Presented by Kim Black
**Session Includes Catered Lunch and Kim Black's book "The Good Girl Exit"
You reconcile everyone elses accounts. When did you last reconcile your own?
The Good Girl Exit is a live, interactive CPE session about a pattern most accounting professionals recognize instantly and almost never name out loud the reflex to over deliver, over explain, over apologize, and absorb work nobody asked you to take on. It feels like diligence. It reads like professionalism. And it quietly erodes your judgment, your capacity, and your margins.
This isn't a lecture, and it isn't a therapy session. It's two hours built around your own professional vocabulary — materiality, unbilled hours, scope, the workpaper markup turned back on the one account you never audit: yourself.
Working through the HERS frameworkTM (Honesty, Embodiment, Reclamation, Self-Trust), you'll examine how approval seeking and perfectionism show up in the moments that actually matter to your work the client who softens your finding, the delegation you took back, the deadline you renegotiated against yourself, the email you rewrote four times before sending. You'll leave with language you can use on Monday and a number you won't forget.
Objectives
Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to:
Identify how people-pleasing, perfectionism, and approval-seeking patterns influence professional judgment, client communication, and delegation decisions.
Recognize the measurable costs — in time, capacity, and revenue — of over-accommodation in professional practice.
Apply specific communication techniques to reduce hedging and make direct, credible requests of clients and colleagues.
Establish and hold** professional boundaries around scope, deadlines, and delegation.
Define a personal decision threshold for evaluating and declining low-value requests to protect professional focus and capacity.
Highlights
This is a session people will talk about in the parking lot afterward. Expect to be on your feet, marking things up, and doing a little math you didn't see coming.
The Cost of the Yes, a live calculation, You'll put in your own numbers, anonymously, and watch the rooms total climb onto the screen in real time. Most rooms are stunned by their own figure. It iss conservative, it is defensible, and it reframes over accommodation as exactly what it is, a line item.
Audit the Email, You'll mark up a hedge drenched email like a workpaper, with a tickmark legend, then run the same audit on your own sent folder. The silence in the room is the point.
Your Materiality Threshold, The session closes on the one concept every CPA already lives by the threshold below which something isn't worth reporting reframed as the smallest request you will still decline. You will leave with yours, in writing.
Interactive throughout, genuinely fun, and pointed the entire time at professional competence, not self-help
Who Will Benefit
CPAs and accounting professionals across public practice, industry, and government — from staff through partner — who want to protect their judgment, their time, and their bottom line. No preparation required. Bring a pen.
Credits
| Category |
Amount |
| Personal Development |
2.00 |
