Rachel Anevski, DBA, PHR, SHRM-CP

As a consultant to the profession for 20+ years, Rachel helps public accounting leaders strengthen leadership pipelines, improve retention, and develop future business leaders. She brings an insider’s approach to leadership development, succession, culture, and change—backed by advanced degrees and authorship of Train Your Successor™ (2025).

Still thinking its a pipeline problem?

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Still Thinking Its A Pipeline Problem?: Why AI and New Work Models Are Breaking Leadership Development

Professional services firms worry constantly about their "leadership pipeline." Fewer people seem ready to step up. Fewer want the responsibility....

Attracting and Retaining Talent

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Attracting and Retaining Talent: Why Leadership, Not Perks, Differentiates Firms

Many professional services firms talk endlessly about a "talent shortage," yet the people they most want to keep are already in the building. Or...

Train Your Successor: Why Leadership Development Is the Real Talent Strategy in Professional Services

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Train Your Successor: Why Leadership Development Is the Real Talent Strategy in Professional Services

Professional services firms have long operated under a comforting assumption: hire smart people, keep them busy, wait long enough, and leaders will...

Evolving Accounting Firm Culture

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Evolving Accounting Firm Culture

In the fast-paced and competitive world of accounting, attracting and retaining talented professionals is essential for the growth and success of...

Evolving Accounting Firm Culture

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How To Deliver Bad News

Ever had to fire a client or an employee? Maybe you were elected to tell someone that they didn’t get the promotion they were working towards? How...

Evolving Accounting Firm Culture

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Perspectives from the Profession: A Future Leaders Framework to Ensure Accounting Firm Succession

This article originally appeared here on Inside Public Accounting. If you are sick of hearing about firms looking for ways to stay independent,...