CPA Trendlines Academy
CPA Trendlines Academy is a professional education partnership between CPA Trendlines.com (content provider) and The CPA Trendlines Academy (the hosting platform ). The CPA Trendlines Academy is managed and published by Tom Kothman, senior business development advisor to CPA Trendlines. The cooperative effort provides an active extension of The CPA Trendlines Streaming Network, its contributors, authors, podcasters and industry influentials. Our goal is to provide the highest quality CPE to the tax, accounting and financial community. In addition, through the cutting-edge actionable content provided daily through the streaming network, we aim to offer insight and transformative direction to the heart of the professional market.
Taxation
About Bradley Burnett, J.D., LL.M
A few endorsements ....
“Bradley was possibly one of the best presenters I have ever encountered in all my webinars. He was detailed, keep the topics light, gave in depth information without going too quickly. Highly recommended.”
Craig Sheets, Crestville Accounting
"I always learn from CPE classes taken with Bradley Burnett. Fantastic webinar with important information."
Penny Fox, CPA
"I have no idea how Bradley was able to present everything & end right to the minute.”
Gene Kleinhans, G K Accounting
Bradley Burnett, J.D., LL.M., is a practicing Colorado tax attorney with 40 years of tax practice experience. His practice emphasis is on tax planning and tax controversy resolution. He also prepares a handful of tax returns.
Prior to establishing his own law firm in 1990, he practiced tax accounting with national and local CPA firms, worked as a trust officer for a Denver bank and managed the tax department as partner in a medium-sized Denver law firm. After receiving his undergraduate degree in accounting and law degree (J.D.), he earned a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Taxation from the University of Denver School of Law Graduate Tax Program.
Mr. Burnett has delivered more than 3,000 presentations on U.S. tax law throughout all fifty U.S. states, Washington, D.C., the Bahamas, Italy, Greece, Turkey and Canada. He has authored texts of 35 CPE courses.
Bradley served as adjunct professor at the University of Denver School of Law Graduate Tax Program, where he pioneered an employment tax course and occasionally pinch hit teaching the IRS practice and procedure topic. He has appeared on television answering tax questions for call-in viewers of Denver NBC affiliate KUSA Channel 9. Brad received the Illinois Society of CPAs Instructor Excellence Award for teaching in Chicago and five times has been the top rated, most requested instructor for CPA Society annual tax conferences.
Burnett’s seminar style is to deliver the subject matter in briskly paced, enthusiastic and witty fashion. His forte’ is the candid communication of practical ideas relating to tax law.
Revenue Generation & Marketing
About Kristen Zhivago
A few endorsements ....
"If your company is out of touch with its buyers, you definitely need to contact Kristin to be your revenue coach.Kristin is a wonder! Her concepts for embracing customer insights to drive sales work and work quickly. And if you think her book is good, you should see her speak. She's a great speaker and motivator--she inspires you to call a customer right now!" - Steve Johnson
"Kristin is able to quickly determine the inflection points (such as customer focus, messaging, personnel or product development) then gets to work identifying how best to leverage them to get the business back to profitable growth.
-Mac McIntosh
"What's it like to have Kristin Zhivago as a revenue coach? I think our return in incremental revenue from implementing the changes resulting from her work was probably 50x-100x her consulting fees, and would have been more if we had acted on them sooner. But even more valuable was the change of thinking that working with Kristin induced in me and my key people. It was a shift from a customer-centric view in theory to a much more reality-based, customer-centric approach in practice. Like the credit card commercials, that part has been "priceless."
-Daniel Fylstra
“Keep your promises. Grow your revenue.”
– Kristin Zhivago
Kristin Zhivago founded Zhivago Partners in 2017 in order to provide a full suite of services that help companies grow their revenue.
Prior to founding Zhivago Partners, Kristin spent decades as a revenue coach, mostly in the tech industry in Silicon Valley, helping B2B business owners, CEOs, and entrepreneurs grow their companies. She has interviewed thousands of customers for hundreds of companies in a variety of industries.
Kristin performed revenue growth services for companies of all sizes, from small businesses to Fortune 100 companies such as IBM.
Through her revenue coaching work, Kristin became convinced that companies that keep their promises grow more swiftly and solidly than those that don’t. This is why we help clients make promises their customers want them to keep (and promises they can keep), and build a promise-keeping, revenue-growth infrastructure that makes it all possible.
Kristin is the author of the 5-star book, “Roadmap to Revenue: How to Sell the Way Your Customers Want to Buy,” named by Forbes as one of the top 6 marketing and sales books.y.