Jim Lindell

Practical business insights to increase sales, efficiency and profits from an award-winning speaker, best-selling author and atypical CPA that improve people's lives and businesses.

Expert on

  • Business
  • Ethics / Integrity
  • Leadership
  • Personal Development
  • Corporate Culture
  • Teamwork / Teambuilding

Fee Range

$6,000–$10,000

Travels from

WI, US

Biography

Jim Lindell is President of Thorsten Consulting, a strategic and financial consulting firm that offers professional speaking, training, and executive coaching. Over the past two decades, Jim has delivered over 5,000 hours of C-suite executive coaching. His professional experience includes Chief Financial Officer, VP-Finance, Corporate Controller, and Corporate Assistant Controller. Industries include manufacturing, healthcare, not-for-profit, distribution, and food processing. 

He is a CPA and has received the Certified Speaking Professional designation, the highest earned designation from the National Speakers Association. Jim is a Vistage Chairman (Executive Coach and Facilitator) and responsible for two groups in the Milwaukee area.

Jim is the author of Controller as Business Manager, Controllers Annual Update (Best Seller,) Analytics and Big Data for Accountants, and many other strategic and financial leadership courses that the AICPA and Wiley have published.

Also, Jim is a twelve-time recipient of the AICPA’s Outstanding Discussion Leader Award.

BUSINESS - AVOID THE FINANCIAL HEART ATTCK

Format: 90 minute keynote, 120 minute breakout

 

This program is perfect for:

  • Small Business Owners
  • Executives responsible for financial performance
  • The information is applicable for For Profit and Nonprofit Organizations

 

The audience will

 leave with:

  • The key statistic to identify troubled organizations
  • Better understanding of financial statements and what type of information they should be receiving at management meetings as well as board meetings
  • The steps to take to repair a troubled business
  • A new vision for financial information communication
  • The root cause of why businesses fail

 

Jim demonstrates tools and techniques to better understand the financial performance of an organization.  In plain and simple terms he describes how to read financial statements and identify key trends that warn of a “financial heart attack.” He illustrates how executives are unwilling to admit that they do not understand accounting terms and statements which can result in a lack of awareness to future performance.  Attendees will learn the key ratios to monitor the organization as well as the steps to take when problems arise.

IS YOUR BUSINESS WOBBLING? BUSINESS ENTROPY AND RENEWAL

Is your business Wobbling? Just as a spinning top wobbles as it slows down, businesses wobble as they begin to have difficulties.
The spinning top illustrates the concept of Entropy which is based on the second law of thermodynamics.  A business left unattended will experience entropy and begin to “wobble.”   Uncontrolled, entropy will result in the eventual downfall of any business, organization, government, etc.

This session examines how Entropy introduces chaos into our organizations and how renewal activities can overcome the “wobble” and chaos.

LITTLE DECISIONS - BIG RESULTS!

Do you truly understand what brought your business, your department or yourself to its current position?  This session will identify the decisions that have directed you to this point in time and determine how the decisions today will create BIG results in your business, your department or yourself.  

Attendees will recognize how past decisions that they were unaware of are responsible for the position they are in today.  Most importantly, they will become aware of how to proactively make decisions to control their future.

EXTREME LEADERSHIP - EMBRACING TODAY'S CHALLENGES

Today’s leaders are confronted with different challenges everyday.  Extreme Leadership inspires individuals to embrace these challenges to achieve new successes as well as confront business threats that must be addressed.  Extreme Leadership  will help audience members 1) recognize their responsibility as leaders at all levels in the organization, 2) learn how other leaders persevered in overwhelming challenges, 3) understand the significance of alignment, its impact on success, and how leaders foster alignment within the organization.