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Accounting Voices
With Rob Brown

The accounting profession does not suffer from a lack of technical expertise. What it faces instead is a growing relevance gap.

That tension sits at the center of Accounting Voices, the newly launched show formerly known as Accounting Influencers. Episode 1 opens a new season with a sharper focus and a clearer message: competence is assumed, but influence is what now protects careers.

This is not a podcast about tax codes, audit standards, or software features. It is a show about the forces reshaping accounting and finance—and what professionals must do to stay ahead as those forces accelerate.

A profession under pressure
Accounting firms and finance teams are navigating simultaneous disruptions that would have seemed unthinkable a decade ago. Artificial intelligence and automation continue to rewrite workflows. Private equity is consolidating firms at scale. Compliance work is increasingly commoditized. Middle management layers are thinning. Technical excellence, once the ultimate career safeguard, no longer guarantees stability.

The opening episode makes the point bluntly: irrelevance is not theoretical. In today’s market, it equals unemployment.

Against that backdrop, Accounting Voices positions itself as a practical guide for decision-makers who want to lead change rather than react to it. The show is aimed squarely at firm leaders, CFOs, fractional executives, and the advisors and vendors who support them.

Why visibility now creates opportunity
A core theme of the launch episode is the shifting definition of professional value. Technical competence remains essential, but it is now the baseline. What differentiates leaders is visibility—being known, trusted, and remembered when decisions are made.

The show explores why personal brands increasingly outperform corporate logos in credibility, especially in a noisy, AI-driven environment. Familiarity, repeated exposure, and clarity of message shape trust long before a formal engagement begins. Those dynamics apply just as much inside firms as they do in the market.

Episode 1 also acknowledges a reality many professionals quietly share: fear. Fear of posting publicly. Fear of getting it wrong. Fear of standing out. Accounting Voices reframes that hesitation as a risk in itself, arguing that silence carries its own professional cost.

Influence as a professional skill
The launch episode closes with a simple but resonant takeaway: change is hard, but not changing is harder. Building influence takes effort, but having no voice in a transforming profession is riskier still.

Accounting Voices sets out to give professionals the vocabulary, perspective, and confidence to do the harder thing—to speak up, be seen, and shape the future rather than wait for it.