA and Graduate Programs and Associate Professor of Management and Organizations
- June 25 from 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm, dinner with SFNet CEO Rich Gumbrecht
Online Date and Time:
- June 27 from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, online industry executive debrief
- Stewart Hayes, Managing Director/SVP, Wells Fargo Capital Finance
- Betty Hernandez, EVP & Chief Credit Officer, SLR Business Credit
- Rob Meyers, President, Republic Business Credit
Attending Impactful Leadership for High Potentials gives you access to:
- 15 hours of in-person instruction taught over 2 days
- Debrief with senior secured finance executives sharing relevant applications of program constructs, over Zoom
- Post-class dinner with SFNet CEO Rich Gumbrecht on June 25
- Automatic acceptance into the Fall 2025 SFNet Mentoring Program
- Certificate of completion from NYU Stern Executive Education
- 25% discount to any SFNet conference you have not attended before, to help you expand your network
- 25% off any SFNet education class
- Lunch provided each day at NYU
Refund/Cancellation Policy
The Secured Finance Network and NYU Stern Executive Education retain the right to cancel the course at any time. Should SFNet or NYU initiate a course cancellation, registrants will receive prompt notification, and all course fees paid will be refunded in full.Registrants who wish to cancel their registration must email a cancellation request to BLam@sfnet.com no later than 14 days before the course commences. Cancellation requests within this timeframe qualify for a full refund. Registrants may alternatively opt to designate a substitute (prior notification to SFNet) to attend the course in their place.