Oct 4, 2022
Welcome to episode 3 of this season of Amplify - the podcast for accounting firm growth!
On this episode host Mike Jones, CEO and Managing Partner of Resound, sits down with Kassi Rushing, Vice President, Organizational Strategy & Employee Experience at Blue Hen Agency. Kassi has over the last 20 years, Kassi has been connecting people, processes and resources necessary to create an unrivaled employee experience and make accounting firm cultures their competitive advantage.
Listen in as Mike and Kassi discuss the employee experience.
About Our Guest
Vice President, Organizational Strategy & Employee Experience, Blue Hen Agency
Kassi Rushing builds places people want to work. She specializes in connecting the people, processes and resources necessary to create an unrivaled employee experience and make your culture your competitive advantage. Since 2002, Kassi has been bridging the strategies between business and people. Her experience and expertise is in workplace culture and transformation, high performing teams, leadership and pipeline development, employee experience, and communication strategy.
Kassi previously served as the director of people growth and engagement for a Top 50 public accounting firm. There, she directed the strategy, teams and budgets for: recruiting, onboarding and new hire experience, ongoing team member development, leadership pipelines, internal communication, and internal coaching. She was a special advisor to the executive partner, chair of the personnel committee, and served on the Belonging steering committee. She also worked as a corporate communicator for a multi-billion-dollar financial institution where focused on internal employee relations and served as a development consultant for a national non-for-profit.
Kassi earned her Bachelor of Arts in communication with an emphasis in public relations from Mississippi State University and her Master of Science in corporate communication and public relations from Mississippi College. She holds the Accreditation in Public Relations from the Public Relations Society of America and her Certificate in Diversity & Inclusion from the Yale School of Management. She is a Certified DISC Behavioral Analysis Consultant, a tool she uses to help teams work more effectively and increase their sense of belonging.
Kassi is a working mom and serves as Vice President of Organizational Strategy & Employee Experience at Blue Hen, a company dedicated to organizational health and workplace development. Kassi is a strategic partner and designated Thought Leader with the AICPA-CIMA’s Business Learning Institute.
Connect with Kassi on
LinkedIn and Instagram.
About Your Host: Mike Jones
Managing Partner, Resound
Remarkable brands require authenticity and a die-hard commitment to values & purpose. Mike passionately preaches these beliefs as author of the book, You Are Remarkable: How To Unlock Your Authentic Brand To Win Loyal Customers as well as two podcasts he hosts and produces: Resoundcast and the Remarkabrand Podcast.
He works directly with clients
to unlock their remarkable brands through his award-winning brand
consultancy, Resound - established in 2009. (He also founded his own
apparel brand devoted to American political history, called Taftly.
But that’s a whole other story.)
He has supported the Arizona entrepreneurial community through his co-directorship of Phoenix Startup Week, co-founding the startup-supporting non-profit Thrive PHX, and serving on the boards of Conscious Capitalism Arizona and The Center for Habilitation.
In recognition of the work he’s done, this Arizona native has been named one of the state’s top business leaders under the age of 40 by the Phoenix Business Journal as well as a 35-Under-35 entrepreneurial award from the Arizona Republic.
He lives in the very sunny vale of Mesa, AZ with his wife and three kids. If you want to connect, LinkedIn’s usually where you’ll find him – @remarkamike.