As an author, consultant, business coach, and national speaker, Joe has trained over 125,000 accounting and business professionals in areas of practice development, changing technology trends, strategic consulting, and how to maximize the use of accounting software in their practices.

Joe is the host of Woodard Institute, Woodard Alliance and one of the world's leading training conferences for small business advisors called Scaling New Heights(R). In 2012 and 2014-2021 Joe was recognized by Accounting Today as one of the Top 100 Influential People within the accounting profession.

Joe regularly publishes articles for Intuit publications and for Insightful Accountant, and Joe has been featured repeatedly in Accounting Today and AccountingWEB in both articles and in video interviews. Joe is the CEO of Woodard Events, LLC which provides education, coaching, resources, and a community for small business advisors and small business owners within the accounting industry.

About Us: Woodard empowers small business advisors to transform their practices and their clients through education, coaching, resources, and professional communities. Our education programs provide some of the most advanced and relevant training in the world, our coaching program is regarded as the most comprehensive and high-impact program of its kind, our resources are unique and high-impact, and our communities gather some of the most experienced - and kindest - advisors in the world."