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 2024 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: $625 TXCPA Houston Members, $725 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: TXCPA Houston members, or non-CPA accounting, finance, or legal professionals, working at the senior, manager or equivalent level and having a minimum of two years of experience. 

Deadline: October 20, 2024

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2024 Fall Schedule

Date:	Time:	Event:	Instructor:	Topic:
October 23	6:00  - 7:30 p.m.	Networking Mixer at TXCPA Houston 1233 West Loop South Suite 1425 Houston, TX 77027
October 31	7:30 - 10:30 a.m.	Session 1 - Zoom	Donny Shimamoto	Personality and Self-awareness; Review of Birkman Assessment (to create an understanding of self)
November 7	7:30 - 10:30 a.m.	Session 2 - 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 14	7:30 - 10:30 a.m.	Session 3 - TXCPA Houston 1233 West Loop South Suite 1425 Houston, TX 77027	Pauline Le	Interpersonal Communications (create an understanding of how to effectively communicate)
November 21	7:30 - 10:30 a.m.	Session 4 - TXCPA Houston 1233 West Loop South Suite 1425 Houston, TX 77027	Mike Goodfriend	Teamwork Skills (create an understanding of the role of personality and communication on team performance)
November 21	11 - 1 p.m.	Lunch	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!