“One of the things we desperately need is a spiritual renewal in this country. We need a spiritual revival in America.” -Billy Graham With the spring tax filing season successfully behind us, we have an opportunity to start fresh and focus our energies on renewing our body, mind, and spirit for the important tasks that [...]
“One of the things we desperately need is a spiritual renewal in this country. We need a spiritual revival in America.” -Billy Graham With the spring tax filing season successfully behind us, we have an opportunity to start fresh and focus our energies on renewing our body, mind, and spirit for the important tasks that [...]
As I sit to write this holiday post, I have to confess that I’m struggling to find my holiday cheer. While it has been a fabulous, blessed year at ConvergenceCoaching, many of our team members are skidding in sideways on our holiday preparations. Things feel harried. More sobering, though, is the fact that several of [...]
My oldest daughter once wrote an essay on the Holocaust book Night by Elie Wiesel. Even though the book illustrates the hopelessness of this unspeakable event, in true form to her wonderful personality, my daughter chose the subject of faith as the basis for her essay. Her hypothesis was, “…even when faith seems completely lost, you can [...]
Many question whether a gender issue exists in our profession. I did not expect to encounter this issue as part of the INSIDE Public Accounting/ConvergenceCoaching research study, “The Road to Retention: Motivators and Drivers for Young Public Accounting Professionals.” What I anticipated was generationally-focused feedback highlighting the differences between mature and younger professionals. Digging into [...]
We’re excited to present the results from the ConvergenceCoaching 2016 Anytime, Anywhere™ Work Survey, celebrating our third year studying public accounting firm flexible work initiatives. In this first blog in our series, we’ll share the highlights of this year’s survey with responses from 160 unique CPA firms. In future blogs, we’ll dive deeper into some [...]
I am about to celebrate my 10th anniversary of running. I ran my first full marathon in late September 2015 and, even though I’m “middle aged,” I am committed to extend my distance and improve my time. In fact, my motto is, “I’m not getting older – I’m getting faster!” Sometimes, and especially when I’m [...]
Wow! It is hard to believe that on April 1, our ConvergenceCoaching team celebrated our 16th anniversary. What a wonderful and blessed journey we’ve enjoyed so far! Since co-founding our firm with my dear friend, Jim Metzler to growing to an 11-member team focused on making life-changing differences for our clients, I am so grateful [...]
There’s a lot of talk these days about the need for a new public accounting business model. In fact, we’re spending a lot of time ourselves driving change to many fundamental business model elements including pushing for not-to-exceed pricing, unlimited paid time off and uber-flexibility, and turning over the reins to younger leaders earlier. And [...]
