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“Nearly 10,000 baby boomers retire every day, but based on the talent we saw in our Leadership Academy classroom, the future of the CPA profession is in good hands,” stated Tom Hood, president and CEO of the Business Learning Institute and the
Hood and fellow presenter Gretchen Pisano utilized BLI's own “
- Remote workforces
- Artificial intelligence
- The presidential election
- Social media
- Globalization / convergence of international standards
- Cloud accounting / data security
- The need for proactive advisors
The group also produced four opportunities for the CPA profession to develop in the future, including expanding value-added services; leveraging technology for efficiency and insight; becoming a talent magnet; and preparing for succession planning. The group plans to create a whitepaper later this year that will specify how the profession can best address these trends.
The 2016 Leadership Academy graduates are as follows:
- Brianne Baccaro-Norris (Weyrich, Cronin & Sorra)
- Megan Baker (McLean, Koehler, Sparks and Hammond)
- Erica Beaumont (Arthur Bell CPAs)
- Lee Brody (Cohn Reznick)
- Shawn Burman (MKS&H)
- Michael Derbin (Arthur Bell CPAs)
- Kelly DeRose (Gary R. Bozel & Associates)
- Jason Friedman (Arthur Bell CPAs)
- Alina Korsak (Melanson Heath)
- Megan Lindenmeyer (Gary R. Bozel & Associates)
- Erinn Madden (Berman Goldman & Ribakow)
- Edith Orenstein (Maryland Association of CPAs)
- Kevin Pyzik (Mister, Burton & French)
- Paige Sawicki (Maryland Association of CPAs)
- Greg Scherer (Weyrich, Cronin & Sorra)
- Christie Stravino (Arthur Bell CPAs)
- Shanda Swann (Aronson)
- Andrew Venters (Novotny, Larash & Venters)
- Daniel Weimer (Arthur Bell CPAs)
- Susanne Wolfe (Arthur Bell CPAs)
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