Shelly Robbins has been putting sustainability into practice for over 25 years, starting their own company founded on providing a flexible workforce back in 1999 (“Robbins’ business takes off”), spreading their message of "success through sustainability", and through their unique style of peer-led professional support groups.

After 10 years of running their accounting technology company, Shelly launched the "Talk & Swap" peer support groups. These groups bring professionals together to share laughs, tips, advice, and sometimes clients​. Shelly has helped business owners to sustainably grow their own ​companies, with the support of peers along the way. ​It's that philosophy of “specialization through collaboration” that has made Shelly, and The QuickSource, a leader and a model in peer mentoring and support for accounting technology professionals.

​Over years of facilitating and building these groups, teaching, training, and leading dozens of seminars, Shelly has trained hundreds of bookkeepers and accounting managers and has taught accounting and accounting software as a speaker for conferences such as XeroCon, Scaling New Heights, SleeterCon, and for companies such as Finagraph and Xero. Shelly has taught accounting and accounting software at Bellevue College, and nationally as a speaker for Intuit's Trainer Writer Network-an an esteemed group of only 100 members. Shelly has been published by Intuit in “How to Form an Accountant's Meetup Groups in Your Area”, “CPA Case Study: QuickBooks for Mac to QuickBooks Online”, and “Peer Groups: Why Joining Peer Groups Pays Off For CPAs.”

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Shelly has been passionate about success through sustainability throughout their twenty-five years of teaching and training accounting professionals. Shelly believes “Sustainability Accounting” will change the way small businesses define success, and is using the meetup groups they facilitate to teach the core principles. Shelly continues to provide training at the Bookkeeping Coach teaching Xero software through private or group classes online and through online support groups at Imprint, where small business owners support each other in and implementing and practicing ethical and sustainable business practices.