October 14, 2025

Tom Hood and Lexi Weber: Disrupt Yourself Before Someone Else Does | The Disruptors

56 minutes

RISE2040 challenges the accounting profession to stop reacting and start shaping its own future.

The Disruptors
With Liz Farr

What will the future of accounting be like? As listeners to The Disruptors know, I’ve been asking accountants about their predictions for the state of accounting in ten years. However, a new initiative from the AICPA and CIMA, RISE2040, is taking that further by asking accountants worldwide for their vision of accounting in 2040. I recently spoke with Tom Hood, CPA.CITP, CGMA, executive VP of Business Growth and Engagement for the AICPA, and Lexi Weber, CPA, senior manager for Emerging Professionals Initiatives at the AICPA, about RISE2040.

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Hood explains, “This is a project to co-create a vision for the global accounting and finance profession writ large. That means public accounting, management accounting, CPAs, and CGMAs globally.” The timing reflects the convergence of three events: the conclusion of Horizons2025, the maturation of the AICPA-CIMA joint venture created in 2011, and new leadership under CEO Mark Koziel.

Weber sees this as an empowering project for younger accountants. “From the emerging professionals’ perspective, I think it’s a really beautiful project, because we have a say in what the future is going to be like.”

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