Jim Lindell is President of Thorsten Consulting, a strategic and financial consulting firm that offers professional speaking, training, and executive coaching. Over the past two decades, Jim has delivered over 5,000 hours of C-suite executive coaching. His professional experience includes Chief Financial Officer, VP-Finance, Corporate Controller, and Corporate Assistant Controller. Industries include manufacturing, healthcare, not-for-profit, distribution, and food processing.
Jim is a CPA and has received the Certified Speaking Professional designation, the highest earned designation from the National Speakers Association. Jim is a Vistage Chairman (Executive Coach and Facilitator) and responsible for two groups in the Milwaukee area.
Jim has authored Controller as Business Manager, Controllers Annual Update (Best Seller,) Analytics and Big Data for Accountants, and many other courses on strategic and financial leadership. Jim has been published by the AICPA and Wiley.
Jim is a twelve-time recipient of the AICPA’s Outstanding Discussion Leader Award. |  |
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- 8/6/25 - Building Personal Leadership Skills
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- 10/15/25 - Building Personal Leadership Skills
- 10/15/25 - Data & Predictive Analytics & Business Intelligence for Controllers/CFOs
- 10/15/25 - Leading and Managing the Accounting Department
- 10/15/25 - Transforming Strategic & Financial Management with ChatGPT - Insights for CPAs, CFOs and Controllers
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- 12/15/25 - Data & Predictive Analytics & Business Intelligence for Controllers/CFOs
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- Creativity
- Culture Grid
- Four Roles of the Controller/CFO
- Greiner Model
- Leading, Inspiring & Managing Employees
- M&A Overview
- Managing Change
- Mentoring/Coaching Role of the Controller/CFO
- Negotiation
- Personality Profiles
- Planning Tools for the Controller/CFO
- Reading People
- Servant Leadership
- Strategic Planning
- Why Do Businesses Fail?
- Z-scores
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