From Burnout to Breakthrough: Gary Boomer's Playbook to Rebuild CPA Firms with AI by 2026

About this episode

L. Gary Boomer discusses how AI and new business models can transform CPA firms by 2026, addressing the accounting talent shortage as an opportunity for growth.

Is the accounting talent shortage your biggest problem—or your biggest opportunity? In this episode of Pulse of the Practice (2025, E19), hosts Mo Arbas and Paul Miller sit down with L. Gary Boomer—founder, visionary, and strategist at Boomer Consulting—to unpack how AI, advisory services, and a new business model will redefine CPA firms by 2026. Boomer explains why the next five years could deliver a century's worth of technology change, and how firm leaders can turn anxiety and burnout into momentum with mindset, purpose, and process. You'll learn the concrete steps to move from compliance to high‑value advisory, ditch the hour‑based model for results‑driven pricing, and build an Agenic Workforce that scales expertise with AI "agents," staff‑on‑demand, and fractional C‑suite talent. What you'll learn: How to pivot from tax/audit compliance to recurring, scalable Client Advisory Services (CAS) clients actually value The business case for value pricing vs. billable hours—and why clients buy outcomes, not time The EXO (Exponential Organizations) framework applied to CPA firms: staff‑on‑demand, community, algorithms, and more Boomer's prediction for 2026: why the "labor shortage"…

People in this episode

Host: Paul Miller

Guest: L. Gary Boomer

Topics covered

• accounting
• AI
• business model
• CPA firms
• advisory services
• talent strategy

Keywords

• burnout
• mindset
• purpose
• process
• value pricing
• Client Advisory Services
• Agenic Workforce
• super-workers

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