Humanise The Numbers - for ambitious accountants in practice
Welcome to the 'Humanise The Numbers' podcast series. Here you'll find a whole series of interviews with the leaders of accounting firms who are building (or have already built) a firm of the future now! You'll hear key insights, key skills and key habits that underpin the success of these firms. Insights, skills and habits that can underpin your firm's future success too. It seems that when an accountancy firm connects their team and their clients to the numbers that really matter to them they transform the results for everyone. This is accelerated when the humanity of the way they work shines through too. That's why we're talking about ambitious accountants humanising the numbers.Here's what a director of a multi-partner multi-national firm said recently ."What I like about your podcasts is that they are real. They are not scripted and I appreciate the fact that your interviewees admit they don’t have all the answers but are willing to let you put that fact out on a podcast. It is what is going on at the front lines of great small accounting practices. I have now listened to about half of them, I intend listening to them all as each one just has a nugget that I am writing down to see if I can use in our practice at some stage."
Episodes
149 episodes
Graeme Tennick, Chief Impact Officer at Tennick Accountants
How many firms do you know that have a Chief Impact Officer? Yep, me neither. So, you may want to join this podcast with myself and Graeme Tennick, of Tennick Accountants, as Graeme talks about his role and about how and why it came into being....
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58:52
Laura Taylor, Founder of Bright Flamingo
What's it like to start an accounting firm with £200, to grow it quickly over a period of five years, and then to decide to exit? And from the start of that exit conversation to completion, for it to take only 25 days? We'll cover a...
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47:23
Elinor Perry, Managing Director of Pentlands Accountants
A pressing question that every firm, every leader, every manager, should ask themselves is: how do you build long-standing trust with your clients and with your team? In this podcast with Elinor Perry of Pentlands, you'll hear...
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1:02:40
Alan Farrelly, Managing Director at UHY Farrelly Dawe White Limited
How must it feel to found and to grow, over a period of almost 40 years, a busy, vibrant firm, from humble beginnings to over a hundred people?In this podcast with Alan Farrelly of UHY Farrelly Dawe White, based in Ireland, you'll find o...
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58:36
John F Thompson - CEO Wisdom in Practice
There is a thing that’s been talked about in the profession for decades, something which has never really got traction in every firm in a leveraged way. It works in some firms in a small way and in a very few firms in a big way. It’s that thing...
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1:12:04
Russell Watkins - Lean Transformation Expert & Co-founder @ SempaiGuide
When you're trying to unlock the potential that you know exists within your team, within your client bank, within your firm as a whole, it can feel frustrating that you just can't seem to get to it, you can't unlock it. In this podc...
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1:10:21
Sherelyn Cowles, Chief Business Development Officer at Gooding Accounts
We know that recruiting great people and keeping them is a huge challenge for your accounting firm, so how do you stand out from the crowd? In this podcast with Sherelyn Cowles, Chief Business Development Officer at Gooding Accounts...
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51:56
Stuart Clark, Managing Director at Russell + Russell
What does a succession plan look and feel like from the perspective of those that are buying in? And once you’ve got that buy-in, how do you actually manage the expectations of your team and your clients, all while finding out yours...
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47:56
Mark Allen, Co founder of the TAG Community
If there's a phrase that encapsulates the content of this podcast discussion with Mark Allen, it would be 'applied wisdom'. We tap into Mark's several decades of working within the profession, first as a board director of PLCs, then...
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1:05:15
Stephan Meier, Professor and Author – Part Two
In the second part of this 2-part podcast discussion with Stephan Meier, world-renowned author of The Employee Advantage, you'll be able to hear Stephan unpack a large number of insights, ideas and strategies that could ultimately deli...
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56:31
Stephan Meier, Professor and Author – Part One
You'd probably like to get your hands on a competitive advantage that would lead to the future financial success of your firm, one that would enhance, or even transform, the results you're currently achieving.Where do you go looking for ...
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44:17
Dan Crowther, CEO of Thorne Widgery
Chances are that the vast majority of the people in your firm want to do a good job, whatever their role – accounts, bookkeeping, audit, tax or payroll. They get out of bed every morning to do good work. But to be succes...
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1:08:05
Dan Cockerton, Founder, Digital Accountancy Show
It's a unique experience to have someone who is in the digital space in a deep way coming on the podcast to talk about humanising the numbers. Getting Dan Cockerton onto the Humanise the Numbers podcast has been an ambition of mine for the last...
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1:10:34
Roger Knecht, President of Universal Accounting, Author and Podcast Host
It was exciting to welcome Roger Knecht, the president of Universal Accounting, onto the Humanise the Numbers podcast. And I wasn't expecting to have what essentially turned into a 45-minutes sales training session with Roger. That ...
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55:42
Stephen Paul, MD of Valued
When you come across an accountant who happens to have 900 clients – business clients – and who has a page on his website called The Human Accountant, you can understand why we at the Humanise the Numbers podcast would be interested in having a...
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1:11:22
Russ Byrd and Vicky Link of Byrd and Link
It's such a privilege when you get the chance to speak to a couple of business leaders who founded a firm with nothing just a few years ago – in fact, set the business up during lockdown – and then have grown rapidly since then. Las...
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59:53
Richard Spofforth and Jennifer Williamson of Kreston Reeves
When you're fortunate enough to spend an hour or so in a deep discussion with two members of the leadership team of a 600-person firm, a team that have profoundly and consistently improved their firm's performance over the years, it's definitel...
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1:06:32
Rhys Madoc - Chief Executive Officer at UHY International
It's a rare privilege to sit down with the leader of a top 20, global firm and chew the fat about the way the industry, the profession, is changing. So it's worthwhile listening to this discussion with Rhys Madoc, CEO of UHY Interna...
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56:06
Billie Mcloughlin of 2020 Innovation Training Ltd
It's just brilliant to have a chance to speak to an accountant who has worked in practice – right at the centre of adopting technology – who then moves on to being a provider to the accountancy profession. But rather than being a provider of so...
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1:04:49
Richard Brewin and Richard Bertin of All in Place
In business, one thing that's absolutely certain is that a client’s perception of your firm is connected to their expectation of what you'll deliver to them, for them, with them. In this podcast discussion with the two Richards, Ric...
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1:07:43
Transforming Numbers into Relationships
Dive into this fascinating episode where we explore how listening serves as a cornerstone in transforming client relationships within the accounting field. Our discussion highlights the extensive barriers created by ego and preconceived notions...
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1:03:08
Hayley Plimley, Director of Marketing & Communications at DJH
It's clear that, if you want to grow your accountancy firm, you need to master the art (or indeed science) of marketing and communications. On this Humanise the Numbers podcast discussion with Hayley Plimley, Marketing and Communica...
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1:00:53
Dawn Marriott - Hg Serial Chair
If you - as a leader of your team, your department, your firm, even - want to build a profoundly successful business, you'll want data at your fingertips. You'll want the data that enables you to make the best decisions and that will enable you...
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54:50
Philippa White, Founder & CEO TIE Leadership, author and speaker
Stop thinking that return on investment is what drives the financial performance of your business, and start thinking that return on humanity is the ultimate starting point, the foundation of the success of your accounting firm.&n...
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1:12:34
Jolawn Victor, Chief Growth Officer at Go Cardless
It’s sometimes easy to become distracted with the bells and whistles, the proactivity and the value-add of the way you serve and work with your clients and, as a consequence, you can lose the need, the essential need, of delivering brilliantly ...
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