May 13-15, 2024 – Sarah and Brian are facilitating Part 2 of the New Partner Program for DFK International in Chicago, IL!

June 3, 2024 – Sarah is honored to kick off the EDGE track at AICPA’s biggest event of the year, ENGAGE 2024, with her keynote, Your Path to Possibilities, in Las Vegas, NV!! Register now with code ENG24 to enjoy $150 off!

Do you want to find more passion, connection, and fulfillment through your work? Do you want to foster deeper levels of trust and openness and cultivate stronger relationships with your people and clients? Do you want to help us build a stronger, more powerful, and human-centric profession?

True leadership in today’s ever-changing world requires new possibilities. It’s time for our profession’s leaders to evolve more consciously – to shift the tide from fear to love. And it all starts with you.

During this engaging and interactive session, Sarah will help you increase your awareness and appreciation of yourself, become a more conscious leader of others, and craft your personal path to new possibilities!

June 13, 2024 – Sarah is leading a workshop, Cultivating Conscious Connection for the leadership team of Arizona Society of CPAs in Phoenix, AZ!!

Creating connection is one of the most important and powerful leadership skills in today’s world. However, in this fast-paced profession and world, connection can be hard to cultivate, especially when we’re working in different physical locations. Cultivating connection takes conscious intention. During this interactive workshop, we’ll provide participants opportunities to explore:

• Why connection is such a critical leadership skill in today’s world
• What commonly gets in the way of cultivating connection
• Some practical ideas to infuse connection opportunities into your day-to-day work

June 21, 2024 – Brian is delivering a keynote, Intentionally Designed Working Relationships: How to Communicate Better on Purpose, at the Arizona Society of CPAs‘ Not-for-Profit Conference in Phoenix, AZ!!

In the accounting world, our working relationships really matter. They affect our workload, our stress, our fulfillment, and drive our overall success. Yet, we don’t often think about how we can shape and tailor them to be most effective. In this interactive session, Brian will ask you lots of questions about what matters most to you in your relationshipos, and we will challenge you to intentionally design your most important working relationships to empower all parties through stronger communication.

August 28, 2024 – Sarah is delivering a keynote, I <3 Change, for the Nebraska Society of CPAs’ 3rd Annual Women in Accounting Summit in Ashland, NE!!

No matter how hard we wish, hope or try, nothing ever stays the same. In fact, business, people, and the world at large, are changing faster than ever. If we can’t adapt, our careers and lives will feel like more of a struggle than something to enjoy.

During this interactive session, we’ll explore why change feels so hard from a physiological, mental, and emotional perspective, so you can overcome the fear factor and learn to love change!! Plus, you’ll walk away with your own personal possibilities plan to create the change you most want!

December 9-12, 2024 – Sarah is facilitating AICPA’s prestigious Leadership Academy in Durham, NC!! This is a four-day leadership program for young accounting professionals that engages candidates in a self-examination of leadership, what it means and how it impacts their personal life, career path, and the CPA profession.

This program is for licensed CPAs between the ages of 25-35 who want to level up their leadership and contribute to the future of the CPA profession. Leadership Academy exposes the next generation of CPAs to strong leadership ethics and service while providing them with the strategies to forge relationships, to expand their competencies and empower them to become a leader within their organization, community, and the CPA profession.

The first half of the program is focused on leadership of self, a self-examination of personal strengths and values coupled with actionable take-aways on where the greatest impacts can be made. The second half of the program is focused on how to lead others and an organization. These sessions include how to facilitate and lead strategic conversations, the importance of inclusive leadership, giving and receiving feedback and in-depth conversations about the future of the accounting profession.

FREE REPLAY – Join Sarah and Brian Kreischer (Managing Partner of Frank, Rimerman + Co) for an AICPA webinar, Creating New Possibilities through a Coaching Culture.

Just imagine what’s possible for your organization when you unlock the latent potential of your people and inspire them to reach new heights!! During this webinar, we will explore how you can create new possibilities for your organization, the people in it and everyone you serve by creating a true coaching culture, including:

• What coaching is (and isn’t!), and how to distinguish it from other developmental methods.
• Why and how coaching is such a powerful tool to generate new solutions for the challenges our profession faces.
• Some ideas for how you can begin to infuse a coaching culture at your organization.