Episode 30

Why Accountants Need Communities: Bryan Williams

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In today's episode 30, "Why Accountants Need Communities: Bryan Williams."

Bryan Williams, partnerships and community expert tells host Rob Brown why accountants should be building communities for greater business opportunities.

You can also watch this on youtube here: https://youtu.be/Y4aB7FTuCbM

Bryan Williams is the founder of Hockey Stick Advisory which helped tech businesses to grow and scale through building curated partnership ecosystems, so that they can reach their full potential, faster. Bryan’s role as founder is to help the next generation of aspiring tech companies build their partnership ecosystem muscle, established after Bryan led Xero's ecosystem team across AU/NZ for 5 years.

Check out Bryan's previous interview "How Commercial Partnerships Help Accounting Firms" https://youtu.be/8UO2YfvKbAg on video or https://bit.ly/3VcHZ0R audio podcast

Key areas covered in this interview about accounting firms building communities:

✓ What's the story behind your building of Xero’s successful app community?

✓ How do you define a community?

✓ Community led growth, the perfect storm? Why now?

✓ What should a great community look like?

✓ What are the benefits of community growth ?

✓ Why are communities increasingly recognised as a strategic asset?

✓ How can you start a community? What should it look like?

✓ How can you measure community impact?

✓ What sort of rules should you have to moderate or control your community? How strict should you be?

✓ How can you activate your community?

✓ What are the key takeaways for accountants to get started in building their community?

Outside of work, he is very occupied chasing around his 3 kids under 4, (including twins) whilst refusing to give up on being a wkd warrior at various endurance events. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryanwilliamsaus

https://twitter.com/BryanWi11iams

https://hockeystickadvisory.com

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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.