CALL TODAY (801-265-3777) for more info & REGISTER To Attend Our LIVE 2 Day Intensive Event
(Additional tickets for a partner are available at a discount (only $285 each) to cover food, supplies and entertainment)
The focus of this GrowCon LIVE accounting forum event is to give you time to work ON your business and leave with a clear business plan. In the two days we will help you:
Engage & Manifest: defining your business plan and gaining clarity as to the purpose of the business and the services offered.
Understand Accounting: Identifying the client benefits of the services offered to define marketing strategies.
Increase Revenue: Focus on Marketing (lead generation) and sales processes (asking for the sale) to find and retain new customers and clients.
Improve Profits: To work efficiently and effectively using technology to provide quality accounting services profitably. Making profit intentional and deliberate.
Build Value: Beginning with the end in mind, use the 8 drivers to build a business with value, a self sustaining living entity that you can be proud of.
At this GrowCon event you’ll also meet and work with your coaches, those that help you be in business for yourself but not by yourself:
Tyler Small, founder of the 5 Star Approach.Tyler has a graduate degree in the Psychology of Learning and has 12 years of experience researching and designing experiences that improve performance and relationships. He has consulted for Fortune 500 companies, universities, nonprofits, consulting firms, and tech startups. As a thought leader, he has written books, produced over 50 episodes of a podcast entitled “Hacking Emotional Intelligence,” and created performance-improving experiences for over 100,000 people globally. Outside of work he loves spending time in the mountains with his 5 children, and going on dates with his wife. http://5starapproach.com/
Chris is the Co-founder of Learner Park Media, a creative agency in Salt Lake City that provides marketing services and solutions to small businesses. He’s been featured on ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox as an expert in the field of digital marketing and over the last decade has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs successfully market and grow their business. He can stay up all night reading books about entrepreneurship or marketing but can’t make it 30 minutes into a Netflix special (ask his wife). In fact sleeping comes so naturally to him, he can do it with both eyes closed. He is a sarcasm connoisseur and thinks sausage puns are the worst. In his free time, he can be found at the lake or on the mountain with his wife and four kids in Salt Lake City, UT
Clay Neves, Vice President of Student Enrollment. Clay is a many year veteran with Universal Accounting Center and has worked with students throughout the United States and Canada to grow their practices. He oversaw the growth of Universal’s seminar channel nearly ten-fold and oversaw the enrollment call center before taking on the implementation of BizBench as a new product, as well as webinars, virtual conferences, and other R&D projects. He has been involved at the executive level in using key performance indicators to identify trends, problems, opportunities and business solutions. He is a past Chamber of Commerce executive and knows how to help small businesses. With over 30 years of sales and marketing management experience, he can help you implement business assessment and evaluation, as well as coach you on how to attract new clients, increase retention, and expand your consulting income.
Tyler Otto, along with his wife Karen are the owners of Specialty Bookkeeping, LLC, where he has developed a winning formula for an innovative, virtually based accounting and tax firm. His company leverages technology to simplify client’s financial processes, creating greater visibility into their financials and driving profit. He has extensive experience in the finance side of the hotel and tourism industry where he has also served as the Corporate Director of Finance with Imprint Hospitality in 2020. His primary focuses include database architecture, Visual Basic scripting, Forecasting, Budgeting, and Data Mining. His recent activities include doing large financial system migrations for several companies spanning the hospitality to the construction industry.
Tyler has a passion for team development and promoting fun and collaborative cultures. He believes that a dedication to continuous improvement and learning is the backbone of any successful venture. He loves helping clients make more money. His career has been focused on serving as a financial analyst and business partner, helping business managers make strategic decisions that will grow their business for years to come.
Tyler is a fanatic about making new relationships and collaborating with others on large projects.
He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah with his wife Karen and two children. When he’s not geeking out in Visual Basic, he’s found in the woodshop doing any number of woodworking projects, or on his road bike.
Adam Syvock, founder of Cannabis Accounting. Adam is a graduate of Universal Accounting’s Professional Bookkeeper (PB) program himself, is an Enrolled Agent (EA) and has a bachelors in accounting from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2014 and shortly after enrolled in Universal Accounting’s Bookkeeping, Tax, QuickBooks, and master coaching programs. He then started his own small business accounting practice, Infinity Accounting in 2015. In 2016, he began his role as academic coach for Universal Accounting and now serves students in the Bookkeeping, Tax Preparer, and QuickBooks programs, as well as being the business & marketing coach. In 2019 he started a separate accounting practice, Cannabis Accounting, to focus exclusively on the cannabis, hemp, and CBD industry. Outside of business, Adam enjoys movies, music, reading, staying active, martial arts, as well as spending time with his friends and family, including his wife and daughter.
Illens Dort, Founder and CEO of Lift a Life was born and raised in Haiti. He came to Utah with his wife in December of 1986. He and his wife have six children and 13 grandchildren. Illens is a serial and social entrepreneur whose passion is to help small business owners and executives accelerate their personal, professional, and financial growth while creating an ecosystem to help them accomplish these goals and make a difference in the lives of those who are less fortunate.
Author: The 5 Secret Fears of Failing in Business – And How To Overcome Them
Author: Thinking and Acting with a Compassionate Heart
Current Adjunct Faculty at BYU
Coach – Speaker – Trainer (Member of the John Maxwell Team)
Founder and CEO of Lift a Life – a nonprofit organization that has served over
35,000 children and caregivers in Haiti and the Dominican Republic
Founder of HumanEkdromi (a coaching and humanitarian excursions organization)
Founder of Maximum Impact Council – A company that connects small business
owners and executives with shared-value ecosystems to help them accelerate their
personal, professional, and financial growth.
Worked for Novell, Omniture, and Adobe
Graduated from the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program
Earned an MBA from the University of Phoenix
Graduated from BYU with a bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering technology
Veronica Wasek, CEO and Founder of VM Wasek. She is an entrepreneur, influencer, educator, and accountant specializing in accounting and consulting for Shopify sellers. She is active in social media, including her 5 Minute Bookkeeping YouTube Channel, blog, and Facebook community.
She also runs an online academy for bookkeepers and accountants, 5MB Academy and is the creator and author of The Virtual Bookkeeper’s Roadmap. She is a Certified Public Accountant and is advanced certified in QuickBooks Online. She has been named a Top 100 and Top 10 QuickBooks ProAdvisor.
Veronica lives in Sugar Land, Texas. She enjoys spending time at her farm with her husband Eric.
Annette Sonnenburg is the owner of Sonnenburg Consulting Inc. She has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration with a minor in Economics and has been providing CFO services, business consulting, and outsourced accounting and bookkeeping services for more than 20 years. She is a Certified QuickBooks Pro Advisor. Prior to starting her firm, she worked for broker dealers as a CFO and compliance officer supervising brokers and traders and working closely with regulators.
She has also worked for a law firm analyzing securities cases and assisting with business filings and maintenance. She has been a CFO for various small businesses and her clients vary from services, product sales, and internet-based businesses to high net worth, high income individuals. With her varied background and experience, she has assisted many businesses by working closely with attorneys, CPAs, and financial advisors on business structure, limiting liability exposure, tax planning, setting up and maintaining an accounting system, and planning and budgeting to reach their financial goals.
Andrew Hunzicker, CPA is the founder of DOPE. He has over 30 years of experience in Accounting, Tax, as CFO and Founder of many multi million dollar businesses, as well as Big. 4. He is a seasoned professional within the industry for more than 5 years, and his goal is to help accounting professionals achieve balance in their daily lives, build thriving businesses, and cultivate the next generation of experts in this thriving industry including leading the 2021 ACIPA cannabis conference.
Robyn Mons is the founder of Robyn Mons Coaching and a certified Life Coach, aka “the mind ninja” to her kids, helps business professionals learn how to manage their brains so they can create desired results in their lives and in their businesses. As an entrepreneur herself, she understands the challenges that come with balancing work and life and the mental blocks that keep you from taking action. Robyn believes that your brain is the most powerful tool you have on the planet and that learning how to manage your brain is the most important thing you can do to create the lasting results you want in your life, including your business. Using the latest, cutting edge tools in the industry combined with her ability to connect and lead with compassion, she has helped many people succeed in achieving goals beyond what they thought possible. Her greatest joy is to watch her clients blow their own minds and fulfill their potential.
Trokon is the owner of TRP Accounting Services LLC located in Hightstown, NJ. He graduated from Thomas Edison State University with his BSBA in Accounting Studies. He completed the following programs at Universal Accounting; PTP, PGE, UBB, & many more.
As an accountant, Trokon enjoys working with small to medium size businesses that provide services. His goal is to assist new and current business owners with getting a better understanding of their business’s financial position so they can make better business decisions.
And More!
Business Workshop – Accounting Forum
GrowCon is a LIVE training conference event for accounting, bookkeeping, and tax professionals to build the premier accounting firm in their area.
Attend this 2-day event (4 day with PreCon) to GROW personally and professionally. It is here you’ll find the strength to step outside your comfort zone and build the business you want to be paid what you are worth. Understand marketing and sales, how to integrate traditional accounting services with value added consultative offerings to your clients, doing so efficiently and profitably. (your personal travel arrangements & accommodations are separate)
• 2-day Pre Conference social and activities (May 14th & 15th 2022) • 2-day Grow Conference & Workshop (May 16th & 17th 2022) • Group Activities • Meet Your Coaches • Inclusion in a closed Facebook group community • Bonus content delivered within the closed Facebook Group
Meet Your Instructors
Roger Knecht, President of Universal Accounting Center, helps accounting professionals build the premier accounting firm in their area offering quality value added services with confidence and competence.
Roger is a strategic business development leader helping business owners establish short & long-range goals, strategies, plans and policies to increase sales, improve profits and build the value of the business. He enjoys working with business owners to increase the financial value of the company using proven strategies, processes and procedures to:
Engage & Manifest – Becoming the leader the business needs
Understand Accounting – Timely information to intelligently run the business
Increase Sales – Follow a proven sales process
Improve Profit – Nine Principles for Profitability putting Profit First
Build the Value of the Business – 8 Key Drivers in Business
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