Larry H. Gassin, CPA, is the Founder and Head Coach of Advanced Coaching Solutions, an Orange County California-based organization. A success strategist and business, executive and leadership coach he focuses on training, consulting and coaching in the areas of business growth and leadership for executives and high performance professionals and their teams. His custom crafted 7 Step C.O.N.T.R.O.L the Ball Success Blueprint™ helps clients achieve critical strategic breakthroughs to massively and more rapidly increase their success.
He also leads The Executive Business Gym, The Attorneys’ Business Gym and The CPA Business Gym – three “business schools” where the respective clients also receive training, consulting and coaching in 10 Key Strategies Proven to Create More Profit in Less Time™ and how to take themselves, their businesses and their teams to a higher level of performance and balance. Larry is an author and speaker with over 20 years of experience as a professional business, executive and leadership coach.
He has utilized his in-depth business and coaching experience to assist corporations, partnerships and individuals in strategic planning, increasing revenue flows, development of team and project management, guidance in pre-IPO planning, executive development, team building, and other complex business and communication related issues.
Larry has extensive experience at international “Big 4″, national and local accounting and consulting firms which provided tremendous hands-on expertise working with executives and management team members of some of the largest and most successful companies and professional firms in the world as well as with highly creative entrepreneurs. While at the then largest of the national firms, he was selected as one of eleven firm members from across the U.S.A. to develop a special litigation consulting practice and was integrally involved in a variety of major historic litigation cases including U.S. v. IBM and U.S. v. ABC, CBS. He has also served as an expert witness in business litigations. While head of his own consulting, tax and accounting firm, he successfully competed on numerous occasions against Big 4 and large regional and local firms for new clients, including a high-tech subsidiary of DuPont Corporation and some technology innovation enterprises, winning the clients’ business.
He also has in-depth entrepreneurial experience as the President and CEO of an energy systems technologies company he founded in 1990 that has done business with resorts, major hotels, restaurants, major shopping malls, hospitals, apartment complexes, manufacturing facilities and homeowners across the nation. Specific clients have included Marriott, Embassy Suites and Doubletree hotels, South Coast Plaza shopping mall, Texaco/Shell, and Citadel National Management Company, among others.
Larry has known the extremes of both victory and success as well as struggle and stress and has passionately committed his career to helping others succeed. He states, “Hope is great, but it’s NOT a strategy. Hoping that things might change directions on their own isn’t the best way to lead your life and build your career or business. It is unpredictable, unfulfilling, and unreliable. Ordinary people, with committed and focuses coaching, can lead extraordinary lives! Everyone can be empowered to live their life by choice instead of by chance, and experience the power of success by design!”
