Change Your Mindset
309 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 39 ratingsWelcome to Change Your Mindset (formerly known as Improv Is No Joke) where it is all about believing that strong communication skills are the best way in delivering your technical accounting knowledge and growing your business. The way of building stronger communication skills is by embracing the principles of applied improvisation. Your host is Peter Margaritis, CPA a.k.a. The Accidental Accountant, will interview financial professionals and business leaders to find their secret in building stronger relationships with their clients, customers, associates, and peers, all the while, growing their businesses.
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Ep. 8 - Pam Devine: Director of Business Development At the Business Learning Institute
July 25, 2016 12:23 - 39 minutesPam Devine has graced her presence as the guest on today’s show. She is from New England but now has her life in Baltimore. Her favorite quote is from Tom Hood that is, "L is greater than or equal to C." She has been part of the Business Learning Institute, an affiliate of the Maryland Association of CPAs. This organization focuses on leadership, strategy and communication, the skills that make better business professionals. Learning is what give the organization a competitive advantage and ...
Ep. 7 - Karen Young: President & Founder of HR Resolutions, LLC
July 18, 2016 10:00 - 31 minutesI’m happy to have Karen Young of HRResolutions.com on the show. She’s a purposeful HR person who believes in creating drama-free workplaces through purposeful communications and a “Yes, and…” approach. Just as she discusses in her book, ‘Stop Knocking on my Door,’ Karen believes that drama occurs in the workplace when we fail to communicate fully with our people. If we have to say “no”, this is our opportunity to have a courageous conversation and explain our reasoning to them. There are a f...
Ep. 6 - Steve Sacks: CEO & Founder of Solutions to Results, LLC
July 11, 2016 10:00 - 42 minutesSteve Sacks is a right-brain thinker in the left-brain world of accounting. I first met him when he attended one of my workshops in Las Vegas, and since then we’ve had many spirited discussions centered around leadership and communications. It’s great that we’re able to continue our conversation here for the audience. Steve’s always been more enamored with what happened to generate the numbers in accounting rather than the numbers themselves. To him, a financial statement a few months after ...
Ep. 5 - Karl Ahlrichs: Senior Consultant at Gregory & Appel Insurance
July 04, 2016 10:00 - 55 minutesI always enjoy speaking with Karl Ahlrichs, a human capitalist consultant and a far-thinking and future planning individual. He comes on the podcast today to discuss some of the storms he sees coming on the horizon, particularly where HR and the next generations of employees meet. Even though our current economy is far greater now than it’s been in a while, Karl sees quite a few potential problems on the horizon that we need to be prepared for: Baby Boomers – due to the recession of 2008, ...
Ep. 4 - Ed Mendlowitz: Partner At the Accounting Firm Withum Smith & Brown
June 22, 2016 10:04 - 43 minutesEd Mendlowitz is a long-time CPA and a partner of prestigious Withum Smith+Brown. He’s also a member of many CPA societies and has taught financial and accounting courses for 11 years. He’s a firm believer in CPE and uses his CPE training opportunities to network with other CPA’s from around the world. He’s full of wisdom and insights and he shares many great nuggets with us today. Ed considers himself the last of the “expert generalists.” He started his firm a long time ago and the only way...
Ep. 3 - Tom Hood: CEO of the Maryland Association of CPAs & Business Learning Institute
June 22, 2016 10:03 - 40 minutesTom Hood was a wonderful guest on today’s show. He’s a great forward-thinking leader in the CPA world and delivered great value to the audience with his insights into technologies and trends for the future. Tom just returned from a spring council meeting for members of the American Institute of CPAs. A big takeaway from the meeting is the sense that people are beginning to understand the impact of the exponential pace of technology. Big changes like continuous auditing of 100% of transactions...
Ep. 2 - Mike Sciortino: Founder & CEO of Gratitude Marketing
June 22, 2016 10:02 - 49 minutesI’ve been looking forward to this conversation with Michael Sciortino for a very long time. He has over 30 years of experience in the area of marketing, is a keynote speaker and trainer and is the author of ‘Gratitude Marketing.’ He comes to us with a wealth of marketing information and he shares some incredible techniques with us today. He didn’t get into writing his book like many authors do. Instead of writing a book then developing a seminar and teachings/trainings around it, he started ...
Ep. 1 - Clarke Price: Former CEO of the Ohio Society of CPAs
June 22, 2016 10:01 - 58 minutesIt was great having my longtime friend and mentor, Clarke Price, on the show with me today. He’s retired now, but he led The Ohio Society of CPAs for 40 years and has been a not-for-profit volunteer and leader during much of that time. He’s developed great leadership skills and influence in the not-for-profit world and he shares much of what he’s learned with us today. In the not-for-profit world, leadership can be quite different than in the corporate world. Great leaders spend a lot of tim...
Ep. 0 - Welcome To Improv Is No Joke!
June 22, 2016 10:00 - 23 minutesWelcome to the Improv Is No Joke podcast! Please enjoy this short introduction episode where I explain the purpose of this show, and the value I hope to provide to my listeners throughout a series of interviews with many business leaders & entrepreneurs. For more information on the show, head to www.petermargaritis.com