117: CPA and Executive Leadership Coach – Brian Kush

This week on Life In Accounting, the Where Accountants Go podcast, leadership coach Brian Kush, CPA, shared his career journey with us as well as some valuable insights on building a business and building your own leadership skills!

“Forced to Learn About Business”

As with many accountants, Brian’s career in accounting started with a position in public accounting – audit specifically. It was this experience in auditing that forced him to learn more about business in general and he started to realize where his passions lie from a career perspective.  The overall business acumen that was developed during these formative years ended up being a great foundation for his future career in coaching.

Starting A Company

After working in audit consulting through a couple different entities, Brian decided to launch his own executive coaching business: Moxie Partners.  Through Moxie Partners, as well as his partnership with Sarah Elliott in Intend2Lead, Brian helps executives with many leadership topics in the workplace including embracing vulnerability, and learning to adopt the ‘learner mindset’ instead of solely the ‘expert mindset’.  It’s through realizing that we don’t know everything that we can continue to learn and grow professionally.

Biggest Mistake

You need to make sure you listen all the way to the end on this episode, because like all previous shows, we asked the same three questions of our guest. Brian was very open about his “biggest mistake”, and there is a lesson in there for all of us – owners, managers, and associates or staff alike.  We all can learn from the points Brian makes towards the end of this episode.

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