Sarah Elliott, CPA, PCC
2025 Most Powerful Women in Accounting
Co-founder and Principal
Intend2Lead, LLC
- Created the profession’s first ever New Partner Experience Survey to help the profession better understand their challenges and opportunities
- Published the results from our New Partner Experience Survey and spoke at various conferences across the U.S. about how to better support our new Partners and create a more sustainable profession
- Facilitated AICPA’s prestigious Leadership Academy to help our profession’s next generation of leaders access the Dimension of Possible
- Created and delivered customized, innovative leadership coaching programs for CPA firm associations and Top 100 firms to support those on the path to Partnership, recently promoted Partners, and firms wanting to create a coaching culture in a scalable way
- Spoke about coaching cultures and coaching as a leadership style to hundreds of accountants across the U.S., including sharing practical models and tools
- Provided personalized one-to-one executive coaching for leaders of Top 100 accounting firms
Additional outreach in the accounting profession:
- Serve as the Past President and Membership Chair for the CPA Consultants’ Alliance
- Lead our I2L Innovators Community for leaders in L&D at accounting firms across the country to help them better develop the next generation of leaders and create coaching cultures
- Serve on the advisory board of a Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Consortium for the profession, including helping to plan, host, and facilitate our first one-day symposium in August 2025
- Sponsor of AICPA’s Accounting Scholars Leadership Workshop
Professional Development podcasts/books/blogs/websites/publications:
- International Coach Federation training and development programs, including maintaining my Professional Certified Coach certification
- Daily yoga and meditation practices
- Shakti Leadership: Embracing Feminine and Masculine Power in Business by Nilima Bhat and Raj Sisodia
- The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life by Benjamin Zander and Rosamund Stone Zander
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