Accelerate

Connecting Future Leaders

In 2013 the Houston CPA Society developed a four-week professional development and networking program to enhance the critical skills necessary to be effective within your professions and communities. The 2023 program centers around executive leadership competencies of self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management.

Program overview: Each session will build upon the other, starting with an individualized personality assessment from The Birkman Method and self-awareness, followed by conflict management and interpersonal communications.

Cost: $525TXCPA Houston Members, $625 Nonmembers

Membership available: https://www.tx.cpa/membership/become-a-member

CPE credit: 12 hours (three hours per classroom instruction)

Class size: Limited to 20 current and future leaders of the accounting, legal, and finance professions

Who can participate: 

• Certified Public Accountants, with at least six years of post-graduate, full-time work experience in public accounting or industry.
• Non-CPAs with a minimum of six years of post-graduate, full-time work experience may also apply.
• CPA participants should be a current member in good standing of TXCPA Houston.

Deadline: October 20, 2022

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2023 Fall Schedule

Date:	Time:	Event:	Instructor:	Topic:
October 25	6:00  - 7:30 p.m.	Networking Mixer at TXCPA Houston 1233 West Loop South Suite 1425 Houston, TX 77027
October 26	7:30 - 10:30 a.m.	Session 1 - Zoom	Mike Goodfriend	Teamwork Skills (create an understanding of the role of personality and communication on team performance)
November 2	7:30 - 10:30 a.m.	Session 2 - Zoom	Donny Shimamoto	Personality and Self-awareness; Review of Birkman Assessment (to create an understanding of self)
November 9	7:30 - 10:30 a.m.	Session 3 - TXCPA Houston 1233 West Loop South Suite 1425 Houston, TX 77027	Jamie Belinne	Conflict Management (create an understanding of how to prevent conflict with others)
November 16	7:30 - 10:30 a.m.	Session 4 - TXCPA Houston 1233 West Loop South Suite 1425 Houston, TX 77027	Pauline Le	Interpersonal Communications (create an understanding of how to effectively communicate)
November TBD	6:30 - 8:30 p.m.	Dinner - In-person	Roundtable Discussion

 

Questions: Contact Carol Spencer at cspencer@TXCPAHouston.cpa if you have questions about the program.

Program Graduate Feedback

Content was very relevant; speakers were awesome; helped to expand my knowledge in areas other than accounting; small group format was perfect; this is a great program; I enjoyed the group discuss at the end of each session; the presentations provide leadership knowledge or reinforcement of previously learned concepts; I believe this is a worthwhile endeavor the Society has taken on and I am looking forward to seeing it grow and being a part of it; very insightful – thank you!