About Gary Boomer
L. Gary Boomer is the Visionary & Strategist of Boomer Consulting, Inc., an organization that provides consulting services and peer communities to leading accounting firms. BCI’s vision is to make you more successful and future ready. The areas of focus are: Planning, People and Processes with technology as the accelerator.
Gary is recognized in the accounting profession as the leading authority on technology and firm management. For over 15 years, he has been named by Accounting Today as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Accounting. Boomer Consulting, Inc. is also a member of Inside Public Accounting’s 10 Most Recommended Consultants.
He consults and speaks around the globe on management and technology related topics including strategic and technology planning, compensation, change management and developing a training / learning culture. He acts as a planning facilitator, provides coaching and serves on various advisory boards.
He is a member of the AICPA Council and chair of the AICPA Life Insurance Disability Plans Committee. He is a past president of the Kansas Society of CPAs and a member of the accounting advisory board at Kansas State University. He is also a member of The Advisory Board, a group of leading consultants to the accounting profession who produce the Winning is Everything Conference. He is the past chairman of the AICPA’s Information Technology Executive Committee and has also served on the AICPA’s Horizons Vision Committee, Academic and Career Development Executive Committee and the ACUTE Board of Directors.
Gary is the creator of The Boomer Technology Circles™, a community that helps firms bridge the gap between technology and practice management and accelerate their progress through thought leadership and peer accountability. Gary is also the founder of the CIO Advantage, a community that prepares technology professionals for a seat at the management table by developing their business and IT acumen. He is the author of multiple books and a contributor to The Boomer Advantage Guides on:
Strategic Planning
Paperless Transition
Human Capital Attraction and Retention
Performance Management
Mobile Security
Training and Learning
Implementing CRM
Social Networking
Business Continuation
Succession Planning
Partner Compensation
Selection of a Managing Partner
Client Filtering
Risk Management in the Digital World
Developing Managers
Pricing for Value
Electronic Confirmations
Change Management
Social Media
Guide to Increased Profits and Cash Flow
Gary is the author of “Boomer’s Blueprint”, a regular column in Accounting Today and publishes the Boomer Bulletin™, a newsletter with worldwide circulation. He also contributes to Think-Plan-GrowTM, Boomer Consulting’s popular blog. In addition to consulting with hundreds of accounting firms, he has consulted with IBM, Microsoft, Intuit, Wolders Kluwer, sage, XCM, Expensify and Thomson Reuters on the design and marketing of accounting related software and continues to consult with many industry technology providers to better serve the needs of the CPA profession and their clients.
L. Gary Boomer specializes in assessing rapidly changing circumstances while devising practical solutions. While he is willing to conduct some form of trial-and-error, he makes careful calculations to ensure the best possible outcomes. Gary is a highly capable communicator with a gift for taking complex matters and conveying them in a way that makes sense to a general audience. He is committed to maintaining pre-determined processes but is also a highly functioning improviser. He possesses a powerful, imaginative vision that carries him and his team to ever new and exciting possibilities.
Gary Boomer is a visionary leader who innately sees possibilities instead of road blocks. He is committed to the principles of teamwork and is willing to collaborate with individuals who may have very different working styles. Gary is highly intuitive and capable of getting to the heart of difficult issues while creating consensus. He gives deference to those around him and does not neglect to show loyalty to those who have earned it.
Mr. Boomer received his BS and MS degrees in accounting from Kansas State University. He and his wife Mary have three children, Jeff, Jim and Katie.
