Jeffrey S. Pawlow
CEO, Managing Shareholder
jpawlow@thegrowthpartnership.com
As the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Shareholder of The Growth Partnership, Inc., Jeff leads a dynamic team of consultants who are dedicated to helping their accounting firm clients achieve sustainable, profitable growth.
Prior to his career in the accounting industry, Jeff served as a Marketing Officer for Norwest Bancorp, one of the largest bank-holding corporations in the United States. He entered the accounting industry in 1995 as the Director of Marketing for Smith & Gesteland, LLP, a large local accounting firm in Madison, WI, and subsequently held the same position with RubinBrown, an Accounting Today “Top-100” firm headquartered in St. Louis, MO.
While working with these two firms, Jeff’s efforts were recognized with a total of seven Marketing Achievement Awards by the Association of Accounting Marketing, including the “Best of Show” awards for overall marketing excellence in both 1997 and 1998.
Jeff entered the accounting consulting industry in 1998 as the Executive Vice President and Director of Consulting Services for Waugh, where he practiced for 14 months prior to forming The Growth Partnership in December of 1999.
Jeff joined other notables in the profession by taking a seat on The Advisory Board, the profession's leading think-tank in early 2006. He has also been recognized as one of Inside Public Accounting's "Most Recommended Consultants" since the annual list was first published in 2004.
In addition to serving clients and helping build TGP into the industry's only full-service consulting firm, Jeff is also a frequent speaker at accounting conferences and contributes regularly to the accounting media. Recent presentations include the: AICPA Practitioners Symposium, Association of Accounting Marketing Annual Conference; Association of Accounting Administration Annual Conference; PDI Advanced Marketing Symposium; and Upstream Academy Headquarters Conference. He has also appeared at many state society and industry association conferences and meetings.
Jeff has been published or featured in the Journal of Accountancy, Accounting Today, Partner-To-Partner Report, CPA Marketing Report, CPA Managing Partner Report AccountingWEB, Accountants World, The Practical Accountant and MarketTrends. He has served as Editor-In-Chief of the CCH's Journal of Tax Practice Management and is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the CCH Journal of Practice Management.
A 1991 graduate of Creighton University, Jeff currently resides in Swansea, IL. with his wife, Cindy, and their three boys. He coaches youth baseball, serves as Vice President of the Southern Illinois Youth Hockey Association, and is actively involved at St. Teresa Catholic Church.
