Douglas Slaybaugh

Executive Coach

Douglas Slaybaugh

Chief Financial Officer, Pacific Sheet Metal · Audit Partner, EKS&H

“I understand the environment my clients operate in, but I never assume I’ve seen their situation before.”

Douglas Slaybaugh

Experience

EKS&H Pacific Sheet Metal, Inc. PricewaterhouseCoopers Arthur Andersen
10,000+
Hours of one-to-one coaching
450+
Accounting professionals coached
100+
Accounting firms represented
23
Top 50 firms represented

Expertise

For nearly 30 years, Doug has worked where a company’s numbers are produced and where they are tested: in audit at three accounting firms and as chief financial officer of a manufacturer. At EKS&H, he led audit client relationships and trained staff, then left in 2016 to start his own practice. He starts each engagement without a plan, because “I don’t have one until we talk.” He asks questions, shares what he has learned “when it’s useful,” and holds clients to “the commitments you make to yourself.”

Industry

Doug’s career is in public accounting and corporate finance in Colorado. He spent about five years in audit at Arthur Andersen and PricewaterhouseCoopers, two years as chief financial officer of Pacific Sheet Metal in Aspen, and 12 years in the audit practice at EKS&H in Denver. He has run The CPA Coach since 2016.

Specialties

  • Stepping into an ownership seat at an accounting firm
  • Growing a practice and bringing in new clients
  • Planning succession and capacity for a firm’s leaders
  • Deciding whether to stay in public accounting
  • Moving from public accounting into a CFO seat

Career history

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Senior

Arthur Andersen

In their own words

About Doug
01
My experience helps us get to what matters faster. My coaching training keeps the work centered on you.
About Doug
02
Outside of coaching, I’m a husband, father and lifelong fan of a good story. I love comic books, fantasy and horror movies, and collecting unusual things.
Most fulfilling part?
03
I discovered that the work I found most meaningful was helping other professionals work through the decisions and challenges that come with building a career in this profession. So I made that the work.

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