Elevating Accounting: More Key Voices at Bridging the Gap 2024
With Rob Brown et al
On this second bonus episode of The Unique CPA, host Rob Brown from the Accounting Influencers Podcasts returns to preview the Bridging the Gap Conference 2024, scheduled for July 22-24 in Rosemont, Illinois. This time, he is joined by speakers Nancy McClelland, Kristen Keats, Seth Feinberg, and Dawn Brolin as they discuss their roles and sessions at the event. Highlighting the conference’s unique focus on mental health, professional growth, and community among accountants, all the speakers agree that Bridging the Gap is not like any other conference they’ve attended. The emphasize the elements of vulnerability, mental well-being, practical insights, and peer support that you don’t see anywhere else. Listeners are encouraged to attend for actionable advice, networking opportunities, and a chance to reinvigorate their careers, as well as end the conference with the red carpet gala event!
About the Guest
Rob Brown, former high school math teacher, part-qualified accountant, stroke survivor, and more, is the host of the Accounting Influencers Podcast series. He serves professionals in the accounting, legal, and finance professions as an event host, conference chair, influencer, ambassador, recruiter, interviewer, panel moderator, emcee, and keynote speaker. His expertise includes reputation, executive presence, talent differentiation, branding, firm development and succession, recruitment, retention, and disruption.
Rob also hosts the Accounting Influencers Roundtable, AIR, which helps influencers and companies better serve the accounting world. AIR’s keynote event is a bimonthly influencer speed networking event held over Zoom. He is also the author of Build Your Reputation: Grow Your Personal Brand for Career and Business Success, published in 2016. His TEDx talk, entitled The Personal Brand of You, has amassed nearly 400,000 views on YouTube.
Meet the Host
Randy Crabtree, co-founder and partner of Tri-Merit Specialty Tax Professionals, is a widely followed author, lecturer and podcast host for the accounting profession.
Since 2019, he has hosted the “The Unique CPA,” podcast, which ranks among the world’s 5% most popular programs (Source: Listen Score). You can find articles from Randy in Accounting Today’s Voices column, the AICPA Tax Adviser (Tax-saving opportunities for the housing and construction industries) and he is a regular presenter at conferences and virtual training events hosted by CPAmerica, Prime Global, Leading Edge Alliance (LEA), Allinial Global and several state CPA societies. Crabtree also provides continuing professional education to top 100 CPA firms across the country.
Schaumburg, Illinois-based Tri-Merit is a niche professional services firm that specializes in helping CPAs and their clients benefit from R&D tax credits, cost segregation, the energy efficient commercial buildings deduction (179D), the energy efficient home credit (45L) and the employee retention credit (ERC).
Prior to joining Tri-Merit, Crabtree was managing partner of a CPA firm in the greater Chicago area. He has more than 30 years of public accounting and tax consulting experience in a wide variety of industries, and has worked closely with top executives to help them optimize their tax planning strategies.
