Engaging, Energetic, & Impactful. Make the most of time & talent in your organization.

Keynotes, Presentations, & Training Workshops

Powerful Presentations to Develop Your Career and Improve Your Organization

Leadership and Career

Rarely people are held back in their careers due to technical skills. The #1 reason for not being promoted is a lack of leadership and people skills. These classes help people personally, professionally, and benefit the organization overall with a more connected and motivated team.

  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Critical Thinking
  • Conflict Management
  • Intentional Time Management - Conquer Overwhelm and Live on Purpose

Internal Audit

Improving an organization's operations and adding value are two of the key pieces of Internal Audit according to the IIA. Is your department doing that? These classes will help your team reach those goals.

  • Get to the Root of It - Root Cause Analysis for Auditors
  • Writing Internal Audit Reports that Make an Impact
  • Making Data Analysis Work - Practical Tools and Processes for Successful Integration
  • Integrated Auditing - IT, Operations, and Data Analysis

Public Accounting

The public accounting industry is a wonderful place to develop a wide range of talents. It takes commitment on both sides for firms to attract, retain, and develop excellent employees to serve their clients in creative and valuable way. These classes help your firm provide that employee experience and help employees maximize their public accounting experience.

  • Public Accounting Success - How to Thrive Personally & Professionally
  • Career Ownership, Communication, & Impact Priorities
  • Get to the Root of It - Root Cause Analysis for Auditors
  • Making Data Analysis Work - Practical Tools and Processes for Successful Integration

Keynotes and Presentations

Inspirational and Practical Talks to Make Your Event a Success

  • Know Your Why
  • Everyday Ethics: Personal vs Professional Ethics
  • Building and Managing Creative Teams
  • Mentoring Magic – How Mentoring Helps Both Parties Thrive
  • Why Work Life Balance is Crap (Integration is the Key)
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Critical Thinking
  • Intentional Time Management – Accomplish Your Goals. Be in Charge of Your Life.
  • Conflict Management
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Writing Internal Audit Reports with Impact
  • Making Data Analysis Work
  • Integrated Auditing – IT, Operations, and Data Analysis
  • Public Accounting Success – How to Thrive Personally and Professionally
  • Understanding the Public Accounting Industry – New Hire Success

Jan Beckmann, CPA | Data Analysis & Internal Audit Expert | Speaker | Coach

Jan blends her unique combination of humor, energy, and technical knowledge to provide powerful training classes that inspire people to make their organizations better and lead fulfilling lives. Based in St. Louis, after 20 years in the audit and data analysis profession with Deloitte, Anheuser-Busch, ACL Services, and Brown Smith Wallace, she decided to focus on her love of mentoring and developing her employees. Combining her business and leadership skills with coach training, she developed and teaches classes with a realistic, fresh approach that inspire lasting change.

Jan is a top-ranked global trainer on topics related to staff development, goal achievement, internal audit, report writing, and data analysis, and has provided workshops and presentations for numerous corporations and professional services firms. In addition:
  • Keynote Speaker for MISTI Audit World
  • IIA GAM and All Star Conferences
  • ACL Connections Global User Conferences
  • State CPA Societies, IIA, MISTI, ACFE, ISACA, AGA, & ACL User Group Regional Conferences & Local Chapters

My training approach is to serve each client the best I can – customizing classes, using specific organization goals. Whatever it takes for the participants to get the most of the class or workshop. Here is what my clients say about me…

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“Jan is the best trainer I have worked with during my career. Every conversation leads me to new insights, and I am always happy to have her magic helping our firm progress.”

Fred Peterson Partner, Moss Adams

“Jan’s internal audit reporting writing class was time well spent.  Our department quickly implemented several of Jan’s suggestions and techniques.  She kept the day entertaining while providing us with new approaches as well as reminders for what can make a report have a better impact.  The class information is not just theories.  The tools and information shared during the class have been tested and proven to be effective during Jan’s internal audit career.  We would be happy to work with Jan again.”

Mary Riggs IT Audit Manager, BJC Healthcare

“Jan Beckmann was a speaker for the our local IIA chapter on the topic of analytics. The topic was of high interest to the members and we had a sold out venue. Jan was very energetic and covered all the points promised and more, making the 8 hours go buy quickly! Not only did she do a great job, as evidenced by the survey results, but she also helped me out with recommendations for a project that I was working on that was similar to one she discussed during her presentation. First class all the way!”

Regina Jones VP Internal Audit Tricor-Braun

"We brought in Jan to provide some basic ACL training to several auditors and she did an outstanding job! She is a pleasure to work with and a true expert in the field. I appreciate her flexibility in applying the material to our environment which ensured our staff could see the value in the new skills they were learning. Her ability to adapt quickly when faced with challenges made the training experience a success! I highly recommend Jan and would consider her again for future training opportunities."

Nick Panneri Sr Manager, Data Analytics, Enterprise Holdings