Jason

Blumer

Jason founded Thriveal in 2010 as a way to help small CPA firm owners connect. Since that time, Thriveal has helped many small firms grow by providing a community, coaching services, webinars, and live events. The newest offerings include a Lab for experimentation and an Academy for continuing education for CPAs. An Incubator for new firms is in the works. Deeper Weekend is the annual live event by Thriveal.

Jason is also the Chief Innovative Officer of his firm, Blumer & Associates, CPAs. The firm was one of the first to move from a traditional office to a virtual environment, where they serve creatives only. Jason leads a team that works in a Results Only Work Environment. He focuses heavily on business coaching, while his team meets the technical and compliance needs of the customer.

Jason is the co-host of two podcasts, the Thrivecast and The Businessology Show and speaks and writes frequently for CPAs and creatives, his firm’s chosen niche. He has been honored as one of the 40 under 40 in the profession (CPA Practice Advisor) as well as one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting (Accounting Today). Recently, Jason was featured in the Challenger's Almanac along with Seth Godin, Simon Sinek, and other leaders. Jason loves to watch documentaries on just about anything and is working on his personal bests in Crossfit several times a week. He lives in Greenville, SC with his wife and their three daughters. Stay connected with Jason by signing up at JasonBlumer.com.

Recent articles from Jason:

09/17/2020

Improving Team Collaboration

Transcript: Our firm just had a great team retreat. It was supposed to be in person, but COVID meant we had to pivot that to a virtual retreat and that’s fine. It turned out being pretty awesome. And one thing that was proven that we knew walking into was we prepared a whole agenda of […]

09/03/2020

Pivoting in a Pandemic

Transcript: We didn’t plan on the pandemic wrecking our team retreat. So we’ve been virtual for almost a decade. And this year, we were supposed to have all of our team fly in for a few days of a team retreat, where we serve each other, care for one another. And some people, we just […]

08/27/2020

Make Invisible Things Visible

Transcript: I’ve been thinking about a service-based company and making invisible things visible. And that’s one strategy to run a creative services-based company is to make all the parts of the company that are invisible which has all of it, right? Because we sell the knowledge out of our head, we have people and so […]

08/13/2020

What is a Firm? Part 2

In Part 1 of What is a Firm?, we discussed the truth about what leading a firm will actually require of a firm entrepreneur (sacrifice!). Now let’s dive into some journeys firm owners can choose to go through in very specific ways. I believe there are possible trends in our changing profession right now that […]

08/06/2020

What is a Firm? Part 1

Professions are always changing. It takes time to watch them undergo change, to reflect on them, to listen to what ever-changing markets want from a profession, and to truly understand insights about how we as owners should change too. To fully vet out this change in our profession, I need to get philosophical in two […]

07/30/2020