Lessons from leadership
Chris Geier, Sikich CEO & Managing Partner
From attitude to the future of professional services, Chris Geier shares his thoughts and ideas on pressing topics and discusses his experiences and lessons learned as a leader.
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- July 6, 2022
- CEO Blog - Lessons from Leadership | Workforce Risk Management
My concern for people’s safety and well-being has been a theme throughout my entire career. If you’ve read my blogs or connected with me…
- May 2, 2022
- CEO Blog - Lessons from Leadership
In the summer of 2020, I said: “Work has fundamentally changed in ways that are irreversible. It’s time to imagine a better, more flexible…
- March 18, 2022
- CEO Blog - Lessons from Leadership
Over the past few weeks, I’ve seen statements from organizational leaders condemning Russian leadership’s senseless attacks on Ukraine. I’ve seen an outpour of financial…
- February 16, 2022
- CEO Blog - Lessons from Leadership
The busy start to our year has me reflecting on the importance of our organization’s company-wide shut down during the last week of the…
- December 6, 2021
- CEO Blog - Lessons from Leadership
As we strive to nurture an inclusive, diverse organization made up of people from different backgrounds and experience, we’re intentionally building an organization comprised…
- November 4, 2021
- CEO Blog - Lessons from Leadership
The Hartford recently released a study about employee burnout that caught the eyes of business leaders across the country – including me. According to…
- August 17, 2021
- CEO Blog - Lessons from Leadership | Corporate Development
This summer, Basecamp (a productivity software maker in Chicago) executives released a memo directed at employees effectively banning talk of societal and political topics…
- June 9, 2021
- CEO Blog - Lessons from Leadership
No matter who you are or what you do, everyone goes through life experiences that require us to be resilient. Some people build strength…
- April 26, 2021
- CEO Blog - Lessons from Leadership
Is what you’re doing important if it’s not making a positive impact on the world around you? This is a question I asked myself…
- March 19, 2021
- CEO Blog - Lessons from Leadership
This Women’s History Month, I had the opportunity to talk with Kara Hamstra, a director in The Agency at Sikich and the leader of…
- February 22, 2021
- Accounting | CEO Blog - Lessons from Leadership | Corporate Development | COVID-19 | Technology
The coronavirus pandemic has pushed many organizations into large-scale remote work. At Sikich, we were well prepared to adjust to this reality. Long before…
- January 15, 2021
- CEO Blog - Lessons from Leadership
Having spent time early in my career in law enforcement, there’s not much I haven’t seen. I served for a number of years in…
- December 17, 2020
- CEO Blog - Lessons from Leadership | COVID-19
Are lockdowns the answer to our country’s problems? It’s not likely. In an earlier article, I wrote about the need for the federal government…
- November 16, 2020
- CEO Blog - Lessons from Leadership | COVID-19
The coronavirus pandemic has ushered in changes in work practices that have given employees unprecedented levels of flexibility – flexibility that I suspect employees…
- September 29, 2020
- CEO Blog - Lessons from Leadership
Diversity and inclusion have always been a part of our organization’s fabric and a key element of our growth and evolution. At the start…
- September 10, 2020
- CEO Blog - Lessons from Leadership | COVID-19
I’ve always been a proud free-market guy. As an entrepreneur and CEO, I usually cheer efforts to reduce government intervention in the economy. But…
- July 31, 2020
- CEO Blog - Lessons from Leadership | COVID-19
The coronavirus pandemic has caused significant hardship and has forced us to look at much of life through a new lens. But it’s not…
- June 2, 2020
- CEO Blog - Lessons from Leadership | COVID-19
Throughout my career, I’ve faced challenges, failures and difficult decisions—these experiences became the foundation and building blocks that led me to where I am…
- May 6, 2020
- CEO Blog - Lessons from Leadership | COVID-19
I’ve thought a lot about resilience recently – how it’s helped individuals overcome some of the worst hardships imaginable; how, in less dramatic ways,…
- April 6, 2020
- CEO Blog - Lessons from Leadership | COVID-19
As we embark on another week amidst a pandemic that continues to unfold before our eyes, several thoughts have been at the forefront of…
- March 9, 2020
- CEO Blog - Lessons from Leadership
Recently I wrote about digital disruption in public accounting. Then I followed up with how digitization in industry is affecting what clients need and…
- February 17, 2020
- CEO Blog - Lessons from Leadership
Technology is shaking up every sector of industry. From one end of the value chain to the other, business leaders are rethinking not just…
- January 27, 2020
- CEO Blog - Lessons from Leadership
How Technology is Changing the World of Accounting Firms In October of last year, Sears filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. From the perspective…
A Message from CEO Chris Geier – Sikich’s Response to COVID-19
March 13, 2020
Our thoughts are with those that have been directly affected by COVID-19. The situation is evolving rapidly, and our primary concern is the safety of
