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Sandra Wiley

COO, Boomer Consulting

Sandra Wiley, President of Boomer Consulting, Inc., is a leader in the accounting profession with a passion for helping firms grow, adapt and thrive. She is regularly recognized by Accounting Today as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Accounting as a result of her expertise in leadership, management, collaboration, culture building, talent and training. Sandra’s years of experience and influence as a management and strategic planning consultant make her a sought-after resource among the best and brightest firms in the country. She is regularly invited to speak at national conferences where she empowers audiences with new ideas and a sense of humor. She is a popular author, having been published in many online and print publications, and penned two books, The Journey Ahead: A New Roadmap to Collaboration in Your Firm and The Engaged Employee: 10 Initiatives for Successful Firms.

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Firm Management

Clear Expectations – The Key to Your Social Media Policy

Having a social media policy, and training employees to follow it, are critical practices for every firm. Even if your firm is not using social media, you still need a policy because your staff are using it in their private lives and they need guidelines to protect your interests and your firms’ reputation.

Firm Management

Working from home quite simply rocks - For employees and the business

Read everything you can get your hands on about companies allowing their team to work from home. Read with an open mind and ask yourself “how can this work for my firm”. Then, talk to your team and find out why working remotely is exciting to them. Talk to them about your concerns and ask for their help in solving the challenges. Think collaboratively.

Accounting

Firm Staffing - Is the term "Best and Brightest" just an illusion?

In recent conversations about leadership training the words “best and brightest” slip off the tongue of firm leaders like a battle cry. We want to teach and motivate our best people to the highest level in the firm and we do not want to lose them to other firms or companies.

Human Resources

Be a Change Agent at Any Level

The new collaborative workforce has turned the rules of leadership upside down and shaken them vigorously for good measure. Where there was once a fairly defined hierarchy—Boss A tells Worker B what to do and B does it—there’s now a flat landscape where everyone is expected to take the reins as needed. That means if B has an idea—a way to make a process more efficient or a new way to get client feedback—he or she is allowed, even expected, to make it happen.

Firm Management

Managing and Motivating Challenging Employees

8 steps to motivate team members to exhibit superstar qualities.

Firm Management

Fall Firm Challenge: 5 Strategies for Strength

We are in the final 4 months of 2012. Here's a challenge to everyone out there to strengthen your firm’s culture by implementing the following 5 strategies in your firm.

Preventing Summer Burnout

Your Team Is An Idea Generation Machine

Tips on how to motivate your team to provide new ideas.

Firm Management

Stepping up to Lead: 10 Strategies for Professionals

Leadership is not a title, or a part of a job description, it is the actions that professionals can take every day when they walk through the doors at their firm.

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Stop Complaining and Start Acting

The Key to Accountability: Commitment

In a recent exchange with a partner group, we were discussing how to hold ourselves accountable for goals that were being set by each individual - outside of their compensation model. The word that leapt into my mind was commitment.

Creating Work-Life Balance Within The Firm

It is time for your firm to look at how they can create greater balance between work and personal lives of the number one asset in your firm – its people.