Kick-Off Classic Ethics Course

Overview

The 2025 Annual Kick-Off Classic Event offering 4 hours of Ethics will be held IN-PERSON this year.

Location: Four Points Sheraton, 600 Kanawha Blvd, Charleston, WV

Cost: Members are Free!

Date: Thursday, August 21, 2025

Time: 12:00pm to 12:30pm - Doors Open

12:30pm to 5:00pm - CPE Session

Credits: 4 CPE Hours and CLE will be available as well
Field: Ethics (4)
Prerequisites: None
Knowledge Level: Basic; designed for all CPAs and staff

Speaker - Karl Ahlrichs

Bio:

Karl Ahlrichs is a speaker, author and consultant, working internationally on the people issues in all industries, and is often quoted in the local and national media. Karl’s experience is perfectly suited to times of great organizational change. He has decades of strategic consulting to all industries, using risk management and good organizational development theories to bypass “best practices” and move directly to “next practices”.

Prior experience was as a Senior Consultant for Professional Staff Management, and earlier he was a Consultant in the Indianapolis office of Marsh & McLennan, and Vice President of Right Management Consultants. At those firms, his clients included Roche Diagnostics, Boeing, Apple Computer, and Frito Lay where he had direct experience in corporate reorganizations and relocation projects.

Karl is a CPE presenter for the AICPA and the Business Learning Institute, and for more than a decade he was the Program Chair for the Indiana Society for Human Resources Management annual conference. He is a regular contributor to The Journal of Accountancy. For more than 20 years he has facilitated an invitation-only CFO Roundtable.

He is a member of SHRM, the Association for Talent Development, the Association for Psychological Type, and the National Speakers Association. Karl joined Gregory & Appel in 2010 after serving as a founding partner of ExactHire, a human resources services firm.

Karl has been named the SHRM Human Resource Professional of the Year for the State of Indiana. He has presented at the Annual SHRM Conference every year since 1997, and holds the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), SHRM Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP) and Senior Professional Human Resources (SPHR) certifications.

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