Steve Pipe

Previously named as the world’s most highly rated accountant and advisor to accountants, Steve is a best-selling author, dynamic speaker and former UK Entrepreneur of The Year.

As a co-founder of Speakers for Good he is a passionate advocate of the Business for Good movement, where his goal is to help provide 100 million days of help to people in need across the world (with the total amount provided so far standing at 17 million days).

His books for accountants include “The World’s Most Inspiring Accountants”, which has been described by other practice development gurus a “masterpiece”, “ground-breaking” and “desperately needed”, and “The UK’s best accountancy practices”, which ICAEW President Mark Spofforth describes on the dust jacket as “brilliant”.

And his other books include “101 ways to make more profits”, “Stress proof your business and your life”, “How to build a better business and make more money”, and the “Better business, Better life, Better world” trilogy.

In 2012 Steve was named “The world’s most highly rated accountant and advisor to accountants” in recognition of the fact that he has more recommendations (now over 500) on LinkedIn than any other adviser or accountant.

In 2015 he was shortlisted by AccountingWeb for the first ever “Outstanding Contribution to Accounting” award in the UK.

In 2017 he created the free “Get and Give A Million” system to help accountants get better results for their clients, themselves and the world.

From 2018 he has been giving away all of his time and intellectual property for free in order to help make the world a better place.

And in 2020 he has teamed up once again with the legendary Paul Dunn to distil the key things they have learned across a lifetime in business into their most important book yet, “Our time to RISE”. Revealing how any business can become a powerful force for good, quickly and easily, “Our time to RISE” will be given away free of charge to every business in the world.

Outside of work Steve has been married (to an accountant) for almost 40 years, has three adult children and lives in Yorkshire. His hobbies include playing tennis badly, and playing blues guitar terribly.

Awards Steve and his businesses have won 14 major business awards, including: • Outstanding Contribution to Accounting (shortlisted by Accountingweb) • World’s most highly rated accountant and advisor to accountants (The Accountants Club) • UK Entrepreneur of the Year (Accountancy Age) • Contributor of the Year (Accountingweb) • Hertfordshire Business Personality of The Year (Business Link) • Vision 100 Index - as one of the 100 most visionary organisations in the UK

Publications His books aimed at accountants include: 1. “The world’s most inspiring accountants” (2016 – with Shane Lukas ) 2. “How to build more profitable referral relationships between accountants and bankers” (2013 – with Mark Lee and Rob Brown) 3. “The UK’s best accountancy practices” (2011) 4. “Your blueprint for a better accountancy practice” (2011 - with Mark Wickersham) 5. “Your blueprint for a better tax practice” (2010 - with Mark Wickersham)

His books aimed at non-accountants include: 6. “Our time to RISE” (2020 – with Paul Dunn) 7. “Legacy: “Better business, Better life, Better world” (2019 – with Paul Dunn and others) 8. “Better business, Better life, Better world: The movement” (2018 – with Paul Dunn and others) 9. “Better business, Better life, Better world” (2016 – with Paul Dunn and others)) 10. “How to build a better business and make more money” (2013 - with Mark Wickersham and Shane Lukas) 11. “Stress proof your business and your life” (2010) 12. “101 ways to make more profits” (1993)

Testimonials These are some of the things global leaders of the accounting profession have said publicly about Steve’s work on the dust-jackets of his books and on LinkedIn: • “He brings just staggering results and he brings them with authenticity too” – Paul Dunn • “He should definitely be listened to by every partner of every accountancy firm in the country” - Paul Shrimpling • “The missing key for accountants struggling with value pricing” - Mark Wickersham • “The shot in the arm every accountancy firm needs” – Heather Townsend • “One of the leading strategic thinkers in the profession” - Mark Lloydbottom • “Truly awesome” - Rob Nixon • “Brilliant” – Former ICAEW President Mark Spofforth • “A masterpiece” – August Aquila • “A message the world needs to hear” – Edi Osborne • “A desperately needed wake up call to the profession” – Gordon Gilchrist

The Appendix contains a selection of Steve’s LinkedIn testimonials as a keynote speaker from conference organisers and other world-renowned speakers he has shared the stage with.

Career • Speaker for Good – Co-Founder – 2019-present • stevepipe.com – Founder, researcher and keynote speaker – 2012-present • AVN - Founder – 1995-2012 • Stephens & Co Chartered Accountants – Founder – 1991-1995 • Kodak – Head of Finance for the $200 million Consumer Imaging Division - 1990-1991 • KPMG – Started as a graduate trainee and left as an audit manager – 1984-1990

Contact details [email protected] www.stevepipe.com www.ourtimetorise.global