Elevate Your Practice. Explore Your Potential.

Take your career or business to the next level with group coaching designed exclusively for COCPA members. The COCPA Coaching Collaborative (CCC) offers targeted, small-group experiences led by expert coaches who understand the accounting profession inside and out.

Whether you're building your firm, regaining your energy, or leveling up your leadership, CCC gives you a trusted space to grow with guidance and accountability.

Real Growth.
Real Support.
Just for
Members.

  • 3 Focus Areas: Retirement, practice strategy, work-life planning
  • Practical, results-driven coaching that helps CPAs and accounting professionals thrive personally and professionally.
  • 6 Interactive Sessions per cohort
  • Just 5-10 Members Per Group
  • Special Member Rate: $997

Meet Your Coaches

With the COCPA Coaching Collaborative, you’ll be guided by a team of CPAs and experienced professional coaches who understand both the challenges of the accounting profession and the deeper personal journeys behind professional growth. With backgrounds spanning public accounting, leadership development, entrepreneurship, and holistic wellness, our coaches bring a powerful blend of expertise, empathy, and real-world insight. Each one is here to help you ignite your potential, build lasting skills, and create a career — and life — that truly fits you.

Michelle
Kooi

As an intuitive business coach and CPA, Michelle helps women entrepreneurs with ADHD cut through overwhelm and focus on what matters most. She combines deep coaching skills, financial know-how, and holistic tools — from yoga to Reiki — to support clients in building authentic, empowered businesses. With dual degrees in Journalism and Accounting, two coaching certifications, and over 25 years as a yogi, Michelle brings a unique mix of practicality, compassion, and insight to every session.

Doug
Slaybaugh

Doug, founder of The CPA Coach, helps accounting professionals build stronger careers and better lives through practical, deep coaching. A CPA and Professional Certified Coach with over 25 years in the profession and more than a decade coaching CPAs, Doug specializes in revenue growth, performance, and strategy. With a background in public accounting with the largest firm in the world to being a partner in a large regional firm, he brings real-world experience and a down-to-earth approach to every client.

Jenn
Todling

A former EY audit partner and SEC alum, Jenn now empowers professionals to express their soul in both work and life. A CPA, author, and ICF-certified coach with 20+ years in professional services and over a decade coaching, she guides professionals to build meaningful careers, and pursue bold dreams. Now an instructor at the University of Denver, Jenn is living proof that it’s never too late to transform — she published her first book and earned her master’s degree in her 40s.

Meet Your Cohorts

Work Life Flow:
Led by Michelle
Kooi

The Work Life Flow group will meet September 25, October 30 and November 20 from 10-11 AM MST.

Work-Life Flow: Strategies for energy & well-being

A 6-Session Program Designed for CPAs Who Want to Reduce Stress, Prevent Burnout, and Reclaim Balance

This practical and supportive program is designed specifically for CPAs who are feeling the weight of professional demands and are ready to take control of their stress, energy, and well-being.

Through a combination of one-on-one coaching and peer group sessions, you’ll gain the tools, insights, and confidence to create a healthier, more sustainable approach to work and life. You’ll identify what’s draining your energy, learn how to set and maintain boundaries, and develop personalized strategies to care for yourself — even during your busiest seasons.

By the end of the program, you’ll feel more confident in your ability to maintain balance and bring your best self to both your work and your personal life.

What You’ll Get:

  • A personalized assessment of your burnout risks and stress triggers
  • Strategies to manage your time, set boundaries, and protect your energy
  • A self-care plan that works for your schedule and your mindset
  • The support of a small, understanding group of peers who share your challenges
  • Accountability and creative ideas for staying on track
  •  Nutrition tips for steadying your energy

Program Highlights:

  • 3 private one-on-one coaching sessions to focus on your unique situation and goals
  • 3 group sessions to share, learn, and build momentum with peers
  • Tools, resources, and mindset shifts to help you redefine success and prevent burnout

This is not just about managing your workload — it’s about creating a more sustainable, fulfilling way to live and work as a CPA.

Take the first step toward a healthier, more balanced you.

CPA Practice Strategies:
Led by Doug
Slaybaugh

The CPA Practice Strategies group will meet October 9, November 6, and December 4 from 11-12 AM MST.

CPA Practice Strategies: Building a thriving, intentional accounting practice

A 6-session program designed for CPAs who want to create their ideal CPA practice through pricing, business development and growth.

Ideal for CPAs looking to refine their existing practice or start their own, improve pricing, and development sustainable business and marketing strategies.

Through a combination of one-on-one coaching and peer group sessions, you'll gain the tools, insights, and confidence to create your ideal CPA practice.

By the end of the program, you'll have a clear vision and actionable goals for your ideal practice, pricing strategies to align with your niche, expertise, and value, and a marketing and business development plan for ideal clients.

What you'll get:

  • Defining professional vision
  • Vision execution
  • Price coaching
  • Understanding of pricing power
  • Marketing strategy
  • Business development strategies

Program highlights:

  • 3 private one-on-one coaching sessions to focus on your unique situation and goals
  • 3 group sessions to share, learn, and build momentum with peers
  • Tools, resources, and mindset shifts to help you redefine your practice

Retirement Readiness:
Led by Jenn
Todling

The Retirement Readiness cohort will meet October 3, October 24, and November 21 from 10-11 AM MST.

Retirement Readiness: Design your next chapter with intention

A 6-session program designed for CPAs nearing retirement who want to transition with confidence and purpose.

Through a combination of one-on-one coaching and peer group sessions, you'll gain the tools, insights, and confidence to prepare for a smooth and intentional transition into retirement. 

By the end of the program, you'll have a personalized Retirement Action Plan that aligns with your values, lifestyle, and goals.

What you'll get:

  • Clarity on your vision for retirement
  • A structured financial and practical roadmap
  • Emotional and lifestyle strategies for a fulfilling transition

Program highlights:

  • 3 private one-on-one coaching sessions to envision your next chapter, financial planning, and emotional readiness. 
  • 3 group sessions to share retirement visions, financial strategies, and overcome common challenges.
  • Tools, resources, and mindset shifts to support you in designing your next chapter with intention. 

Testimonials

Ready to jump in?

Join us for this complimentary, introductory webinar to get started!

Cohorts launch September 2025.

Questions?

To learn more about the COCPA Coaching Collaborative, contact Derrol Moorhead, Director of Member and Business Development.

derrol@cocpa.org