Engineering Growth, Ensuring Viability

Our Blog

Timely Articles on Growth Strategy and Creating Partnerships

Leadership

Succession Planning Beyond the Next Partner: Why Continuity Depends on Developing Leaders at Every Level

1 min read

Succession Planning Beyond the Next Partner: Why Continuity Depends on Developing Leaders at Every Level

Most succession plans in professional services firms are too narrow. They focus on replacing the next partner, managing retirement timelines, or...

Top-Line Growth: The First Lever

4 min read

Top-Line Growth: The First Lever

This is the first deep dive in our Enterprise Value Model series. If you missed the introduction from Brian Blaha, start here: Five Levers That...

2 min read

Leadership in a Post-Apprenticeship World: How Learning Has Changed and Why Firms Must Change With It

For generations, professional services leadership was learned the same way the work was learned: slowly, through observation, repetition, and...

Jessica Emanuel joins WRC

2 min read

Winding River Consulting Welcomes Jessica Emanuel as Managing Director of Growth

Winding River Consulting Welcomes Jessica Emanuel as Managing Director of Growth Former executive brings PE-backed growth and M&A integration...

The partnership model is under pressure

2 min read

The Partnership Model Under Pressure: How Ownership Changes Are Forcing a Redefinition of Leadership Readiness

For decades, partnership served as the finish line in professional services. Make partner, and leadership would follow. Equity implied readiness....

Making Waves with Gian Pazzia

4 min read

Making Waves: KBKG's Gian Pazzia on Leading Through AI Disruption

In a recent episode of Making Waves, David Toth, Chief Growth Officer of Winding River Consulting, sat down with Gian Pazzia, Chairman & Chief...

The Middle Reimagined

6 min read

The Middle Reimagined: How Mid-Sized Firms Can Compete in a Consolidating Market

This article was originally published by the Illinois Society of CPAs, Spring 2026 edition. Accounting firm tie-ups are reshaping the profession, but...

Developing judgement, not just technical skill

2 min read

Developing Judgment, Not Just Technical Skill: A Materiality Framework for Leadership Readiness in the AI Era

As AI commoditizes technical work, professional services firms are confronting an expensive lesson: knowledge is no longer the differentiator....

Coaching, Mentoring, and Developing: Why Firms Must Stop Confusing Conversations With Capability

3 min read

Coaching, Mentoring, and Developing: Why Firms Must Stop Confusing Conversations With Capability

Professional services firms love the language of coaching and mentoring. The terms populate strategy decks, culture statements, and retention plans....