Transformation Talks: Paul Mueller, CPA, took a leap of faith when he left a national accounting firm at the apex of his career to start a new firm serving small- and medium-sized businesses.
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Transformation Talks
With Bill Penczak
Center for Accounting Transformation
Paul Mueller was at a crossroads. As a national manager for the tax group of a large firm, he should have felt like Leonardo DiCaprio, yelling, “I’m the king of the world!” Yet, something just wasn’t right.
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Today, he is the managing director of his own firm, Mueller Pye & Associates, CPA LLC in Loveland, Colo. His is a story of a late-life career transformation.
Takeaways
- There is life—a really fulfilling one—after a departure from a large national firm into a small firm in rural Colorado.
- In order to effect transformation either as a firm, or as a professional, it’s important to have a support network you can trust and open up to about your challenges
- While firms do a great job of advising their clients on succession planning, that’s not always the case for themselves.
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