Our Story

How it all began.

Hi, my name is Ben Walker and I started my accounting firm, inspire, in 2013, when I was just 23 years old – it was just me with a laptop and a borrowed printer.

10 years on, inspire has been recognised globally as a leading accounting firm.

Some of the things I, and inspire have achieve are:

Award-Winning Chartered Accountant
Published Author of multiple books
10,000% organic growth in Revenue since starting out with a small client base
Between 25-35% organic growth year on year
From 1 man band (in Jan '13) to a team of 18 locally in Brisbane, 13 in India, 6 in the Philippines (current at Jul '22)
Ran 71 client webinars, 4806 registered, 1961 attendees since Jan 2020 to August 2022 alone
Working 4 days a week, during school hours
Saved $22M+ in tax for clients

I’ve been helping business owners for a while now, but one category of business owners I’ve seen struggling especially in recent years are accounting firm owners.

In the early stages of Inspire, I remember there were times where I felt stuck and didn’t know how to move to the next stage of growth for my business.

I was making money, but nowhere near enough compared to the effort and risk I took and the hours I was putting in.

I was struggling to attract new clients. I did heaps of free consultations and some people would just take the value and walk away.

Sounds familiar? 🤔

After almost 10 years of growing inspire, I’m an award winning

accountant, published author, keynote speaker and a podcast host.

I’ve had 10,000% organic growth in revenue since starting with a small client base.

Most weeks I work 4 days a week, during school hours and I have a full operating business with a high performing team that runs like clockwork (most of the time 😅) – delivering value to clients without me.

It’s my goal to have a ripple effect on thousands of small business owners in Australia by helping 1,000 accounting firm owners create a high performance accounting firm.

High Performance Accountants

Bottling gold from our experience.

We’ve gone through many stages of challenges, opportunities and growth. In 2022, I wrote a book outlining the 7 Steps I believe that make inspire a High Performance Accounting Firm, and how you could achieve the same results for your firm.

We’re bottling the gold – the systems and tools that we’ve spent ages developing, testing and refining (at each stage of growth). And we’re sharing that with other accounting firms who want to fast track their journey to become a High Performance Accounting Firm.