The Trust Mandate: How CFOs Are Leading the Shift from Experimental AI to Enterprise Impact in 2026

In 2026, AI is no longer a future trend—it is a boardroom expectation. However, for an Enterprise CFO, the barrier to scale isn't the technology; it’s the trust in the output. Success no longer hinges on the technology itself, but on the governance, data integrity, and human judgment that surround it.

Jason Godley, CFO of Xactly, argues that the most successful finance leaders in 2026 will be those who treat AI as a trusted "colleague" rather than a tool, demanding the same level of auditability and rigor as a human auditor.  Join our upcoming 30-minute webinar to get Jason’s perspective on how to transform finance into a strategic driver by prioritizing clean, defensible data over vanity metrics. Jason will combine his background in applied positive psychology with his ranch-to-boardroom pragmatism to show how CFOs can coach their teams through this transition, ensuring that as AI takes over the "sludge," human judgment remains the final, strategic word.

Key takeaways include:

1. What the structural shift from Generative AI to Agentic AI means for CFOs
2. Establishing a “glass box” of data for auditability and organizational trust
3. Leveraging positive psychology to how to pivot your talent from manual data entry to strategic storytelling
4. How to engineer a finance engine that adapts to market shifts and aligns seller behavior to boardroom goals