ELA

"For 30+ years, AGN has provided opportunities that have assisted our firm in developing professional skills & long-lasting professional relationships of extraordinary value. I can't reminisce on our past successes or envision our future without thinking of AGN."
Richard Stalvey, CPA, Partner
Fowler, Holley, Rambo & Stalvey, P.C.

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Emerging Leaders Academy (ELA)

Background: AGN was the first association of accounting firms to commit to developing its future leaders. For 15 years now, AGN firms have been taking advantage of our Future Leaders Training program. Each year, 25 - to 35 future or new partners have gathered for two days of instruction and collaboration on what it takes to a super-star partner in a firm.

We've always been blessed with member firm leaders who have developed and taught this course. Evaluations have been consistently very high. Yet, participants have always shared this comment:

"I wish there was some way we could structure an on-going
program with consistent follow-up and accountability."

Our existing course and association leaders agreed this was the necessary next step, but didn't have the resources to invest in developing such a program, not to mention that they had full-time jobs running member firms!

Enter AGN's good friend Upstream Academy, which has been a terrific resource to AGN for the last six years by providing the topics and materials for our Advanced Partner Training Program. Now, Upstream has developed a new program, called Emerging Leaders Academy (ELA).

The AGN Executive Committee listened to a presentation about ELA from Sam Allred at our Nov. 2010 meeting, and subsequently agreed that this program combines all the learning elements that previous classes of AGN Future Leaders have experienced, as well as the follow-up components they requested.

So, the Executive Committee made the decision to partner with ELA to integrate our Future Leaders training program with ELA. Quite simply: Upstream has built a better mousetrap – one that is consistent with our mission of helping firms attain their partner development goals – we hope you'll agree to choose several individuals in your firm and enroll them in the new AGN ELA program.

Further information is available to AGN members only. After logging in, locate the middle column headed Toolkit and click on Partner Development Academy.