Meihaus: The Courage to Say “Enough” at the Top | Gear Up For Growth
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Originally published Sept. 4, 2025.
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Gear Up for Growth
With Jean Caragher
For CPA Trendlines
When public accounting firms talk about “leadership challenges,” the conversation often turns into a soft focus on communication styles or vague culture issues.
Michael Meihaus goes straight for the hard truths.
On Gear Up for Growth, hosted by Capstone Marketing president Jean Caragher, Meihaus—owner of Meihaus CPA in Escondido, California—lays out the structural leadership failings he sees across the profession: outdated ownership models, harmful work expectations, broken incentives, and leaders who resist change because the current system works for them, even as it burns everyone else out.
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“It’s simply that we don’t change unless we have to,” he tells Caragher. In a profession that’s been “stable, profitable, successful” for decades, too many people at the top have little incentive to transform how firms actually operate.