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Laura Sparks

As owner of Creative Sparks, Laura Sparks partners with accountants and other professionals to articulate their ideas and insights through thought leadership content. Contact her at [email protected] or (678) 973-0687.

Fostering Emotional Intelligence in Accounting Firms

By Laura Sparks / June 6, 2017

Emotions don’t belong in an accounting firm. Accounting is about numbers. It’s rational, orderly, logical. Emotions are irrational, messy, and they don’t follow rules of logic. “Emotional intelligence” is a buzzword. One of those feel-good, flavor-of-the-month initiatives cooked up by marketing and HR—irrelevant to the real work of serving clients…

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Featured: Season 9 Episode 4

Beyond the Database: Building a CRM That Fuels Business Development

Nikki Burgeson | UHY-US

In this episode, Chris Camara speaks with Nikki Burgeson about the critical role of CRM systems in business development, particularly within professional services.