May 15, 2025 – Join Sarah and Brian for an AICPA webinar, The Case for Curiosity: Why Curiosity is the New Leadership Superpower.

Do you struggle to understand, motivate, and engage your people? Do you have a hard time fostering ownership and accountability on your teams? Do you want to alleviate unnecessary stress, pressure, and anxiety within yourself and others?

If you said yes to any or all of these questions, you’re not alone. The accounting profession needs leaders who can embrace real curiosity to empower connection, creativity, and innovation.

During this interactive session, we will embark together on a journey to discover why and how curiosity can be your superpower. We will explore:

• What showing up as a curious leader really means and the impact it has on others
• How you can unleash this leadership superpower by starting from the inside-out
• Some practical ways to bring curiosity to all your relationships, so you can increase the learning and possibilities for everyone

Click here to register!

June 10, 2025 – Sarah and Brian are honored to present at AICPA’s biggest event of the year, ENGAGE 2025, with their keynote, First Year Partner: Moving Beyond Surviving to Thriving on June 10 at 2:30pm PDT in Las Vegas, NV!!

The first year as a Partner is often the toughest transition of an entire career. Why? You’ve finally earned a place at the leadership table, but do you really know what you’re doing? You want to look like you have it all together on the outside, when in reality, you’re struggling on the inside…struggling to shift your thinking from employee to owner, from manager to leader, from complainer to change maker…all while struggling to find time for yourself amidst the ever-growing list of responsibilities and priorities as a new business owner.

When you become a Partner, the whole game changes. So, how can you not just survive this challenging first year, but actually thrive?

This session is ideal for those interested in becoming a Partner at their firm, those who have recently become a Partner at their firm, and firm leaders who want to better support their next generation of leaders through this challenging transition.

Click here to register and use code ENG25 for an additional $150 off!

June 11-13, 2025 – Brian will be presenting at the CPAmerica Next Generation Conference this June in Savannah, Georgia! 

Join Brian for the following sessions:

June 11: Leaders Panel: What the Firm of the Future Needs

June 12: Session 1 – Coaching Your Staff to Own and Move Forward their Challenges; In the accounting profession, we need to empower our teammates and staff. We need to hold them accountable for owning their work. Yet, the traditional approach of combining directions with accountability are not working in our new world. We need a new model to empower others to own and move forward their challenges. We do this by coaching.

Session 2 – Consciously Navigating Conflict; Conflict can feel messy, awkward and scary at times…so much so, that you may find yourself trying to avoid it altogether! When we choose to consciously navigate conflict, instead of avoiding it, we gain a valuable opportunity to expand our perspectives and can ultimately come to better solutions together. During this hands-on, interactive workshop, you’ll get to work on a real-life, current conflict you’re facing. I2L will help you apply a simple, three-step framework to consciously navigate the conflict. Plus, we’ll provide some real-time coaching, so you can walk away with more confidence and curiosity around conflict!

Session 3 – Cultivating Connection; Creating connection is one of the most important and powerful leadership skills in today’s world. However, in this fast-paced profession, connection can be hard to cultivate, especially when we’re working in different physical locations. Cultivating connection takes conscious intention.

Session 4 – Creating and Modeling Healthy Behaviors and Boundaries; Our profession needs to know all of us can create and honor healthy boundaries and thrive at what we do, at the same time! To be a healthier leader, you must set boundaries around your work to create space for the rest of your life. We’ll help you define your most important boundaries and create some practices to maintain them. We will then discuss how you can publicize your own boundaries to make them work, and at the same time model healthy behaviors for others.

December 8-11, 2025 – 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.