Transitioning Away From a Busy Season with Merina+Co’s Tonya Moffitt

Tonya Moffitt is the Managing Partner of Merina+Co where she performs and manages governmental audits. The firm prides itself in offering long-term careers, low turnover, and advancement opportunities with Tonya starting there as an intern and becoming a Partner by 31.

Tonya’s main passion is teaching and mentoring professionals on technical and soft skills. She wants to encourage others to build new competencies to create their own legacy, both professionally and personally. Here are a few of the topics we’ll discuss on this episode of Accounting Automation:

• How Tonya stopped having a busy season in her firm.
• The value of having a mission statement that your team really believes in.
• How staff responded to Tonya ending municipal audits and pivoting towards 100% advisory and consultancy work.
• The financial outcome of a firm focusing solely on advisory and consultancy work.
• The benefits of letting staff work four ten-hour days and why Tonya’s firm offers staff a one-month sabbatical.
• The importance of soft skills and having team members with leadership skills.
• How to attract high-quality staff to your firm.
• The impact Merina+Co is having on communities.

Resources:

• Merina+Co
• Extreme Ownership
• Difficult Conversations
• Burnout
• NxtStep

Connecting with Tonya Moffitt:

• LinkedIn

Connecting with the host:

• Sean Boyce on LinkedIn

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