Accounting Influencers

Accounting Influencers

The Accounting Influencers podcast is for progressive accounting firms and the people that lead them, work in them and serve them. In each weekly episode, BD Academy founder and top accounting growth specialist Rob Brown interviews world class accounting leaders and global influencers about what makes the good accounting firms great and the good accountants world class. Guests are either: 1. PRACTITIONERS: firm-wide leaders, managing partners, CEOs, seasoned rainmakers or top BD and marketing directors of larger accounting firms and the networks they are a part of. 2. THOUGHT LEADERS: accounting profession influencers, disrupters and thought leaders who advise, train, serve and speak into the accounting profession. Some are experts (commentators, authors, consultants). Others are in business (suppliers, vendors and partners to accounting firms). Guests are asked questions such as: ✓ What makes the good accounting firms great? ✓ What do the progressive, thriving accounting firms do well? ✓ How are the top accounting firms standing out, winning work and achieving growth? ✓ What are the trends, stats and critical issues shaping larger accounting firms? ✓ What makes a top performer, work winner or promotable accountant in an accounting firm? Topics discussed include growth, digital, legacy, value, leadership, succession, culture, BD, marketing, positioning, branding, differentiation, mindset, technology, recruitment, trends, disrupters and opportunities. Show details here: https://bdacademy.pro/podcasts/ BD Academy founder Rob Brown works with larger accounting firms and sales-oriented accountants to increase their work winning or BD capability. His unique BD Academy program is a year long curriculum of inhouse training and work winning strategies that creates an army of confident, effective and strategic work winners in large accounting firms. One top 40 accounting firm has just added £3m of new work from the BDA program (made up of advisory, compliance and cross-selling fees), which represents £20m+ in lifetime value to the firm. From their largely rural, agricultural and manufacturing client base, this represents a stellar impact on revenue. For more about the BD Academy, and to set up a Possibility Chat with Rob to explore whether this might be a fit for you or your firm, go to https://bdacademy.pro/about/ Finally, if you’d like to be a guest on the Accounting Influencers podcast, or there’s someone you feel we should feature, connect with host Rob Brown on LinkedIn or Twitter @therobbrown.

Episodes

February 22, 2020 30 mins
(https://bdacademy.pro/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Lee-FREDERICKSEN.jpg) Lee Frederiksen is an award-winning marketer, Visible Expert®, and business strategist who helped pioneer the field of research-driven marketing. As the Managing Partner of Hinge, a marketing firm for the professional services industry, he draws on his Ph.D. in behavioral psychology and his CEO experience to help clients achieve high growth and profitabili...
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(https://bdacademy.pro/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/laura-landmark.jpg) Laura Landmark is the co-founder of Mantle Analytics, which offers clients business insights and reporting in real-time with integrations, budgeting, dashboards and KPIs. This driver based forecasting keeps businesses future-focused and uses technology to drive value creation. Shownotes: The accounting world is in a very exciting place right now, although it...
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Darryl Bates-Brownsword is a dynamic, driven Business Consultant, Coach and Mentor with over 20 years of experience and a passion for creating successful outcomes for founder-led businesses. He is a great connector, team builder, problem solver and inspirer – showing the way through complexity to simplicity. He has built 2 international multi-million turnover businesses; one now operating in 16 countries. His quick and analytical...
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Keith Rozelle has 30-year career in corporate sales with many blue-chip brands, such as HP, EDS, BT and a host of SMEs. He's lived and worked all over the world including New York, Zurich, Tokyo, London and Singapore and has managed sales teams numbering 3 to 350. His two career high-points are winning a $1.6Bn outsourcing deal with Vodafone (showcased in The Sunday Times) and turning around a small donated-furniture charity, w...
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John Thompson is an expert in how to delivery advisory services and build an advisory led practice. He currently runs F3C Advantage which helps accountancy practices of all shapes and sizes that want to get serious about developing advisory services. He advocates an advisory delivery platform called CAS – the Complete Advisory Solution. He knows exactly what clients want from accountants, what accountants feel about advisory and wh...
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Steve Walker is a leading expert in the development of disruptor based technology in the learning, training and education markets. He works for Peritus, a group of companies focuses on developing Ed-Tech products for niche areas of the learning, training and education market. Steve has 20 years of experience in the marketplace working with over 2000 organisations, including accounting firms. He therefore has a great understanding...
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Sabby Gill leads Sage in its home market of the UK and in Ireland. He brings to Sage more than 30 years’ experience in the technology sector, across sales, operations and customer services. He has spent his career supporting businesses of all sizes with technology that unlocks their potential – both at home and across international markets. Sabby joined Sage from Epicor where he was Executive Vice President of International. Past...
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Tim Hughes is a world leading pioneer in Social Selling. He is currently ranked Number 1 by Onalytica as the most influential social selling person in the world. He is also Co-Founder and CEO of Digital Leadership Associates and co-author of the bestselling books Social Selling - Techniques to Influence Buyers and Changemakers and Smarketing - How To Achieve Competitive Advantage Through Blended Sales and Marketing (both published ...
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Kevin Whitehouse is a mentor, author and accountant mentor. He has run his Dorset-based accountancy firm Prime Entry since 1991. Shownotes: Accountants are no different to regular business owners - it comes down to personalities If you want to grow either professionally or as a business, you must be a willing volunteer who is open to learning Some accountants have always resisted change, but they will end up being left behind...
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Steve Cox is the Chief Evangelist at IRIS Software. Shownotes: What a chief evangelist actually does in an accounting software company How the accounting profession has changed over the last few years, and the impact technology is having on firms Accountancy is in a healthy place because companies are increasingly reliant on the advice and expertise they provide How IRIS is helping accountants and their clients in this time...
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Simon Leek was an early adopter of CRM methodologies and worked for 25yrs consulting on sales & marketing processes, techniques and supporting technology. For the last 9yrs he has worked exclusively with accountancy practices to help make accountants lives easier through automation of repetitive processes and harnessing the data that exists in practice management with the firms marketing activity. He made a lifestyle choice i...
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Erik Solbakken is a certified professional accountant (CPA) in Canada and creator of the Accountant Success Formula™. For over 26 years, he provided accounting, tax, and advisory services to incorporated business owners and their families. Erik understands firsthand the struggles of running an accounting practice. During his time in public practice he developed and implemented a business model that was so effective that it allowed ...
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Erik Solbakken is a certified professional accountant (CPA) in Canada and creator of the Accountant Success Formula™. For over 26 years, he provided accounting, tax, and advisory services to incorporated business owners and their families. Erik understands firsthand the struggles of running an accounting practice. During his time in public practice he developed and implemented a business model that was so effective that it allowed ...
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Andrew Rhodes Andrew Rhodes is the Managing Partner of Sobell Rhodes, a Chartered Accountant and a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation. He is passionate about helping clients and other accounting firms improve their profits and the quality of their working lives. His strategic and business advisory tools are used by accountants globally to provide structured business advice to their clients. He is passionate about peopl...
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Des O’Neill runs a multi-million-euro turnover business called OmniPro out of Ireland. It serves accountants all over the globe in practice support, practice development, company secretarial, tax and legal, corporate finance, continuing professional development and online information products. Des is passionate about empowering accountants to deliver transformative results for their clients. Shownotes: The professional accounting...
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Wayne Schmidt Wayne Schmidt launched Xero in Australia back in 2009. By many people’s reckoning, he had his head in the clouds while everyone else was getting their feet wet. Wayne has since worked in executive-level roles at Xero, MYOB and Reckon and lived in the UK, AUS, China and the USA. After over 30 years of experience in the accounting industry, Wayne has just launched www.socialforgood.org to help train non-profits on how...
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Charles Jennings Charles Jennings is a leading thinker and practitioner in innovative organisational performance improvement. He is particularly well known for his work with the [70:20:10] model, based on research that learning occurs as part of daily work and not through formal training. He has spent the past 45 years helping people and organisations make measurable improvements to their performance. Charles is a business scho...
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Paul Davis Paul Davis is an award-winning business and executive mentor, speaker, trainer, author of several international best-selling books, and creator of The Impact Code and The Executive Code. He has earned a reputation as a game changer and a secret weapon when it comes to the measurable and permanent positive change that has been experienced by the countless business leaders he has worked with. Having originally trained as...
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Guy Pearson Guy Pearson is the CEO & Founder of accounting onboarding platform Practice Ignition. His mission is to turn it into the single point of collaboration for small business owners and their advisors. He is an entrepreneurial accountant that is passionate on removing bottlenecks from business processes in order to achieve scalability. Prior to Practice Ignition, Guy started (and still sits on the board of) one of th...
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Chris Bensted-Smith Chris Bensted-Smith started his career working for an investment firm. He left soon after discovering the opportunity digital marketing presented to small businesses and the direct correlation it could have on the bottom line. He specializes in SEO and paid advertising for accountancy firms and will continue to do so whilst they remain the most effective solutions for generating consistent streams of new busin...
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