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What is Life Planning?

The Kinder Institute trains and coaches financial advisors worldwide in a method we call financial Life Planning.  This method is based on the premise that advisors should first discover a client’s most essential goals in life before formulating a financial plan, so a client’s finances fully support those goals. 

This may sound elementary but few of us spontaneously undertake a thoughtful inquiry into our deepest and most enduring values and objectives.  Traditionally financial advisors have focused on the numbers—budgeting, investments, taxes, or insurance--without exploring the broader context.  They rarely ask questions like:

“If you had more time or money, what would you do?”  

“What do you want to accomplish or attain so you will feel that you’ve had a life well-lived?”

“What moves, touches, or inspires you?”

Life Goals - Financial Goals

Our advisors are trained to ask such questions and, just as important, listen to your answers.  They therefore become your partner in clarifying and achieving your most meaningful and deeply felt aspirations.  We call it Life Planning because what’s really important isn’t your money, it’s your life.

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Testimonials

 

“Life Planning has been the key to a wholesale change in my business, my clients, my staff, and my family that has meant both more money and more personal satisfaction."
Adam Young, Managing Director
Dragonfly Planning

 

“A brilliantly conceived and masterfully delivered training process that enables advisors to help their clients truly achieve their most cherished goals.”
Jeff Arsenault, CPA/PFS, CFP®, MST, RLP®
New Wealth Advisors

 

“The concept of life planning and the EVOKE® model are perhaps the most powerful model I've ever seen for financial planning”
Lisa Kirchenbauer, CFP®, RLP®
Omega Wealth Management


“I’ve been in the industry for over 25 years and no training has given me more skills that I can actually use in my day-to-day interactions with clients.”
5-day Advanced graduate

 

“Without question this is the most profound experience an advisor can provide their client or can experience themselves. Providing financial planning services without first life planning the client can leave a gaping hole in the client’s life. To truly deliver exceptional planning, one must integrate the client’s deepest life goals with their financial goals and resources.”
William Jordan, President
The Sentinel Group Inc.
5-day Advanced graduate

 

“Twenty years of financial planning experience was merely the prelude…Now REAL planning will begin.”
Elizabeth Brickman CFP®, RLP®
Registered Life Planner