whitman: build culture on ‘progress,’ not change | the disruptors
language, collaboration, & leadership turned competition into cohesion.

the disruptors
with liz farr
language, collaboration, & leadership turned competition into cohesion.

the disruptors
with liz farr
five steps to implementing a plan.
by domenick j. esposito
8 steps to great
let’s say your firm has five offices that handle audit/tax compliance services and two advisory and consulting lines of business (tax consulting and management consulting). let’s refer to them as business units and let’s also say that net profits were generated as in the chart at right:
let’s keep the example simple. let’s assume that each of the seven business units is self-sustaining, and that certain high-performing business units do not have to “give” profits to others and that lower-performing business units do not have to “take” profit from others.
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the profession’s newest partners may be the most vulnerable.
move like this
with bonnie buol ruszczyk
for 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间
move like this host bonnie buol ruszczyk sits down with sarah elliott, cpa, co-founder of intend2lead, to unpack what conscious leadership looks like in accounting—and why the profession’s newest partners may be the most vulnerable leaders in the firm.
elliott, a former audit partner who left public accounting in 2014 to become an executive coach, argues that real change happens in a precise order: mindset, then skill set, then habits. her “conscious leader” model centers on leaders who share power, elevate others, and stay curious, even when uncertainty invites fear.
“our best leaders are human-centric first,” elliott says. “in a world of accelerating tech and change, we have to start with people—always.”
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intend2lead recently surveyed 110 newly promoted partners (2023–2024). the results spotlight avoidable gaps that push rising leaders toward burnout—or out of public accounting altogether.
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every year, the 2025 rosenberg map survey asks the industry’s top consultants to share their observations from cpa firms across the country: how do you think the next 12 months will unfold? trends? predictions? other thoughts? also, how would you assess the last 12 months? trends? observations? struggles?
kpis likely will change.
by jennifer wilson
the rosenberg survey
mergers and acquisitions and private equity will continue to consolidate the top 100 and allow new firms to find their way to the list. but brokers will find it harder to convince the quality firms left in late 2025 into 2026 that they should sell out. those firms believe in their mission, talent and clients, and themselves, and see the immense opportunity to diferentiate by remaining independent and sustaining their firm’s legacy into the future.
new artificial intelligence “best of breed” solutions will create miracle-level productivity increases within firms that are in pilot now and we’ll begin reimagining the learning paradigm for interns and associates especially.
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