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Bringing CPA Firms into the Future (with Jackie Meyer)

How can you shed 60% of your client base and still grow? How can a CPA take time off right before April 15, a notorious deadline in the industry, while others are sweating and working overtime? How can setting boundaries with your clients lead to a prosperous, more holistic business?

Sustainable Growth: Steering a Battleship vs. a Speedboat (with Joseph Ferrell)

How do you combine four very different personalities into a leadership team working toward a common goal? What kind of resolve does it take to make changes to a strategy that is already working?

Love People Through Housing (with Lane Beene)

How can recognizing the need to pivot your plans lead to a bigger sense of purpose? How can facing the reality that you are better off partnering with others, rather than going it alone, build greater success?

Putting Values First for Sustainable Success (with Stacey Pearson)

How important are a company’s values to its growth and success? What can a business owner do to ensure their team buys in to the company culture and lives those values daily? And how can you take them even further and affect a community in need?

Advancing Through Life's Detours (with Larry Bell)

How can being involved in organizations during your youth prepare you for unexpected events in your business future? Where do you turn for advice when you feel overwhelmed by responsibility, and you are having to learn as you go? And when personal tragedy strikes, how can the planning of one individual transform entire communities?

Changing Attitudes Through Fearless Entrepreneurship (with Valerie Freeman)

How can following your instincts when presented with the challenges of new strategy, new technology, and inequality in the workplace create an opportunity that transforms the business landscape of a city? How can collaboration take you further than sole pursuits and grow your business exponentially? And how can you take what you’ve built and do even more for others?

Workforce Trends and Drivers (with Daniel Pullin)

How can companies struggling with an employment landscape that is “opportunity long and talent short” attract future team members for the long haul? How can nurturing an emotional connection for your existing team to your company’s values position your company to attain the best, right-fit employees? What are the differences between Millennials and Generation Z, coming out of colleges today, and how can understanding those differences give you an edge in your talent management strategy?

Planning for Successful Succession (with Phil Clemens)

How important is a succession plan to your company’s health? What are the challenges to putting one into place? How can business owners and founders step outside of their egos, face the idea of being replaced, and ask the hard questions on future leadership?

Turning Your Family Business into a Business Family (with Phil Clemens)

What is the difference between a Family Business and a Business Family? How can transitioning from one to the other while reaffirming the family mission and values take a company from declining profits to being a billion-dollar business?

Jumping Off a Cliff (with Ty Smith)

How do you start your private equity real estate business from scratch and build a portfolio worth over $1.2 billion dollars in only six years? How do you build a reputation of integrity in an industry fraught with risks? What inspires someone to ‘jump off a cliff’ and become an entrepreneur in the midst of a financial crisis?