CPD Course Speaker

Briefcase

Sam Methold

Sam Methold ACA is on the founding team at Briefcase, an AI accounting platform for bookkeeping, financial close and working papers. As a chartered accountant, he spent five years at Deloitte, first in Large & Complex Audit and then as an AI Product Manager, where he led the firm's global disclosure checklist assistant and built the evals that made it trustworthy. Having lived the grind of audit season and shipped AI into a regulated environment, he now works with UK firms to deliver AI transformation at a practice level.

AIccountancy

Billie Mcloughlin

Billie Mcloughlin FCCA is the founder of AIccountancy, the self-serve training hub where accountants and bookkeepers can learn AI and build real confidence at their own pace. With 13 years in professional practice and several more in consulting, she has seen first-hand what it actually takes to get a firm to change. Known for her weekly FridAI series, where she sifts through the AI headlines and pulls out what genuinely matters for accountants and bookkeepers, Billie has become the go-to voice for firms who want to move forward without the overwhelm. She shows up with demos, real examples, and advice you can actually use.

Founder & CEO - Your Crypto Coach

Alan Sellers

Alan Sellers has been an accredited Executive Coach for 26 years, helping practices in the financial and legal sectors succeed. He is an established blockchain and digital asset influencer. Alan is the official blockchain and crypto specialist for the London Chamber of Commerce, and the only cryptocurrency and blockchain expert on the Institute of Directors Fintech and Finance Group. His TikTok account provides educational content about cryptocurrency and has over 3.7m views. As Founder of Your Crypto Coach Limited Alan’s vision is to educate as many people as possible about the exciting world of blockchain and crypto in a ‘sound, practical and safe’ way. “Blockchain is how the internet was 30 years ago. I’m not sure people realise what an enormous impact this amazing technology will have on all aspects of their lives. I’ve made it my mission to educate them in a safe and secure way”

The Police Burnout Coach

Jonny Bevan

I help high-achieving, self-critical perfectionists in demanding, high-pressure roles reduce stress, eliminate overwhelm, and regain control—so they can make confident decisions, perform under pressure, and feel truly fulfilled without sacrificing their health or family life.

Element Law

Kate Lawson

Kate is an experienced employment law solicitor, having qualified in 2001. She is director of Element Law.

Kate focuses solely on employment and HR law and related issues. The focus of her work is as trusted adviser to SMEs, including a number of professional partnerships and not for profit organisations. She supports her clients on a day-to-day providing practical, commercial advice on a range of areas from grievance and disciplinary matters to family friendly leave arrangements to business mergers and acquisitions and redundancy consultations to employment tribunal claims.

Kate provides regular practical HR and management training on a range of topics, including for her clients and for government departments. She speaks at events and on podcasts for organisations including at the House of Commons on Menopause and the Workplace and for the Society of Occupational Medicine and on Reasonable Adjustments and Neurodiversity.

Bev Flanagan Financial Ltd

Bev Flanagan

Bev is a multi award winning accountant that has been in the accounting profession for 28 years. She founded and grew a 100% cloud accounting practice and successfully sold in the summer of 2022. She is very passionate about the accounting industry and now is a consultant to other accountants and bookkeepers to help them realise the potential in their practice ready for exit. Whether their exit be in the next 12 months, in the next 10 years or even 30 years! But every single practice owner will exit at some point and Bev believes that a business should be running right now with the exit in mind, so it’s always at it’s highest profitability and saleable asset value. She is also an elected council member, director and trustee of the AAT.