Leading Strategic Growth

Created for managing partners and other firm leaders, these thought leadership pieces focus on proven approaches and build outs for strategic growth. They’re designed to help your firm transform from a group of individual book-of-business partners to a leader-driven, strategic growth powerhouse.

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Gale’s book, At the Crossroads: The Remarkable CPA Firm That Nearly Crashed, Then Soared  is a delightful parable about a sleepy, uninspired CPA firm that transforms into an accounting powerhouse.

Meet managing partner Joe Abriola who has just learned that his partners are on the verge of mutiny. How does the firm recover and thrive? Spoiler alert—Gale’s growth model swoops in to save the day! The book is an instructive tale that’s filled with valuable insight on achieving growth despite the odds.

Managing Strategic Growth

I’ve always believed that strategic growth requires a plan, execution and something new to present to potential clients. Gale suggests that to drive strategic growth you need to build three functional areas.

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Life in the Fast Lane

Firms with no intention of selling part of their business to private equity can still compete, asserts consultant Gale Crosley, but it will take a concerted effort to reimagine growth.

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Segment Leadership: Three Steps to a New Mindset

Part one of this article made the case for developing segment leaders as part of an organizational framework for driving revenue. In this second part, we move past the “what” to address “how” segment leaders are cultivated.

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Impactful Sights Podcast – Strategic Growth | David Wolfskehl Of Whitman Transition Advisors

Join us for the grand finale of “Impactful Insights” at #ENGAGE AICPA Las Vegas! In our last episode, the esteemed Gale Crosley, CPA, CGMA, CEO of Crosley+Company, shares invaluable insights on the business discipline of practice growth.

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Fireside Chat with Gale Crosley & Winding River Consulting | MPB Q4 Check-in

Winding River Consulting had the pleasure of featuring Gale Crosley as our Strategic Growth Guide in a fireside chat for our MPB | Leadership Accelerated Q4 Check-in. We discussed prominent trends in the accounting industry that shaped 2023, and exciting developments and opportunities that await us in 2024. Watch the full recording:

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Sales Lead Dog Podcast – Driving Strategic Growth – Christopher Smith

One of Chris’ favorite things about hosting the Sales Lead Dog Podcast is the opportunity to listen to guests like Gale Crosley. Gale is a strategic revenue growth consultant to CPA firms. Her background includes several years as a very experienced sales leader, and in this episode we focus on driving strategic growth and the…

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Branch Out Podcast – Strategic Growth for Professional Services – Alex Drost

Strategic growth is about more than just growth for growth’s sake. It’s about identifying the most efficient path for profitability and sustainability and then pursuing it. Our guest today, Gale Crosley, is a Strategic Growth and Innovation Consultant who has helped countless growth-oriented CPA and accounting firms overcome barriers and achieve high-performing strategic growth. Watch the recording: Listen…

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Driving Demand with Revenue Segment Leadership

There’s been a continuing change taking place among the most successful accounting firms. They are moving away from an individual book-of-business model and, instead, cultivating revenue segment leaders to drive growth and increasingly, position the firm for acquisition.

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Unpacking the Private Equity/CPA Cultural Divide

It’s not new news that we are in a state of disruption and investment due to the projected abundant future in our profession.  Whether you are the CPA firm choosing to stay the course, looking for the right capital partner or a private equity group or other entity, there’s so much to gain by understanding the cultural divide and the questions that might lead to a better path forward in whatever choice you make. 

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Strategic, Organic Growth: The Optimal Choice

Randy Crabtree is joined by Gale Crosley of Crosley+Company on episode 109 of The Unique CPA. Gale’s specialty is in driving strategic organic revenue growth for CPA firms. She has been recognized for her influence and insights into the accounting profession by The Advisory Board, Accounting Today, Inside Public Accounting, and more. Gale shares her…

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There’s Growth. And Then There’s Strategic Growth.

For many people who enjoy fishing (some 50 million Americans per year!), part of the attraction is the solitary nature of the sport—just you and a pole in the water. That’s great if your goal is quiet and an occasional nibble. However, if your intent is to catch as many fish as possible, a lone line can never compare with a large, widely cast net. I often use this analogy to draw the distinction between the traditional, tactical, view of CPA firm growth and the strategic approach required in today’s complex practice environment.

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Driving the Discipline Of Strategic Growth

Jasen Stine and David Bergstein of Intuit interview Gale on current-day CPA profession market conditions, including the entrance of private equities, which are impacting strategic growth.

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Growth in Strategic Planning

In this episode, host Angie Grissom, Owner and Chief Relationship Officer of The Rainmaker Companies sits down with Gale Crosley, Owner and President of Crosley & Company to talk about how accounting firms can navigate the increased complexities to growth through strategic planning.

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Know Where You’re Headed!

If not exactly at a crossroads, accounting firms today find themselves approaching an inflexion point as they contemplate the future. Will their sustainability derive from M&A activity? Is private equity a likely influence? Or will some tenacious mid-market firms continue to evolve organically to retain their independence?

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Eyes Are on Our Firms and on Our Future

The predictions have come true. Interest in mid-market public accounting firms is hot! Outsiders, from distant CPA firms to private equity organizations, are peering in through the windows. And for the most part, these suitors like what they see.

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It’s Time to Build the Firm of the Future

Much has changed in recent years about the practice of accounting, including how we envision and fashion the future. The work of anticipating tomorrow’s firm is certainly nothing new; proactive firms have been looking beyond the horizon for decades. What is new, however, is what’s required to get there.

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The Rise of the Chief Growth Officer

I can trace my interest in the potential of chief growth officers in accounting firms to my experience as a CGO in technology companies many years ago. Today, the CGO role is at last, slowly making its way into our profession. Seated at the right hand of the managing partner, the CGO (or director of practice growth on the way to CGO) helps the managing partner create the vision and execution for strategic, sustainable growth.

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The State of Strategic Growth – A Fireside Chat with Introhive

Tim Keith of Introhive interviews Gale with a focus on pruning clients, future-think and related current topics.  

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ESG: A Golden Opportunity for Strategic Growth

ESG, environmental, social and governance, is one of the hottest trends in business. Whether imposed and applied internally or externally, ESG practices and standards define how organizations perform in areas like sustainability, resource allocation, diversity and inclusion.

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Behind the Accolades and Awards

What does it take to be named a Most Recommended Consultant by INSIDE PUBLIC ACCOUNTING for 16 years, and one of the 100 Most Influential People in Accounting by Accounting Today for the past 15 years? To find out, I asked someone who’s done just that – Gale Crosley, of Crosley+Company.

As the financial world was imploding in 2008, Gale ran toward the danger, even as others were seeking a way out, showing her clients how to grow in times of massive market disruption. Before and after that time, her strategic growth consulting practice has helped hundreds of firms pivot in the wake of a major regulatory upheaval, a devastating financial recession, a complex technology disruption, and now a global pandemic. I sat down with Gale recently to learn more.

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