Summary: The firm is sitting in a good place with growth and financial results. We continue to deliver on our seamless strategy, creating opportunities for our clients.<br> Just as critical is to create opportunities for our people. In this episode, CEO Denny Schleper talks with Bobby Dormanesh, who recently joined CLA in Century City, CA and chose Denny as his coach.<br> Hear Bobby share his background as well as his feedback on the coaching and mentoring process here at CLA.<br> Music up<br> [00:00:03]<br> Narrator: Welcome to “Own the Promise,” a CLA podcast created to share what guides every decision we make and every relationship we cultivate.<br> [00:00:16]<br> Denny: Hello, CLA family. Denny Schleper coming to you in the beautiful month of May. A time when obviously, many people within the firm have gone through a very busy and, hopefully, rewarding reporting and tax season. Hopefully a season where we really accomplished one of our six priorities, and that is creating a ton of opportunities for our clients.<br> And it’s obvious when we look at what where the firm sits as we headed through the first four months of the year, we’re sitting at a very good place with our growth, a very good position with our financial results, and really all the other key indicators that we have in the firm. Things are definitely moving the right direction.<br> [00:01:02]<br> Many of you probably, in the recent past, have also listened to a podcast regarding the chargeable hour goal that we set for March 31st, and even again with those results, I just want to reiterate the firm is in a very good place. We continue to deliver on the seamless services and ultimate result again, hopefully, the why of why we do what we do every day is creating those opportunities for our clients.<br> [00:01:34]<br> So, now as we head into this time of year, what’s really been a big part of my thought process is shifting to another one of our priorities for 2018 and that is creating opportunities for our people. And, as most everyone knows, our whole feedback coaching process is really broken into, kind of, three sections. And the dreaming session that really happens in the winter months, and now this time of year where we really start to look at the overall success that we’re having but we really want to turn it into a season of building.<br> [00:02:20]<br> Building on that dream that all of, hopefully, all of us within the firm set out as individual goals. And then obviously, in the later part of the year in the fall, the celebration of that dreaming and of that building. And so, I thought I would take some time today to actually introduce you to someone that’s been with the firm since January 1st.<br> [00:02:45]<br> And actually joined the firm through the acquisition merger of NSBN and Century City, California, or in the Los Angeles area. And that’s Bobby Dormanesh. Bobby actually is a manager within the firm, and is someone that had asked me to be his coach. And we’ve had a great opportunity so far this year. One, getting to know one another, but secondly, really going through this coaching process, this dreaming process, this building process.<br> And since this is truly on the forefront of my mind, I thought it would be a great opportunity to really get some feedback as to what one of our newer people are going through in this process. So, welcome Bobby.<br> [00:03:35]<br> Bobby: Thank you so much, Denny. I really appreciate the opportunity. And hi to the CLA family, it’s so great to know that everyone will be listening in. No pressure at all, right? A little bit about my background, I did my undergrad at UCLA, where I majored in economics. I finished school in 2009 and that was right after everything, kind of, went downhill. Couldn’t really find a job so I started my own little bookkeeping practice, started posting ads on Craigslist,
