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Episode 161: Stacey Barr of Pump Academy

Paul Shrimpling — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:44:25 +0000

As a leader or manager interested in achieving sustainable long-term success, you undoubtedly need to take KPI performance – Key Predictive or Key Performance Indicators – seriously, so that you can achieve what you want to achieve.
In this podcast discussion with Stacey Barr of Pump Academy, Stacey unpacks some simple – but key – practical ways of improving your ability to identify and measure the right KPIs in such a way that you’ll be able to attain great team buy-in. This is crucial as, if the team haven’t bought in, it doesn't matter what KPIs you've put in place, it isn’t going to work well.
I would heartily recommend that any accountant or leader or manager in an accountancy firm who wants to achieve sustainable success for their team, their firm, and their clients – because the KPI conversation is absolutely a numbers conversation your clients would appreciate – check out this podcast discussion with Stacey Barr of Pump Academy.

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Episode 160: Amy Spillard and John Toon of HLB

Paul Shrimpling — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:53:00 +0000

In a world where technology, and AI in particular, is becoming ever more dominant, it makes sense to investigate and delve into how the interrelation between the adoption of technology and how it works for your team and for your clients is relevant to you and your firm.
In this podcast with John Toon and Amy Spillard from HLB, the global accounting network, we discussed the importance of understanding that anything to do with innovation around technology becomes a process of leading and managing change.
Amy, John, and I unpack their experiences of working with different fintech companies, and with different technologies, and how they've made it work across HLB and the other firms that they had previously worked for.
If you're interested in working out how to implement better, faster, deeper technology innovation in your firm, check out this podcast with Amy and John from HLB.
Please scroll down the podcast’s episode page for the contact information for Amy and John and for the additional, downloadable resources mentioned in the podcast.

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Episode 159: Georgi Rollings, Founder and co CEO at Starfish Accounting

Paul Shrimpling — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:21:47 +0000

No doubt you want to feel a sense of pride about the way you and your team work – a sense of satisfaction that the work you do generates the results you want financially for the firm and for yourself, as well as delivering brilliantly for your clients.
What's clear in this podcast discussion with Georgi Rollings of Starfish Accounting is Georgi's pride in the firm she and her co-owner have created – but there’s also sense of humility around how there's more to learn going forward.
When you achieve fees per FTE that Georgi and the team have managed there – which are healthy, but with room improvement, for sure – you can see that there's a commercial, practical edge to what Georgi and her team are doing.
And you can see the humanity around how she and the team make it work so that they feel a sense of pride, they feel it's an enjoyable place to work – and it delivers the results.

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Episode 158: Dominic Ashley-Timms, Line Management Capability Expert, Author, Speaker and CEO

Paul Shrimpling — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:24:33 +0000

One of the most influential and, I think, most important books I've read in recent times is The Answer is the Question, by Dominic Ashley-Timms. It’s important because it lays out a clear pathway to transforming the quality of conversations across your team.
Arguably, it influences how you're going to raise the bar in terms of the conversations with your clients as well.
If you listen in to this podcast discussion with Dominic, you're likely to walk away with insights and ideas that could save you and everyone who is in a management role in your firm a time saving of somewhere between 20% and 40%, which is, by the way, what Dominic suggests is more than likely.
So, please listen to this podcast and scroll down the podcast’s episode page for the contact information for Dominic and for the additional, downloadable resources mentioned in the podcast.

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Episode 157: Neil Campbell of Pure Path Advisory

Paul Shrimpling — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 11:49:30 +0000

I suspect that every one of your business clients seeks to work with you and your firm because you bring a dose of good business sense to everything you do with them.
Yes, there's accounts. Yes, there's tax. Yes, there’s audit and other accountancy services that you provide but, ultimately, their reason for working with you is connected with more than just the services.
It's connected with the way you help them feel that they've got a better, safer future – for themselves and their business, their families, their team, and their clients. In my discussion with Neil Campbell about sustainability, I was able to see, all of a sudden, how important that subject is, because it makes good business sense.
If you want one or two very simple, very practical frameworks around which to form a sustainability conversation with every one of your clients, a conversation that's got a practical edge to it, that raises the bar in the way they trust you, then seek out this podcast with Neil Campbell. Please scroll down the podcast’s episode page for the contact information for Neil and for the additional, downloadable resources mentioned in the podcast.

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Technology Series Template for Episode Page

Paul Shrimpling — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 13:57:06 +0000

Insert Audio EPISODE 119 AARON HARRIS, GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OFFICER FOR SAGE THE STORY It's not every day you have an opportunity to interview the Global Chief Technology Officer of one of the landmark suppliers to the accounting profession.In this podcast discussion with Aaron Harris from Sage, we explored a few issues around using AI in […]

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