Sandi Smith Leyva, CPA

Sandi Smith Leyva, CPA, CMA, MBA, and founder of Accountant’s Accelerator and Accelerate Small Biz, provides online marketing services, includingwebsites, social media, blogs, newsletters, and other online marketing services to accountants, speakers, and other professional services entrepreneurs. She loves bringing out the best in her clients so they reach their perfect clients, and she is best known for her SEO work, having made clients millions of dollars in online revenue over the years.

Author of 30 books and hundreds of CPE courses, Sandi has won eight awards for her thought leadership and is quite eclectic, having backpacked alone around the world at age 32, co-piloted a single engine around the world at age 39, visited 100 countries by age 47, and earned a master’s degree in neuroscience at age 51.

Sandi is also passionate about helping accountants go beyond compliance work and really connect with their small business clients in an advisory role. The entire small business economy thrives when this synergy happens.

In her spare time, she loves hiking, traveling to remote places, and walking the labyrinth in her backyard.