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Among the many strategic changes that finance leader Danielle Murcray has helped to put in motion during her multi-chapter CFO career, perhaps none better reveals her mantle as a strategic leader than the move by cybersecurity firm AttackIQ to adopt a 100 percent\u2013remote U.S. workforce. \xa0

With the arrival of the pandemic, Murcray\u2014like many of her CFO peers\u2014became laser-focused on the company\u2019s finance liquidity and operational efficiencies. At the same time, though, she felt compelled to communicate the health and well-being of the company more broadly.

\u201cI really sought to promote stability across the organization and looked to instill trust with employees and investors,\u201d comments Murcray, who credits the same aspects of her leadership outreach with helping AttackIQ to leverage the advantages of a remote workforce.

\u201cI spend quite a bit of my time making certain that we are overcommunicating and collaborating in different ways so that people feel that we are together even though we are not physically together anymore,\u201d explains Murcray, who moved to Montana from California back in late 2020 after the company announced that its U.S. operations would be moving to a remote model. It subsequently closed its Santa Clara headquarters and San Diego offices.

\u201cFrom the results of our own surveys, we realized that most employees did not want to go back to the office anymore, so we could see that being 100 percent\u2013remote would be a huge competitive advantage,\u201d reports Murcray, who adds that since the decision, more than a dozen AttackIQ employees have relocated out of the state of California.

Says Murcray: \u201cI think that leading through the pandemic is now become something of a defining moment in my career.\xa0\u2013Jack Sweeney