Episode 135

Tough Love & Advice for Accountants from a 40 Year Veteran

Richard Brewin is a chartered accountant with 40 years of experience within the profession, as a successful practitioner in his own right and as an experienced mentor, coach, facilitator and speaker, specialising in owner managed professional accountancy firms frustrated by their progress.

Based on his own experiences, Richard’s goal is reinvigorating firms and their leaders, developing positive environments, instigating change, creating sustainable growth, lighting up exit routes and putting the fun back into the working day. He is co-founder of Progress Barnwell Brewin, creators of the ProgressBB mentoring group and Progress Foundations self-help online programme. Selected shownotes:


Contact Richard on LinkedIn or via his Progress BB website.

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Accounting Voices helps people in the accounting world stay relevant visible and vocal. Host Rob Brown interprets trends reshaping the profession and gives listeners insight to build authority influence and a stronger voice in firms and markets.

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Rob Brown

Rob Brown is the founder and host of the Accounting Voices Podcast, the flagship solo show of the Accounting Voices Network. Each episode offers sharp analysis and commentary on the trends, ideas and people shaping the global accounting profession.

Through this Accounting Voices Podcast, Rob helps accounting firm leaders, decision makers and professionals stay relevant and make sense of disruption in areas like AI, automation, M&A, private equity and soft skills beyond the tech. His perspective blends clarity, insight and curiosity, making complex issues relevant and practical for professionals and decision makers across accounting and finance.

He also leads two monthly panel shows, Accounting M&A and Accounting AI, which bring together senior voices to explore consolidation, strategy and the impact of technology on firms and people.

Rob is the author of the bestselling book Build Your Reputation (Wiley) and a TEDx speaker whose talk The Personal Brand of You has more than 400,000 views. Over his career he has hosted and moderated more than 1,000 conversations with accounting and fintech leaders worldwide.

Based in Nottingham UK, Rob is a stroke survivor living with epilepsy, a black belt in kickboxing, a decent chess player and an average player of four musical instruments.