The keynote suite for professional services on the cost of high performance, from an ex-CPA who's been the high performer.
Tish Millard spent over 20 years inside the accounting and professional services industry before she worked out what was actually going on underneath the success. Her sessions are direct, grounded in real business experience, and built for the people in the room who are too sharp to be sold a motivational keynote.
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Years in accounting and professional services
Ex-CPA
Accounting firm owner turned business mentor
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Business owners and firm principals worked with
Speaking Topics
The Cost of Being the Responsible One
Why your most dependable people are often the closest to burning out.
Every firm has someone who holds it together, never drops the ball, and asks for nothing. The traits that make them invaluable are costing them their health, their focus, and their capacity to switch off. This session names the pattern, traces where it comes from, and shows leaders how to spot it before it becomes a resignation or a breakdown.
The Hidden Patterns Behind High Performance
The unseen forces shaping how your people perform, & how to lead them better.
Your highest performers are driven by beliefs they formed long before they joined you, and most have never questioned them. Those patterns shape how they make decisions, handle pressure, delegate and lead. This session helps leaders see what's really driving performance across their team, so they can develop their people instead of just managing the symptoms.
Courage in Motion
How small courageous decisions transform leadership, business and life.
Courage isn't a feeling you wait for. It's a decision you act on. This session is about the moves leaders already know they need to make, the difficult conversation, the boundary, the call they keep putting off, and the gap between knowing and doing that holds people and businesses back.
When Success Is Just Survival in a Nicer Suit
What happens when you hit every target and still feel empty.
Plenty of successful people are running on an engine few people see: the need to prove, protect and never be caught short. This session explores how achievement can become a form of self-protection, why the wins stop landing, and what it takes to build success that actually feels like success.
The Lie the Profession Sold Us
Work hard now, live well later. A lot of people are still waiting on the “later.”
Professional services promised a good life in exchange for hard work. Many delivered the work and never saw the life. This session names what actually went wrong, and it isn’t the clients, the compliance or the hours, and what leaders can do about it now, for themselves and the people they’re responsible for.
What she brings to the stage.
Tish spent two decades as a CPA and running her own accounting firm.
She was good at it. She was also, for years, the person everything ran through. The one who said yes when she meant no, kept clients who drained her, and held the whole thing together by refusing to let it fall apart.
Eventually she saw the pattern she'd built her life around. So she started helping other high-performing business owners spot the same thing in themselves.
People who've heard her speak tend to say the same thing: it felt like she already knew. Like she'd been sitting in their office watching how the business actually runs, not how it looks from the outside. Twenty years in the same chair teaches you to read a room that fast.
Her sessions don't feel like professional development.
They feel like permission to admit what the work is actually costing you.
Bring Tish to your event
If you're putting together a conference, firm offsite or industry event and want a session that gives your audience something to actually think about, get in touch.
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