Go Beyond Disruption

When accounting legislation changes, accounting businesses have to change as well. Our guest, Mike Whitmire, responded by disrupting a specific niche in the market, transforming his accounting operation by growing his team and developing innovative AI-driven software to help them keep to deadlines and stay on target as they expanded. Speaking from California, he talks to Kyle Hannan (AICPA & CIMA, London) and shares practical tips that many accounting businesses worldwide can benefit from.

Get ahead of the curve for 2019 with these tips from a professional who's coached more than 5000 finance and accounting professionals. Our guest Duncan Brodie is an accountant and consultant coach by profession. MD of Goals and Achievements Ltd, he has worked with over 5 thousand professionals in the finance field. Duncan tells Oliver Rowe (AICPA & CIMA, London, UK) about what he's learned helping sector professionals and organisations to develop their leadership, management and team-working skills. 

December's "Human Intelligence" theme concludes with a look at key changes in the field of critical thinking for corporate governance and Boards. Our guest Gillian Lees is a Research and Development Specialist in Corporate Governance and Risk-Management with significant experience of C-suite engagement. She talks to Harry Domzalski (AICPA & CIMA, UK) about how to build trust, improve risk-management and create a platform for future success in a changing business world.

Polymath Integrators: How to avoid being a 1-dimensional leader in an increasingly 3-dimensional world. Dr. Alan Watkins offers challenging perspectives from a foundation of deep compassion. Some people call this 'disruption' but he prefers to think about it as 'just doing the right thing". A 3x Ted Talks presenter, Alan's also an author and international keynote speaker who's spent the last two decades helping CEOs 'bio-hack' themselves and, as a result, transform their organisations.

How To Devise A Routine to Change Your Thinking. December's podcasts are inspired by our "Human Intelligence"-themed work. Guest Heather Wright is an international facilitator 20 years into a mission to learn as much as she can about the psychology of influence over our own thinking as well as with those around us. She tells AICPA & CIMA's Samantha Louis, VP for International Advocacy, how we can use it to everyone’s advantage, to convert it to usable, teachable material that changes the lives of others.

His years working at Lego, QVC and consulting for major accounting firms have given Dexter Moscow a remarkable depth of insight into how professionals and their teams can rise above the hum of the tech to positively impact and motivate others. He talks to AICPA & CIMA (UK)'s Kyle Hannan about why he loves seeing the lightbulb come on when people finally 'just get it' and take centre stage.

We conclude our November 2018 focus on Robotic Process Automation by talking to RPA expert and author Rob King. He shares his insights based on over 25 years experience as a lean business process and efficiency innovator, a 6 Sigma trainer and Master BlackBelt, and author of new book "Digital Workforce".

Not only is it Thanksgiving but it’s the end of Q4 so finance professionals and KPI-watchers are working hard to wrap up the year. That's why our guest has plenty to say about how we can all start to put OURSELVES first and reclaim our lives. Regan Walsh is an executive and life coach who’s been featured in Harvard Business Review, Forbes and Fast Company. She talks to Jennifer Gardner (AICPA & CIMA, USA) about the practical steps to “shed the shoulds” at what can be a really stressful time of year

Alvin Liew presented at the Johannesburg conference and brings a global perspective to this expanding market. He talks to Andy Harris (AICPA & CIMA, UK) about the qualities, traits, and professional opportunities that today's millennials will factor in on their journeys to becoming tomorrow's CFOs.

The role of Emotional Intelligence in the future of finance. CIMA member Peter Simons has a Finance MBA and a long track record of innovative and illuminating research. He talks to Kyle Hannan (AICPA & CIMA, UK) about emotional intelligence, soft skills, competition, lean process, influence and insight, and the importance of management accounting as an 'engaged' profession.

New "Friday Focus" episodes are coming soon. With the recent release of watchOS5, we've realised that there's an opportunity to share even more insights with our listeners. So if you're out and about over weekends and you want to reduce your screen time though not your podcast-listening, we think you'll like this.

We focus on Robotics and Process-Automation this month, and our guest outlines how Human Intelligence should accompany RPA to transform a business at scale. Chris Argent is Business Intelligence and Analytics Programme Lead for Vodafone, and has moved from finance to finance transformation. He talks to AICPA & CIMA's Kyle Hannan. Chris will be a speaker at our forthcoming "Finance Transformation" conference in London and offers a deep and valuable experience of change in the profession.

"In today's global marketplace, more and more decisions to do business with people and organisations are driven by their security posture" At the close of Cyber Security Awareness Month in the USA and CyberSec Month in the EU, we talk practical realities and recommended best practices surrounding cyber risk assessments. Anthony Hargreaves is an IT Auditor with many years of experience across the world. From Seattle, he talks to AICPA & CIMA team members Liz Rock and Lindsay Patterson.

Peter Rehm is our first returning guest and describes himself as "a CPA who is also a technologically-orientated blockchainer". In the last week of Cyber Security Awareness Month in the USA and CyberSec Month in the EU, he outlines why people and companies may want to be paid in cryptocurrency, the most common forms of crypto security (including 'hardware' wallets, 'hot' and 'cold' wallets, 'crypto steel', "multi-sig" wallets) and outlines common cryptosecurity pitfalls and how to avoid them.

"Cybersecurity Awareness Month. The latest cyberscams to watch out for, and how to protect yourself and your company against them". Rod Griffin is Director of Public Education at credit reporting agency Experian, which aggregates information on over 1 billion individuals and businesses. From his Texas office, Rod tells AICPA & CIMA's Orlando-based Samantha Delgado about how people can protect themselves against cyber fraud.