Rita Keller is an award-winning and widely respected voice to CPA firm management. She is nationally known as a CPA firm management consultant, speaker and author. She is a former shareholder and Chief Operating Officer of a successful, regional CPA firm and has over 30 years’ hands-on experience in the management, marketing, technology and administration of a successful, multi-office firm. She works with firms nationwide on issues affecting the “inside health” of the firm. Keller’s popular daily blog has been named one of the Top 50 Blogs for Accountants and one of the Top 100 Accounting Advice Blogs.

As a facilitator and speaker, Rita has been featured at almost all major CPA management conferences. As an author, her articles appear in numerous CPA publications and her blog has become daily reading for hundreds of firm leaders. She has been repeatedly named to Accounting Today’s Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting. In August 2008 Rita’s article, Make the Most of Mentoring, was published in the Journal of Accountancy and she has been featured in the Journal on six other occasions. Rita is past Chair and current committee member of the AICPA Practitioners Symposium, past-national President of The Association of Accounting Administration and, most recently, recipient of the Everest Award from Management Summit in recognition of sustained, significant contribution to the accounting profession.