Is Your Accounting Firm Developing Leaders or Just Promoting Good Employees?

One Step Better Podcast · Jun 4, 2026 · 25m

At some point, every growing accounting firm takes their best person, puts them in a leadership role, and hopes for the best. And for a while it kind of works. Until it doesn't...

Mike and Matt are in the middle of this right now. 60 people, multiple team leads, a director of accounting, and an honest conversation about the fact that being great at the work and being great at leading people are two completely different skill sets. And they haven't always treated them that way.

In this episode:

Why promoting your best accountant into a leadership role is the most common mistake growing firms…