Speakers for Accounting & bookkeeping Audiences

Your members don't need

another generic talk.

They need someone who gets it.

Our sessions aren't adapted from another industry—they're built from years working alongside CPA firms, bookkeepers, and accounting professionals. Every presentation combines real-world accounting experience with practical leadership and communication strategies your members can immediately apply.

6+

CPA & accounting associations

1,000s

Accounting professionals reached

Virtual

& in-person available

MEET THE SPEAKERS

Industry insiders. Certified experts.

Speakers who hold the room.

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Leslie Liondas, CPA

Co-Founder, NexPath Coaching, LLC

As a CPA and accounting firm owner, Leslie understands the operational and leadership challenges firms face every day. She combines practical systems with real-world experience to help accounting professionals improve pricing, operations, leadership, and capacity.

CPA · Maxwell Leadership Certified Speaker, Trainer & Coach · 35+ Years Team Leadership

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Lynn Brannan

Co-Founder, NexPath Coaching, LLC

Lynn combines twelve years inside a CPA firm with leadership experience in high-pressure communication environments. She helps accounting professionals strengthen communication, trust, accountability, and leadership through practical frameworks they can apply immediately.

Certified Maxwell DISC Consultant · Certified Working Genius Facilitator · Maxwell Leadership Certified · 12+ Years CPA Firm Experience

What makes us different

Practical. Relevant. Built for your audience.

Built from Real Accounting Experience

Every session is built from years working alongside CPA firms, bookkeepers, and accounting professionals—not theory or secondhand research.

Substance over hype

Your audience leaves with practical frameworks and ideas they can apply immediately—not motivational stories they'll forget by Monday.

CPE Eligible

Qualified educational content for conferences, chapter meetings, and professional development events. You handle the certification—we deliver the value.

Accounting-specific

Every story, example, and framework comes from the accounting profession, so your audience immediately connects with the content.

Easy to work with

Available for conferences, chapter meetings, webinars, and firm events. Professional before, during, and after your event.

Whether you're planning a conference, chapter meeting, webinar, or firm retreat, every session is tailored to your audience, your goals, and your event.

Speaking formats

Flexible formats for every accounting audience.

Annual & state conferences

Keynote

High-impact opening, closing, or breakout sessions that give attendees practical ideas they can immediately apply in their firms and organizations.

Chapter & member events

Lunch & Learn

Interactive, discussion-driven sessions designed for chapter meetings, member development programs, and local events that keep audiences engaged from start to finish.

organization training

Workshop

Facilitated workshops that help accounting firms strengthen communication, leadership, accountability, and operational effectiveness through practical application.

webinars & CPE events

Virtual Webinar

Professional virtual presentations designed specifically for accounting audiences with the same interaction and practical value as an in-person session.

Speaking topics

Sessions built for the accounting

profession is actually facing.

From Overwhelmed to In Control

Why High-Performing CPAs Stay Stuck — and the Systems That Break the Cycle

Leslie Liondas, CPA

Capable, driven CPAs carrying too much in their heads, becoming the default problem-solver, and feeling stretched thin despite their experience. This session uncovers the invisible habits and decision patterns that keep professionals in reactive mode — and delivers practical systems to break the cycle.

Attendees will leave able to

  • Understand why overwhelm is about habits and structure — not just workload

  • Recognize how being the go-to person limits capacity and impact

  • Build practical systems that reduce mental load and free up space for higher-level work

Available as: Keynote · Workshop · Virtual Webinar · Lunch & Learn

Pricing with Confidence

How Accounting Professionals Charge What They're Worth

Leslie Liondas, CPA

Many accounting professionals undercharge not because their work isn't valuable — but because they haven't learned how to articulate that value. As a CPA herself, Leslie understands this challenge from the inside. This session gives bookkeepers and CPAs the language and confidence to price their services based on value, not fear or comparison.

Attendees will leave able to

  • Communicate their value clearly and confidently to clients

  • Move from task-based pricing to value-based pricing conversations

  • Reduce pricing resistance and increase client buy-in

Available as: Keynote · Workshop · Virtual Webinar · Lunch & Learn

Why Good Teams Still Get Stuck

How Work Alignment Creates More Ownership and Less Dependence on You

Lynn Brannan

Capable teams don't get stuck because they lack talent or commitment. More often, work slows down because capable people are doing work that doesn't match how they naturally contribute. The result is stalled projects, repeated decisions, frustrated employees, and work that continually finds its way back to the owner.

Through an interactive team development framework, Lynn helps attendees recognize the six types of work every team needs to move ideas from possibility to completion. Participants will leave with practical ways to better align people with responsibilities, increase ownership, and reduce unnecessary dependence on a single person.

Attendees will leave able to

  • Recognize the six types of work every team needs to move projects forward.

  • Identify where work is getting stuck and why it keeps returning to the same people.

  • Apply practical strategies to create greater ownership, strengthen collaboration, and reduce owner dependency.

Available as: Keynote · Workshop · Virtual Webinar · Lunch & Learn

Why Everything Still Comes Back To You

The Hidden Behaviors That Keep Your Business Dependent on the Owner

Lynn Brannan

Most business owners don't realize they're unintentionally creating a business that depends on them. Through practical stories, real business experience, and proven team development frameworks, Lynn helps audiences uncover the hidden behaviors that keep owners at the center of every decision and every problem. Participants leave with a better understanding of how communication, expectations, and trust influence ownership and what it takes to build a business that can confidently operate beyond one person.

Attendees will leave able to

  • Identify the hidden behaviors that create owner dependency.

  • Replace assumptions with greater clarity and shared expectations.

  • Build confidence and ownership without micromanaging every decision.

Available as: Keynote · Workshop · Virtual Webinar · Lunch & Learn

Need something tailored to your audience?

The sessions above are some of our most requested presentations, but they're not the only ones we deliver.

Every keynote, workshop, Lunch & Learn, and webinar is customized to your audience's experience level, current challenges, and event goals. If there's a topic you'd like us to address, we'll work with you to build a session that fits your event.

Trusted by

Organizations that trust NexPath with their members.

Gulf Coast SBDC

Digital Bookeeper Association

NATP

Texas Society of CPAs

City of Brenham HR Roundtable

Washington County Chamber of Commerce

Houston Society of CPAs

Massachusetts Society of CPAs

From state CPA societies and national associations to local chambers and professional organizations, we've delivered practical sessions audiences continue talking about long after the event ends.

What event organizers say

From the people who booked us.

★★★★★

"Lynn was an incredible speaker for our audience. What stood out most was how she broke down communication in a way that really clicked. The feedback afterward was overwhelmingly positive."

Jaime Rodriguez

CEO & Owner, Bookkeepers.com

★★★★★

"I HIGHLY recommend working with Leslie and her team. Every time she brings value and clarity to bookkeepers and accountants about their workflows and systems. Multiple clients have worked with her and the results have been amazing."

Cameron Montgomery

CEO & Owner

★★★★★

Thank you for leading such an insightful and impactful Leadership & Overwhelm Workshop. Your perspective and practical takeaways truly resonated and we appreciate the time and care you put into supporting our group. We're grateful for your ecpertise and for helping our attendees walk away felling more equipped and insipired. Your Chamber Team

Washington County Chamber of Commerce

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Let's bring this to your next event.

Whether you're planning a conference, chapter meeting, association event, firm retreat, or webinar, we'd love to learn more about your audience and your goals. Complete the inquiry form and we'll be in touch within one to two business days.

  • Customized for your audience and event goals

  • Keynotes, workshops, Lunch & Learns, and webinars

  • Virtual and in-person presentations available

  • CPE-eligible sessions available upon request

  • Prompt, professional communication from inquiry through delivery

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