Gale Crosley, CPA
Founder and Principal
Crosley+Company
Gale Crosley, CPA, was selected one of the 10 Most Recommended Consultants in the Inside Public Accounting BEST OF THE BEST for the fifth consecutive year, and one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting by Accounting Today for the third consecutive year. She consults with CPA firms, assisting managing partners, partners, marketing directors, and staffs to efficiently and effectively increase their firm’s revenues. She guides them through development of the best strategies and tactics to achieve aggressive revenue growth objectives.
Gale’s 30 plus years of experience, feature a unique combination as a practicing CPA at Arthur Andersen, PWC, and a local CPA firm. She has also held senior management roles in business development and marketing in the cutting edge technology environment with IBM, MCI and several start-up technology companies.
Gale’s experience includes starting, growing and selling a technology consulting practice. She became Executive Vice President of Business Development at a $250 million consulting firm. There she was responsible for implementing revenue growth initiatives among 39 individual practices, 1,500 CPAs and consultants, with a direct sales force and marketing department, and100 rainmakers.
Gale has brought more than 30 products and services to market and has closed dozens of multi-million-dollar opportunities.
An honors accounting graduate from the University of Akron, Ohio, Gale is a licensed CPA in Ohio and Georgia, a member of the AICPA, the Ohio Society and Georgia Society of CPAs, and is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Accountancy.
Her first book, At the Crossroads, chronicles the challenges and successes of a fictional CPA firm struggling with growth.