Life In Accounting - The Where Accountants Go Podcast

For this episode of Life In Accounting, the Where Accountants Go podcast, we were joined by the soon-to-transition CEO of United Way of San Antonio & Bexar County, Lyndon Herridge CPA. Roots in the Commercial World Something that may surprise listeners is that while Lyndon is a very passionate about the manner in which United Way serves the community, he definitely didn’t start out his career with the long-term goal of being a leader in the non-profit world!  His career started as many do in accounting, in the tax and audit space with a firm that eventually merged into EY.  He then ventured out into industry and joined a family office for one of the heirs to the King Ranch in Texas.  This was a tremendous opportunity that he thoroughly enjoyed because it gave him the experience of working with many different types of industries due to their wide variety of holdings.  However, he knew that long-term he wanted to do something different with his career… Moving to United Way Another fact that may surprise listene