Create Opportunities With Nexia - Own The Promise




Own The Promise show

Summary: While attending the North American and Central American Nexia Conference, Denny sits down with a few of the influencers in Nexia to help us better understand how we can use our relationships within that organization to create opportunities for our clients and our CLA family.<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, coming to you this time, actually, from a different part of the world, from Panama. I have a great opportunity this week to be at our North American and Central American Nexia conference, and I’m here today with Jen Leary, all of you know Jen, and Jen actually sits on the board of Nexia representing CLA in that capacity. I also have Kevin Arnold, who’s the CEO, actually, of Nexia International that’s with us today. So appreciate, Kevin, you taking the time to be with us.<br> [00:00:50]<br> Kevin: You’re welcome.<br> [00:00:51]<br> Denny: And I also have Markus Emmrich, who’s actually from Ebner Stolz out of Germany. Markus is actually the chairperson of Nexia, so we have quite a bit of the board of Nexia and the brainpower behind Nexia here with us today, and I just wanted to take the opportunity for the CLA family to really expose you further to what’s happening within Nexia. What is Nexia? Great opportunity, because we have the leaders, really the influencers, of Nexia with us today.<br> And ultimately, what I’d like all of us to do is to understand better how Nexia not only benefits CLA, but it can benefit all the member firms by ways of working together better as we go forward. So, Kevin, if I could first ask you, just from a CEO perspective, when you look at Nexia related to CLA, where do you see the benefit of not only CLA’s participation in Nexia but also Nexia’s benefit from having CLA involved with this organization?<br> [00:01:57]<br> Kevin: I suppose dealing first with CLA’s benefit for being in Nexia, I mean, clearly, the obvious point is that it supports your international business needs. I mean, our proposition is that we have firms around the world who can deliver support to your clients to the same quality that you provide yourself, so I think there’s the business need that drives the whole raison d’etre of the network. And then in terms of the benefit of Nexia International from CLA, well, I mean, there are a number of — there are so many things.<br> I mean, the first point is the sheer scale and size of CLA. CLA is the largest firm in Nexia International. And I regard it in the sense that, I think, a responsibility to act as the big brother to all of the firm. Because leading on from that, Nexia is an organization that is driven by its member firms. We meet the needs of our member firms. And we need the guidance of all our major partners, and certainly in CLA, and I know many of your guys will know this already, but we have a number of committees and boards.<br> [00:03:04]<br> And CLA participate very actively in all of those committees. So in a sense, you directly help shape the strategy of Nexia as well, so there’s benefit both ways, I think.<br> [00:03:15]<br> Denny: Thank you, Kevin. And Markus, for you, you know, you represent a very large firm, obviously, in the Germany area. And so you deal with the same types of issues — the benefit to not only provide to Nexia, but the benefit that your firm receives from participating in Nexia. Maybe some viewpoints from the Ebner Stolz perspective — where is the greatest benefit that you see from participating in Nexia?<br> [00:03:41]<br> Markus: Thank you. I think that, as all firms, we’re driven by our clients and the needs of our clients. And there may be particularity with the German economy that we’ve got a lot of large and mid-sized German market leaders in the in...