Speaking

I talk to business owners about the numbers nobody wants to look at.

Forty-one years running finance and operations, most of it spent discovering that the expensive problem was a process somebody inherited and was never given permission to question. Your members already suspect something in their business is off. I give them the questions that find it.

Rooms I have been in

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Stamford Business Network

Multiple sessions for a 40-member owner group on CFO topics. They have had me back.

Panel

Darien Chamber of Commerce

Expert panelist, Business Solutions from Business Experts, Darien Library, 2015. Press coverage.

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Asirvia annual event

Delivered the annual financial report from the main stage as the company's CFO.

Topics

  • How to tell your chart of accounts is a messThe symptoms owners mistake for a bookkeeping problem when it is a structure problem. Members leave able to spot it in their own file that week.
  • Building a chart that answers the questions you actually askJob costing, margin by line, and why most charts cannot support either. Practical enough that people take notes.
  • Have you outgrown your systemsThe point where doing it the old way costs more than replacing it, and how to know you have passed it. Good for a room where half are about to spend money on software.
  • The WHY methodWhy "because we have always done it this way" is the sound of a leak, and how to go looking without making anyone the problem. Works for owners and their leadership teams in the same room.
  • What owners see versus what their teams seeBuilt on the WHY Audit and its Gap Report. The most uncomfortable session I run, and the one people talk about afterward.

Any chapter of the book works as a session. So does any of the lunch and learn material, which was written for exactly this format and comes with a handout for attendees.

Formats I do well: an open talk with real examples, a lunch and learn built around one narrow problem, and ask me anything, which is my favorite because owners bring the questions they are too proud to ask their own accountant.

I speak to owner groups, chambers, associations, peer advisory boards, and leadership teams. Audiences of ten and audiences of eight hundred both work.

Logistics

  • In person, Central FloridaAnywhere within about ninety minutes of Clermont. That covers Orlando, Tampa, Ocala, Daytona, Lakeland and The Villages.
  • In person, Connecticut and Fairfield CountyI am there regularly for clients and family. If your date lines up with a trip, ask.
  • Remote, anywhereZoom, Teams or Google Meet.
  • LengthThirty minutes to a full ninety-minute workshop. Lunch and learns are usually forty-five.
  • What I needA screen if there are slides. For ask me anything, nothing at all.
Scott Kuppersmith

Scott Kuppersmith

Author of The WHY That Saves Companies. 41 years as CFO, COO, Controller and business owner.

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