Get Ready for the Fast Future and Future Trends Workshop

Overview

Recent research says that the business environment for CPAs and their clients will be characterized by "unprecedented, massive and highly accelerated change" through 2025. To thrive in this new age of hyper-change and growing uncertainty, it is now an imperative to learn a new competency-how to accurately anticipate the future. Predicting the future based on The Anticipatory Organization™ Model created by Daniel Burrus and Burrus Research. This session does not just highlight the latest trends but brings in examples of the trends and how firms are leveraging these to find new service opportunities.

Instructor: Barry Payne

Highlights

Future trends and insights
Strategic Thinking
Accelerating growth by identifying high leverage opportunities
Innovation and creativity
Problem solving

Prerequisites

Participants should have had some management or leadership experience

Designed For

All CPAs and Finance / Accounting Professionals

Objectives

Understand the major forces of change in the business and firm environment (based on the latest research by Burrus Research) based on Hard Trends / Certainties around Technology and Demographics, and Regulations that are driving change in the accounting profession
Develop insights and opportunities around the major technologies (A.I., Blockchain, Big Data) and their implications for participants, their firms and clients and how to keep them in focus in the future
Gain a positive view about the future and development of opportunities for the firms to consider at both an everyday level and game-changing level
Understand the critical skills and competencies CPAs will need for a future in an age of automation and machines

Notice

All materials will be available to download in advance and participants will receive an email two days prior to the course date. Materials will also be posted in the “My CPE” section of the NESCPA website.