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The “Secret Sauce” to Retaining Women

THE “SECRET SAUCE” TO RETAINING WOMEN

Accounting MOVE Project Mini-Summit: Course 2 of 4
Cost Free
Presentation Length 1.0 hour

Recorded DateJune 14, 2023
CPE:Not available
(archived webinars do not offer CPE credits)
Course LevelBasic
Course Description

Retention is key to advancing women, and a point of excellence for The Bonadio Group. As reported in the 2022 Accounting MOVE Project report, The Bonadio Group loses half as many women in the transition from senior manager to partner than the average firm. That stellar statistic helps explain why women comprise 37% of its partners, a figure that is consistently rising.

What’s the “secret sauce”? At The Bonadio Group, retention is based on the intersection of individual career goals with emerging firm talent needs. In other words, constant career coaching and big-picture forecasting help ensure that the right people are ready and eager to take on rapidly expanding opportunities. By infusing career growth with flexibility, women can mix and match their personal and professional responsibilities, fostering long-term career success one move at a time.

Learning Objectives:


  • Recognize why retention is a critical metric for advancing women, especially in the steps immediately before a partnership

  • Evaluate why ongoing career discussions are more productive and strategic than annual reviews

  • Give examples of how to craft “unrefuseable offers” for internal opportunities and describe the strategic value of those opportunities to thwart the temptation for an employee to leave the firm for career growth

  • Identify how to balance flexibility and fairness, especially when handcrafting career paths for each individual

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Kristen started with The Bonadio Group right after college. She is a member of our Management Committee, Board of Directors and is our Chief Risk Officer. As the CRO, Kristen is responsible for the oversight and implementation of risk management activities firmwide.

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Bonnie Buol Ruszczyk (like “rustic” without the “t”) is the founder of BBR Companies LLC, where she provides CMO-level services for professional services firms, co-owner of Rally Rounds, where she facilitates mastermind groups for accounting growth professionals, and owner of the Accounting MOVE Project, where she provides the most comprehensive data and guidance on finding, retaining, developing and advancing women and people of color in the accounting profession. What do all these roles have in common? She is committed to helping firms uncover and communicate their unique differentiators, find the support they need to grow, and create equitable and inclusive cultures where everyone can thrive.

Never one to rest on her laurels, she earned a Diversity & Inclusion Certificate from Cornell University and is taking additional coursework to expand her knowledge. This is in addition to the MBA with a marketing concentration she earned at Georgia State University and a Bachelor of Arts in journalism, public relations, and French from Troy (State) University in Alabama.

Bonnie quite literally wrote the book on online marketing for accounting firms, Take Your Marketing Online: Proven Ways to Grow Your Firm in the Digital Age, at the request of the AICPA. She also contributed a chapter to Bridging the Gap: Strengthening the Connection Between Current and Emerging Leaders and is a regular contributor and quote source for industry-related publications and websites. She has been recognized as one of Accounting Today’s Top 100 Most Influential People three times, Volunteer of the Year by the Association for Accounting Marketing, and one of CPA Practice Advisor’s Most Powerful Women in Accounting.

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Jen joined Bonadio in 2017 as a partner with the firm’s Healthcare/Tax-Exempt Audit Practice. Most recently, she began a transition into the Outsourced Accounting & Finance group where she will be leading a team focused on providing outsourced accounting services to Tax-Exempt Organizations. Jen has over 20 years of experience in public accounting working with Tax-Exempt organizations, which positions her extremely well to lead this segment of the practice.

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Grace is a Director with FoxPointe Solutions Information Risk Management Division of The Bonadio Group. Her main focus is providing and overseeing internal and external auditing and assurance services related to information technology and information security systems, processes, and controls.

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The Accounting MOVE Project, which creates the industry’s “Best CPA Firms for Women” and “Best CPA Firms for Equity Leadership," is the only annual benchmarking research and advocacy report that equips accounting and advisory firms to detect, develop and drive competitive advantage from diversity initiatives and trends.