Emma Beckett

Emma Beckett is the founder and CEO of Fortitude 17, an independent client-focused quality assurance, Go-Live and transformation expertise consultancy that helps organisations land finance and ERP transformations without the horror stories. Sitting between clients and their delivery partners as an honest fulcrum, her team provides the impartial assurance layer on programmes across Microsoft Dynamics 365, SAP, Oracle NetSuite, Xero, Sage and beyond - the systems on which modern finance functions run. As a Global Test Director, Emma has spent her career answering the question every CFO eventually asks: “can we trust the numbers this system produces - and is it safe to go live?” Emma has built a reputation for turning transformation risk into boardroom clarity, and speaks internationally on why programmes fail in the middle, not the end. Before expanding her consultancies in the UK as well as in the UAE, Emma was a professional and international footballer for almost 20 years, and brings